Position: Program Officer

Organization: Copper Rose Zambia
Duty Station: Lusaka
Reports to: Senior Program Officer

Organizational Background

Copper Rose Zambia (CRZ) is the largest youth-led organization working towards the empowerment of youth and women in Zambia. Our mission is to build a conducive environment for all young people to thrive in all aspects of their lives. We envision a world in which every young person is happy, healthy, and living to their full potential.

For more information about us, visit our website on www.copperrose.africa .

Job Purpose.

The Program Officer (PO) will support the planning, implementation, coordination, and monitoring of advocacy and health promotion interventions aimed at improving access to quality, equitable, and youth-friendly health services. The position will contribute to policy engagement, evidence-based advocacy, stakeholder coordination, community engagement, and health promotion activities. The Officer will work closely with programs team, government health structures, civil society organizations, youth-led networks, healthcare providers, and community stakeholders to strengthen youth participation in advocacy processes, promote positive health-seeking behaviors, and influence policies and practices that affect adolescents and young people.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Coordinate advocacy campaigns, policy dialogues, community engagement activities, and youth-led advocacy initiatives.
• Support adolescents and young people to participate meaningfully in policy discussions, decision-making processes, and accountability platforms.
• Track advocacy commitments and policy developments relevant to CRZ’s program priorities.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of effective working relationships with relevant government ministries, provincial and district health offices, local authorities, healthcare facilities, civil society organizations, and development partners.
• Participate in stakeholder coordination meetings, technical working groups, policy dialogues, and advocacy forums on behalf of the organization, as assigned.
• Facilitate collaboration between youth-led organizations, community structures, healthcare providers, and government institutions to advance shared advocacy objectives.
• Support the preparation of meeting briefs, presentations, policy updates, and follow-up action plans for stakeholder engagements.
• Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships and coalition-building to strengthen collective advocacy efforts.
• Plan and implement health promotion activities that increase awareness of and access to SRHR, HIV prevention, gender equality, and adolescent-responsive health services.
• Work with monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning teams to ensure advocacy positions are informed by credible evidence and program results.
• Monitor relevant national policies, strategies, legislation, guidelines, and commitments relating to adolescent health, SRHR, HIV prevention, and gender equality.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, development studies, social sciences, political science, health promotion, or related fields.
• At least three years of relevant experience in advocacy, health promotion, public health programming, policy engagement, or civil society programming.
• Demonstrated experience implementing community-based or youth-focused health interventions.
• Experience engaging government institutions, civil society organizations, community structures, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Experience supporting program planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Experience in SRHR, HIV prevention, adolescent and youth health, gender equality, or youth-friendly health services.
• Familiarity with Zambia’s public health system, relevant national health policies, and adolescent health programming frameworks.
• Experience developing advocacy briefs, policy papers, reports, health promotion materials, or other evidence-based communication products.

Application Process

Interested candidates should send their application by filling out the form here: https://forms.gle/XZDLqbPzgrmX1Lgs7 by Thursday 5th November 2026.

Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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