NGO Health Jobs at Plan – Technical Advisor Maternal and Child Health– NU-HITES Project

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Department & Location: Programs
Reports to: Director of Health Service Delivery
About Plan:
Founded 75 years ago, Plan International is one of the oldest and largest children’s development organizations in the world. We work in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. Plan’s vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations. The organisation is an equal opportunity employer currently seeking to recruit competent persons to fill the following vacant positions:
Plan International Inc. in Uganda was awarded a 5-year Cooperative Agreement under the Northern Uganda-Health Integration to Enhance Services (NU-HITES) project to continue providing technical assistance and capacity building support for Northern Uganda in Malaria, AIDS and Tuberculosis, integrate additional support in Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Family Planning (FP) and nutrition; while prioritizing the strengthening of district-level health facilities. Under the NU-HITES project, Plan Uganda would like to recruit competent candidates:
Job Summary: This position reports to the Director of Health Service Delivery and the successful candidate will be a member of the health service delivery team, serve as the project’s expert on maternal and child health programs in fifteen project districts in Northern Uganda. The MCH Technical Advisor will serve to provide technical and strategic support towards achievement of project outcomes related to availability of and accessibility to quality and sustainable maternal and child health services, creating enabling environments for maternal and child health care delivery, and promoting positive health behavior and practices. It is a full-time position based in Gulu for a five-year term, with frequent travel to districts through the Northern Region of Uganda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:-
·         Member of the Health Service Delivery Team of the NU-HITES Project reporting to the Health Service Delivery Director.
·         Supports the Health Service Delivery Director in designing, implementing and monitoring of safe motherhood and child survival activities to achieve project targets in under the five key areas of focus related to health service delivery i.e. increased availability of health services, increased accessibility to services, improved quality of services, creating enabling environments for health care delivery, and improving health-seeking behavior and practices.
·         Supports the Health Service Delivery Director to ensure effective delivery of the project in compliance with USAID rules and regulations, Plan policies and procedures as well as national and other relevant international policies and guidelines.
Key Results Areas:
·         Participate in designing, implementing and monitoring and evaluation of appropriate and sustainable safe motherhood and child health activities so as to contribute to achievement of project targets in the five key areas of focus related to health service delivery.
·         Handle MCH related tasks in relation to women’s health in the context of post-conflict setting
·         Participate in capacity needs assessments for both health-facility staff and community support teams (Village Health Teams);
·         Design and implement appropriate training packages for health-facility and community based teams, especially with regard to promoting safe motherhood and child survival.
·         Provides technical and strategic guidance to implementing partners and field based teams on integrated maternal and child health programs in line with national policies and strategic plans.
·         Represent NU-HITES project in the MCH technical working groups in the project supported districts and at national level.
·         Provides technical support to the field-based teams during the development of annual work-plans and participates in the planning and budgeting activities, especially in regard to maternal and child health services.
·         Represent NU-HITES project in the maternal and child health technical working groups in the project districts and at national level.
·         Contributes to NU-HITES periodic reports by providing technical leadership in coordinating field-level technical reporting and consolidation of field reports on MCH activities according to defined reporting schedules
·         Coordinates regular technical support, mentorship and supervision of project supported facilities in collaboration with the field-based project team, district health offices and Ministry of Health.
·         Work closely with the supply chain management people with regard to MCH drugs and related stocks supply
·         Participates in organizing periodic technical reviews and planning meetings with project stakeholders for the NU-HITES project, especially in regard to MCH.
·         Identify, document, and disseminate best practices in MCH.
·         Work closely with other members of the NU-HITES health service delivery team and implementing partners to ensure effective integration of MCH activities into other project-supported interventions.
·         Ensure that Plan’s child protection policy and guidelines are adhered to throughout project implementation.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:
Knowledge:
·         A degree in medicine or nursing and/or a master’s degree in Public Health or other clinical disciplines.
·         Additional training related maternal and child health and project planning and management
·         At least 5 years of professional experience working in Maternal and Child Health programs both in public and private sector.
·         Hands-on knowledge and skills in designing, planning, implementing and monitoring of facility and community-based programs for promoting safe motherhood and child survival.
·         Practical experience in working with district and community health systems including Village Health Teams (VHT).
·         Experience in MCH-related capacity building for health facility and community health delivery teams.
·         Sound understanding of current policy developments maternal and child health.
Willingness to work in Northern Uganda and travel 60% of the time in field.
Skills:
·         Good working knowledge of Microsoft office programs including MS Excel, MS Word and MS Power Point.
·         Strong skills in teamwork and networking.
·         Good communication skills (written and oral).
·         Excellent skills in documentation and report writing
·         Excellent negotiation and influencing skills in multi-cultural contexts
Other Personality Traits
·         Behaves consistently in approach to work and decision-making
·         Strongly drives performance forward in area of the business for which they are responsible together with the team
·         High level of integrity with commitment to meet deadlines
·         Sets a strong learning culture in their part of the organization
·         Remains calm and positive under pressure and in difficult situations
·         Aware of impact on others and adjusting own behaviour accordingly
How to apply: 
While we thank all applicants for your interest, only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Any form of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.
Send your CV and cover letter with 3 work related referees to the address or e-mail below. Please mark your application with the Position Name of the job you are applying for and your preferred location. E-mails that exceed 2MB will be rejected by the system.
People Performance Group
Plot 8 Kitante Close, Kitante
P.O. Box 12405, Kampala
Uganda
E-mail: application@ppg.co.ug
Deadline: 19th October, 2012
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