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Quality Management Advisor and Technical Advisor Vacancies at Jhpiego
Jhpiego is an affiliate of John Hopkins University and a global leader in improving healthcare for women and families. We require the services of the underlisted position for immediate employment.
Jhpiego is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Technical Advisor
Location: Bauchi, NG
Report To: Deputy Chief of Party
Description
- The RH/FP Technical Advisor will be responsible for providing leadership in capacity building and in the technical areas of reproductive health/family planning (RHfFP) for the USAID bilateral award in Nigeria. This five-year award, supports the United States Agency for International Development (USA ID) Nigeria's Strategic Objective 13, which calls for improved quality of social sector services; a strengthened enabling environment; and expanded demand for and increased access to services, commodities, and materials. Strategic Objective 13 has two targeted states: Bauchi and Sokoto.
Responsibilities- Provide overall technical vision and guidance in the area of RH/FP.
- As a member of the project's Core Team, provide leadership in RHfFP for the design of annual work plans, monitoring of program activities and ongoing assessment of technical assistance needs.
- Manage/support subcontractors, institutions, networks, relevant NGOs, collaborating organizations, and federal and state governments in Nigeria.
- Develop and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues, counterparts, and donors.
- Keep her/his supervisors and project staff informed of successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned in implementing programs in areas of technical expertise.
- Develop and/or review technical documents and learning materials in areas of technical expertise.
- Write, co-author and otherwise support the documentation of project results in conferences and publications.
- Perform technical reviews of grant applications and subcontractor scopes of work.
- Advise on national and global FPIRH "best practice" examples and their potential replicability, as well as opportunities for knowledge exchange among state-based institutions and/or individuals.
- Assess technical capacity of state institutions as appropriate.
- Collaborate with other Ps implementing similar programming to ensure joint planning and coordination where appropriate.
Job Title: Quality Management Advisor (QMA)Location: Bauchi, NG
Report To: Deputy Chief of Party
Description- The Quality Management Advisor (QMA) serves as a technical resource for the TSHIP Project in the area of quality and performance improvement in health care and prevention.
- Specifically the QMA provides guidance and support to the state level project units and counterparts (SMOH) for the design and implementation of initiatives in these areas, using the Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R) as a core approach.
- S/he also contributes to the development of innovative approaches in the areas of quality and performance improvement.
ResponsibilitiesThe QMA provides technical assistance and support for the:
- Orientation of the project and counterpart staff in concepts and methods for quality and
- performance improvement, using SBM-R as a core approach
- Identification of opportunities for improving the quality and performance of health workers and facilities
- Design of SBM-R initiatives.
- Development of SBM-R tools.
- Implementation and monitoring of SBM-R initiatives.
- Data collection, results reporting. evaluation, and documentation of the SBM-R initiatives.
- Dissemination of the SBM-R and other project initiatives.
- Develop and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues, counterparts, and donors.
- Keep her/his supervisors and project staff informed of successes, challenges, best practices and lessons learned in implementing programs in areas of technical expertise.
- Develop and/or review technical documents and learning materials in areas of technical expertise
- Write, co-author and otherwise support the documentation of project results in conferences and publications.
How to ApplyInterested and qualified candidates should forward their cover letters and resumes to:
[email protected]
Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and will need to resume as early as possible.
Application Deadline 13th June, 2103
