Background of the Project:
The Last Ten Kilometer (L10K) project—What it Takes to Improve Health Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia—has been implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) through funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2007. The project has been striving to improve reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health (RMNCH) care behaviors and outcomes in four regions of the country – Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP), and Tigray. The first phase of funding (2007-2015) was focused on supporting 115 woredas and their health facilities in the four regions in the implementation of high impact innovative community-based solutions poised to improve RMNCH care practices and outcomes.
Since 2015, the project was designed to address challenges of the post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era related to barriers to achieve maternal, newborn and child mortality targets. However, based on the foundations guidance and need to align with the Ethiopia Integrated Health Program (EIHP), the project has been redesigned through a collaborative process involving experts from Ministry of health (MoH), regional health bureaus (RHBs) and zonal health departments to address systemic challenges by harnessing the project’s comparative advantage areas including community engagement, quality, equity and information use in October 2017. Accordingly, the project has been providing system strengthening support to address the health system challenges at national and regional and zonal levels. The project systems support focuses on increasing the capacity of the health system to (i) implement woreda transformation agenda, (ii) plan, improve and assure quality, (iii) increase equity and (iv)enhance the utilization of valid data to improve RMNCH care practices and outcomes.
Purpose of the Consultancy
L10K in collaboration with AACAHB has designed an intervention to strengthen the resilience capacity selected Health Centers in Addis Ababa. So, the main purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of MNCH services providers working at learning health facilities in Addis Ababa through provision of hands-on training on the revised IPC guideline in Ethiopia with particular focus on Instrument processing.
For this purpose, the project is seeking short term consultant to give training for healthcare Professionals working at Learning Health Centers in Addis Ababa. The training emphasizes, changes in attitude and learning by doing, not just knowing, and it uses competency-based evaluation of performance.
Required number: 4 IPC trainers
Roles & responsibilities:
· Provide training to health professionals on basic IPC training based on the revised National IPC Training Facilitator’s guide.
· Conduct a pre- training assessment
· Conduct a post training evaluation
· Help Facilities develop Action Plan based on their critical gaps/challenges.
Required Qualifications:
· MD with 4 years relevant work experience; OR Environmental Health /BSc in Nursing/HO/Medical Laboratory/Pharmacy and related field with MPH/MSc having 6 years’ work experience.
· TOT Certificate in Revised National IPC Training Guide.
· Proven Experience of Conducting Similar Training
· Experience in leading & coordinating IPC related programs &activities, emergency & outbreak management
· Relevant knowledge and experience in capacity building (such as, facilitation skill, training, supportive supervision, mentoring, coaching).
· Experience in data quality management and M & E science
· Preferably experience working as a member of IPC Technical working groups.
· Experience in development of national documents related to Hospital system strengthening
· Organizing workshop, training, review meetings & seminar organization
· Ability to establish and maintain effective result-based working relationship with Team members.