Organisation: PATH
Project: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Advocacy for Better Health
Duty Station: Kampala, Iganga and Mbarara, Uganda
Tracking Code: 6115 (Eastern), 6114 (Central) and 6116 (Western)
About PATH:
PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health. Learn more at www.path.org.
About USAID Project:
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded Advocacy for Better Health program in Uganda. The goal of this program is to contribute to improvements in the quality, availability and accessibility of health services by increasing citizens’ knowledge and voice, increasing community participation in health service delivery planning and improvements; and fostering cooperation among civil society actors on issues of common benefit in order to strengthen the sector over the long term. The key program objectives are to: Ensure that communities in selected districts can identify and articulate their needs and demand quality services; Ensure that the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) develop effective advocacy initiatives, and are able to represent the communities’ demands for better quality services; to build the technical and operational capacity of the CSOs to qualify them as potential direct recipients of future USAID funding.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work in liaison with local governments, development partners, and civil society organizations, assure that the project is well represented.
- Raise awareness of the project’s advocacy goals and impact by coordinating special events and meetings with other project staff and partners.
- Establish robust advocacy among other donor-funded projects in the region to ensure an informed and coordinated response to policies, and an increased engagement by partner organizations.
- Technically support advocacy and community empowerment at the regional level and reposition advocacy as a top agenda for CSOs.
- Represent the USAID project in the region in broader civil society discussions around technical support capacity building and systems development around advocacy to ensure long-term sustainability.
- Working in close collaboration with other project staff to assess the advocacy needs of sub-grantees.
- Actively participate in development of advocacy related trainings and mentoring of sub-grantees.
- Work closely with key stakeholders i.e. CSOs and communities, as well as other key stakeholders, to refine program advocacy during the life of the project.
- Significantly contribute to the design and development of advocacy and communication tools.
- Work collaboratively with other project staff to develop strategies and approaches to engage and link mobilized community members, leaders, and groups with broader CSO advocacy initiatives.
- Represent the project at the local district, and regional levels to elevate project goals and contribute to ensure a strong voice for advocacy intervention organizations within the broader NGO community and the district local governments.
- Work in collaboration with other project staff, liaise with national and district officials, partner CSOs, and community groups to identify and strengthen platforms for meaningful engagement of community members and CSO representatives in decision-making and policy processes.
- Build and maintain key relationships with national and subnational governments, development partners, health professionals and professional associations, consultants, and CSOs; convene relevant stakeholders and champions when necessary.
- Contribute to the development of project work plans and collection of monitoring and evaluation data for reporting on outcomes and activities
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidates should possess Masters’ degrees in Public Health, social sciences, international development or related field
- At least five years’ experience in development working with on issues of advocacy and community empowerment, experience interacting with local governments, development partners, and civil society organizations including community based organization
- Past exposure and experience in developing effective advocacy strategies, excellent judgment, conceptual and analytical thinking ability
- Demonstrated experience in capacity strengthening & advisory work, proven experience in partnership building and networking at various levels.
- Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of advocacy, decentralization in the Uganda context, Uganda’s sociopolitical economy, health and education sectors;
- Proven track record of campaigning and advocacy programs shall be essential;
- Possess the ability to be a motivator and leader of change, drawing on excellent communication skills to drive transformation;
- Possess excellent judgment, conceptual and analytical thinking ability;
- Possess the ability to travel up to 40% of the time.
- The applicants must also be legally authorized to work in Uganda
How to Apply:
All applicants must have legal authorization to work in Uganda to be considered and confirm this in their cover letter. Application materials must be submitted in English. Please submit a cover letter with your resume describing your interest in this position and how you meet the requirements. All suitably qualified candidates should visit the web link below for details on How to Apply and fill their profiles to express interest in the vacancy
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