Vacancy title:
Child Health Immunization Advisor

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
JHPIEGO

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, July 25 2025

Duty Station:
Lusaka | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 11 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Overview

The Child Health and Immunization Advisor will be responsible for the implementation of life-saving Child health activities in the supported provinces. S/he will work in collaboration with the PHO/DHO and health facility teams and other stakeholders to implement quality Child health through technical capacity enhancement and quality improvement initiatives. S/he will work collaboratively with health care providers to enhance their skills through on-the-job coaching and delivery of evidence-based high-impact interventions to enhance child survival.

The closing date is Thursday, July 14, 2025

Responsibilities

• Work with the Technical Lead, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, to ensure timely planning, budgeting, and implementation of project activities to maximize efficiency.
• Provide on-the-job coaching and mentorship to Health Care Providers in health facilities to ensure the provision of quality Newborn Child Health Immunization and Nutrition (NCHIN) services to Newborns and children.
• Plan and support child health outreach services in collaboration with the DHO team.
• Support the Ministry of Health in rolling out and institutionalizing the quality-of-care standards for newborn and Child Health and services.
• Support the DHO and health facilities in rolling out routine Self-Service Quality Assessments (SQA) for NCHIN services, identify, implement interventions to improve the quality of care, and monitor compliance to the set standards.
• Provide technical leadership, capacity development, and supervision to health workers on child health, nutrition, and immunization activities.
• Work with the District to develop and support a pool of mentors and trainers on IMNCI, ETAT, IMAM, MYICAN, and growth monitoring

Management:

• Ensure compliance with USG Department of State terms of the award and operational policies, rules, and regulations.
• Ensure compliance with Jhpiego Policies and processes in financial and activity implementation requirements.
• Undertake prescribed Jhpiego and Donor compliance and any other technical online courses for personal development.
• Make timely contributions to bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.
• Develop success stories on Child Health, Immunization, Nutrition, and submit them to the Supervisor.
• Contribute to the development of Technical Briefs on Child Health, Immunization, and Nutrition.

Partnership:

• Coordinate with National, Provincial, and District Teams in planning and implementing life-saving Child Health and Nutrition activities at the facility and outreach.
• Support the Ministry of Health in undertaking reviews and implementation of child health and Immunization recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Clinical Medicine/or Master of Public Health
• Five to six years of work experience in Child Health and Immunization programmes.
• Be an excellent classroom and clinical trainer with at least two years’ experience in clinical training on IMCI, ETAT, IMAM, MYICAN
• Experience working in the private sector/NGOs
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing capacity-building programs for improving service delivery
• Ability to coach, mentor, and develop technical capacity in service delivery programs and technical staff in the areas of Child Health, Nutrition, and performance and quality improvement
• Experience managing quality assurance
• Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to multitask
• Self-management is necessary (i.e., motivation, dealing with pressure, adaptability).
• Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence.
• Be cooperative, competent, hardworking, flexible, and dependable.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 180

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

• Please upload your application letter and curriculum vitae only.
• Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.  Female candidates are encouraged to apply. Please apply at www.jobs-jhpiego.icims.com
  Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, current & expected Salary
  For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org
  Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
  Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
• Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.
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