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• 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

• 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

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