3 USAID Project Careers – Technical Advisor for Family Planning at Jhpiego

Organisation: Jhpiego
Funding Source: USAID
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About Jhpiego:
Jhpiego is
an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns
Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked
to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with
health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality
health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries
care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening
health systems and improving delivery of care.
Job Summary:
The Technical Advisor for Family Planning will provide technical and program
oversight and direction in the areas of family planning/reproductive health
(FP/RH) for up to three upcoming USAID regional integrated health programs
(HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, nutrition, family planning, and maternal, neonatal and
child health care) in Uganda. Jhpiego is recruiting for up to three FP Advisors
one each to be based in Eastern Region, East-Central Region, and/or South
Western Region in Uganda. This program aims to increase utilization of health
services by strengthening systems and improve quality of integrated health
services. The project will operate over a five-year period. Responsibilities
include providing leadership and technical guidance in the development and
implementation of family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH)  activities under the leadership of the Chief
of Party and in coordination with other Jhpiego Technical Advisors, and
utilizing and contributing to cross-cutting approaches, such as performance
improvement, as well as, annual phasing in of activities 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. This
position is contingent upon award from USAID.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Provide technical supervision, strategic
    direction and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program
    activities in FP/RH, including 
    post-partum FP, PPIUD, LAM, etc.
  • Direct the integration of FP/RH services with
    HIV, TB, nutrition, maternal and newborn health, and malaria
  • Refine evidence-based clinical training
    materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training
    materials needed for implementation of FP/RH to meet the needs of USAID
    and the Government of Uganda
  • Offer mentoring and capacity building at the
    individual and organizational level in FP/RH
  • Lead “train the trainer” sessions, site
    strengthening, in-service and/or pre-service education, follow-up and
    supportive supervision to project-supported health facilities, as required
    by program activities
  • Work with colleagues to develop a cadre of
    FP/RH champions who will facilitate links to other community-level health
    programs/services
  • Coordinate assessments, site strengthening,
    follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support,
    capacity-building and M&E across program sites as required by program
    activities
  • Steer the formulation of approaches for scale
    up of FP/RH services, including accessing hard-to-reach populations and
    integration of services
  • Participate in all Technical Advisory Group
    Meetings, and represent Jhpiego in professional forums by participating
    and presenting in pertinent meetings and conferences, as well as technical
    working groups
  • Periodically analyze potential FP/RH strategies
    within the context of the program and explain these, as necessary, to
    policymakers, funding agencies, and/or program staff
  • Work with health care providers, local
    authorities, community members and program team members to identify
    clinical, community-based service delivery issues that impede access to
    care
  • Identify appropriate facility- and
    community-based strategies to address FP/RH service delivery gaps
  • Identify clinical training needs and assist in
    the design and implementation of measures to address those needs
  • Formulate and test sustainable solutions to
    service delivery gaps, utilizing cross-cutting approaches such as
    performance and quality improvement and in-service training/pre-service
    education
  • Advocate with national, regional and
    community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in
    improving health outcomes in FP/RH
  • Guide Ministry of Health, professional
    associations, other national stakeholders in the revision/development of
    evidenced-based standards for competency in FP/RH
  • Mobilize international level clinical/technical
    expertise to resolve clinical issues that shape or effect local public
    policy or program design
  • Collaborate with all local stakeholders and
    implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other implementing
    partners, in order to ensure that all activities conform to the
    requirements and regulations
  • Conduct regular reporting to the Chief of
    Party, and program and technical staff, of successes, challenges and
    lessons learned in implementation related to areas of technical expertise
  • Document and maintain an inventory of
    successful tools and approaches for FP/RH
  • Author and co-author abstracts and
    presentations for journals and conference
  • Supervise technical staff
  • Manage technical contributions of subgrantees,
    including providing scopes of work
  • Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and
    in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID/DC and
    Mission requests
  • Work closely with the Chief of Party and/or
    Country Director on setting program priorities and directions, and
    responding to requests for support from local counterparts.
  • Work with M&E staff to design, implement a
    plan to track data/results related to FP/RH
  • Provide technical leadership to the development
    the project strategic plan, work plan, and program monitoring, in close
    collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID and other stakeholders
  • Ensure timely implementation of all program
    inputs related to FP/RH, including planning and implementing assessments,
    site strengthening, follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation,
    policy support, capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in
    close coordination and collaboration with USAID, relevant ministries of
    health
  • Assist in the preparation of donor reports and
    project reports
  • Oversee data collection, analysis and
    development of conclusions and recommendations to further strengthen
    program implementation
  • Ensure availability of resources/facilitate the
    procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
  • Coordinate and monitor the efficiency and
    effectiveness of the work of short-term consultants as required
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant should possess a good medical
    degree (doctor or nursing) or Master’s in Public Health
  • Seven or more years’ experience applying family
    planning/reproductive health;
  • A minimum of five years’ experience in managing
    $10M per year in donor-funded projects and in the design and
    implementation of overseas health projects; preferably in the East and Southern
    Africa;
  • Additional qualification as a “master trainer”;
    experience training health workers on clinical aspects related to family
    planning/reproductive health
  • Prior experience building capacity at
    individual and organizational levels
  • Skills in at least two or more of the following
    technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training,
    pre-service education, performance and quality improvement, monitoring and
    evaluation
  • Prior experience with a mix of practical
    technical skills in family planning/reproductive health necessary for
    strengthening family planning/reproductive health service delivery at the
    regional, national, clinical and community-level
  • Possess the ability to liaise with senior MOH
    officials and dignitaries, executives of NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, the for-profit
    business community, and senior members of the donor community;
  • Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Ugandan
    healthcare system, particularly the public health system, experience
    living and working in Uganda preferred
  • Good familiarity with USAID or other USG
    administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
  • Excellent track record managing a project team
    composed of several technical experts and fostering team work
  • Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity
    in national programs and technical staff in the areas
  • Excellent written, presentation, communication
    and organizational skills in both English and
  • Possess the ability to travel up to 50% time
  • Excellent oral and written communication and
    presentations skills in English
  • Computer proficiency i.e. skills in word
    processing and Excel spread sheets
  • Ugandan nationals strongly encouraged to apply
How to Apply:
If you feel you can serve Jhpiego in its USAID Projects as one of the Technical
Advisors for Family Planning, please feel free to visit the web link below to
express your further review full job requirements on recruitment website and
Apply.

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