USAID EGPAF Careers – Technical Advisor Maternal, Newborn and Child Health at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

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Organization: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation (EGPAF)
Funding Source: USAID
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Technical
Director
About EGPAF:
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) seeks to end
pediatric HIV/AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment
programs. We are a global leader in the fight against pediatric HIV and AIDS,
working in 15 countries and at 7,000 sites around the world to prevent the
transmission of HIV to children, and to help those already infected. Today,
because of the highly successful work of the Foundation and its partners over
the last 25 years, pediatric AIDS has been virtually eliminated in the United
States and new infections in children have declined by 51% worldwide. The EGPAF
Uganda Country program is currently implementing a number of projects in
partnership with various donors.
Job Summary: The Technical
Advisor will offer technical and program oversight and guidance in the areas of
maternal, newborn and child health as part of the upcoming USAID regional
integrated health programs in Uganda. EGPAF is recruiting for a Maternal,
Newborn and Child Health Technical Advisor to join a dynamic team based in one
of the regions (South Western, East Central and Eastern) in Uganda. The program
seeks to improve coverage, access and quality of integrated HIV/AIDS
prevention, care and treatment; maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH);
family planning; nutrition; malaria prevention and treatment; and interventions
to improve the management and performance of health systems that support those services.
The project will operate over a five-year period.
The Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Advisor is a pivotal position
and will provide technical leadership and oversight in the development,
focusing and implementation of MNCH activities. S/he will work closely with the
project’s Technical Director and other program technical staff to ensure
technical quality of the intervention design and implementation. The Maternal,
Newborn, and Child Health Advisor will also work closely with the other EGPAF’s
Technical Advisors in identification and provision of technical support; and
ensure standard procedures in quality of care are adhered to during training
and implementation.
This position will ensure the technical and methodological soundness of
activities and, in collaboration with the project team and partners, support
the design of service delivery strategies, based on sound and current
scientific evidence.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Play a lead technical advisor role for
    MNCH strategic planning and work plan development; work with MOH, District
    Health Management Teams (DHMTs) and facility health teams to ensure
    programmatic efforts to improve MNCH care; and design, align and implement
    MNCH strategies and activities which support integration and quality
    improvement of services.
  • Make sure that there is timely
    implementation of all program inputs related to maternal, newborn and
    child health, including planning and implementing assessments, site MNCH
    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.
  • 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
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The applicant should possess a good Bachelor
    of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree with Master’s degree in
    Obstetrics and Gynaecology and/or Public Health.
  • At least five (5) years’ experience and
    demonstrated practical skills in technical advisory role in the area of
    MNCH at regional, district, clinical and community level. 
  • Previous experience managing quality
    improvement interventions and technical/institutional capacity building
    programs primarily through a technical assistance approach.
  • Excellent track record and experience
    interacting with the district health system and good knowledge of the
    community support structures.
  • Demonstrated in-depth understanding of
    Ugandan decentralized health care system.
  • Excellent analytical, communication and
    report writing skills
How to Apply:
All those interested in working
with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation are invited to send their cover
letters and updated CVs to:
The Country Director,
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation (EGPAF)
Plot 18A Kyadondo Road,
Nakasero
P.O. Box 21127, Kampala, Uganda
E-mail: UgandaRecruitment@pedaids.org
Deadline: 5th September 2014

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