2 Child Health Officer USAID Project Job Opportunities – John Snow, Inc (JSI)
Job Title: Child Health Officer (2 Job Opportunities)
Organization: John Snow, Inc (JSI)
Funding Source: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Senior Family Health Advisor
About US:
John Snow, Inc. (JSI) is a leader in improving the health of individuals and communities by providing high-quality technical and managerial assistance to public health programs worldwide. JSI has implemented projects in 100 countries, and currently operates from eight U.S. and 81 international offices for the past 30 years. The JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. ID a leading public health research and consulting organization.
About USAID RHITES-N Project:
USAID-RHITES-N, Lango will improve the use of integrated health services in Northern Uganda’s Lango region and strengthen the health system to sustain gains made by earlier projects. USAID-RHITES-N, Lango will contribute to improving key population-based national health indicators; build the capacity of the Ugandan government to carry out a sustainable and locally-driven response to the HIV epidemic, while also improving TB, malaria, nutrition, MNCH+A, and WASH outcomes. JSI will work with Ugandan stakeholders to design and implement health system strengthening strategies to scale up high-impact, evidence-based interventions at the national, sub-regional, district, and community levels. Interventions will include VMMC, virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, antiretroviral therapy, and condom education and distribution. JSI will focus where the greatest impact can be realized, with a priority on hard-to-reach and high-HIV-prevalence locations.
Job Summary: The Child Health Officer will support the RHITES-N, Lango Project interventions to end preventable child deaths within a generation through adoption and acceleration of proven approaches to address the major causes child mortality and improve the quality of health services. He/ she will work closely with Senior Family Health Advisor and district teams to support implementation of the high impact evidence based interventions at different levels of health care and oversee capacity building activities for essential child health care packages in the Project. The Child Health Officer will be responsible for technical implementation and contribute to program management for essential child health package capacity building related activities. The Officer will be responsible for a select number of districts in the Lango region.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to strategic and technical leadership for the implementation of the CH program, including meeting operational targets and achieving or exceeding performance objectives
- Support implementation, monitoring and evaluation of innovative, technically sound, evidence-based, sustainable and cost effective interventions to improve CH services (including community-based CH services)
- Participate in capacity building activities within the RHITES-N, Lango project to improve competencies, knowledge and skills in implementation of the essential child health package through trainings, mentorship, meetings and workshops
- Conduct coaching and mentorship, training and joint supportive supervision at district and health facility level, to build the capacity of DHTs to support health facilities to improve child health care
- Establish relationships with public and private sector representatives in the region and work closely with District Health Teams and other partners working in CH, as well as with the health facilities to strengthen coordination for CH activities.
- Work with the project technical teams and the District Project Coordinators to ensure that child health service delivery data is regularly used to inform planning and decision-making
- Contribute to the compilation and analysis of data for performance monitoring of the implementation of CH and utilize the data to take corrective actions
- Participate in Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement measures for implementation of the CH strategies
- In collaboration with the monitoring and evaluation team, ensure that data collected is accurate, valid and captures process and outcome indicators
- Write reports, work plans, strategic plans and other program-related documents in a timely manner and provide prompt feedback to donor requests for information
- Contribute to documentation and strategic dissemination of best practices, success stories, abstracts, and lessons learnt from implementation of the essential child health package
- Occasionally represent the project and contribute towards the MOH guidance on technical issues and participate in relevant technical working groups with counterparts and partner institutions in development, adaptation and operationalization of national guidelines and policies.
- Perform any other duties as requested.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the USAID RHITES-N Child Health Officer job placement should be a Medical Doctor required. An additional qualification (Master’s degree in Public Health, Paediatrics, family medicine or Health Systems Strengthening) would be an added advantage.
- Strong knowledge of child health issues and the evidence behind successful approaches to diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia control along with a proven track record in working to improve child health; experience as a National Trainer for either of IMNCI, ETAT/IMNCI referral care package, iCCM and Reaching Every Community for Immunization is an advantage.
- Ability and successful experience in rolling out a capacity building program in the area of CH.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Uganda health system, and ability to build and sustain strong relationships in child health- including regional referral hospitals, districts, NGOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
- Three years of experience working in Uganda in CH and nutrition, with community focus, knowledge of and experience working in collaboration with districts and health facilities (public /private).
- Knowledge of major CH best practices as well as implementation of RMNCH programs in Uganda.
- Ability to develop, implement and monitor project activities, including documenting project learning.
- Previous experience working with USAID or other donors and multilateral agencies with an in-depth knowledge of USAID programs, regulations, compliance and reporting.
- Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
- Excellent writing, data collection, analysis and reporting skills.
- Excellent facilitation, oral and written communication skills.
How to Apply:
All candidates should send their updated cover letters and updated CVs to ug-rhites-n@ug.jsi.com addressed to the Human Resource Manager
Deadline: 12th April 2019
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