Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Technical Director, Eswatini 112 views0 applications

Overview

Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Technical Director

Based in Mbabane, eSwatini

Reports to the Country Representative/Principal Investigator

The position is contingent upon funding and donor approval

Who we are?

With over 45 years of experience, working in over 60 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets, and shift policy and funding to better support consumer empowered healthcare.

There are over 8,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. We are a diverse group of entrepreneurial development professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. All with unique skills that we bring to the critically important work that we do.

Join us!

We are looking for a VMMC Technical Director to be a lead expert on VMMC service delivery and demand creation for an anticipated five-year Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded program in eSwatini. S/he will provide guidance on appropriate technical and programmatic approaches for scale-up and support the Country Representative/ Principal Investigator in day-to-day implementation of service delivery.

Sound like you? Read on.

Responsibilities

Your contribution

The Kingdom of eSwatini is a small country in Southern Africa situated between Mozambique and South Africa. eSwatini has a high HIV prevalence (27%) and incidence (1.4%). Expansion of VMMC coverage as a key component of a combination prevention strategy will play a critical role in the achieving HIV epidemic control. The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) new VMMC Operational Plan will be useful in bringing key stakeholders to the table for synergy.

As key personnel for an anticipated five-year CDC-funded VMMC program, the Technical Director will be the lead expert on all technical aspects, design, and rollout of VMMC services on the program. S/he will provide expert guidance on appropriate technical and programmatic approaches for scale up of safe VMMC services and support the team of key personnel including the Principal Investigator (Country Representative), Finance Director, Business official, and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Director in her/his day-to-day implementation of services and coordination with demand creation activities. S/he will also oversee training of staff, M&E, and quality assurance (QA) of VMMC services, recommend improvements in the safety and quality of VMMC services, and mentor clinical staff.

The Technical Director will work with relevant government departments (e.g. MOH) and implementing partners to transfer skills and build capacity to improve the policy environment, demand creation, VMMC numbers and performance, continuous quality improvement (CQI), and monitoring of adverse events (AE).

• Technical Leadership: Serve as Technical lead in all aspects of design, planning, implementation, QA and M&E, demand creation, and community mobilization of VMMC. S/he will provide expert guidance on appropriate technical and programmatic approaches for scale up of safe VMMC services.
• Demand Creation: Work with marketing and communication team to create demand for VMMC service uptake.
• Program Coordination and Capacity Building: Collaborate and partner with relevant government departments and implementing partners to transfer skills and build capacity to improve the policy environment, demand creation, VMMC numbers and performance, CQI, and monitoring of AE.
• AE Management: Lead VMMC-related AE and serious adverse event reporting and management processes, and ensure timely reporting.
• QA and Quality Improvement: Collaborate with the MOH and technical working groups to develop and adapt QA and improvement plans for VMMC services, including external and internal QA audits and CQI and monitoring plans.
• Quality Audits: Support the establishment or enhancement of internal QA audits; train staff within the national VMMC program to perform audits, and apply findings to quality improvement efforts. Periodically review QA processes/requirements.
• People Management: Oversee a team of VMMC program, technical, and QA coordinators to continuously monitor the rollout of result-driven VMMC services scale up and the quality of VMMC services.
• Knowledge Management: Document best practices/lessons learned in implementing VMMC and disseminate to guide improved service delivery.
• Data to action: Co-design with the M&E Director to foster a regular data to action framework to drive performance using granular level data analysis by geography and age. Ensure analysis of data guides programmatic decision making, planning, and scale-up.
• SIMS: Lead adaptation and supportive supervision of VMMC program, and work towards CQI.
• Integration: Lead integration of the VMMC across PSI/eSwatini health programs and leverage existing resources.
• Derive Sustainability: Work with MOH and key stakeholders to co-design and rollout VMMC sustainability strategies with key milestones.Qualifications

What are we looking for?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.

Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.

Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.

Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.

Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt

Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin

The basics:

S/he will have the following qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Medical Doctor or Nursing Degree with relevant experience.
• Relevant master’s degree (MPH, Epidemiology, Health Management) highly desired.
• At least 10 years of work experience in service delivery, operations research, and/or fundraising.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing international HIV programs, with at least 5 years of experience in resource-challenged settings in a technical leadership role.
• Prior proven experience implementing VMMC programming in East and Southern Africa region is required.
• Demonstrated expertise in clinical QA and QI in developing countries is preferred.
• References will be required.
• The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.

What would get us excited?

• Strategist and Innovator: You are creative, innovative, and a strategic thinker. You have a strong interest in service delivery and a proven ability to produce results.
• Experienced Advisor: You have experience working with VMMC providers and have expertise in QA.
• Mentor: You have experience coaching and mentoring clinical teams.
• Multitasker and Proactive Team player: You have ability to work with local structures, technical teams, other implementing partners, and donors.
• PEPFAR Experience: You have experience working with any PEPFAR project and in Southern or East Africa.

STATUS

• Exempt

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PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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