🇸🇱 Job Vacancies @ Aberdeen Women’s Centre – Program Field Officer

JOB TITLE: JOB LOCATION: EMPLOYMENT STATUS: 

Program Field Officer (PO) Provinces  (Freetown – once a month

and as required)

Full Time

Departmental Unit: Reports to: Supervises: 

Program Department – VVF Program Manager – NEVIS. (or designated senior manager).

Coordinates/Liaisons with: VVF Department

Qualifications & Person Specification:  

None

✓ 3 years previous experience working for an NGO/humanitarian work, preferably in maternal and  sexual reproductive health. Experience with fistula would be a bonus.  

✓ Preferable – a qualification in public health or complimentary to work in health.

 ✓ Excellent organizational skills and report writing.  

✓ Excellent oral, written communication and computer skills 

✓ Excellent interpersonal and mobilization skills  

✓ People, equality and fairness orientated – defender of the marginalized and vulnerable.  

✓ Demonstrated ability to work independently and resourceful / problem solver 

✓ Experience working in a within a multicultural team and sensitive to differing community cultures

 ✓ Good knowledge of health development, international health partners and health governance  systems – in Sierra Leone. Understanding the Health structure and departmental roles / authorities

✓ Excellent quantitative skills, ability to manipulate and deduce information from numerical data

✓ Complete fluency in English and Krio – minimum. Other languages welcome.  

✓ Bike License holder – qualified and licensed to drive a motorbike. With good track record.  

✓ Have an excellent knowledge of gender-based violence, maternal health and women’s rights.

✓ Capable to demonstrate ethical and professional behavior; – including confidential boundaries.

✓ Think decisively to inform and communicate professional judgments. 

✓ Ability to communicate lucidly with skills to promote teamwork and partnership.

✓ The ability to develop a non-judgmental approach. 

✓ A good understanding of data collection and importance of monitoring and evaluation. 

✓ Extensive experience across Sierra Leone districts at community and institutional level desired. 

✓ Flexible to be out on the road – building and maintain relationships and following up with patients.  

Job Overview:  

Aberdeen Women’s Centre’s (AWC) Program Field Officer (PFO) will provide in field support to AWC  NEVIS project in Sierra Leone. Leading in fistula care, AWC is patient led and focused.

The PFO will remain flexible to the needs of the service but also assist AWC in day-to-day up country  – by building the critical connections & relationships and providing support in the following 4 ways – – Raising awareness and challenge stigmatization via community and Institution sensitization and to prevent Fistula.

– identification of Fistula patients

– follow up service on former fistula patients

– provide support, advise and coordination to referral friends, partners and ambassadors.

Roles & Responsibilities: 

Carry out workplans provided by NEVIS Programme Manager for Community sensitization, Fistula  prevention, patient identification, reunification and patient follow-up.

• Partnership with community leaders and stakeholders across the districts – for

sensitization, identification, education on fistula and referrals.

• Partnership with Hospital and Health care Centre in the districts – respecting the

structures and authorities and chains of command – for sensitization, identification,

education on fistula and referrals.

• Support the Freetown partnerships with CHW’s and sensitization in the western region.
• Enable, support and advise “ambassadors” across SL -in field. Communicate regularly to  ensure the PFO and their work compliments and coordinates efforts. As well as the

Freetown team.

• Enable, support and advise “referral friends” across SL -in field. Communicate regularly to  ensure the PFO and their work compliments and coordinates efforts. As well as the

Freetown team.

• Identify patients – arrange their referral and transfer to AWC.
• Lead on follow up of patients – to ensure they are doing well having returned home. Ask  them health and wellbeing questions. Provide support as they reintegrate into their

communities, gain insights as to how this has gone and offer reminding for them to attend  AWC for their “follow up – check up”

• Advise the Freetown team – if new “referral friends” are identified in the field and or there  are insights that can help guide / enable AWC to improve the process and experience for  patients.
• Support the NEVIS Program with appropriate activities and initiatives to – namely support  the impact of Fistula patient rehabilitation, education and empowerment of patients ahead  of leaving AWC and as they reintegrate into their communities.

Internal Operations

• Be responsible for ensuring effective and efficient stewardship of all resources at the  disposal of AWC.
• Support Supervisors in the effective Coordinating of field activities
• Liaise with Fistula and Programs Departments to support their services.
• Data collection and documentation
• Coordinate efforts for Fistula prevention, identification and mobilization between partner  organizations in the districts.
• Support senior management in the development of concept notes and reporting

documents.

• Assist the NEVIS Programme Manager in developing media and communications output,  including patient stories.
• Provide biweekly statistics and reports about patient follow up and patient identification
•  Other roles and responsibilities as delegated by the supervisor or Country Director

How to apply  

Recruitment is on a rolling basis. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so early submission is  encouraged. Interested applicants should send their CV and a one-page Cover Letter to the Human Resources  Manager, Aberdeen Women’s Centre via email at awc.recruitment@aberdeenwomenscentre.org with the  subject line: “Application for Program Field Officer.”. no later than the 19th January 2026. We are an equal  opportunities employer”.

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted