**OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES
MSH seeks a Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning to provide technical vision for an anticipated regional planning and reproductive health program aimed at increasing the access and use of family planning services: Amplify-FP. The program will be the flagship family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) project of the USAID/West Africa Regional Health Office. Amplify-FP will emphasize key high impact practices (HIPs) to help achieve the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership of achieving 2.2 million additional FP users by 2020. Amplify-FP aims to strategically and deliberately support replication and scale up of key HIPs in large urban and peri-urban centers, in order to sustainably build and scale these approaches within four target countries (Burkina Faso, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger) and model this for the region.
The Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning works in close collaboration with the Chief of Party and Technical Director and serves as a member of the project management team. S/he assists the Chief of Party with monitoring project progress against benchmarks. S/he will be responsible for the successful implementation of Family Planning HIPs at integrated learning centers and ensuring replication and scale up by other partners.
This position is contingent upon award. The successful candidate will be asked to include a statement about his/her innovative vision to teach/train others to understand and better implement the key HIPs proposed in this application, and how s/he will use her background to implement it.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide technical and, as relevant, managerial direction and support to the project team to ensure high quality implementation of services, adherence to and fulfillment of programmatic activities within budgetary guidelines and compliance with project award requirements.
- Responsible with the Technical Director for the replication of Amplify-FP’s HIPs.
- Collaborates closely with key government officials in the Ministries of Health, NGOs and with partners, as part of the development of country program strategies to develop mechanisms that assure sustainability in delivery of quality service delivery.
- Work with program staff in the countries to ensure that adequate systems exist to gather data, and local capacity is developed to prepare and regularly review programs and logistical systems. Also ensures that technical assistance to the districts is timely, targeted, effective, and efficient
- Coordinates the activities of all subcontractors and sub grantees in regard of their technical contributions to the project.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters’ degree or higher in public health, nursing, midwifery, or similar relevant field in required.
- At least twelve (12) years’ experience of progressively responsible work experience required, including at least seven (7) years in senior project management role(s) of FP/RH projects with similar size and complexity.
- Experience with developing and implementing FP/RH quality assurance standards highly preferred.
- Direct experience with youth and adolescent FP/RH programs is strongly preferred.
- Experience preferred with testing and adapting service delivery models and approaches in a variety of African contexts.
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills are required.
- Fluency in French (3S/3R minimum) and English (4S/4R) are required.
- Ability to travel to focus countries and region up to 30% time. **
0 USD Lome CF 3201 Abc road Full Time ,
40 hours per week Management Sciences for Health**OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES
MSH seeks a Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning to provide technical vision for an anticipated regional planning and reproductive health program aimed at increasing the access and use of family planning services: Amplify-FP. The program will be the flagship family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) project of the USAID/West Africa Regional Health Office. Amplify-FP will emphasize key high impact practices (HIPs) to help achieve the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership of achieving 2.2 million additional FP users by 2020. Amplify-FP aims to strategically and deliberately support replication and scale up of key HIPs in large urban and peri-urban centers, in order to sustainably build and scale these approaches within four target countries (Burkina Faso, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger) and model this for the region.
The Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning works in close collaboration with the Chief of Party and Technical Director and serves as a member of the project management team. S/he assists the Chief of Party with monitoring project progress against benchmarks. S/he will be responsible for the successful implementation of Family Planning HIPs at integrated learning centers and ensuring replication and scale up by other partners.
This position is contingent upon award. The successful candidate will be asked to include a statement about his/her innovative vision to teach/train others to understand and better implement the key HIPs proposed in this application, and how s/he will use her background to implement it.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide technical and, as relevant, managerial direction and support to the project team to ensure high quality implementation of services, adherence to and fulfillment of programmatic activities within budgetary guidelines and compliance with project award requirements.
- Responsible with the Technical Director for the replication of Amplify-FP’s HIPs.
- Collaborates closely with key government officials in the Ministries of Health, NGOs and with partners, as part of the development of country program strategies to develop mechanisms that assure sustainability in delivery of quality service delivery.
- Work with program staff in the countries to ensure that adequate systems exist to gather data, and local capacity is developed to prepare and regularly review programs and logistical systems. Also ensures that technical assistance to the districts is timely, targeted, effective, and efficient
- Coordinates the activities of all subcontractors and sub grantees in regard of their technical contributions to the project.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters’ degree or higher in public health, nursing, midwifery, or similar relevant field in required.
- At least twelve (12) years’ experience of progressively responsible work experience required, including at least seven (7) years in senior project management role(s) of FP/RH projects with similar size and complexity.
- Experience with developing and implementing FP/RH quality assurance standards highly preferred.
- Direct experience with youth and adolescent FP/RH programs is strongly preferred.
- Experience preferred with testing and adapting service delivery models and approaches in a variety of African contexts.
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills are required.
- Fluency in French (3S/3R minimum) and English (4S/4R) are required.
- Ability to travel to focus countries and region up to 30% time. **
2018-01-01 
