Regional Advisor for Deliverology and Health System Strengthening and MH/FP (Re-Advertised) 110 views0 applications

The programme is part of a partnership between DFID and Ethiopia FMoH, and aims to provide Technical Assistance and Capacity Building to the FMoH and RHBs to improve quality, equity, choice and financing for comprehensive family planning and safe abortion services in Ethiopia

The FMoH aims to provide equitable and quality health services for all with compassion and patient-centered care. The ministry needs to envision beyond the capacity to implement agreed at national policy, strategic plans and guidelines to deliver these services and address public demand. This required to set up a “delivery unit”, which is a small group of highly-skilled people who help to achieve outcomes for multiple initiatives that the leadership considers as critical or top priority.

Marie Stopes International Ethiopia and FMoH seek applications from experienced technical expert to serve as a member of Regional Health Bureau Delivery Units (RHB-DU), Health System Strengthening (HSS) and MH/FP Regional Advisor for the awarded project, Family Planning by Choice (FPbC) Program. This will be a local hire position seconded to the FMOH, with an anticipated start date of December 30, 2018.

The Regional Advisor for Deliverology and Health System Strengthening and MH/FP provides technical support and facilitate the timely implementation and delivery of the regional health bureau HSTP priorities. S/He assists in designing, adopting and institutionalizing a comprehensive regional HSS to ensure sustainable impact. S/He will work under the leadership of the RHB Head as the member of the RHB-DU; collaboratively with the management team, Maternal and Child Health and other relevant work processes at the Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs) and partners to adapt innovative models to drive the achievement of regional priority targets and HSS that are sustainable, effective, and responsive to the local context. S/He will be responsible to provide high quality technical assistance in facilitating the implementation of regional priorities, policy implementation and capacity-building initiatives aimed at enhancing the capacity of the RHB in policy analysis, planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation. The Incumbent will provide high-level support and onsite trainings to the process owners, team leaders and staffs of the RHB and at various levels within the region to support evidence-based decision making while supporting the focus on top priorities.  S/He will be responsible to ensure satisfactory implementation of Family planning (FP), Maternal Health (including Safe Abortion Care) and adolescent and youth Sexual and Reproductive health (AYSRH) programs at the region, and support for improving financing for health, in particular domestic financing for FP and safe abortion services in the region. S/He will provide technical and coordination support to ensure the proper functioning of existing FP and Safe Abortion Care (SAC) Technical Working Groups of the region.

The Regional advisor will be required to frequently liaison and consult with decision makers and experts with in RHBs and ensure all policy and HSS related technical assistance are responsive to the regional priorities and FPbC program.

DUTIES/TASKS

Support Implementation of Regional Priorities and Planned Activities,

• Assist the RHBs to set clear priorities with a precise definition of success/sign of achievement of milestone and set of specific targets in consultation with the director & the regional management team;
• Ensure key priorities of the RHB are well described and communicated to all staff in the relevant directorates/units, Zonal Health Departments, Woreda health offices and stakeholders;
• Provide high quality technical support to address system related barriers to achieving measurable high-level priority targets of the region with systematic and close follow up of performance;
• Coordinate and provide technical assistance to the RHBs in the adaptation and implementation of policy/strategic documents, national guidelines, training packages and job aids and actions plans to include scaling up national initiatives/programs on FP, Maternal health (including SAC) and other SRH in the region;
• Support the RHBs and relevant directorates or departments to improve systems and efficiency that enhance problem solving and catalyze progress;
• Facilitate the implementation of FPbC program, guideline and tools that are responsive to the regional contexts and seamlessly integrated into existing health system strengthening platforms and initiatives to promotes high value, effective and efficient SRH service delivery (FP and SAC in particular);
• Support the RHB to design appropriate strategies to ensure increased domestic finance allocation for FP and SAC, including support for the implementation of Ethiopia’s health care financing strategy and facilitate for resource mobilization to strengthen health system.
• Coordinate technical assistance and ensure the RHB has the capacity to implement gender transformative programming

Technical Assistance to RHB and its subsidies, CoE sites and QAHs

• Provides technical expertise/guidance and support Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Core Process on Family planning, maternal health and comprehensive abortion care (CAC) on implementation of strategies and standards, quality assurance and build capacity on FP program management.
• Identifying skill gaps and training needs of the team and create capacity within the RHB, ZHDs, District Health offices and Health facilities to provide effective technical leadership on planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of FP/RH programme and strategies including improving standards and job aids on FP/RH.
• Provide Technical assistance to the RHB to Assess, Monitor and identify potential barriers for FP/CAC service uptake in the region and develop mitigation plan to address gaps
• Provides support to strategic approach for designing and core activity interventions towards successful implementation of Center of Excellence (COEs) and Quality Assurance Hubs (QAHs) as part of the FPbC program.

