Healthcare · Full-time
Direct employerCurriculum Development Officer – Health Professions Education
Addis AbabaMid level · Not statedCloses Monday, 9 November 2026, 23:59 EATChecked 6 Nov 2026
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About this role
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Role overview
Amref Health Africa is recruiting a Curriculum Development Officer for its Partnership for Education of Health Professionals project in Ethiopia. The officer helps training institutions embed cardiometabolic-disease competencies in medicine, nursing, and health-officer education, working with curriculum committees, faculty, preceptors, authorities, and project teams.
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What you will do
- Plan curriculum activities, coordinate reviews and validation workshops, and follow progress, decisions, and resource needs.
- Map curricula, identify CMD gaps, and support revisions that meet national frameworks, accreditation needs, clinical guidance, and each cadre's scope of practice.
- Develop learning outcomes, modules, study guides, cases, practice activities, assessment plans, and assessment tools.
- Coordinate learning resources and digital or blended activities, ensuring expert review, access controls, versioning, and appropriate use of AI-assisted tools.
- Orient and coach faculty and preceptors, monitor implementation, gather feedback, and support quality-improvement cycles.
- Maintain records and reports, contribute to research and learning, work with government and partner institutions, and integrate gender, equity, disability inclusion, and respectful care.
Requirements
- Hold a bachelor's in medicine, nursing, public health, or another health-science discipline, and a master's in health professions education, medical education, public health, curriculum studies, or a related field.
- Have at least 5 years in health-professions education or curriculum development, including curriculum review and implementation.
- Bring curriculum mapping, gap analysis, learning-outcome, competency-based education, teaching-resource, and assessment-tool experience. OSCE, assessment blueprinting, or workplace-based assessment experience is highly desirable.
- Have worked with faculty workshops, universities, training institutions, curriculum committees, or educational regulators.
- Know digital and blended learning and responsible AI-assisted educational tools; CMD, NCD, primary-health-care, or workforce-development experience is an advantage.
- Have strong English and Amharic writing, communication, and facilitation skills, and be ready for regular travel from Addis Ababa.
How to apply
Send a cover letter explaining your fit and a CV through the employer's official contact by 9 November 2026.