INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
TITLE: Regional Advisor, Deliverology & Health System Strengthening
PROGRAM/OFFICE: Family Planning by Choice Program, EngenderHealth-Ethiopia
REPORTS TO: Functionally to RHB head & administratively to Sr. Field Program Manager
DUTY STATION: Diredawa City Administration at RHB
The FMoH aims to provide equitable and quality health services for all with compassion and patient-centered care. The ministry needs to envision beyond the capacity to implement agreed at national policy, strategic plans and guidelines to deliver these services and address public demand. This required to set up a “delivery unit”, which is a small group of highly-skilled people who help to achieve outcomes for multiple initiatives that the leadership considers as critical or top priority.
EngenderHealth and FMoH seek applications from experienced technical expert to serve as a member of Regional Health Bureau Delivery Units (RHB-DU) and Health System Strengthening (HSS) Regional Advisor for the awarded project, Family Planning by Choice (FPbC) Program. The program is part of a partnership between DFID and FMoH, and aims to provide Technical Assistance to the FMoH and RHBs to facilitate the delivery of regional critical priorities and to improve quality, equity, choice and financing for comprehensive family planning and safe abortion services in Ethiopia. Qualified women applicants are highly encouraged to apply for these position.
JOB SUMMARY:
The Regional Deliverology and HSS advisor provides technical support and facilitate the timely implementation and delivery of the regional health bureau (RHBs) HSTP priorities. S/He assists in designing, adopting and institutionalizing a comprehensive regional HSS to ensure sustainable impact. S/He will work under the leadership of the RHB Head as the member of the RHB-DU; collaboratively with the management team, Maternal and Child Health and other relevant work processes at the RHBs and partners to adapt innovative models to drive the achievement of regional priority targets and HSS that are sustainable, effective, and responsive to the local context. S/He will be responsible to provide high quality technical assistance in facilitating the implementation of regional priorities, policy implementation and capacity-building initiatives aimed at enhancing the capacity of the RHB in policy analysis, planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation. The Regional Advisor will provide high-level support and onsite trainings to the process owners, team leaders and staffs of the RHB and at various levels within the region to support evidence-based decision making while supporting the focus on top priorities. S/He will in particular be responsible to ensure satisfactory implementation of Family planning (FP), Maternal Health (including Safe Abortion Care) and Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) programs at the region, and support for improving financing for health, in particular domestic financing for FP and safe abortion services in the region. S/He will provide technical and coordination support to ensure the proper functioning of existing FP and Safe Abortion Care (SAC) Technical Working Groups of the region.
The Regional advisor will be required to frequently liaison and consult with decision makers and experts with in RHBs and ensure all policy and HSS related technical assistance are responsive to the regional priorities and FPbC program.
a) DETAIL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
b) Capacity Building
c) Support Coordination and Partnership
d) Support Planning, Monitoring and Use of Data for Decision
e) Other Activities
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