Jhpiego Job Openings for Technical Director, Access to Quality Services

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:
    1. Provide technical oversight and strategic
      direction, and ensure appropriate support, for the implementation of
      program activities focused on improving access to quality services
    2. Develop new/review evidence-based clinical training materials, job
      aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training materials
      needed for program implementation
    3. Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level
    4. 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
    5. Advocate with national, district and community-level health
      institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving RMNCH
      health outcomes
    6. Document and maintain an inventory of successful tools and approaches for improving access to quality care
    7. Contribute to the development of business proposals, technical
      reports and publications as they relate to improving access to quality
      care
    8. Author and co-author abstracts and presentations for journals and conference
    9. 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
    10. Provide technical leadership to develop the project strategic plan,
      work plan, and program monitoring, in close collaboration with MOH,
      USAID, and other stakeholders
    11. Ensure timely implementation of all program inputs related to improving access to quality services
    12. Assist in the preparation of donor reports and project reports
    13. Oversee data collection, analysis and development of conclusions and
      recommendations to further strengthen program implementation
    14. Ensure availability of resources and facilitate the procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
    15. Supervise technical staff
    16. Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID requests
    17. Work with external consultants as required
    18. Guide MOH, professional associations, and other national
      stakeholders in the revision/development of evidenced-based standards
      for competency in RMNCH
    19. Lead the design of the professional development pathway for local health care providers
    20. Collaborate with all local stakeholders and implementing partners,
      especially the Ministry of Health and other US and international
      implementing partners
    21. 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
    22. Work closely with the Country Director on setting program priorities
      and directions, and responding to requests for support from local
      counterparts
    23. Work with M&E staff to design, implement a plan to track data/results related to improving access to quality services
    24. 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
    25. Lead the formulation of approaches for scale up of RMNCH services
    26. 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
    27. 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
    28. Work with health care providers, local authorities, community
      members and program team members to identify service delivery issues
      that impede access to care
    29. Identify appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address RMNCH service delivery gaps
Required Qualifications:
  1. Advanced degree in public health, health administration, international health or a related field
  2. Proficiency in word processing, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Excel
  3. Fluent in written and spoken English
  4. Excellent oral and written communications skills
  5. Clinical degree preferred (Physician, Advanced Practice Nurse, Midwife)
  6. 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
  7. Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
  8. Ability to travel nationally and internationally up to 30%
  9. Expertise in research to practice—identifying best practices and adapting them to project realities
  10. 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
  11. Nigerian nationals strongly encouraged to apply
  12. 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
  13. Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building and representational skills
  14. Management, training or clinical background in reproductive, maternal, newborn and/or child health

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