Regional Technical Officer(FHI 360)Career opportunity in Uganda

Job Title: Regional Technical Officer (RTO)
Post(s):7 Opportunities
Organisation: FHI 360
Project / Program: Communication for Healthy Communities (CHC)
Location: Central, Western, Southwestern, West Nile, Karamoja, Northern, Eastern, Uganda
Deadline: 20th September, 2013
About Us:
FHI 360 is a leading global development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, °catty driven solutions. Our professional staff includes experts in education, health, nutrition, economic development, civil society and environment as well as cross-cutting experts in gender issues, research, applied science, behavior change and technology giving us the unique mix of capabilities to address today's diverse and interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 operates from 60 offices with 4,400 staff in the U.S. and around the world
FHI 360 — Uganda is seeking qualified candidates for the Communication for Healthy Communities (CHC) five year program designed to support the GOU and partners to design and implement quality heath communication interventions to contribute to reduction in HIV Infections, total fertility, maternal & child mortality, malnutrition, malaria & tuberculosis. CHC aims to achieve this through the use of innovative approaches, capacity strengthening, increased collaboration among partners, and rigorous research and knowledge management for health communication.

Job Summary:
The Regional Technical Officer (RTO) will manage and support programme activities in the region particularly in the technical areas

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
    Offer tailored technical assistance within a specified range of technical areas to all regions; combined skill sets will cover HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention (including PMTCT and VMMC), FP/ RH, MCH, VMMC, malaria, TB and nutrition, grounded in health communication (HC).
    Coordinate and manage CHC capacity strengthening (CS) at district lower levels Contribute to development of tailored technical strategies, ensuring integrated approaches across different health components
    Oversee the roll out of all district/village-level health communication activities
    Implementation of regional workplan, achieving targets and corking within budget
    Coordinate CHC partner activities, including liaising with IPs he region; GOU counterparts at district/community level and support to monitoring partner sub awards
    Support regional Monitoring and evaluation(M&E), knowledge management (KM) and financial management functions
    Ensure project data is used for planning and decision-making
    Ensure national-level CHC activities are linked to HC activities in the districts
    Oversee Health Communication Officer and Finance and Administrative Associate in East Regional Office
    Perform any other duties as instructed

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
    The candidate should possess a bachelor's degree in communication, social sciences, public health or related field
    The Regional Technical Officer should possess 5- 7 years of experience in designing, and implementing health communication and/or capacity strengthening programs.
    Experience working with districts and implementing partners is highly desirable
    Demonstrated ability to interact with donors, implementing partners, and GOU counterparts on relevant technical areas,
    Previous work experience with health communication (HC)
    Experience managing/supervising staff
    Computer literacy skills i.e. proficiency in Microsoft Office
    Strong written and verbal communication skills in English (and at least one key regional language
    Previous experience with USAID-funded projects preferred

How to Apply:
All candidates should send a cover letter and CV/resume by email to: uganda-info@fhi360.org. Please clearly indicate Job Title in email subject line or on top of envelope.