INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACNCY ANNOUNCEMENT

EngenderHealth is a leading global women’s health organization. Guided by the vision of a world where women and girls exercise their rights to gender-equitable sexual and reproductive health services and participate as equal members of society, EngenderHealth works to empower and engage women and girls, enhance supportive communities, and strengthen systems & institutions to provide high-quality sexual and reproductive health care. EngenderHealth collaborates with diverse organizations across sectors with shared goals of highlighting women’s value to sustainable development.

Access to Better Reproductive Health initiative (ABRI), aims to transition of key roles and functions to the MOH and its subsidiary structures such as, Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs), Zonal Health Departments (ZHDs), Woreda Health Offices (WoHOs) and health facilities, ensuring ownership and accountability for delivering uninterrupted high-quality CC and CAC services across public health facilities. During the transition, the MOH envisions to take over direct service delivery technical assistance and expect partners to focus on systems support to build system’s capacity so that the system sustains and scale up services on its own.

EngenderHealth seeks applications from experienced candidates to serve as Regional/Cluster Technical Advisor for Addis Ababa under ABRI V for a fixed period.

JOB SUMMARY: 

Regional/Cluster Technical Advisor will be part of ABRI Project Transition team seconded to ZHD/RHB, Maternal Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) core process owner/Team. S/he will be responsible to manage successful transition of ABRI project activities and provides strategic, technical and programmatic support to RHB/ZHD, WoHO and facilities in areas of FP/CAC programming.

More specifically, the advisor provides high-level technical and program management assistance to the MCH team leader and other staffs at the RHB, ZHDs and Woreda health offices as it relates to family planning and CAC services. S/he will work with relevant team of professionals at government counter parts to make sure MoH and RHB planned FP, CAC and AYSRH activities are implemented as per the national policy, strategy, and guidelines. More importantly, Regional/Cluster Technical Advisor coordinate and manage transition of sites within 2-3 zones/region (in case of urban). S/he and will transition key roles and functions from EngenderHealth to the MOH and its subsidiary structures such as, Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs), Zonal Health Departments (ZHDs) and Woreda Health Offices (WoHOs) ensuring ownership and accountability for delivering uninterrupted high-quality CC and CAC services across public health facilities. In doing so, s/he will ensure project supported sites fulfill and graduated as per agreed-upon transition standards. S/he will work with concerned staff in systematic process of handing over critical CC and CAC-related technical assistance such as training of various cadres of health professionals; training follow up support, providing clinical mentorship and coaching; overseeing quality improvement and quality assurance (QA); and strengthening community-to-facility referral linkages health system strengthening functions to the Ministry of Health and its subsidiaries.

DETAIL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Technical Assistance to RHB, ZHD, WoHO and facilities

• Build systems capacity of RHB, ZHD and WoHOs and the public health facilities to sustain and scale up the delivery of quality LARC/PM and CAC services
• Build the capacity of existing RHB and ZHD, through skill transfer and provide hands-on support to RHB, ZHD, WoHOs and PHCUs to successfully graduate transition and sustain CC and CAC activities.
• Lead transition of project-supported facilities that providing high-quality LARC/PM and CAC services) to MOH/RHBs as per agreed-upon transition standards.
• Ensure consistent availability of competent and youth friendly providers in CC and CAC service delivery in all project supported public health facilities by initiated and strengthen in-service-training and integrated CC and CAC catchment-based clinical mentorship across project-supported sites.
• Ensure uninterrupted and equitable availability of essential CC and CAC supplies and commodities in all of public health facilities by improving coordination and linkages between public health facilities and Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Supplies Agency (EPSA) hubs across the region.
• Support RHBs/zones to cascade integrated refresher training (IRT) for health extension workers (HEWs), training of level IV HEWs on comprehensive FP, and ensure provision of LARCs at health post level.
• Improve enabling environment for sustainable and unbiased provision of CC and CAC services health care providers at 100% of the transitioned facilities by undertaking value clarification and attitudinal transformation.
• Assist service delivery sites in ensuring informed choice and voluntary decision-making process by providing training and technical assistance on counseling and interpersonal communication, including for postpartum, safe abortion and PAC clients; in appropriate integration of quality family planning and other RH services.
• Provide technical expertise/guidance to ZHD/RHBs in the adaptation and implementation of policy/strategic, national guidelines, training packages and job aids and action plans including scaling up national initiatives/programs on FP (including PPFP), CAC (with focus on SAC), AYSRH, Maternal Health (and other SRH in the zone/region.
• Support the RHB to design appropriate strategies to ensure increased domestic finance allocation for FP and CAC, including support for the implementation of Ethiopia’s health care financing strategy and facilitate for resource mobilization to strengthen health system
• Identifying skill gaps and training needs of the team and create capacity within the RHB, ZHDs, District Health Offices and Health facilities to provide effective technical leadership on planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of FP/RH program.
• Identify weakness/gaps within the health system and facilities; and develop a comprehensive capacity-building package to enhance the capacity of ZHD/RHB and structures below to improve the delivery/implementation of the Zonal/regional priority areas and to maintain sustainability.
• Work with RHB and its stakeholders (such as Ministry of Science and Higher Education) to initiate and sustain CC and CAC service and referral linkages at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
• Identify with other technical staff and counterparts lessons learned and potential best practices related to RH/FP, participate in the documentation and dissemination of best practices

