South Sudan: WASH and IPC Specialist

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; HPF is supporting the rapid improvement of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) / and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) facilities in a number of health facilities where Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) is a high risk.

Position Summary

This position provides WASH programme support to priority HPF health facilities in States where the risk of Ebola is high. The aim of the role is to support Implementing Partners in their strengthening of WASH infrastructure and IPC activities in health facilities through coordinating assessments; supporting planning, funding requests and procurement; and monitoring and supervising implementation of WASH/IPC improvements. The person will also represent HPF in Ebola Task Force meetings and similar forums.

Responsibilities

• To facilitate the swift implementation of WASH assessments in HPF supported Health Facilities in EVD at risk States and support the analysis of data to identify priority activities
• To support Implementing Partners in their requests or realignment for funds to carry out WASH/IPC activities
• To follow up all procurement of WASH/IPC materials and equipment for these health facilities, ensuring rapid deployment to the field
• To visit supported health facilities to monitor and supervise implementation of activities
• To supervise Implementing Partners in their regular reporting of progress and adherence to EVD Task Force SOPs, WHO guidelines on WASH and IPC in health facilities and other related standards
• To write regular reports on progress and impact
• Regularly review achievements of WASH, IPC and EVD indicators against log-frame targets. Review the WASH, IPC and EVD related DHIS data on a monthly basis
• To represent HPF at Ebola Task Force meeting at State or National level when required
• Collaborate and coordinate with other partners (including clusters, UN agencies, NGOs) and fund managers on WASH and EVD issues
• Support the design and delivery of WASH, IPC and Ebola focused capacity building initiatives with the implementing partners and other stakeholders,
• Work closely with the HPF Monitoring and Evaluation team to monitor indicators for measuring success and ensure documentation of EVD prevention through WASH and IPC activities, trainings, assessments and data.
• To support the Health Systems Stabilisation Manager and WASH Adviser in other WASH and IPC interventions for health facilities
• Support HPF report writing, work planning and budgeting as required
• Work closely with the other health stabilisation team members; nutrition, MNCH, family planning, and community engagement specialists.
• Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organizational or programming needs as assigned by the line manager. **
  Requirements**

Qualifications and Essential Experience:

• WASH or Public Health background
• Degree or Masters qualification in Public Health, WASH or related field
• Professional trainings or qualifications in WASH and IPC in health facilities
• At least five years’ working experience in a WASH and IPC related field

Desirable:

• Experience working in the South Sudan health sector
• Proven experience in WASH and IPC 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 Stabilisation Manager.
• Liaises with the WASH Adviser
• Works closely with the other Health Stabilisation team members

Duration

• Fixed-term, from mid-June 2019 anticipated to mid December 2019 (project-funding dependent), with potential extension.

If you meet the above qualifications and are interested in this opportunity, please submit your application Here before 3^rd July2019. ​

Please visit our website for our Privacy Policy (http://www.montroseint.com/privacy-policy/) and how job applicants’ personal data is processed and protected. A full version of our Privacy Policy related to job applicants is also available fromdataprivacy@montroseint.com