Earn 22000 US Dollars as Service Delivery Specialist – Malaria Consortium
Job Title: Service Delivery Specialist
Organization: Malaria Consortium
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Salary: USD 22,758 gross per annum
Reports to: Regional Coordinator
About US:
Malaria Consortium is the world’s leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. Malaria Consortium works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.
About Project:
Malaria Consortium Uganda has received funding from DFID/UNICEF to implement the Strengthening Uganda’s Response to Malaria (SURM) project which will focus on reducing the impact of the leading causes of U5M morbidity and mortality in 16 districts in Northern Uganda. The project will address lagging maternal and neonatal mortality through a combination of iCCM and selected maternal and neonatal care interventions. The project is implemented with UNICEF and spans a five-year period (April 2018-March 2023) in 16 districts in the Northern region of Uganda.
Job Summary: The Service Delivery Specialist will ensure high quality implementation support to all SURM project activities in the Northern Uganda region. This role supervises all field project implementation. The role involves ensuring the technical quality of all activities in support of the project’s overall goal and theory of change, through regular liaison with and supervision of the Technical Officers in the Gulu and Lira offices. The Service Delivery Specialist will provide ongoing technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH)/ National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), district health teams and other partners and stakeholders as relevant to the project scope and in accordance with its approach to understanding and influencing positive change in health.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Oversee implementation of childhood illness project activities in the project districts including (55%)
- Training of Health Workers and Village Health teams in MNC services
- Support the district to conduct Community Mobilization and education activities
- Supervision of diagnostic and treatment services and community implementation of fever management
- Support the implementation of the communication strategy for ICCM at community and district level through drama, IEC, dialogues, Radio talk shows
- Work closely with the technical, financial, operations and M&E team to provide support to the relevant District and Health Sub district personnel for the following
- Supervision and support of VHTs implementing ICCM
- Collection of data from VHTs on a monthly basis
- Conduct regular routine assessments and supervision visits to programme related sites and activities
- Adhere to humanitarian principles at all times during the implementation of the project
- Participate in the development of ICCM Work planning
Monitoring and evaluation (20%)
- Work closely with the M&E Specialist to collect and analyse complete programmatic data in a timely fashion and send it to the SURM Project Director
- Through the M&E provide regular progress, trip and monthly reports to the line manager in a timely manner and ensure that all the reports are filed
- Work closely with the SURM M&E Specialist and SURM Project Director in the monitoring and evaluation of project activities
- Support the effective field implementation of three operational research studies, ensuring data collection quality
- Support the collection of routine health data from Village Health Team members, health facilities and district health teams
- Support the conduct of surveys as required
Communications and partnership management (18%)
- Develop effective and collaborative relationships with all project partners, including the district health teams, implementing partners and network of CSOs
- Ensure that complementary approaches are established with other Malaria Consortium projects with similar geographical locations or technical approaches
- Ensure effective coordination with and capacity building support to the MoH and NMCP at the district and community levels
- Provide effective support to all donor visits relating to both project planning, delivery and review, and for the purposes of donor fundraising and marketing
- Capture and document field activities, case studies and experience from the field during the course of routine work
- Represent the project on the Senior Management Team, ensuring efficient operations on the field level and that any field managerial issues are followed up in a timely way
- Actively participate as a member of the Malaria Consortium Uganda technical team
Reporting (7%)
- Maintain regular communication with the Project Director and Field Offices, compiling weekly work plan updates from the field
- Provide monthly progress/activity reports to the M&E Officer for compilation and submission to the Project Director
- Support the M&E Officer to ensure that all relevant project documentation is disseminated to the district health teams
- Actively participate in relevant meetings, presenting project results and experiences as required
- Monthly report submission
- Carry out additional duties as assigned by the Project Director or Malaria Consortium Uganda senior management
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Malaria Consortium Service Delivery Specialist job opportunity should hold a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Public Health, Community Health or equivalent
- Extensive experience in public health projects
- Experience in the planning and implementation of communicable disease control/malaria control interventions, behaviour change communication initiatives /health education, health worker trainings and supportive supervision of health workers
- Experience in community-based health care delivery
- Experience in capacity building/ transferring of skills
- Experience in working closely with local government and partner organisation
- Experience in developing work plans and activity budgets and in following work plans with minimal supervision
- Ability to work independently
- Thorough understanding of both preventive and curative aspects of malaria control
- Familiarity with the strategies and guidelines of the Uganda National Malaria Control Programme
- Experience in training of health supervisors
- A post graduate degree/diploma in Clinical Medicine or Public Health or an equivalent
- Experience in using participatory adult learning techniques
- Competency in statistical analysis software packages (STATA, SPSS, Epi Data)
- Excellent communication skills, with strong leadership skills and a supportive management style
- Excellent diplomacy and stakeholder liaison skills, and experience in working in partnerships to deliver programmes
- Previous experience in capacity building/ transferring of skills is desirable
How to Apply:
All interested applicants are encouraged to apply online at the web link below.
Deadline: 27th April 2018
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