RH/Family Planning Advisor – JSI
Health Care
JSI
JSI is a public health organization dedicated to improving the health of people and communities in more than 70 countries.
Almost 40 years of global experience supports and informs JSI’s work in Ethiopia. Since 1994, JSI has worked in partnership with the government and local civil society organizations to support the Ethiopian government’s health and development priorities.
JSI is working in all regions across Ethiopia, in urban as well as rural areas—though most projects reach the largest population groups by focusing on the four most populous regions.
Operationally, JSI has the integrity of strong management systems, combined with the flexibility of a decentralized structure that meets clients’ and partners’ needs.
JSI is a US-based public health nonprofit organization dedicated to providing high-quality technical and managerial assistance programs throughout the world. In Ethiopia, JSI has been working to improve health outcomes for more than 25 years, implementing more than 60 projects and working in every region. JSI has historically managed a large portfolio of projects focusing on the quality, and equity in access of, RMNCAH services, primary health care (PHC) including community health program, digital health, health information systems (HIS), supply chain management, public health emergency responses, and social and behavior change.
Activity overview
USAID Quality Healthcare Activity (QHA) aims at improving health outcomes through improved readiness of health facilities to deliver quality reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services, increased management and accountability for quality service delivery, and restoration of services in health facilities in conflict-affected areas. QHA’s strategies and implementation approaches will help the government of Ethiopia build public and private health care systems that are responsive, resilient, and sustainable. QHA will cover urban and peri-urban primary health care units (PHCU) and referral health facilities in select regions and woredas. The Activity, through funding support from USAID, will be implemented by JSI in collaboration with Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), MSI Reproductive Choices (MSI), Project HOPE, and Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA) for five years (May 01, 2023 – April 30, 2028).
Position summary
The RH/Family Planning (FP) Advisor is responsible for overseeing all technical interventions on RH/FP of the Activity. The advisor provides technical assistance to area implementation team (AIT) and consortium member partners, coordinate overall RH/FP activities, and represent QHA on different RH/FP platforms as required.
Duties and responsibilities
· Develop RH/FP annual plans of the Activity in consultation with the RMNCAH team lead and other teams of the Activity.
· In consultation with RMNCAH Team Lead and other teams of the Activity, design and implement FP interventions in the interventions sites at different levels of the health system.
· Write quarter and annual RH/FP reports of the Activity.
· Develop RH/FP related manuals, guidelines, standard operating procedures, protocols and other documents as needed.
· Identify opportunities for and conduct operational research on RH/FP in collaboration with research, monitoring-evaluation-learning (MEL) and knowledge management (KM) teams.
· Publish documents like technical briefs, lessons learned, best practices in collaboration with KM team and share with stakeholders on different fora.
· Provide technical assistance to area implementation team, consortium member partners, government entities and others on areas of RH/FP.
· Participate in the Activity meetings as required and provide updates on FP innovative and strategic approaches.
· Represent the Activity in various RH/FP technical meetings, working groups, and conferences.
· Work closely with RMNCAH team lead and other Activity members to meet key RH/FP milestones and deliverables, monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot any challenges to the Activity’s RH/FP implementations.
· Collaborate with other USAID and non-USAID investments on RH/FP to capture best practices, identify potential RH/FP interventions for scale up and continuity.
· Collaborate with MEL and KM teams to establish a monitoring system to track quality and reach of activities; ensure lessons learned from implementation inform adaptation.
· Specific responsibilities include working on RH/FP capacity enhancement, gap filling FP supply, integration of FP services, expansion of postpartum FP, introduction of new contraceptive technologies, etc.
· Perform other duties as assigned by the Activity.
· At least 10 years of technical and programmatic experience on FP.
· Experience on protocols, manuals and training materials development.
· Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
· Able to promote team work and effort.
· Effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
· Proven experience of working along the health system – community, primary health care units and referral hospitals.
· Experience of interacting with local governments, international organizations, other bilateral donor and civil society representatives.
· Computer skills in word, power point and Excel.
· Skills in data processing.
· Able to work with minimum supervision.
· Being able to communicate with more than one local language is a plus.
