About US:
AMREF Health Africa is an international African organization founded in Kenya in 1957. Our Headquarters are in Nairobi with major programmes in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and two regional nubs in Southern and Western Africa based in South Africa and Senegal Respectively. Working with and through African communities, health systems and governments, Amref Health Africa aims to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to health. Amref Health Africa is committed to improving the health of people in Africa by partnering with and empowering communities. Our Vision is Lasting Health Change in Africa.
About USAID RHITES Project:
Amref Health Africa is implementing the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in the South West Uganda project that aims to increase the availability, accessibility, and quality of integrated health services including HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment; maternal, neonatal, and child health services; family planning; nutrition assessment and counseling and support; malaria prevention and treatment; and other primary care services.
Job Summary: The Adolescent Health Technical Advisor will provide technical and program oversight and guidance in the areas of strengthening the availability and use of youth friendly services targeting family planning, skilled attendance during labor/delivery, post-abortion care, antenatal and postnatal care, prevention and treatment of STIs/HIV, and treatment for consequences of gender-based violence. The incumbent will work closely with the project’s Technical Director and other program technical staff to ensure technical quality of the intervention design and implementation. The incumbent will also work in liaison with the other EGPAF’s Technical Advisors in the identification and provision of technical support; and ensure standard procedures in quality of care are adhered to during training and implementation.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Play a lead technical advisor role for ASRH strategic planning and work plan development; work with MOH, District Health Management Teams (DHMTs) and facility health teams to ensure programmatic efforts to improve ASRH care; and design, align and implement ASRH strategies and activities which support integration and quality improvement of services.
Offer timely and adequate technical support to select District SRHR health programs on reproductive health, including guidance on improving service quality, increasing use of priority RH interventions, supporting and motivating frontline health workers (midwives, nurses), and building capacity (including on-the-job training) on select ASRH topics. This will involve working closely with District Health Teams and DBTs to (1) identify ASRH support needs (2) provide technical support visits to select District and Facilities.
Ensure that there is timely implementation of all program inputs related to maternal, newborn and child health, including planning and implementing assessments, site ASRH quality improvement interventions, strengthening follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in close coordination and collaboration with MOH, DHTs and program staff.
Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level in maternal, newborn and child health including focused antenatal care; essential and basic and/or comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care; postpartum and postnatal care. Develop, test, harvest and scale up a variety of facility- and community- based approaches to improve MNCH services delivery and utilization using quality improvement approaches.
The Advisor will advocate with national, regional and community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving health outcomes in. maternal, new-born and child health
Support the district health teams to document and share lessons learned and best practices around ASRH service delivery in family planning, skilled attendance at birth, access to safe abortion care, building technical capacity and transforming attitudes around ASRH services, management of STIs, and treatment of health consequences of gender-based violence.
Significantly contribute to efforts to improve delivery and use of ASRH services through more effective program measurement and, as appropriate, through research and evaluation initiatives,
Perform any other duties as assigned by the line manager.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The ideal candidate should preferably hold a Clinical degree, Degree in nursing or midwifery preferred, with a Master of Public Health, Reproductive Health or equivalent.
A minimum of five years’ experience and demonstrated practical skills in technical advisory role in the area of ASRH at regional, district, clinical and community level.
Demonstrated technical expertise in more than one of the following areas: Youth Friendly services, family planning including provision of long-acting and permanent contraception, emergency obstetric care, comprehensive abortion care, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, clinical care for sexual assault survivors, research and evaluation; and demonstrated experience in project design, proposal development and fund raising.
Excellent writing and presentation skills
Training Skills: Able to transfer technical knowledge and skills and transform attitudes to improve quality of reproductive health services.
Excellent planning, analytical and problem solving skills.
Demonstrated ability to manage a large and varied workload, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Self-motivated, flexible and adaptable to the needs of the organization.
Broad working knowledge of the ASRH health dynamics and strategy for Uganda.
Extensive knowledge and experience in leading research / evidence generation activities in the field of reproductive health; ability to develop policy / practical recommendations based on emerging technical evidence.
How to Apply:
All candidates are encouraged to send an updated CV including three professional referees and cover letter addressed to the Human Resources Manager, Amref Health Africa in Uganda via E-mail to: jobs.amrefuganda@amref.org. Emails should not exceed 2MB.
Deadline: 29th January, 2016