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• United States Agency for International
  Development (USAID)
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Peace Corps

• The Specialist provides policy and strategic
  leadership, in support of the EPCMD and the overall USAID/USG Family
  Health program, with a focus on maternal and child health, family planning,
  nutrition, and WASH including: developing and leading the design of new
  family health activities; participating in inter-sectoral designs and
  program management; assuring activity monitoring and evaluation standards
  are met; providing expert technical and programmatic information and
  assistance as requested by the Ambassador, the USAID/Uganda Mission
  Director or Deputy Mission Director, and the HH Office Director relating
  to the Family Health Division, including content for reporting documents, speeches,
  cables, analyses, and briefing papers; working with various offices in the
  Mission to design and commission studies and research relating to family
  health issues; and, ensuring lessons-learned are compiled and results are
  dissemination to all health partners.
• As the Family Health Team Lead, the
  Specialist represents USAID/Uganda and the broader USG health community at
  national and international meetings and technical working groups,
  including: leading internal and external meetings on issues related to
  USAID/USG health programs/projects/activities, with emphasis on all
  elements related to family health; represents USAID/USG at relevant
  technical and steering committee meetings, such as the Ugandan National
  Advisory Committee for Health, the Joint Core Coordinating Committee, and
  the MoH Task Force, and serves on HH Health Management teams; maintaining
  an extensive range of senior and mid-level GoU official contacts, such as
  the Minister of Health, senior representatives from other donor agencies
  and NGOs, and senior USAID and USG staff; and, serving as the lead USG
  Family Health Division member to the GoU and IPs, ensuring strategic
  coordination among USG health teams, the GoU, IPs, other partners, and
  regional programs.
• The Specialist works closely with
  USAID/Washington counterparts, ensuring compliance and constant
  communication with headquarters including: participation in key
  headquarter working groups, calls, and trainings; overseeing the
  development of site visit schedules and effective monitoring plans for the
  family health program; ensuring schedules are carried out routinely and
  that end-use checks occur; and, preparing for VIP visits, including
  preparing briefers, scene setters, arranging for site visits and
  accompanying delegations on visits to USAID programs, and briefing VIPs on
  Uganda, the country’s health challenges and programs, and on USAID and USG
  support.
• The Specialist provides senior policy,
  strategic, and technical advice and guidance to the Ministry of Health
  (MoH) including: working with senior MoH officials to plan, draft and
  evaluate the GoU health development plan, and other strategic documents
  and policies; and, providing advice and guidance to the MoH Director of
  Planning and Finance in the planning of regional and national (Ugandan)
  annual review meetings.

• The Specialist serves as AOR/COR or Activity
  Manager for a variety of programs/projects/activities in the Family Health
  portfolio, and supervises and provides guidance to subordinate staff
  serving as AORs/CORs for additional projects, including: maintaining a
  schedule for and conducting regular site visits to review program
  implementation and meeting with beneficiaries, and based on the
  information collected during such visits, adjusting or recommending
  adjustments to programs/projects/activities as appropriate; reviewing
  annual work plans and performance reports to ensure IPs are in compliance
  with bilateral government agreements, and with performance expectations; ensuring
  IPs are in compliance with all relevant USAID regulations and procedures,
  communicating regularly with IPs regarding USAID rules and regulations as
  well as their obligations to USAID; and, taking a lead role in the
  preparation of the strategic and operational planning processes such as
  the Country Development Cooperation Strategy and USAID Operational Plan,
  as well as participating in the annual PEPFAR Country Operational Plan and
  Malaria Operational Plan.

• The Specialist is responsible for the
  financial management of programs/projects/activities assigned to the
  Family Health Team including: regular budgeting for the Family Health
  program; ensuring that that obligations, expenditures, and budget
  pipelines conform to action plans; ensuring appropriate and timely
  incremental funding of activities; ensuring program activities are in
  compliance with USAID financial regulations, and reporting any financial
  discrepancies to the HH Office Director and Financial Analyst, the Mission
  Controller, and the Office of Acquisition and Assistance; keeping the
  Controller and Financial Analyst informed on the liquidation of advances;
  reviewing and providing administrative approval for assigned activities; and,
  ensuring compliance with Non-Federal Audits (NFAS) and the closure of open
  recommendations, and maintaining monthly project financial management
  tracking systems.

