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TITLE: Regional Adolescent and Youth Health (AYH) Advisor
PROGRAM/OFFICE: EngenderHealth Ethiopia Country Office/ Secondment to SRHB, Health Promotion and Environmental Health core process
REPORTS TO: Health Promotion and Environmental Health sub process and functionally to Family Planning by Choice Programme
DUTY STATION: Jigjiga
EngenderHealth is a leading global women’s health organization. EngenderHealth’s vision is a world where sexual and reproductive health rights are respected as human rights, and women and girls have the freedom to reach their full potential. This emphasis on rights directly underpins EngenderHealth’s values and principles: choice, quality, and excellence. To achieve transformational change leading to true social and economic progress, EngenderHealth partners with diverse organizations across sectors with the shared goals of highlighting women’s value to sustainable development.
EngenderHealth seeks applications from experienced technical expert to serve as Regional Adolescent and Youth Health (AYH) Advisor for Family Planning by Choice Programme at SRHB. The programme is part of a partnership between DFID and Ethiopian FMoH, and aims to provide Technical Assistance to the FMoH and RHBs to improve quality, equity, choice and financing for comprehensive family planning and safe abortion services in Ethiopia. This will be a local hire position, with an anticipated start date of January 1, 2018. Qualified women applicants are highly encourage applying and applications will be considered on first come-first served base.
JOB SUMMARY:
Under the DFID funded Family Planning by Choice (FPbC) programme, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and project partners envision to establish Center of Excellence (COE) for SRH with particular focus on family planning and abortion care at 11 teaching hospitals. The COE are envisioned to serve as models for service delivery, in-service training, mentorship and research. The COE will intern train, mentor and provide supportive supervision for 11 referral/general/primary hospitals to become “Quality Assurance Hubs” (QAHs), which intern will mentor health center across the country on FP and safe abortion care.
Regional Adolescent and Youth Health (AYH) Advisor will be part of the advisors team seconded to RHB’s Health Promotion and Environmental Health core process and provides high level TA to the RHB, Team leaders, staff and other relevant departments/sectors on adolescent and youth health including school health program.
Besides, he/she provides technical guidance and support to the Family Planning by Choice (FPbC) programme and Engender Health Ethiopia Country Program in areas of AYH Programming.
The Regional Adolescent and Youth Health (AYH) Advisor will work collaboratively with the FPbC team at the region and country office level, Hospitals and HCs selected for COE/MTCs/QAHs and Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs) as well as other relevant partners in enhancing equitable access to high quality, efficient and effective adolescent and youth friendly health services at different RHBs services outlets levels. By working closely with Process, he/she will strengthen strategic information and Operationalize research outputs and national AYH standards on adolescents and youth, to promote and facilitates youth engagement and ownership of health programs. He/she is also expected to develop, lead and coordinate regional regulations, and strategies on adolescent, youth health, and development. Overall, the AYH Advisor will work collaboratively with the FPbC team and Health Promotion and Environmental Health sub process to coordinate the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of all adolescent and youth health programs in line with the Adolescent and Youth Health Strategy 2016-2020; and the strategies of related programs such as child and newborn survival, reproductive health, and nutrition and FPbC project.
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