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Job Title:     Maternal and Child Health Officer

Organization: Save the Children

Duty Station: Uganda

About US:

Save
the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and
has program presence in over 120 countries in the world and has been
implementing programs for over 90 years. Save the Children envisions a Uganda
in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and
participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world
treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We
strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through
partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children,
and by achieving results at scale

Job Summary:  The jobholder will support the technical director
MCH to influence planning, accelerated implementation and quality improvement,
maintain technical partnerships, and provide strategic technical support to
ensure that evidence is updated, generated, collected and disseminated for
effective technical use and policy dialogue..

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       The ideal candidate must
hold a  Bachelor’s degree in medicine,
nursing or applied health sciences.

·       A Masters Degree in
Public Health is an added advantage

·       At least three years
experience in  similar related projects
programs or projects with a focus on maternal and child health programming,
QA/QI and provision of technical support.

·       Must have strong
organizational skills and ability to work with diverse teams across the
organization

·       Excellent skills
required in program design, reporting, documentation, monitoring and evaluation

·       Experience in
working  with external stakeholders with
good knowledge of Uganda’s health system and structures

·       Must be creative
individual with strong sense of vision, commitment and priorities

·       Advanced proficiency in
computer packages such as Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and
Word

·       Excellent analytical
(qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills.

How to Apply:

All
suitably qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online at the link below.

Click Here

NB: Please apply using a
cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include
details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.

Deadline: 14^th
February 2020 by 5:00pm

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