Capacity Building and Training

• Identify weakness/gaps within the health system and facilities; and develop a comprehensive capacity building package to enhance the capacity of RHB and structures below to improve the delivery/implementation of the regional priority areas and to maintain sustainability
• Support the introduction and scaling up of capacity building initiatives, including skill transfer and trainings by using effective and proven methods to facilitate the delivery of key regional priorities
• Facilitate and provide high quality technical assistance and programmatic oversight, to ensure the implementation and delivery of RHB’s Heads’ priorities;
• Build the capacity and guide the RHB staff to regularly monitor status of the implementation of key regional priorities, including FP and SAC programs progress and support RHB staff to meet deliverables on time and with the required quality.
• Facilitate and conduct supportive supervision and provide technical oversight, mentorship and guidance to various government staff and partners within the region on policy and health systems strengthening; and ensure that regional priority areas are progressing based on the plan.
• Support RHBs/ZHDs and Liaise with CoE / QAHs officers to identify appropriate CoE sites and QAHs and in making the training /mentorship system functional.
• Facilitate and support technical assistance to enhance technical capacity on training, mentoring and supportive supervision to FP experts and health service providers on Long Acting and Permanent Contraceptives (LARC/PM) including Postpartum FP, Post Abortion Contraceptives, quality of care (QOC) and other SRH areas to enhance competency and performance.
• Participates in establishing COE for family planning and safe abortion services to provide training, mentoring and supportive supervision to QAHs at referral/general/primary hospitals and to other institutions.
• Ensure strategies, plans, standard and implementations are gender responsive and ensure youth and social inclusion

Support Coordination and Partnership

• Enhance partnership and proactive and collaborative engagement among sectors, and design mechanism to strengthen collaboration and integration of efforts;
• Build relationships with key stakeholders, including governmental, donors, CSO and academics; assess partnership opportunities to facilitate or drive the implementation of regional priorities;
• Conduct evidence-based advocacy to strengthen the regional, Zonal and Woreda health system, legislators and administrations to raise awareness about their role in improving the performance for the implementation of regional priorities in general and FP, maternal health (including SAC) and AYSRH in particular.
• Represent and attends meetings (technical working group, advisory group etc) and provide relevant information/update on the status of regional priorities and FP and safe abortion services, and other technical assistance as required;
• Ensure stakeholders’ participation in health system development at all level and provide feedback to the RHB, and design mechanism to strengthen partnership
• Collaborate and work with advisors and officers deployed by the FPbC project and other development partner (Regional Maternal Health/FP advisor, Center of Excellence (CoE) officer and Quality Assurance Hubs (QAH’s) officers), monitor project deliverables as a team together with the RHB relevant core work processes and other relevant stakeholders.
• Together with the RH financing advisor and the FPbC project team, Sensitize and advocate stakeholders and government officials on fostering financing for FP and CAC services using the opportunity of the current HCF system and other innovations including supporting facilities to develop costed implementation/ business plan to sustain project activities and adequate financing for FP and safe abortion services

Support planning, monitoring execution of project activity, service quality, documentation and use of data for decision

• Support the RHB to develop the regional priorities, gender sensitive and context specific planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation across the health system in the region;
• Together with FMOH/RHB and FPbC staffs, produces a regional costed implementation plan, with milestones, for family planning and support cascading at zonal, woreda and facility levels.
• Monitoring the effectiveness of demand creation activities in addressing prevailing challenges of community awareness, misconceptions including availability and use of IEC materials and job aids to ensure IVDM.
• Provide quality technical support for regions to assist zones, woredas and health facilities to develop their own delivery plans (including on FP, Maternal health-SAC and AYSRH) , show how they will deliver and measure progress over the period of time and oversee proper implementation;
• Establish routine ways to follow progress/monitoring framework of the regional priorities and communicate to all appropriate staff in the relevant directorates/units, Zonal health departments, woreda health offices and other relevant stakeholders;
• Develop and define standards, indicators and check lists with a timeline for monitoring progresses of key priority activities and targets of the region and early identify problems and keep RHB head and the management team informed about the status of critical priorities;
• Conduct quick assessment and operational research and statistical analysis on the progress of regional priorities and present critical observations, findings and recommendations to decision makers and experts;
• Identify and document evidence-based best practices and prepare periodic reports of regional priorities and FPbC program results and disseminates results in a wide range of venues including reports, publications, summaries and special reports that facilitate use of data for decision-making.
• Support the RHB in monitoring and reviewing the FP, Maternal health (including SAC) and AYSRH programs performance and take corrective action as required.
• Support FPbC team to strengthen linkage between RHB and CoEs, as well as, institutionalize performance monitoring mechanisms of QAHs within the RHB’s monitoring system.
• Ensure that FPbC strategies are aligned with the government strategies and reforms to ensure sustainability of the project activities to the government system
• Provides technical leadership and support to identify, document and disseminate evidence-based best practices in relation to family planning.
• preparation of periodic reports or inputs into reports, attending meetings, preparing summary reports on meetings, preparing advocacy documents and briefs, assisting in the organization of related panels or round tables, perform demographics analysis and projections, publications, summaries and special reports and dissemination of results.
• Provides technical support and inputs to prepare periodic reports of programme results and disseminates results including by project reports, publications, summaries and special reports.

