Project Title: Ethiopia Health Workforce Development-Increasing Access to Essential Specialty Services
Number required: Four
Duration: 4 months
Overview: Founded in 2002, by President William J. Clinton and Ira C. Magaziner, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (“CHAI”) is a global health organization committed to saving lives, reducing the burden of disease and strengthening integrated health systems in low and middle income countries.
CHAI Ethiopia is currently carrying out a wide range of programs to support the Ministry of Health in improving access to and increasing the quality of health services. As one of CHAI’s largest field offices with more than 170 staff, the Ethiopia office operates programs across a wide range of areas, including maternal, newborn and child health; HIV/AIDS; nutrition; vaccines; health financing and health workforce development.
Project Description: As a part of its commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage, the Government of Ethiopia has prioritized national investments in the public health sector to increase the availability and quality of specialty health services with emphasis on connecting rural communities to district-level and referral facilities. Toward this end, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) requested CHAI to develop academic partnerships to scale up training of medical specialists based on CHAI’s experiences with similar programs in Rwanda and Liberia. In order to ensure that this work aligns with national service delivery needs, CHAI will collaborate with FMOH to set national targets for prioritized cadres (including select medical specialists and the mid-level providers who enable delivery of specialist services), establish educational quality standards for relevant training programs, and design and resource a comprehensive program to strengthen and scale-up training of targeted cadres.
CHAI will approach this work in two phases: during Phase I (2018), CHAI will develop medical specialist staffing targets for selected postgraduate training programs, establish national training standards for ten priority medical specialty training programs and conduct capacity assessments against these standards at existing medical specialty training programs and associated clinical facilities. This work will inform the development of a costed, prioritized strategy to strengthen medical specialty programs; CHAI will support the government to mobilize resources and engage partners to implement this strategy. During Phase I, focus is on medical specialty programs in Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Oncology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Pediatrics, Radiology, Dermatology and General Surgery.
During phase II (2019), CHAI will develop guidelines and conduct similar approach of Year 1; but focus on mid-level providers who are integral to the delivery of specialty services, such as nurse anesthetists and OR technicians, as well as primary care providers more generally, who play a key role in the referral system that generates demand for specialty services. This work will inform a costed strategy to scale production and improve quality of the mid-level providers required to achieve Ethiopia’s vision of high quality, accessible specialty services.
The CHAI team deployed during Phase I will design, collect, and synthesize data from 12 training universities/institutions providing postgraduate medical training across Ethiopia and work closely with stakeholders in Government, the health education sector, and INGOs to inform program design. The team will rely on clinical experience from domestic experts, and work closely with the CHAI’s Global Health Workforce Team to leverage CHAI’s health workforce experience in other countries.
Position Overview: In coordination with the Analytics Manager, the Consultant will be responsible for designing and executing the project’s data collection method/plan, data collection tool development /refinement, pretesting the tool, data collection, data entry, cleaning and data analysis, and writing technical report by summarizing identified gaps for comprehensive operational plan.
The scale of the program, the novelty of the assessment, analyses being conducted and the ambitious timeline of the data collection and report synthesis are highly demanding and the desired candidate is expected to conduct multi-task effectively. Successful candidate must have a passion for results, a commitment to excellence, and a demonstrated capacity to work in high stress environments. The Consultant will report to the Analytics Manager.
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In coordination with the Analytics Manager, key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
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