• The Specialist provides oversight of work and
  supervision of approximately six Foreign Service National and/or
  expatriate staff and other short-term staff (including AORs/CORs) as
  required, and mentors the entire office in the various elements that make
  up the Family Health team.
• The Specialist serves as a full supervisor,
  providing supervision, leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the
  professional and assistant-level Family Health Division staff, and
  provides guidance on family health matters to all members of the HH
  Office, including advising the Office Director/Deputy Office Director, as
  well as the Mission Director and Deputy Mission Director.  The Specialist participates with
  considerable weight in selection decisions within the Division, and
  performs the full range of training, evaluation, and other supervisory
  responsibilities expected at the full professional level.
• Performs other duties as assigned or
  required.

• The applicants for the US Embassy Supervisory
  USAID Program Management Specialist (Family Healthy) career opportunity should
  hold an advanced degree, or the local equivalent, in economics, social
  science, public health, medicine, management, social science, or
  anthropology is required.  An MPH is
  preferred.
• At least seven years of progressively
  responsible, professional-level experience in health-sector program
  management, with at least four years of that time in strategy and policy
  development, is required. 
• Previous experience in project design,
  program planning and budgeting, and/or implementation. 
• A minimum of two years of experience in
  development-related work or related fields for USAID, other donor
  agencies, GoU organizations, or private-sector institutions which included
  project design, performance monitoring, and/or the analysis and
  interpretation of large amounts of data is desired.  In addition, two to four years of
  previous successful supervisory experience is desired.
• Comprehensive professional-level knowledge of
  development principles, concepts, and practices, especially as they relate
  to family health issues in Uganda and the region, is required.
• Mastery of a variety of health development
  areas, including HSS, health care reform, health care financing, health
  information systems, human resources development, logistics systems and
  commodity supply, maternal and child health, and family planning is
  expected. 
• The Specialist must have a knowledge and
  understanding of the economic political, social, and cultural
  characteristics of Uganda; and, the economic developments, resources, and
  resource constraints, and development prospects and priorities of Uganda
  and the region.
• The Specialist must have a good knowledge of,
  or the potential to acquire such knowledge of, USG legislation, policy,
  and practice relating to development assistance; USAID programming
  policies, regulations, procedures, and documentation; and, of the
  objectives, methodology, and status of assigned activities. 
• The Specialist must have knowledge and
  understanding of the organization and respective roles of the different
  branches in the GoU, in order to enhance effective communication, and to
  develop consensus on program/project/activity strategy and implementation
  plans. 
• The Specialist must have an in-depth
  knowledge of GoU institutions, policy directions, objectives, and
  priorities relating to USAID activities in the sector; and, a sound
  knowledge of the political, economic, social, and cultural characteristics
  and developments in Uganda.
• Proven ability to plan, organize, manage, and
  evaluate family health program activities is required. 
• Excellent communication skills, tact, and
  diplomacy are required to establish and develop sustainable working
  relations and a high level of trust with senior and middle-level GoU
  officials, and with public and private organizations, such as primary
  USAID technical contacts in the development area. 
• Good verbal communication skills are also used
  to explain and interpret GoU attitudes, priorities, and concerns to
  USAID/USG officials, and to negotiate program/project/activity plans and
  resolve implementation issues with appropriate host-country organizations,
  technical advisors, IPs, counterparts, and peers. 
• Excellent writing skills are required in
  order to prepare regular and ad hoc reports, project documentation, and
  briefing papers. 
• Analytical ability is required in order to
  interpret public policies, and to assist in the development of revised
  policies, as required; and, to develop and monitor the performance of
  budgets, and the development of periodic work plans. 
• Skill in program/project/activity
  programming, policies, and plans, and in developing strategies for
  implementation, is desired. 
• The Specialist must have the ability to work
  effectively in a team environment, and to achieve consensus on policy,
  project, and administrative matters. 
  
• Good computer skills are required to manage
  activity goals and achievements, both technical and financial.
• Language Proficiency: Level IV (fluent) English.  The ability to communicate effectively
  in both written and spoken English is required.  Knowledge of one or more Ugandan
  languages will be highly useful.

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