Job Title: | Technical Advisor, Health Services, Angola |
Position Type: | |
Location: | Angola |
Department: | East Africa |
Description:
PSI seeks highly qualified candidates for the position of Technical Advisor, Health Services for PSI/ Angola. The candidate will provide effective leadership and strategic management of PSI/Angola's health interventions to ensure they are targeted, evidence based, and using international best practice approaches to achieve health impact. The successful candidate will serve as the Chief of Party for an integrated social marketing program. This full-time position is based in Luanda, Angola and reports to the Country Representative.
Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with country program staff to achieve program objectives and deliverables, mentoring and developing local staff capacity in project strategic planning, marketing, and communications design and development across programmatic areas
- Provide technical assistance to operationalize new malaria strategies toward containment and elimination. Includes development of work plans guiding rapid expansion of existing franchise of private sector providers, mobile service delivery points, and public sector partnerships
- Lead teams in development of appropriate maternal child health communication, training protocols, project monitoring and evaluation strategies and tools
- Lead with Angolan counterparts and with assistance of Technical Advisor, Health Services external relations with NMCP and government partners, partner stakeholders, PR and Global Fund, other donors and multi and bi lateral organizations
- Provide strategic guidance on design & development of research studies and marketing and communication campaigns (including mass and mid media, targeted interpersonal approaches)
- Oversee management of complex Global Fund programs, including coordination w/support teams and PR
- Will support roll out of ACT programs in Angola, including:
- Working with national malaria partners (e.g. malaria forum) to ensure that all project activities are integrated with national malaria interests. This will include the sharing of study designs, seeking ethical approval and sharing results and policy recommendations
- Ensuring PSI/A's Research Department is implementing study designs in a quality assured and timely manner consistent with plans agreed at national and international level.
- Coordinating visits by external consultants tasked with providing technical assistance to undertake specific studies. This will include managing all administrative arrangements for visitors, setting up meetings and presentations, providing required human and logistical resources and ensuring quality research outputs are produced by these consultants in a timely fashion
- Regular reporting and provision of results to the Principal Investigator
- Manage scale up of Malaria programs across at least 16 provinces in Angola.
- Additionally, approximately 10-20% of time will be spent on special projects as outlined in CR that will contribute to other program goals and objectives. These projects will be accompanied by tailored scope of work and/or briefing sessions to outline objectives and deliverables
Experience:
- Masters degree in relevant field (MBA, MSW, MPH) or equivalent experience
- Technical expertise in the area of social marketing, HIV, reproductive health, maternal and/or child health preferred
- 3-5 years demonstrated health experience
- At least four years of work experience in a developing country, experience in a post conflict environment preferred
- Experience managing USAID funded projects, including managing a diverse team preferred
- Familiarity with international health, development issues and the international donor community
- Experience logical frameworks, marketing planning and program management tools preferred
- Ability to work effectively in partnership with a variety of audiences and organizations
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish preferred
- INGO experience strongly preferred
- Excellent writing, presentation and interpersonal communication skills preferred
Technical Advisor, Health Services, Angola
Technical Advisor, Health Services, Angola
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