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Experienced Job Position at Jhpiego - Johns Hopkins University
Jhpiego seeks a Technical Director, Access to
Quality Services (AQS) for an anticipated, five-year, USAID-funded
reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) program in
Nigeria.
The Technical Director (AQS) will provide technical and program
oversight and direction for project activities focused on improving
access and availability of primary health care services at facility and
community levels, as well as integrating services. The program will
focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family
planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn
health, and treatment of pneumonia/diarrhea. Responsibilities include
providing leadership and technical guidance in the development and
implementation of RMNCH health activities under the leadership of the
IDIQ Country Director, the Jhpiego Country Director and Jhpiego home
office Technical Directors, and utilizing and contributing to
cross-cutting approaches, 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.
Nigerian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply. This position is contingent upon award.
Job Title: Technical Director, Access to Quality Services
Responsibilities:
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Provide technical oversight and strategic
direction, and ensure appropriate support, for the implementation of
program activities focused on improving access to quality services
- Develop new/review evidence-based clinical training materials, job
aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training materials
needed for program implementation
- Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level
- Coordinate assessments, training, site strengthening, follow-up and
supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support,
capacity-building and M&E across program sites as required by
program activities
- Lead the formulation of approaches for scale up of RMNCH 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 strategies to improve access to quality services
within the context of the program and explain these, as necessary, to
policymakers, funding agencies, and program staff
- Work with health care providers, local authorities, community
members and program team members to identify service delivery issues
that impede access to care
- Identify appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address RMNCH service delivery gaps
- 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, district and community-level health
institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving RMNCH
health outcomes
- Document and maintain an inventory of successful tools and approaches for improving access to quality care
- Contribute to the development of business proposals, technical
reports and publications as they relate to improving access to quality
care
- Author and co-author abstracts and presentations for journals and conference
- Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation
as well as reports of project activities and results to the program and
donor, including routine quarterly and annual reports and other
reporting requirements as requested
- Provide technical leadership to develop the project strategic plan,
work plan, and program monitoring, in close collaboration with MOH,
USAID, and other stakeholders
- Ensure timely implementation of all program inputs related to improving access to quality services
- 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 and facilitate the procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
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Supervise technical staff
- Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID requests
- Work with external consultants as required
- Guide MOH, professional associations, and other national
stakeholders in the revision/development of evidenced-based standards
for competency in RMNCH
- Lead the design of the professional development pathway for local health care providers
- Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners,
especially the Ministry of Health and other US and international
implementing partners
- Conduct regular reporting to the Country Director, and program and
technical staff, of successes, challenges and lessons learned in
implementation related to areas of technical expertise
- Work closely with the 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 improving access to quality services
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health or a related field
- Clinical degree preferred (Physician, Advanced Practice Nurse, Midwife)
- 10+ years of experience directing large, multi-year international
health sector development programs that have implemented successful
activities in areas such as reproductive, maternal, newborn and child
health
- Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
- Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally up to 30%
- Nigerian nationals strongly encouraged to apply
- Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and
sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID
missions, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key
stakeholders such as NGOs, PVOs, the private sector and other donors
- Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building and representational skills
- Management, training or clinical background in reproductive, maternal, newborn and/or child health
- Expertise in research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities
- Previous experience working in West Africa, Nigeria strongly
preferred, with intimate understanding of local health system and
reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health gaps and opportunities,
and solid relationships at government agencies
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