Partnership, networking and representation

• Use all opportunities in the region to sensitize and advocate about the project to ensure ownership, enhance regional commitment and ensure sustainability.
• Engaged with the regional/zonal RH forums to sensitize stakeholders and address ongoing operational challenges.
• Collaborate with relevant other regional stakeholders for inclusion of strategies/activities to ensure consideration of underserved population (including youth and rural women)
• Facilitates effective partnership with stakeholders engaged in FP/RH program, assist in coordination and support existing regional and zonal level FP/RH related platforms.
• Coordinates and actively participates in regular FP/RH technical working groups, joint supervision and other relevant regional and Zonal level activities. Initiate revitalization of FP/RH taskforce and networks at regional /Zonal level.
• Works collaboratively with RHBs, ZHDs, EPSA, health facilities, NGO partners, to enhance family planning commodity security including providing training, information and knowledge base and methodologies to regional counterparts, planners, policy makers, programme managers and service providers.

Planning, monitoring of execution of project activities and monitoring service quality

• Provides technical support for the implementation and review of consolidated annual work plan on MHCN in particular to Family Planning /CAC, AYSRH services including the design and implementation of initiatives to scale up FP services and strengthening integration of Family Planning (FP), Adolescent and youth health services (AYHS) and Maternal Health (MH).
• Develop Zonal/region specific plan for ABRI project transition, liaise and support ZHD/RHB to make sure that planned activities are included and harmonized with the RHB plan.
• Together with RHB and EngenderHealth staffs, produces a regional costed implementation plan, with milestones, for family planning and support cascading at zonal, woreda and facility levels.
• Monitor zonal/region specific performances against regional benchmarks including service data collection, entry to organizational DHIS database and analysis for a decision.
• Ensure the proper implementation of project activities and monitor progress regularly with periodic supervision and review meetings in coordination with project implementing partners
• Prepare and submit quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports to the country office, regional health bureau and BOFED
• Encourage good practice by promoting and championing the child protection policy and procedures and respond appropriately to disclosures or concerns which relate to the well-being of a child or vulnerable person.

Job requirement

• First degree and above in public health, medicine and nursing with minimum of five (5) years’ experience. 
• At least 3 years’ experience in the Design implementation monitoring and evaluation of FP, CAC and other SRH programs in Ethiopia. Commendable experience in SRH/FP service delivery and program coordination preferably in INGO.
• Experience with and understanding of the low level Ministry of Health service delivery system.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in SRH particularly in improving access to a range of FP options including LARC (Implants and IUCDs), permanent methods of FP and post-partum FP and CAC services. 
• Demonstrated experience to provide technical assistance on health systems strengthening for FMOH, RHBs or similar entities is highly required.
• Demonstrated programmatic and technical experience in implementing in-service training, clinical mentoring and supportive supervision in the areas of FP/SRH.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Ministry of Health structure and health service delivery including Ethiopian heath sector transformation plan (HSTP) and regional level policies, guidelines and standards on FP/RH.
• Demonstrated leadership in working and collaborating with a wide range of partners including FMOH, RHBs, ZHDs, universities/teaching hospitals, and development partners.
• Ability to interact with experts and collaborators across multiple disciplines, programmer areas, and cultures. Exceptional interpersonal communication, teamwork, partnering, and consensus-building skills.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills including written and oral communications in English.
• Proven capacity to oversee development/implementation of work plans, monitoring and evaluation activities, and reports.
• Demonstrable experience of working effectively safeguarding children and vulnerable populations.
• Computer literate, with knowledge of Windows applications, including Excel spreadsheets.
• Ability to travel up to 80 % of the time.

How to Apply

Well-qualified and interested candidates can send your application along with their resume through EngenderHealth career web site: WWW.engenderhealth.org

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply for the position

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