Project Lead

The Project Lead is accountable for the successful delivery, performance and operational management of the EKN HIV Instrument Project in Zambia. The role provides overall leadership implementation, and monitoring of high-quality, integrated HIV prevention and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) initiatives targeting Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) a within the country, ensuring achievement of project outcomes, targets and donor commitments while enabling high-quality, community-led, rights-based, gender responsive and youth friendly service delivery. The Senior Project Lead oversees project performance, country operations, stakeholder engagement, government collaboration, resource management and people leadership to ensure effective implementation of project activities and sustainable impact. Working closely with the Project Director, government stakeholders, implementing partners and local communities, the Senior Project Lead ensures project implementation aligns with national priorities, donor requirements and the overall objectives of the EKN project Key Performance Areas Programme Delivery and Country Performance Purpose Provide overall technical and programme leadership and accountability for implementation and performance of the EKN project in Zambia. Key Accountabilities Lead implementation of the Zambia EKN project , including development and execution of annual workplans and operational priorities. Lead implementation readiness, mobilisation and execution of project activities. Ensure project activities are delivered through m2m's peer led model with strong linkages between communities, health facilities, and social services. Establish a comprehensive service package including SOPs and algorithms to ensure high quality of AGYW, AYP, HIV prevention, SRHR service delivery. Lead implementation of integrated AGYW interventions including HIV prevention, SRHR, GBV prevention and response, psychosocial support, retention in care and referral pathways. Ensure project activities are age appropriate, gender responsive and responsive to the needs of vulnerable AGYW Strengthen linkages between community platforms, health facilities, schools and protection services to improve AGYW outcomes Monitor quality of AGYW service delivery including youth friendly access and retention in care. Ensure delivery of project targets, indicators, milestones, outcomes and contractual commitments and institute correction measures where needed. Drive implementation excellence and accountability across all project components. Monitor project performance and initiate corrective actions where performance gaps are identified. Lead the writing and timely submission of annual, and ad-hoc donor progress reports, in line with objectives, indicators and targets ensuring they match donor branding and visibility guidelines. Ensure effective coordination across implementation sites, technical functions and support teams. Ensure project activities reflect