Background
The Health Pooled Fund began its third phase (HPF3) in July 2018 and is supported to run until 2023 by the British Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Government of Canada, the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and the European Union (EU). A consortium led by Crown Agents and including Montrose is responsible for managing and implementing HPF3.
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. HPF3 supports services in eight out of 10 states of South Sudan: Eastern Equatoria, Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Unity, and Lakes.
The programme impact will improve the health and wellbeing of the population through increased coverage, access and utilisation of quality lifesaving health, sexual and reproductive health and nutrition services under the following five outputs:
- Output 1: Delivery and increased availability/readiness of quality health services at facilities.
- Output 2: Community level interventions that increase awareness, prevention and treatment of common conditions.
- Output 3: Availability of safe, effective and quality essential medicines and supplies.
- Output 4: Stable health systems that enhance accountability and responsive to the needs of the people.
- Output 5: Funds and processes that are efficient, effective, inclusive and offer value for money.
Position summary
The Health Specialist will work across all implementing partners (IPs) and the HPF team collaboratively in order to achieve the programme’s objectives and outcomes.
Specific roles and responsibilities
- Produce the IP quality improvement dashboard for output one and ensure timely uploading and analysis of results per IP.
- Identify urgent technical gaps and training needs in relation to technical standards and protocols for the delivery of key health services and verify their adoption and uniform application across the programme, in collaboration with IPs.
- Verify relevant tools, guidelines, manuals and other documentation used by the IPs.
- Regularly review achievements of the programme against indicators and logframe targets and then present the findings to the HPF team and stakeholders.
- Attend all IP review meetings (monthly and quarterly) and implement all relevant action points.
- Work with the other health specialists to ensure learning and sharing across the IPs supported by HPF3.
- Review and provide complete and comprehensive feedback on the IP costed work plan, IP quarterly and annual progress reports, risk registers and IP spending.
- Draft relevant sections of the HPF3 monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
- Work with MEL team and operational research manager to identify subject areas in health for further study and analysis and advise on best practices to improve the quality of health service delivery, capture stories, document and share lessons learned.
- Review emergency response applications from IPs, provide on-time and comprehensive feedback, monitor implementation progress and agree on mitigation measures with the IP.
- Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organisational or programming needs as assigned by the line manager.
Essential skills and qualifications
- Should possess a medical degree.
- Masters qualification in international public health would be an added advantage.
- High standard of technical writing with experience of drafting reports, technical bulletins, policy briefs.
- Extensive experience with implementation of activities and the challenges of working in the South Sudanese context.
- At least 5 years’ experience post-graduation.
- Should be a South Sudanese national.
How to apply:
If you meet the above qualifications and are interested in this opportunity, please submit your application Here before 3 October 2021. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until a suitable candidate is identified.
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