The Ugandan Jobline

• Offer technical oversight, strategic
  direction and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program
  activities in malaria in pregnancy at district level
• Actively promote WHO’s new recommendations
  on intermittent prevention of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) uptake and guidelines,
  as a core component of the WHO three-pronged approach
• Continue to support NMCP and District
  Health Management Teams to include male involvement in MIP to improve IPTp
  uptake. LLIN use and case management for pregnant women
• Assist in sustaining and improving
  existing databases that monitor achievements in MIP at district and
  contribute to regional and national level achievements
• Develop and implement a capacity building
  plan for local partners to apply MIP strategies for malaria prevention and
  treatment
• Offer leadership in creating demand for
  antenatal care services and MIP services through community approaches
  targeting pregnant women
• Guide the integration of MIP services with
  maternal, newborn and child health, FP/RH, HIV and TB, and nutrition
• Ensure use of reviewed evidence-based
  clinical training materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems
  and other training materials for implementation of MIP in line with  the needs of USAID and the Government of
  Uganda
• Offer mentoring and capacity building at
  the individual and organizational level in MIP prevention and treatment
• Steer the “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
  MIP 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
• Take lead in the formulation of approaches
  for scale up of MIP services in districts, including accessing
  hard-to-reach populations and integration of services
• Assist the National Malaria Control
  Programme (NMCP) to revitalize and coordinate MIP technical working groups
  at national and district levels. Actively participate in MIP technical
  advisory group meetings, and represent Jhpiego in professional forums by
  participating and presenting in pertinent meetings and conferences
• Analyze potential MIP 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 MIP 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, district
  and community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their
  role in improving health outcomes in MIP
• Guide DHMTs, professional associations,
  other district stakeholders in the use of evidenced-based standards for
  competency in MIP
• Mobilize national level clinical/technical
  expertise to resolve clinical issues that 
  affect 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 national requirements and regulations
• Conduct regular reporting to the senior
  malaria advisor , 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 MIP
• Lead in development and submission of
  abstracts, papers and presentations to 
  journals and conferences
• Contribute to annual work planning and
  preparation of donor reports
• Contribute to maintaining excellent
  relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid
  responses to USAID/DC and Mission requests
• Work closely with the Technical Team 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
• Significantly contribute to development of
  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
• Manage the 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 applicant should preferably hold a
  good medical degree (doctor or nursing) or Master’s in Public Health
• A minimum of seven years’ experience
  applying malaria in pregnancy programs;
• At least 5 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;
• Qualifications as a “master trainer”;
  experience training health workers on clinical aspects related to family
  planning/reproductive health
• Past experience building capacity at
  individual and organizational levels
• Skill 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 malaria necessary for strengthening malaria
  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
• Strong oral and written communication and
  presentations skills in English
• Strong skills in word processing and Excel
  spread sheets
• Good knowledge and understanding of USAID
  or other USG administrative, management and reporting procedures and
  systems
• Excellent 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
• Ability to travel up to 50% time
• Ugandan nationals strongly encouraged to
  apply

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