3 USAID Jhpiego Jobs – Technical Advisor for Nutrition

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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 will offer technical and program oversight and direction
in the areas of nutrition 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 nutrition 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 nutrition 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.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
  • Offer technical oversight, strategic direction
    and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program
    activities in clinical and preventive nutrition
  • Offer guidance in the integration of nutrition
    with maternal, newborn and child health services, FP/RH, HIV and TB, and
    Malaria
  • Refine evidence-based clinical training
    materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training
    materials needed for implementation of clinical and preventive nutrition
    to meet the needs of USAID and the Government of Uganda
  • Give mentoring and capacity building at the
    individual and organizational level in clinical and preventive nutrition
    including but not limited to:
  • Give leadership and nutritional expertise to
    support activities related to essential nutrition actions, such as
    exclusive breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding to two years, timely and
    appropriate complementary feeding, Vitamin A supplementation, continued
    feeding during illnesses, and early detection and management of malnutrition
    at the community level
  • Provide technical expertise in developing and
    strengthening clinical and preventive nutrition interventions for women
    and children at community and referral level
  • Work in coordination with donor, government and
    non-government agencies to coordinate clinical and preventive nutrition
    programs with food security programs at facility and community levels
  • 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
    nutrition 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
  • Take lead the formulation of approaches for
    scale up of clinical and preventive nutrition , including accessing
    hard-to-reach populations and integration of services
  • Actively 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
  • Analyze potential clinical and preventive
    nutrition 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 nutrition 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 clinical and preventive nutrition
  • Guide Ministry of Health, professional associations,
    other national stakeholders in the revision/development of evidenced-based
    standards for competency in clinical and preventive nutrition
  • 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, to ensure that all activities conform to the
    requirements and regulations
  • Carry out 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 clinical and preventive nutrition
  • 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 clinical and preventive nutrition
  • 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 clinical and preventive nutrition, 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 Technical Advisor for Nutrition should
    possess a medical degree (doctor or nursing) or Master’s in Public Health
·        
A minimum of seven years’ experience applying clinical and preventive
nutrition;
·        
At least 5 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;
·        
Qualification as a “master trainer”; experience training health workers
on clinical aspects related to clinical and preventive nutrition
·        
Experience building capacity at individual and organizational levels
·        
Skill 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 clinical and
preventive nutrition necessary for strengthening integrated service delivery at
the regional, national, clinical and community-level
·        
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
·        
Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English
·        
Strong skills in word processing and Excel spread sheets
·        
Familiarity with USAID or other USG administrative, management and
reporting procedures and systems
·        
Proven 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 English
·        
Ability to travel up to 50% time
  • Ugandan nationals are 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 Nutrition, 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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