Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is a proven leader in the global fight to end HIV and AIDS, and an advocate for every child to live a full and healthy life into adulthood. Founded through a mother’s determination, we are driven to see a world where no other mother, child or family is devastated by this disease. For more than 30 years, EGPAF has been a leader in meeting urgent needs in pediatric HIV and AIDS in the world’s most affected regions. For more information, please visit http://www.pedaids.org
EGPAF Uganda Country program scope involves: 1) the USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in the South West Uganda project that aims to increase the availability, accessibility, and quality of integrated health services including HIV and TB prevention, care and treatment; maternal, neonatal, and child health services; family planning; nutrition assessment and counseling and support; malaria prevention and treatment; and other primary care services. 2) ELMA-funded Unfinished business project that focuses on closing the Adult-Pediatric ART gap; 3) Catalyzing Pediatric TB Innovations (CaP – TB) and 4) Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DnDI); 5) New Horizons project focusing on ALHIV Treatment Access and 6) The Pediatric HIV Breakthrough Partnership (ViiV Project).
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and competent candidates for the following position at the Foundation:
Job Title: Family Planning Advisor
Location: Mbarara, Uganda
Reports To: Technical Advisor – MNCH
Number of vacancies: 1
Job summary
The Family Planning Advisor will provide technical and program support in the areas of family planning, both postpartum and interval with an emphasis on high quality counseling, infection prevention, and support for frontline health workers, especially midwives. The job holder will also actively ensure integration of family planning with other technical areas including HIV/AIDS, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and other MNCH components. The incumbent will be responsible for providing leadership and technical guidance in the development of program family planning strategy utilizing cross-cutting approaches such as performance and quality improvement and in-service training; and oversee its implementation in all the districts of support at both facility and community levels. She/he will ensure that MOH and USG policies on FP services are followed in all implementing sites and at community level sites.
Core duties and responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership to increase access to and use of high quality voluntary family planning services; and strengthening of the integration of family planning into HIV/AIDS, MCH and community activities.
- Ensure that all service delivery points (e.g. HIV Care and Treatment, MNCH) offering family planning services (e.g. education, counseling, and method provision) have systems in place to ensure the quality of the family planning services offered.
- Work closely with the Community Linkages Advisor and the sub partners to strengthen the system for referring clients for family planning services including availability of standard tools to track completed referrals.
- Work in liaison with MOH Reproductive Health division to develop capacity of service providers in family planning service provision for short-term, long term and permanent methods.
- Ensure that family planning quality assurance activities including supportive supervision, monitoring visits, and/or client satisfaction assessments are routinely conducted.
- The incumbent will adopt and ensure availability of SOP/Job aides or clinic algorithm for providing family planning counseling and/or services at all service delivery points.
- Work with the team of QI Advisors to incorporate quality improvement approaches into family planning service provision as a key approach to effective FP integration in other services.
- Coordinate the integration and provision of family planning services at community level including demand creation and uptake of these services.
- Work closely with sub partners and CSOs to ensure technical soundness of the FP component of the community resource persons training materials, work plans and strategies; and monitor FP service provision to ensure adherence to set standards and compliance requirements.
- Coordinate with the Research and Evaluation team to design the operational research that may promote new initiatives and innovations for scale up, including expanding method choice, community engagement, task shifting, improved integration of family planning with other services, gender transformative programming and adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
- Offer technical guidance and build capacity of program staff and service providers in family planning provision, compliance requirements and support adherence of family planning service providers to USG compliance requirements.
- Develop FP service provision and strengthening strategy that includes capacity building, integration into other service areas, monitoring and evaluation; and support its implementation in all the supported districts.
- Work in liaison with the Supply chain and Logistics Advisor to ensure continuous availability of FP commodities at both health facility and community level.
- Take part in the development and scale up of change packages for successful FP capacity building, service provision, integration into other services and successful FP provision at community level within the framework of informed choice.
- Significantly contribute to the development of annual work plans, annual training plans, quarterly work plans, district-specific work plans and any strategic development documents and ensure that FP is well articulated and in line with MOH and USG policies and guidelines.
- Contribute to the development, adapting and implementation of the tools for FP service provision and monitoring the implementation of the developed work plans.
- Work closely with the M&E team to ensure effective FP data management and monitor uptake in supported facilities.
- Participate actively in the MOH technical working groups on family planning and other technically relevant task forces and working groups at district, regional, and national levels.
- Collaborate with key other family planning TA partners in the region and the country to leverage any resources; coordinate and harmonize plans for strengthening FP service provision at both health facility and community level.
- Prepare and submit in a timely comprehensive monthly, quarterly reports and annual reports on FP service provision.
Required qualifications, Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- The applicant should be a Medical doctor with recent experience in maternal health, particularly Family Planning programs (Master degree in public Health; Obstetrics and Gynaecology are preferred).
- Five or more years of demonstrated experience implementing family planning FP programs at subnational, health facility and community levels.
- Previous experience with and understanding of MOH health care systems and community structure required to implement an integrated health program.
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in regional and national programs and technical staff in the areas family planning, performance and quality improvement.
- Detailed working knowledge of technical guidelines, best practices, and innovations in FP and program approaches designed for FP service integration at facility and community levels.
- Demonstrated success in providing hands-on capacity building and technical assistance to health care providers and other stakeholders
- Working knowledge of USAID Family Planning compliance
- Previous experience in conducting community-based interventions.
- Prior experience working with national/international NGOs and public sector institutions, including the MOH.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in project implementation; excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Good computer skills, including competence in MS Office and internet/e-mail.
- Willingness to travel extensively in the districts of support
To apply for the above job, please follow this link:
HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit a Cover Letter and Curriculum Vitae only as one file in PDF format through the above careers link addressed to:
The Senior Human Resources Officer
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)
Plot 15, Kitante Close
P.O. Box 21127
Kampala, Uganda
Deadline for submission of applications is Friday 28th May 2021. NO HAND DELIVERED APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Please note that EGPAF does not solicit for fees to have applicants shortlisted or offered employment
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