Job Purpose

The job holder will be responsible for supporting and undertaking planned activities and service delivery systems improvement under the Bread For The World supported reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) project, to improve mother and child health outcomes, through quality improvement approaches, building health provider competencies and expertise across the supported health facilities. This position reports to RMNCAH Coordinator.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight and supportive supervision and mentorship on RMNCAH/FP to all project sites.
• Contribute to the development of localized strategies for integration of RMNCAH with primary health care and into universal health coverage to improve mother and child health outcomes.
• Ensure that evidence-based high impact RMNCAH interventions are adopted and tracked throughout the project supported facilities and communities to improve overall service delivery at the facility but more specifically the RMNCAH/FP intervention areas.
• Provide RMNCAH technical assistance to CHAK Program projects to support technical excellence, data capture, analysis and reporting of lessons learned.
• Support regular analysis of all RMNCAH programs and distil approaches to address integration, quality assurance and scale up of service delivery within supported MHUs.
• Participate in knowledge management, scientific and technical leadership efforts to document impact of RMNCAH interventions, capture and dissemination of lessons learned.
• Build and maintain good relationships with the County Health Management Teams, local Implementing partners and other stakeholders.
• Actively participate in county level technical working groups, capacity building and advocacy forums to ensure full integration of the CHAK RMNCAH activities in the counties.
• Compile and make regular project performance monitoring reports of the planned BFTW activities.

Qualifications

• Post graduate Diploma in obstetrics and gynecology, Degree in nursing.
• Holder of a Certificate of Registration from a relevant Professional Council.
• Holder of a Valid Practice License from a relevant Professional Council.
• Master of Public Health with a focus on primary health Care, community FP/RMNCAH.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in RMNCAH programs, with demonstrable experience in implementation of community and facility based RMNCAH activities.
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Management and leadership skills.
• Computer literacy.
• Project management skills.
• Resource mobilization and proposal development skills.
• Conflict resolution and mediation skills.
• Excellent report writing and analytical skills.
• Integrity.