Function:
The International
Technical As
sistant (ITA), being a Public Health Expert for Institutional
Support with a solid experience in the development of Health Districts, and
Governance and Stewardship and, preferably, as well an experience in Urban
Health, and Hospital Network will be employed under this program.
The candidate will
be based in Kigali with frequent visits at the operational level country wide.
The position will be embedded in the Ministry of Health (MoH) under the General
Directorate of Clinical and Public Health Services. She/he will work with
several departments of MoH, Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), City of Kigali
(Cok) Health Unit and Hospitals. The candidate will also ensure that coherence
and synergies are maintained between the six expected results of the program.
He/she will provide a particular technical support to the result 3-rational
urban health services and result 4-leadership and governance. She/He will
report to the overall coordinator of the program.
Responsibilities
The ITA is a change
management agent who will be responsible for consolidating past achievements
and support the transformation process of expanding rationalized urban health
service coverage in the City of Kigali and ensuring that the governance and
leadership at all levels of the health pyramid is reinforced especially at
decentralized level. This will be done in alignment with the three guiding principles
of the health sector namely people-centeredness, integrated and sustainable
services. She/he will contribute to achieving the overall results of the
intervention by working in close collaboration with the team involved in the
implementation of ‘Improving the quality of primary health care and services’
program.
Profile:
Education
level:
Medical Doctor with
a Master’s in Public health and/or or related field.
Proven
experience:
· Professional
experience of minimum seven years, international context especially in
developing countries including a minimum of four years in Health Systems
Support;
· Experience in
coaching health districts;
· Experience in
Policy and Strategy development;
· Experience in
hospital management;
· Experience in
Project cycle management within the framework of the international cooperation;
· Experience in
change management process and related capacity building is an asset;
· Familiar with
Public-Private-Private Partnership initiatives in health is an asset;
· Experience with a
Hospital network, Urban health and/or Health Infrastructure design is an asset;
· Experience with
action-research is an asset.
Skills
· Strong
interpersonal and coaching skills;
· Experience with
participatory approaches;
· Capacity to work
in a multicultural and multidisciplinary context;
· Good capacity to
conceptualize and conduct action research and surveys;
· Good report and
scientific articles writing skills for publishing;
· Good understanding
of cross-cutting issues mainstreaming;
· Excellent command
of English and good knowledge of French;
· Good knowledge of
ICT ( Word, Excel, Power Point and Database).
Interested?
Please apply no
later than May
3rd 2015, by sending us the Standard CV of BTC and a
letter of motivation to humres@btcctb.org. You can find the model of our
Standard CV on the Jobs page of our website. If you have any additional
questions,
don’t hesitate to contact us at +32 (0)2/505 18 65.
