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• 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

• 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

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