USAID IntraHealth International Jobs – Pre-Service Education Team Leader

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Organisation: IntraHealth
International
Project Funding Source:  USAID
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports To: Deputy Chief of
Party
Requisition Number: 14-0024
About IntraHealth International:
For over 30 years, in more than 100 countries, IntraHealth
International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need.
IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving
health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology,
and leveraging partnerships. In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental
organizations, and private-sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth
champions the needs and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses
to community health workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure
they have the tools, supplies, information, training, and support they need to
provide communities they serve with the best possible opportunity for health
and well-being.
Job Summary: The Pre-Service
Education (PSE) Team Leader will provide technical assistance and guidance to
help strengthen pre-service training in Uganda on behalf of this project. The
PSE Team Leader’s responsibilities shall include planning, coordination, and
technical direction and oversight of all PSE project activities for health.
S/he will provide strategic guidance, vision and leadership to all PSE aspects
of the program working closely with the MOH, MOE and all key GOE stakeholders
in Uganda. S/he will work closely with the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy
Chief of Party (DCOP) on all reports, documentation and deliverables required
by the donor, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
S/he will travel within Uganda to program sites and participate in conferences
and/or meetings, as needed.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Offer senior technical
    leadership and direction in developing trainings and innovative strategies
    to increase the supply and availability of various cadres of health works
    and to ensure their sustainable replacement and retention.
  • Act as a key member on
    the Project Leadership Team (PLT) as one of the key senior technical staff
    members.
  • Ensure that educational
    and training programs are appropriately aligned with the job expectations
    of the target cadres and the needs of the persons who will be trained.
  • Provide technical guidance
    in standardizing training curricula.
  • Create or modify
    instructional plans and materials as needed to establish practical,
    simple, instructionally sound, focused training approaches that can be replicated
    in existing conditions.
  • Work in liaison with
    counterparts using Performance Improvement and Learning for Performance
    approaches to identify the specific areas where training institutes need
    strengthening and follow up as indicated.
  • Develop strategies for
    strengthening practicum sites, mentors, and tutors and building local
    capacity.
  • Coach and prepare
    trainers to deliver and manage trainings.
  • Proactively participate
    in the development of all PSE aspects of annual work plans, monitoring and
    evaluation plans, and budgets according to USAID requirements.
  • Manage the collection
    of information and the documentation of progress towards results for all
    PSE project activities in partnership with all key stakeholders and the
    COP
  • Identify short-term
    technical assistance PSE needs; develop scopes of work, and arrange for
    contracting and fielding of qualified international and local consultants
    as needed.
  • Monitor all program
    activities, and progress related to impact and sustainability of
    innovative interventions.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal USAID
    IntraHealth International applicant should possess Master’s degree in
    Education, Public Health Education/Behavior Change or related areas
  • A minimum of eight years’
    experience in relevant clinical, and training and learning experience.
  • Past experience
    providing technical leadership in the implementation of PSE programs,
    preferably for health cadres in Uganda.
  • Proven ability to
    direct and manage a team with the ability to work with partners, USAID and
    the headquarters staff.
  • Demonstrated
    diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to work in a complex and
    changing environment with all key stakeholders.
  • Possess the ability to
    liaise with donors, implementing partners and host country government.
  • Proven ability to
    develop and work within approved work plans.
  • Excellent oral and
    written communication skills in English.
  • Computer literacy skills
    i.e. proficiency in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Power
    Point, and Outlook.
  • Willingness to travel
    25% within the country and periodically internationally.
How to Apply:
If you desire to join one of the world’s most prestigious not for
profit organisations, IntraHealth International, please visit the web link
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full job requirements.

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