Other Activities

• Carry out other duties as appropriate and as assigned by the immediate supervisor at the RHB, the FPbC program and Marie Stopes International Ethiopia.

Job Requirements

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualification Requirements:

Education

• MD or public health officer, BSC midwife or nurse, or other related fields with post graduate in Public Health preferably specialized in Health Policy, Health Systems, Health Service Management, or related areas.

Experience

• At least 5 years programmatic and technical experience of implementing service delivery, policy and systems strengthening projects, including availing and tracking of efficient use of resources and engaging all relevant actors.
• Demonstrated programmatic and technical experience in implementing in-service training, mentoring and supportive supervision in the areas of problems solving and facilitating progress towards the designed goals.
• Hands on experience on policy formulation/adaptation, development of strategic documents, guidelines and manuals and delivery with Ethiopian public health system is highly required.
• Practical experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of FP, Maternal Health and related SRH programs in Ethiopia.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the RHB structures and the health service delivery system.
• Demonstrated skill in working and collaborating with a wide range of partners including officials from the public, NGO partners and international donor agencies.
• Outstanding ability to interact with experts and collaborators across multiple disciplines, program areas, and cultures.
• Proven capacity to oversee development/implementation of work plans, monitoring and evaluation activities, and reports.
• Recent and direct experience in providing technical assistance and capacity building activities related with planning, delivering, monitoring, Evaluation and other related areas is preferable.
• Ability to lead, manage and mentor team with excellent interpersonal skills, including creating an enabling environment for the health human resource to achieve the set priority targets.
• Capable of directing and managing change, problem solving and inspiring teamwork and high-performing teams.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills including written and oral communications in English.
• Computer literate, with knowledge of Windows applications, including Excel spreadsheets.
• Ability to travel up to 20 % of the time.

Leadership Competencies

• Demonstrated ability to formulate objectives and priorities and implement plans consistent with the critical priorities and long-term interests of the region and programs.
• Demonstrated ability to take long-term view and build a shared vision with others; acts as a catalyst for change, mitigating system related barriers and inspire others to translate vision into action.
• Proven capacity to keeps up to date with trends in the field and develop a climate in the programme that is conducive to creative thinking.
• Demonstrated capacity to analyze structure, systems and processes; search for opportunities by seeking innovative ways to change, grow and improve programming and the organization.
• Ability to recognize and act on internal and external factors that affect the work of the organization/program.

Duration and time frame for technical assistance

• The initial period for the technical assistance will be one year to be reviewed annually and with possible extension if agreed by both parties if funding is available.

Management and Supervision

• The Regional Advisor for Deliverology and Health System Strengthening and MH/FP will be based at the RHB-DU, and reports to the RHB head/vice heads, and project Director of the FPbC program and closely works with Family Health Process owner/ team in the RHB, S/He is expected to submit weekly/Monthly work plans and performance reports. In the process of supporting the RHBs and structures below with this task, the advisor should try to ensure that there is a proper skill transfer to staffs within and region for strengthening the health system capacity.

Deliverables

• The Regional Advisor for Deliverology and Health System Strengthening and MH/FP is expected to enable and contribute to the delivery/implementation of the regional key priority targets and FP and SAC plans of the FPbC program. The Deliverology and Health System Strengthening engagement takes 60% of the total time while the 40% is for the technical assistance.

Number of Position: (01)

Duty Station: Secondment to Addis Ababa Regional Health Bureau, Addis Ababa

Salary:  As per MSIE Salary Scale

How to Apply

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants should mail only their motivation letter and C.V, within ten (10) days from the date of this announcement to:

 Human Resources, Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

Through the following e-mail address: [email protected] 

Due to the volume of applications, we will only contact shortlisted candidates, and we are unable to provide any feedback on unsuccessful applications.

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