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South Sudan: WASH Specialist- Health Pooled Fund 3

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Organization: Montrose
Country: South Sudan
Closing date: 09 Nov 2018

Background Information:
The Health Pooled Fund began its third phase (HPF3) in July 2018 and is supported to run until 2023 by the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), the Government of Canada, the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A consortium led by Crown Agents and including PSI is responsible for managing and implementing HPF.
HPF3 merges two previous health programmes - Health Pooled Fund 2 (HPF2), which provides healthcare at health facility level, and the Integrated Community Case Management 2 (ICCM2) programme, which provides healthcare to children under-five within more remote communities. HPF3 supports delivery of community level, essential primary health care, secondary health care and referral health services, stabilisation of local health systems, and procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities.
HPF supports services in eight state hubs of South Sudan formerly known as: Eastern Equatoria, Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Unity and Lakes.
The programme impact will be an improved health and nutrition status for the population that saves lives and reduces morbidity (including maternal, infant and under-5 mortality), and has the following three principal outcomes:
• Improved health and nutrition services for the population, especially women and children;
• Improved community engagement and accountability of health services;
• Stabilisation of local health systems.

To attain these outcomes, the HPF3 team is responsible for:
• Effective programme management, including robust risk management;
• Ensuring continuity of and support to service delivery, with a focus on improving quality;
• Specialist technical assistance covering health service delivery, community engagement, nutrition, health planning, information and HRH.
• Procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities
• Management of the Implementing Partner fund
• Management of fiduciary risk associated with use of donor funds;

Position Summary:
This position provides technical support to the health facilities with the aim to strengthen the capacity and implementation quality in the area of WASH through; provision of technical guidance for WASH interventions in health facilities in development and humanitarian settings, identification and building of strategic partnerships at state and national level and strengthening internal and external coordination and collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Core Responsibilities:
• Overall responsible for the implementation of the WASH component of the project’s work plan, ensuring completion of project deliverables.
• Provide oversight of all WASH activities supported by the Health Pooled Fund through the Implementing Partners
• Support the development/review/update of the WASH strategy and plan
• Provide technical support to Implementing Partners on delivering key elements of the HPF WASH strategy.
• Provide support to the MoH on health policy matters, participate in and contribute to WASH technical working group and forums concerning WASH in health facilities programming.
• Collaborate and coordinate with other partners (including clusters, UN agencies, NGOs) and fund managers on WASH issues.
• Conduct joint assessments with implementing partners and other stakeholders in health and nutrition for ensuring integration of WASH in health facilities infrastructure and quality health and nutrition services.
• Support integration of WASH in other program areas such as Quality of Care, MNCH, and community level health services
• Develop and deliver capacity building initiatives with the implementing partners and other stakeholders, including training and mentoring for WASH based on identified gaps of specific areas of knowledge and practice.
• Monitor Implementing Partners on implementation progress and adherence to WASH guidelines, standards and policies
• Promote the development, adaption, testing and mainstreaming of good practices in needs assessment, project design, implementation and M&E for WASH in health facilities.
• Ensure effective and efficient program monitoring and reporting processes in place and implemented in full collaboration with the health stabilization and M&E team.
• Coordinate the development of standard operating procedures for WASH activities with inputs from the relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct supportive supervisory visits to implementing partners contracted across the 23 Lots
• Regularly review achievements of WASH indicators against log-frame targets. Review the WASH related DHIS data on a monthly basis
• Advise on best practices and innovative approaches to improve WASH activities at facility level
• Capture and apply lessons learned and document success stories on WASH in health facilities for reporting and sharing amongst implementing partners.
• Work closely with the HPF Monitoring and Evaluation team to develop indicators for measuring success and ensure documentation of WASH activities, trainings, assessments and data.
• Work closely with the MEL and Operations Research team to identify areas in WASH that require further study and analysis
• Liaise or coordinate with other WASH technical partners including WHO/UNICEF and MoH
• Participate in the technical evaluation of the proposals submitted by the implementing partners, including the proposals to access emergency preparedness and response funding.
• Support HPF report writing, work planning and budgeting as required
• Work closely with the other health stabilization team members; nutrition, MNCH, family planning, and community engagement specialists.
• Supervise the implementation of HPF activities in the allocated Lots.
• Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organizational or programming needs as assigned by the line manager.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
• WASH background
• Master’s qualification in Public Health or related field
• Professional trainings and qualifications in WASH in health facilities
• At least 8 years’ working experience in a related field

Desirable:
• Experience of working in the South Sudan health sector
• Proven experience in WASH in health facilities implementation at the field level including in outbreak situations
• Proven experience in capacity building, organization learning and change processes.
• Strong written and oral communication skills including ability to develop technical guidance and give presentations. Able to communicate clearly, concisely and accurately in English (additional knowledge of local languages would be an advantage)
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work in different settings and across cultures.
• Computer literate

Reporting and Communication:
• This position reports to the Health Systems Stabilization Manager.
• Work closely with the other Health Stabilization team members

Duration:
Fixed-term, from August 2018 anticipated to June 2023 (project-funding dependent)


How to apply:

Interested applicants for this position: please send your CV and a letter explaining why you are suitable for this role to hruk@montroseint.com by 9 November 2018.


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