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Organisation: Jhpiego
Funding Source: USAID
Job Location: Kampala, Uganda
About Jhpiego:
Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care.
Job Summary:
The Technical Advisor for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health will provide technical and program oversight and direction in the areas of maternal, newborn and child health for up to three upcoming USAID regional integrated health programs (HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, nutrition, family planning, and maternal, neonatal and child health care) in Uganda. Jhpiego is recruiting for up to three maternal, newborn and child health advisors one each to be based in Eastern Region, East-Central Region, and/or South Western Region in Uganda. This program aims to increase utilization of health services by strengthening systems and improve quality of integrated health services. The project will operate over a five-year period. Responsibilities include providing leadership and technical guidance in the development and implementation of maternal, newborn and child health activities under the leadership of the Chief of Party and in coordination with other Jhpiego Technical Advisors, and utilizing and contributing to cross-cutting approaches, such as performance improvement, as well as, annual phasing in of activities This position will ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on sound and current scientific evidence. This position is contingent upon award from USAID.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide technical oversight, strategic direction and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program activities in maternal, newborn and child health
Guide the integration of maternal, newborn and child health services with FP/RH, HIV and TB, nutrition, and malaria
Refine evidence-based clinical training materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training materials needed for implementation of maternal, newborn and child health to meet the needs of USAID and the Government of Uganda
Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level in maternal, newborn and child health including but not limited to:
Maternal and newborn health including essential and basic and/or comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care with emphasis on PE/E and PP
Take lead in focused antenatal care, Postpartum and postnatal care, including postpartum family planning emergency obstetric care, particularly in ER and OR
Help in strengthening referral systems
Develop and test a variety of approaches to improve infant/ young child feeding through ANC and post-delivery services.
Develop and test approaches beyond micronutrient supplementation to improve maternal nutrition through ANC and post-delivery.
Offer technical support district-level pilot interventions to assess, test, implement, scale-up mechanisms to provide calcium supplementation to pregnant women
Offer support the effort to assess, test, implement, scale-up] up the neonatal Vitamin A supplementation activity
Work closely with the Ministry of Health counterparts to develop and revised policies and strategies aimed at reducing child and newborn mortality and morbidity through community-level activities, especially C-IMNCI
Develop an advocacy strategy, together with the MOH, to ensure seamless support for evidence-based child health practices from the community to facility levels
Improve community case management skills for CHWs for children under-5 in the areas of diarrhea, ARI and fever, as well as improve the efficiency and effectiveness of CHW supervision and referral
Work in liaison with MOH counterparts, develop an improved supervisory system for CHWs that will improve child health at community level
Implement strategy to improve health education and promotion activities at community level aimed at improving child health (including behavior change strategies directed at early and exclusive breastfeeding, appropriate weaning practices, micronutrients, immunization, community case management for diarrhea, ARI and fever, etc.)
Take lead “train the trainer” sessions, site strengthening, in-service and/or pre-service education, follow-up and supportive supervision to project-supported health facilities, as required by program activities
Work with colleagues to develop a cadre of maternal, newborn and child health champions who will facilitate links to other community-level health programs/services
Coordinate assessments, site strengthening, follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support, capacity-building and M&E across program sites as required by program activities
Lead the formulation of approaches for scale up of maternal, newborn and child health services, including accessing hard-to-reach populations and integration of services
Actively participate in all Technical Advisory Group Meetings, and represent Jhpiego in professional forums by participating and presenting in pertinent meetings and conferences, as well as technical working groups
Analyze potential maternal, newborn and child health strategies within the context of the program and explain these, as necessary, to policymakers, funding agencies, and/or program staff
Work with health care providers, local authorities, community members and program team members to identify clinical, community-based service delivery issues that impede access to care
Identify appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address maternal, newborn and child health service delivery gaps
Identify clinical training needs and assist in the design and implementation of measures to address those needs
Formulate and test sustainable solutions to service delivery gaps, utilizing cross-cutting approaches such as performance and quality improvement and in-service training/pre-service education
Advocate with national, regional and community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving health outcomes in maternal, newborn and child health
Guide Ministry of Health, professional associations, other national stakeholders in the revision/development of evidenced-based standards for competency in maternal, newborn and child health
Mobilize international level clinical/technical expertise to resolve clinical issues that shape or effect local public policy or program design
Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other implementing partners, in order to ensure that all activities conform to the requirements and regulations
Conduct regular reporting to the Chief of Party, and program and technical staff, of successes, challenges and lessons learned in implementation related to areas of technical expertise
Document and maintain an inventory of successful tools and approaches for maternal, newborn and child health
Author and co-author abstracts and presentations for journals and conference
Supervise technical staff
Manage technical contributions of subgrantees, including providing scopes of work
Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID/DC and Mission requests
Work closely with the Chief of Party and/or Country Director on setting program priorities and directions, and responding to requests for support from local counterparts.
Work with M&E staff to design, implement a plan to track data/results related to maternal, newborn and child health
Provide technical leadership to the development the project strategic plan, work plan, and program monitoring, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID and other stakeholders
Ensure timely implementation of all program inputs related to maternal, newborn and child health, including planning and implementing assessments, site strengthening, follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support, capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in close coordination and collaboration with USAID, relevant ministries of health
Assist in the preparation of donor reports and project reports
Oversee data collection, analysis and development of conclusions and recommendations to further strengthen program implementation
Ensure availability of resources/facilitate the procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
Coordinate and monitor the efficiency and effectiveness of the work of short-term consultants as required
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The Technical Advisor should possess a good medical degree (doctor or nursing) or Master’s in Public Health
- A minimum of seven years’ experience applying maternal, newborn and child health;
- Five or more years’ experience in managing $10M per year in donor-funded projects and in the design and implementation of overseas health projects; preferably in the East and Southern Africa;
- Qualification as a “master trainer”; experience training health workers on clinical aspects related to family planning/reproductive health
- Prior experience building capacity at individual and organizational levels
- Skills in at least two or more of the following technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training, pre-service education, performance and quality improvement, monitoring and evaluation
- Significant experience with a mix of practical technical skills in maternal, newborn and child health necessary for strengthening maternal, newborn and child health service delivery at the regional, national, clinical and community-level
- Possess the ability to liaise with senior MOH officials and dignitaries, executives of NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, the for-profit business community, and senior members of the donor community;
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Ugandan healthcare system, particularly the public health system, experience living and working in Uganda preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentations skills in English
- Good computer literacy skills i.e. word processing and Excel spread sheets
- Familiarity with USAID or other USG administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
- Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering team work
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in the areas
- Excellent written, presentation, communication and organizational skills in English
- Ugandan nationals strongly encouraged to apply
- Ability to travel up to 50% time
How to Apply:
If you feel you can serve Jhpiego in its USAID Projects as one of the Technical Advisors for Maternal, New Born and Child Health, please feel free to visit the web link below to express your further review full job requirements on recruitment website and Apply.
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