Position Overview
As the health Technical Advisor for East Africa, you
are responsible for ensuring high quality technical assistance to the following
country programs: Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan. You will collaborate with
relevant stakeholders to achieve high quality, high impact interventions that
are informed by evidence, data, and best practice, contextually appropriate,
driven by client and partner voices, and are safe, inclusive, and promote equal
outcomes for clients.
Duties and Responsibilities
Program Design & Business Development:
You will support country programs to design winning
submissions and generally position IRC for continued success in our technical
domains:
Substantially contribute to the development of
proposal theories of change and log frames, and ensure country programs have
access and the trainings to the relevant resources, such as the health
outcomes, evidence frameworks, global and regional capacity statements, as well
as the IMPACT standards
Support the in-country technical lead in analyzing
relevant information including available M&E and client responsiveness
data, to prepare for design meetings/conversations.
Review and advise on use of core indicators, including alignment of donor indicators, and guidance on indicator targets and disaggregation.
Advise on program modalities and strategic
partnership development based on evidence, scale considerations, and how we can
best support, complement, and reinforce local systems.
Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on health
assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards
and tools.
Participate in project design meetings for all
relevant health proposals (remotely or in person)
Review and validate design meeting decisions around
technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and
budgets, to IRC standards and health outcomes.
Promote and support design collaboration with health
partners and clients.
Review and advice on program and project level
indicator selection and target setting and support data driven decision making.
Promote and support gender equality and diversity
inclusion throughout project design, field visits, and through the process of
health need assessments.
Implementation Support:
You will support country program staff and other key
stakeholders in implementing technical interventions:
Support country programs and other stakeholders with
the recruitment and training of technical coordinators, specialists, as well as
health project leads.
Assess program quality and inform improvements,
quality of care, including infection prevention and control, providing
follow-up support to country programs as needed.
Collaborate with country program colleagues to
monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic data review, program
adaptation, and course-correction as needed.
Provide mentorship to Technical Coordinators on the
interpretation of data, including monitoring data, annual statistics data,
quality data, client feedback and evaluations. Participate in data review
meetings, particularly technical data review meetings.
Provide technical capacity strengthening through
ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points,
while ensure the country programs have regularly assess the needs of capacity
building and develop the adapted capacity building plans.
As requested and guided by the region and the country
programs, attend internal meetings with the IRC health local partners, other
sectors, in addition to other external representations and meetings as
requested by the supervisor, such as donors, health clusters academic fora,
donor meetings, inter-agency working groups, technical working groups and
various global/regional fora as assigned by the supervisor.
Participate in coordination efforts within the health
unit and with other technical units and departments in IRC as required.
Contribute and support the health technical unit
globally to achieve and implement different work streams as informed by the IRC
health strategy such as immunization, nutrition, contraception, Infectious
disease prevention and control, and last mile delivery, etc.
Collaborate with Quality in Emergencies STAs and
Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) counterparts during emergency
classifications to support country programs to assess, design and implement
high quality programming in acute emergency situations, in line with QiE TA
Model
Knowledge & Learning:
You will support continuous sectoral learning and IRC
technical leadership:
Document learnings from health program activities and
share takeaways and opportunities.
Share cross-contextual learnings with country program
staff across the region, and health unit.
Collaborate with other technical advisors within the
region to promote integrated programming leadership at different stages of
program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration
with global and regional staff to influence approaches.
Contribute to the delivery of health unit strategic
priorities, and support the process do developing different case studies,
identify areas for future research and end of health project evaluation,
Maintain currency with sectoral best practices
through continual learning and development.
Provide mentorship to technical coordinators to
identify projects/ interventions that should be evaluated, and review and
approve evaluation methodologies, analysis plan and final reports.
Support high quality program and project evaluations
With Technical Coordinators, co-draft the development
of learning agenda and learning questions for projects or sector portfolios.
Professional Qualifications
Success in this position requires an individual with
expertise in designing and delivering technical assistance to primary health
care programs, and with a deep understanding of the cultural, societal, and
political contexts in at least one of the regions where IRC operates.
Work Experience:
A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in
implementing and/or managing big health programs, with on the ground
programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, INGO or comparable
international agency required.
Experience in the matter related the public health
programs, humanitarian health response, and system development and
strengthening.
Experience in specified technical areas including
comprehensive primary healthcare, technical tools and materials development and
monitoring and evaluation is highly desired. Experience in strategy development
and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer
agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian,
post-crisis, or climate impacted contexts.
Demonstrated expertise in technical program design,
monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into
measurable action.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Strong organizational and time-management skills;
proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic,
cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with
internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
Ability to manage and work through change in a
proactive and positive manner.
Education:
MD/RN, RN with public health or equivalent with a
Master’s/post-graduate degree in Public Health, Public Health Nutrition or
equivalent.
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