RMNH Specialist - Nigeria Job at Jhpiego Corporation

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Job Title: RMNH Specialist

Location: Nigeria

Employer: Jhpiego Corporation

Job ID: 2013-1881

Experience (Years): 10            

Overview: Jhpiego seeks a Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health (RMNH) Specialist for an upcoming 5-year project focused on improving RMNH outcomes in 6 Northern Nigerian states.  The RMNH Advisor will provide technical and program support in the areas of maternal and newborn health, basic and/or comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care with an emphasis on prevention, identification and treatment of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and postpartum hemorrhage, health systems strengthening and quality improvement and family planning.  The RMNH Advisor will also manage/coordinate the integration of these technical areas with other project components such as child health and immunization.

Responsibilities:

•   Provide technical leadership to increase the access to and use of quality Maternal and Newborn health services and Family planning

•   Revise/draft training materials, job aids on MNH and FP

•   Provide training and on-site coaching/ supervision of facility- and community-level health cadres to improve quality of services

•   Develop and maintain excellent relations with government, partners, and local counterparts.

•   Support the development of work plans, reporting and monitoring and evaluation plans

•   Work collaboratively with field staff to ensure that resources for effective and timely program implementation are available

•   Participate in and lead, monitoring and evaluation of activities for countries and regions assigned as needed

•   Mentor field staff to assume responsibilities for developing and managing the program at the field level

Required Qualifications:

•   Senior Nigerian Ob/Gyn or experienced Midwife with 10+ years of working experience

•   Clinical degree required, advanced degree in public health preferred

•   Ten years of mid- to senior-level demonstrated experience implementing and managing international, field-based reproductive, maternal, and newborn health programs

•   Demonstrated experience designing and implementing capacity-building programs for improving service delivery

•   Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in the areas maternal, newborn and child health, and performance and quality improvement

•   5+ years of experience in the area of site strengthening including quality improvement and enhancing district/state management processes.

•   Ability to build relationship with government personnel; local counterparts; and donor agencies.

•   Willingness to travel and work in Northern Nigeria

•   Fluency in English; Hausa preferred

•   Excellent presentation skills and verbal and written communications skills

•   Excellent skills in facilitation, team building and coordination

•   Aware of and sensitive to working in multiple socio-economic settings and with multi-cultural groups in a developing country environment

•   Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform

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