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Senior Neonatal Nurse Specialist, Global Health

Location:

 Accra Ghana

POSITION TYPE: Full Time, Local Hire

DURATION: 1 year with extension

LOCATION: Accra, Ghana (note that Project HOPE will not be covering relocation expenses)

POSITION TITLE: Senior Neonatal Nurse Specialist

DIVISION: Global Health

REPORTS TO: RMNCH Senior Technical Advisor

Project HOPE is an international NGO with employees and volunteers who work around the globe, responding to the world’s most pressing global health challenges. Throughout our 65-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients, provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up, and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide.

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BACKGROUND ON Ghana IHP:

The purpose of the USAID-funded Ghana Integrated Health Partnership (IHP) activity to strategically contribute to the Government of Ghana’s strategies to reduce preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths, including stillbirths, and improve their overall health and well-being by 2030. Activities are expected to advance Ghana toward increased localization, strengthening the capacity of Ghana institutions and local organizations to introduce, deliver, scale-up, and sustain the use of evidence-based, quality RMNCH, voluntary family planning, malaria, and global health security services. The project will increase access, utilization and quality of maternal and child health, family planning, malaria, and nutrition services to reduce preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths in northern Ghana.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Project HOPE seeks a Senior Neonatal Nurse Specialist to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of high-quality newborn interventions (including small and sick newborn), while working closely with relevant units at all levels of the Ghana Health Service, respective national level stakeholders and within targeted regions. The specialist will work with the project and GHS mentors to strengthen the quality of newborn care including both in the delivery room and in the NICU. He / She will provide direct NICU mentorship at the tertiary level delivery rooms and NICUs to ensure quality in these busy and complex settings and represent the project at various national Newborn technical working groups and committee meetings, as suggested by the RMNCH Senior Technical Advisor. She or He will capture key lessons learned and ensure deliverables within these technical areas are implemented according to the set workplan, with necessary adjustments, as required, based on learnings and best practices.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with other program leads, the RMNCH Senior Technical Advisor, and implementing partners to plan, implement, monitor, report, and revise the needed activities for ensuring integrated quality respectful essential Newborn care, small and sick newborn care, referral from community level through primary health care to hospitals, with focus on evidence based routine and emergency newborn care in the delivery room, including immediate skin to skin, initiation of breastfeeding, pre-referral stabilization, care during referral, care at the NICU and Kangaroo Mother Care. Establish/maintain relationship with relevant stakeholders to ensure ownership, participation, and sustainability in all project areas, including strengthening/establishing newborn and child TWG and ensuring that newborn indicators are part of ongoing QI activities.
• Work together with knowledge management colleagues for regular sharing of newborn programme implementation best practices internally within Project HOPE and with external stakeholders through stories, and abstracts.
• Build relationships with leading national and regional projects and agencies, including USAID and the private sector, to exchange knowledge and understandings.
• Fulfill other duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably assigned by supervisor.

MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Must be an experienced Neonate Nurse Specialist with public health and programming experience. eZ2iI9u BVUcJh
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in successful programming and implementation of neonatal programs.
• Experience implementing WHO newborn care guidelines (Helping Babies Breathe, Essential Care for Every Baby, Essential Care for Small Babies, KMC etc)
• English Fluency, fluency in local languages important
• Comfortable with Microsoft program

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment.
• Must be able to communicate in verbal and written form.

Work environment:

• Typical office environment with exposure to a minimal noise level.
• Project HOPE employees work in the global health field and may be required to travel or work in countries where working conditions are classified as “hardship”.

All positions will be based in Ghana. Ghana nationals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Due to the substantial number of inquiries we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience and qualifications for this position will be considered. No phone calls please.

However, since we are active around the world in the field of public health, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise.