Lead, Community Mobilization/ Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Team
Lead, M&E Learning and Quality Improvement Lead, an M&E Capacity Building/ Program Lead and Communications
Specialist.
The Maternal and Child Survival
Program (MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement operating in 24 high
priority countries. The Program is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns
and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services
to save lives. Rwan
da’s MCSP program, Ending Preventable Child
and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD), aims to reduce child and maternal mortality
through increased coverage and utilization of high-impact low cost
reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) interventions and
innovative new approaches and to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of
Health (MOH) to manage and scale up high-impact RMNCH interventions.
Complete job
descriptions, qualifications and application instructions can be found at https://drive.google.com/folderview…. The
deadline for applications is May 24, 2015. Rwandan nationals are strongly
encouraged to apply.
Adolescent Reproductive
Health and Family Planning (ARH/FP) Team Lead will provide technical and program
oversight and direction in the areas of ARH and FP and act as an integral part
of MCSP Rwanda’s team. Responsibilities include providing leadership and
technical guidance in the development and implementation of ARH/FP activities
under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy Chief of Party/
Technical Director (DCOP/TD), and utilizing and contributing to cross-cutting
approaches, such as CSO engagement and gender and equity, as well as, annual
phasing in of activities. This position will ensure the technical and
methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project
team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on
sound and current scientific evidence. The Team Lead will also support the MOH
to prioritize the minimum requirements for hospitals, health centers and
community sites for the provision of quality services in ARH/FP. Qualifications: A medical
degree (doctor or nursing) or Master’s in Public Health; At least 10 years’
experience implementing ARH and FP programs; At least 5 years’ experience in
managing large donor-funded projects and in the design and implementation of
overseas health projects; preferably in Rwanda.
Maternal Health, Newborn
and Child Health (MH/NB/CH ) Team Lead will provide technical and program oversight and direction
in the areas of MH, NB and CH and act as an integral part of MCSP Rwanda’s
team. Responsibilities include providing leadership and technical guidance in
the development and implementation of MNCH activities under the
leadership of the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy Chief of Party/ Technical
Director (DCOP/TD), and utilizing and contributing to cross-cutting approaches,
such as CSO engagement and gender and equity, as well as, phasing in of
activities. This position will ensure the technical and methodological
soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project team and
partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on sound,
current scientific evidence. The Team Lead will also support the MOH to
prioritize the minimum requirements for hospitals, health centers and community
sites for the provision of quality services in MNCH. Qualifications: A medical
degree (doctor, nursing or midwifery) or Master’s in Public Health; At least 10
years’ experience implementing MNCH programs; At least 5 years’ experience in
managing large donor-funded projects and in design and implementation of
overseas health projects; preferably in Rwanda; Qualification as a “master
trainer”; experience training health workers on clinical aspects of MNCH
Community Mobilization/
Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Team Lead who will provide technical and program
oversight and direction in the areas of community mobilization, SBCC, CB-MNH
and CB-FP and act as an integral part of MCSP Rwanda’s team.
Responsibilities include providing leadership and technical guidance in the
development and implementation of community mobilization and SBCC
activities under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy Chief of
Party/ Technical Director (DCOP/TD), and utilizing and contributing to
cross-cutting approaches, such as CSO engagement and gender and equity, as well
as, annual phasing in of activities. This position will ensure the technical
and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the
project team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies,
based on sound and current scientific evidence. Qualifications Advanced degree in a field
related to SBCC and/or Community Mobilization; At least 10 years’ experience
implementing health related programs; At least 5 years’ experience in managing
large donor-funded projects and in the design and implementation of overseas
health projects; preferably in Rwanda; Experience building capacity at
individual and organizational levels; Skilled in at least two or more of the
following technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training,
pre-service education, performance and quality improvement, monitoring and
evaluation.
Learning and Quality
Improvement Lead
will work as an integral part of MCSP Rwanda’s M&E team. M&E Capacity
Building Lead will oversee a team comprised of a Quality Improvement/Scale-Up
Advisor, M&E and Data coordinators and a Scale up Coordinator. S/He will be
responsible for overseeing the successful development and implementation of the
learning agenda which includes implementation research activities Lead the
in-country development and implementation of the project learning activities
and quality improvement within the context of the Rwanda accreditation system
and scale up of RMNCH High Impact Interventions. Supervise a team for
project studies and learning activities.
Qualifications: Degree in public health, demography,
statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience; Advanced
degree preferred; Minimum five years of work experience in health-related
monitoring and evaluating projects in RMNCH and/or malaria in Rwanda or another
East or Southern African Nation; Proven expertise in quantitative and
qualitative methodologies, operations research, health management information
systems, reporting, knowledge management and documentation, data quality
assessments, data analysis and presentation
Capacity Building/ Program Lead
will be an integral part of MCSP Rwanda’s M&E Team. Under the supervision
of the Rwandan Country Office M&E Director, this position will lead project
monitoring activities and the program monitoring team and lead the development
and implementation of the Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) to capture project
performance and results and ongoing routine project monitoring and all
monitoring for process and outcome evaluations, working in collaboration with
the headquarters-based M&E team. S/He will coordinate all M&E
capacity-building activities with project staff, implementing partners and
facility staff and develop and lead MCSP’s mentorship approach to increase the
capacity of MOH M&E officers on indicators, registers/tools, data
aggregation and analysis of monthly and quarterly data.
Qualifications: Degree in public health, demography,
statistics, social sciences or related field or equivalent experience; Advanced
degree preferred; Minimum five years of work experience in monitoring and
evaluating RMNCH and malaria projects as a senior expert in M&E in the
health sector; Proven expertise in quantitative and qualitative methodologies,
operations research, health management information systems, reporting, data
quality assessments, data analysis and presentation ; Experience supporting
M&E for USAID-funded health or development projects.
Communications Specialist will be an integral part of MCSP Rwanda’s
teas. Responsibilities include overseeing policy, advocacy and communication
activities under the leadership of the Senior Program Manager.
Qualifications: Degree in communications, advocacy or
related field. Advanced degree preferred; At least 5 years’ experience with
advocacy and/or communication; Experience building capacity at individual and
organizational levels; The ability to liaise with senior MOH officials and
dignitaries, executives of NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, the for-profit business community,
and senior members of the donor community.
