Newborn and Child Health (NCH) Advisor, Accra 144 views0 applications

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

POSITION TITLE: Newborn and Child Health (NCH) Advisor

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 Newborn and Child Health (NCH) Advisor to support the design, management, implementation, and monitoring of high-quality newborn, child health and nutrition interventions, working closely with relevant units at all levels of the Ghana Health Service and with respective partners at national level and within target regions. The NCH Advisor will represent the project at various newborn, child health, and nutrition national technical working groups and committees, as suggested by the RMNCH Senior Technical Advisor. They 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 learning 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 and well childcare and 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, and strengthen stabilization, referral and newborn intensive care. Child health programs should be integrated with immunization, nutrition, and common illness, all in line with government strategy, policy, and initiatives.
• Establish/maintain relationship with relevant local health authorities to ensure ownership, participation, and sustainability in all projects include strengthening/establishing newborn and child TWG and ensuring that newborn indicators are part of ongoing QI committees.
• Relevant well, small and sick newborn and child health technical assistance and capacity building to government and NGO partners as needed.
• Work together with knowledge management colleagues for regular sharing of 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 the RMNCH Technical lead.

MINIMUM REQUIRED SKILLS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Must be a health care provider with public health and programming experience, ideally an experienced neonatal nurse or doctor. eXgXpZB BVUcJh
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in successful programming and implementation of neonatal/child health programs.
• Experience with implementing WHO newborn/child quality of care guidelines
• 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.