USAID Non-profit Careers – Deputy Country Director / National Technical Advisor at John Snow, Inc. (JSI)

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Organisation: John Snow,
Inc. (JSI)
Project Name:  USAID Maternal and Child Survival Program
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About JSI:
John Snow, Inc., and our
nonprofit JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., are public health
management consulting and research organizations dedicated to improving the
health of individuals and communities throughout the world. JSI’s mission is to
improve the health of underserved people and communities and to provide a place
where people of passion and commitment can pursue this cause.
About USAID MCSP Program:
The Maternal and Child Survival
Program (MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement to introduce and
support high-impact health interventions with the ultimate goal of ending
preventable maternal and child deaths (EPMCD) within a generation. The Program
is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have
equitable access to quality health care services to save lives. MCSP supports
programming in maternal, newborn and child health, immunization, family
planning and reproductive health, nutrition, health systems strengthening,
water/sanitation/hygiene, malaria, prevention of mother-to-child transmission
of HIV, and pediatric HIV care and treatment.
MCSP will provide support to
continue working with the Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization
(UNEPI) and its partners at national and district level to develop the human
and organizational capacity that is needed for the delivery of quality routine
immunization services. MCSP’s objectives focus on achieving measurable and
sustainable results, including:
  • Strengthened
    institutional/technical capacity for UNEPI to plan, coordinate, manage,
    and implement immunization activities, and
  • Improved
    district capacity to manage and coordinate the immunization program as
    guided by UNEPI leadership. MCSP will build upon the results and lessons
    learned from the earlier implemented Maternal and Child Health Integrated
    Program (MCHIP) Uganda, an immunization-focused program supporting UNEPI
    and five select districts.
  • The
    MCSP project will also expand the promising work on Reaching Every
    Community-Quality Improvement (REC-QI) concepts.
Job Summary: The MCSP
DCD/NTA will work in liaison with the Country Director (CD) in managing the
project’s activities at the national level and MCSP districts, with UNEPI (and
as possible to sit at their Kampala office two days per week) and other
immunization and health partners (particularly other USAID projects). The
DCD/NTA will fill the role of the CD in his/her absence and assist in
communication with USAID/Uganda and the Government of Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Program Planning:
  • Support
    in strategic planning with MCSP team, UNEPI, and district health
    management teams
  • Work
    in liaison with MCSP staff on the development of detailed annual work
    plans and budgets
2. Recruitment, team building
and supervision of project staff:
  • Manage
    the recruitment of district staff, when appropriate
  • Supervise
    and provide technical support to MCSP’s district staff
3. Technical leadership
(capacity building/community partnership/active monitoring):
  • Ensure
    high level, quality technical work is performed by the MCSP team and
    district staff as they carry out logistics/cold chain assessments and
    related interventions, systematically collect and use immunization data to
    inform decision-making and implement REC-QI
  • Steer
    and supervise the implementation of a sustainable capacity building
    strategy for health workers and mid-level managers at district
    level—building on lessons from MCHIP
  • Responsible
    for developing the terms of reference for technical consultants and
    supervise their work
  • Document,
    disseminate and integrate best practices in scaling up REC-QI
  • Conduct
    Annual performance reviews for staff directly under him/her
4. Policy formulation in
collaboration with UNEPI and other partners:
  • Support
    UNEPI and partners to develop/refine national immunization plans and
    policies
  • Take
    part in all EPI-related regular meetings at national level (e.g. EPI
    Technical Group)
5. Project Monitoring and
Evaluation:
  • Actively
    support the design of the project’s performance monitoring tools and
    procedures
  • Intuitively
    review monthly and quarterly performance data and participate in project
    problem-solving
  • Plan
    and manage annual project review meetings with UNEPI and partners,
    including USAID
6. Communications with and
reporting to USAID clients, immunization partners and headquarters:
  • Actively
    coordinate and plan meetings with UNEPI, USAID, and other partners at
    national level
  • Disseminate
    proven tools and approaches among the project’s focus districts,
    advocating with other USAID projects for their inclusion of EPI into
    annual work plans
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The
    ideal candidate should hold an MBchB, plus advanced public health training
    (Dr PH, MPH), or equivalent experience
  • Seven
    or more years’ experience working on immunization programs (EPI)
  • Working
    knowledge of the technical aspects of immunization programs
  • Past
    exposure and experience with health worker in-service training, developing
    training aids and techniques, improving quality of services, etc
  • Previous
    experience developing low-cost and innovative community approaches to
    increasing the coverage of immunization and/or other primary health care
    services
  • Past
    exposure and experience working with The Government of Uganda’s PHC and
    MOH structures, and with health workers at district, sub district and
    health facility levels
  • Good
    understanding of Uganda’s local government and districts traditional
    structures
  • Prior
    USAID project experience desirable
  • Excellent
    oral communication, writing and documentation skills;
  • English
    fluency in reading, writing, speaking
How to Apply: 
All interested candidates
should Apply by sending their resumes and cover letters through the Online JSI
Recruitment website.
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