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• Play a lead technical advisor role for ASRH
  strategic planning and work plan development; work with MOH, District
  Health Management Teams (DHMTs) and facility health teams to ensure
  programmatic efforts to improve ASRH care; and design, align and implement
  ASRH strategies and activities which support integration and quality
  improvement of services.
• Offer timely and adequate technical support
  to select District SRHR health programs on reproductive health, including
  guidance on improving service quality, increasing use of priority RH
  interventions, supporting and motivating frontline health workers
  (midwives, nurses), and building capacity (including on-the-job training)
  on select ASRH topics. This will involve working closely with District
  Health Teams and DBTs to (1) identify ASRH support needs (2) provide
  technical support visits to select District and Facilities.
• Ensure that there is timely implementation of
  all program inputs related to maternal, newborn and child health,
  including planning and implementing assessments, site ASRH quality improvement
  interventions, strengthening follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand
  creation, capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in close
  coordination and collaboration with MOH, DHTs and program staff.
• Provide mentoring and capacity building at
  the individual and organizational level in maternal, newborn and child
  health including focused antenatal care; essential and basic and/or
  comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care; postpartum and
  postnatal care. Develop, test, harvest and scale up a variety of facility-
  and community- based approaches to improve MNCH services delivery and
  utilization using quality improvement approaches.
• The Advisor will advocate with national,
  regional and community-level health institutions to raise awareness about
  their role in improving health outcomes in. maternal, new-born and child
  health
• Support the district health teams to document
  and share lessons learned and best practices around ASRH service delivery
  in family planning, skilled attendance at birth, access to safe abortion
  care, building technical capacity and transforming attitudes around ASRH
  services, management of STIs, and treatment of health consequences of
  gender-based violence.
• Significantly contribute to efforts to
  improve delivery and use of ASRH services through more effective program
  measurement and, as appropriate, through research and evaluation
  initiatives,
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the
  line manager.

• The ideal candidate should preferably hold a Clinical
  degree, Degree in nursing or midwifery preferred, with a Master of Public
  Health, Reproductive Health or equivalent.
• A minimum of five years’ experience and
  demonstrated practical skills in technical advisory role in the area of
  ASRH at regional, district, clinical and community level.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in more than
  one of the following areas: Youth Friendly services, family planning
  including provision of long-acting and permanent contraception, emergency
  obstetric care, comprehensive abortion care, adolescent sexual and
  reproductive health, clinical care for sexual assault survivors, research
  and evaluation; and demonstrated experience in project design, proposal
  development and fund raising.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills
• Training Skills: Able to transfer technical knowledge
  and skills and transform attitudes to improve quality of reproductive
  health services.
• Excellent planning, analytical and problem
  solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a large and
  varied workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated, flexible and adaptable to the
  needs of the organization.
• Broad working knowledge of the ASRH health
  dynamics and strategy for Uganda.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in leading
  research / evidence generation activities in the field of reproductive
  health; ability to develop policy / practical recommendations based on
  emerging technical evidence.

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