Organisation:
EngenderHealth
Project: Fistula Care
Plus
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Country
Manager
EngenderHealth is a leading
global women’s health organization committed to ensuring that every pregnancy
is planned, every child is wanted, and every mother has the best chance at
survival. In 20 countries around the world, we train health care professionals
and partner with governments and communities to make high-quality family
planning and sexual and reproductive health services available—today and for
generations to come.
About Fistula Care Plus Project:
EngenderHealth Uganda received
an award (cooperative agreement) by USAID for a Fistula Care plus project whose
objective is to strengthen health system capacity for fistula prevention,
detection, treatment and reintegration. The project will strengthen
environments to enable for fistula prevention and treatment, increase community
awareness and support for women and girls with fistula, reduce barriers to
accessing prevention, detection, and care, and improve the evidence base for
approaches to improve fistula care in the districts of Hoima, Masaka, Kalungu
and Kasese.
Job Summary: The Senior
Clinical Associate will support the USAID EngenderHealth Project through the
provision of clinical programming and technical leadership related to all
activities, including service delivery, training, supervision and quality
improvement. Currently, the focus of those activities is in Fistula prevention,
treatment (including catheterization) and reintegration as well as integration
of genital prolapse in select sites.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide
overall technical leadership of Reproductive Health work inclusive of
maternal health and family planning in EngenderHealth Uganda. - Work
closely with the National Fistula Technical Working Group and in-country partners,
provide programming guidance and support to implement programs to
strengthen fistula detection, prevention, treatment and re-integration.
Initiate, establish and maintain collaboration with MOH, district
leadership, USG partners, stakeholders (including Public Benefit
organizations which may be health, legal, advocacy, income generating among
others), relevant institutions in the country and region with the aim of
strengthening the program. - Offer
support snd technical assistance to country staff and partners on clinical
and counseling service delivery and training. As appropriate, lead training
activities in the field. - Work
in liaison with in-country partners in the development of quality
improvement strategies for fistula programs. - Carry
out medical monitoring of EngenderHealth supported activities and all
clinical aspects of EngenderHealth’s work. This includes overseeing the
use of supervision and monitoring tools, death and complications
reporting, review of service data in collaboration with partner sites and
the Program Associates to identify opportunities for program improvement. - With
program and NY staff identify and coordinate medical consultant activities
in accordance with medical safety guidelines and standards, consultant
SOP’s and other standard medical procedures. - Actively
participate in discrete medical global activities, as requested by the
Fistula Care team. - Offer
technical support in operations research and programmatic needs
assessments, including working with the Evaluation and Research staff to
design research strategies, developing and/or reviewing questionnaires,
analyzing and writing up data, etc. - Work
closely with the program associates – M & E to review and report on
quarterly data from a technical perspective. - Support
assessment and documentation of quality assurance programs at FC+
sites and harmonization of M&E
with site-specific QA processes to establish clinical/programmatic
outcomes - Offer
programmatic and technical direction in the design implementation of
training, and BCC materials, new technologies, needs assessments, research
and evaluation activities of EHU. - Participate
in dissemination and training activities of RH in the country, region and
international meetings. - Identify,
with Ugandan stakeholders in RH, lessons learned and potential best
practices related to the current RH programs of EHU, document and disseminate
best practices and contribute to developing strategies to replicate them
in-country. - Represent
EngenderHealth/Fistula Care Plus at meetings with USAID/Uganda,
implementing partners, donors, and other external audiences regarding RH. - Keep
abreast of ground breaking work in RH, disseminate new knowledge to
Project staff - Perform
any other duties as may be assigned periodically
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
ideal candidate for the USAID Senior Clinical Associate vacancy at
EngenderHealth should possess an Advanced degree in health, population,
demography, social sciences or related field. - At
least seven years’ experience in management or reproductive health/family
planning or development programs. - The
applicant must also be registered or eligible to register with Uganda
Medical Practioners Council, preferably in Obstetrics & Gynecology - Technical
experience in reproductive training at both basic and advanced level. - Experience
in fundraising, donor relations, and strategy and proposal development is
an added advantage - Familiarity
with FP/RH and maternal health (including Fistula) in general and in
Africa in particular. - Clinical
background in maternal health and family planning - Fluency
in both written and spoken English - Excellent
communication and interpersonal skills - Skills
and experience in managing staff and working with teams - Able
to think creatively to envision, create and implement a program. - Ability
to conduct regular field visits
up to 40% of the time to monitor
the various activities to ensure high standards of programming, effective
use of medical equipment, funds and other resources, and to provide TA to
in-country and regional partners. - Ability
to develop, manage, and administer comprehensive programs is an added
advantage
All interested job applicants
should visit our website’s career page at the web link below to submit your
details online.
Deadline: 14th August 2015
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