RMNH Specialist at Jhpiego

Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University is working in partnership with Excellence Community Education Welfare Scheme (ECEWS) to implement a five year PEPFAR funded CDC corporate agreement award that will support the Nigerian Federal and States MOH to implement a comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment program named - Local Capacity Enhancement Project (LOCATE) in Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States

Jhpiego is recruiting to fill the below position of:

Job Title: RMNH Specialist

Job ID: 2013-1881
Location: North, NG

Description

• Jhpiego seeks a Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health (RMNH) Specialist for an upcoming 5-year project focused on improving RMNH outcomes in 6 Northern Nigerian states. 
• The RMNH Advisor will provide technical and program support in the areas of maternal and newborn health, basic and/or comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care with an emphasis on prevention, identification and treatment of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and postpartum hemorrhage, health systems strengthening and quality improvement and family planning.
• The RMNH Advisor will also manage/coordinate the integration of these technical areas with other project components such as child health and immunization.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to increase the access to and use of quality Maternal and Newborn health services and Family planning.
• Revise/draft training materials, job aids on MNH and FP.
• Provide training and on-site coaching/ supervision of facility- and community-level health cadres to improve quality of services
• Develop and maintain excellent relations with government, partners, and local counterparts.
• Support the development of work plans, reporting and monitoring and evaluation plans.
• Work collaboratively with field staff to ensure that resources for effective and timely program implementation are available.
• Participate in and lead, monitoring and evaluation of activities for countries and regions assigned as needed.
• Mentor field staff to assume responsibilities for developing and managing the program at the field level.

Requirements

• Senior Nigerian Ob/Gyn or experienced Midwife with 10+ years of working experience
• Clinical degree required, advanced degree in public health preferred
• Ten years of mid- to senior-level demonstrated experience implementing and managing international, field-based reproductive, maternal, and newborn health programs
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing capacity-building programs for improving service delivery
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in the areas maternal, newborn and child health, and performance and quality improvement
• 5+ years of experience in the area of site strengthening including quality improvement and enhancing district/state management processes.
• Ability to build relationship with government personnel; local counterparts; and donor agencies.
• Willingness to travel and work in Northern Nigeria
• Fluency in English; Hausa preferred
• Excellent presentation skills and verbal and written communications skills
• Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination
• Aware of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural groups in a developing country environment
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.

Remuneration

• Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; 403(b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

Application Closing Date
27th November, 2013

Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.