Togo: Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE: Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning

PROJECT: USAID/West Africa Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (AMPLIFY-FP)

REPORTS TO: Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party

EngenderHealth’s vision is Women and Girls First. The vision is underpinned by the mission, namely catalyzing the value of women and girls by harnessing the power of sexual and reproductive rights and health. EngenderHealth is a leading global women’s health organization committed to ensuring that every pregnancy is planned, every child is wanted, and every mother has the best chance at survival

Job summary:

The Senior Technical Advisor for Family Planning (STA-FP) serves as key personnel on the USAID/West Africa Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (AMPLIFY-FP) that aims to increase the national percentage of public and private facilities implementing high impact practices (HIPs) in four selected West African countries. Amplify-FP is the flagship family planning and reproductive health project of the USAID/West Africa RHO. Amplify-FP will emphasize key HIPs to help achieve the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership of achieving 2.2 million additional FP users by 2020. The project will operate over a five-year period, and the STA-FP will be based in Togo.

The STA-FP will be responsible for the successful implementation of FP HIPs at integrated learning centers and ensuring replication and scale up by other partners. S/he should be a recognized leader in family planning. S/he should have strong technical skills in FP/RH, strong project management skills, and prior experience working with staff and stakeholders across multiple countries.

Qualifications:

· A Master’s degree or higher in public health, nursing, midwifery, or similar relevant field is required. Academic specialization in FP/RH is preferred.

· At least 12 years of progressively responsible work experience required, including at least seven years in senior project management role(s) of FP/RH projects with similar scope, size, and complexity.

· Experience with developing and implementing FP/RH quality assurance standards highly preferred.

· Maintain clinical currency through recent literature, national and international conferences, working group memberships, and participation in online collaborative groups.

· Oversee, administer, supervise, and manage the performance of sub-awardees as it relates to clinical quality and practices.

· Communicate with partners on clinical quality-improvement approaches and work plans, to ensure clear performance expectations and technical consistency.

· Coordinate closely with the EngenderHealth global technical teams to ensure that adequate technical assistance is provided to the project.

· Direct experience with youth and adolescent FP/RH programs is strongly preferred.

· Experience preferred with testing and adapting service delivery models and approaches in a variety of African contexts.

· Co-lead, with the Technical Director and Deputy Chief of Party , the design, development, successful implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of the project’s multi-year strategy and annual work plans, coordinating closely with the USAID/West Africa, EngenderHealth Headquarters, and other key local government, NGO and Private stakeholders.

· Fluency in French (3S/3R minimum) and English (4S/4R) are required.

· Excellent writing and oral communication skills are required.

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To apply for this position, please visit our website at www.engenderhealth.org and click on the careers link. Then click on the “West Africa” link to locate the job title and submit your application online along with your CV, latest by 19^th Jan 2018.