USAID has announced a funding opportunity titled, Enhanced Access to and Utilization of Quality Family Planning/Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Services for select counties within Kenya. This five–year cooperative agreement anticipated to start in September 2016 will focus on activities in Kenya aimed to strengthen health and human capacity by improving the provision and use of quality Family Planning/RMNCAH services including nutrition and WASH interventions, focused at the county level with targeted investment at the national level. These activities will be essential to addressing the health of Kenya women, children and adolescents through a life course approach.
The Deputy Chief of Party & Service Delivery Technical Advisor (DCOP/SDTA) will be responsible for the technical oversight of the project and is specifically responsible for project implementation that relates to facility and community level service delivery. The DCOP/SDTA reports directly to the COP and will take a leadership role in ensuring technical implementation and ensure the project meets stated goals and reporting requirements. S/he will coordinate with other technical leads of key stakeholders, other USG implementing partners, and GOK, particularly at the county-level. S/he should be knowledgeable about current implementation science and state-of-the-art service delivery approaches. S/he will assume the responsibilities of the COP in the absence of the COP.
The DCOP/SDTA will be responsible for leading and overseeing the development and delivery of a high quality, innovative, cost effective and sustainable FP/RMNCAH programme resulting in immediate and lasting change for children. S/he will be responsible for provide technical leadership to the programme, documentation and dissemination of innovation and good practices and establishing, maintaining and expanding partner relations for the sector. This includes providing technical and program oversight in the design and day-to-day management of implementation to increase the demand for quality priority health services and community engagement activities. S/he will also ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on sound and current scientific evidence. This will be based in Nairobi but with frequent (approx. 50% travel) to the field. This position is contingent on the issuance of USAID funding and the selection of applicants is subject to USAID approval.
Key Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Medicine, Nursing, Public Health or related field is a requirement.
- Minimum of seven years’ experience with progressively increasing responsibility in managing and implementing complex public health programming in developing countries with projects of similar size and scope.
- At least five years of proven experience in managing and supervising a technical team and in project design.
- Five years’ demonstrated experience at mid- or senior level in the following areas: maternal, newborn and child health and family planning/reproductive health AND demonstrated experience in two of the following areas: nutrition; quality improvement/quality assurance; community health, human resources for health development; M&E; and operations research.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in building community and Ministry of Health capacity to provide quality health services
- Demonstrated experience of supervising and mentoring technical staff
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the devolved Kenyan Health system
- Familiarity with USAID or other USG administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
- Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering team work
- Strong management skills, leadership qualities, professional reputation, ability to create synergies where applicable, interpersonal skills, and written and oral presentation skills to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of the project description.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English (professional level proficiency).
- Qualified Kenyan nationals are encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY:
Candidates should apply directly through the website at: www.savethechildren.org under the Careers page. Please select "Search US Jobs" and then choose location as: Kenya EOE
