Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 21, 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years in East and Southern Africa, Jhpiego has empowered front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost, hands-on solutions that strengthen the delivery of health care services, following the household-to-hospital continuum of care. Jhpiego partners with organizations from the community to the national levels, building sustainable, local capacity through advocacy, policy development, human resources for health and quality and performance improvement approaches. For further information about Jhpiego, please visit our website at www.jhpiego.org.
Jhpiego invites applications for the positions of:
Senior VMMC Program Advisor
LOCATION: Lusaka (1)
REPORTS TO: Project Director
Background
Jhpiego Zambia through Centers for Disease Control (CDC) funding will be providing technical assistance (TA) to the Ministry of Health (MOH) in planning, implementing, and monitoring the voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program. The Senior VMMC Program Advisor will be based in Lusaka and work closely with MOH’s national VMMC Coordinator, and Jhpiego VMMC Project Director and other Jhpiego VMMC team members. to deploy the collective provincial VMMC resources to achieve the annual, provincial VMMC target. This includes ensuring quality of VMMC services, effective deployment of human resources, introducing human-centered design approaches to demand creation targeting priority age groups, and ensuring data quality and completeness. .

Responsibilities
Working with the National VMMC Coordinator this position will:
• Identify all VMMC-dedicated resources from MOH, Global Fund, or implementing partners and coordinate their deployment to achieve the VMMC target.
• Develop and disseminate guidance to include VMMC activities and resource allocation in MOH’s Mid Term Expenditure Framework plans and CDC-funded awards with the PHO.
• Monitor national performance against targets and prepare summary reports for VMMC Technical Working Group (TWG).
• Coordinate regular VMMC TWG meetings including defining the agenda
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring action plan stemming for VMMC TWG meetings.
• Develop plan to roll out human-centered approaches to demand generation efforts.
• Supervise Jhpiego’s Provincial VMMC Program Advisors to operationalize national policies and guidelines in the province and district level including quality assurance/quality improvement of VMMC services and human-centered design approaches to demand generation activities.
• Conduct quality assurance visits to provinces and selected districts.
• Monitor national supply chain and logistics management of VMMC commodities to eliminate stock outs
• Liaise with Jhpiego Lusaka-based technical advisors
• Document technical assistance recommendations and identified best practices.
• Submit reports to Lusaka Office in a timely manner

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required Qualifications
• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Development or related level qualification
• Minimum 8 – 9 years’ experience i.e. 5 years’ experience in coordinating VMMC programs of a similar magnitude and 4 years’ experience working on CDC-funded awards
• Demonstrated experience in VMMC program management in the government sector.
• Experience in working with/ coordinating programs with Government of a similar nature
• Strong written communication skills
• Experience managing consortiums or partnership an added advantage
• Good understanding of the Zambia health landscape
• Demonstrated experience in planning and budgeting, with strong knowledge and experience in supporting Government Planning and budgeting mechanisms in Zambia.
• Demonstrated project management competence including scope, schedule, and cost monitoring, risk management and change control.
• Strong leadership and technical capacity to support coordination of services, National, provincial and district levels;
• Demonstrated ability to work with efficiency and diplomacy, as part of a team effort
• Demonstrated presentation and oral communication skills
• He/she must be computer literate in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point) and Microsoft Outlook calendar

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: 8-9 years

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Job application procedure
To apply for this job email your details to Zambiajobs@jhpiego.org 

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