The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) Technical Advisor Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Job Vacancy in Uganda

Job Title: Technical Advisor Maternal,
Newborn and Child Health

Organization: The Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF)

Funding Source: USAID

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Technical Director

About EGPAF:

The Elizabeth Glaser
Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) seeks to end pediatric HIV/AIDS through
research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs. We are a global
leader in the fight against pediatric HIV and AIDS, working in 15 countries and
at 7,000 sites around the world to prevent the transmission of HIV to children,
and to help those already infected. Today, because of the highly successful
work of the Foundation and its p

artners over the last 25 years, pediatric AIDS
has been virtually eliminated in the United States and new infections in
children have declined by 51% worldwide. The EGPAF Uganda Country program is
currently implementing a number of projects in partnership with various donors.

Job Summary: The Technical Advisor will offer
technical and program oversight and guidance in the areas of maternal, newborn
and child health as part of the upcoming USAID regional integrated health
programs in Uganda. EGPAF is recruiting for a Maternal, Newborn and Child
Health Technical Advisor to join a dynamic team based in one of the regions
(South Western, East Central and Eastern) in Uganda. The program seeks to
improve coverage, access and quality of integrated HIV/AIDS prevention, care
and treatment; maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH); family planning;
nutrition; malaria prevention and treatment; and interventions to improve the
management and performance of health systems that support those services. The
project will operate over a five-year period.

The Maternal,
Newborn, and Child Health Advisor is a pivotal position and will provide
technical leadership and oversight in the development, focusing and
implementation of MNCH activities. S/he will work closely with the project’s
Technical Director and other program technical staff to ensure technical
quality of the intervention design and implementation. The Maternal, Newborn,
and Child Health Advisor will also work closely with the other EGPAF’s
Technical Advisors in identification and provision of technical support; and
ensure standard procedures in quality of care are adhered to during training
and implementation.

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.

Key Duties and
Responsibilities:

Play a lead technical advisor role for MNCH strategic planning and
work plan development; work with MOH, District Health Management Teams
(DHMTs) and facility health teams to ensure programmatic efforts to
improve MNCH care; and design, align and implement MNCH strategies and
activities which support integration and quality improvement of services.
Make sure that there is timely implementation of all program inputs
related to maternal, newborn and child health, including planning and
implementing assessments, site MNCH quality improvement interventions,
strengthening follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation,
capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in close coordination
and collaboration with MOH, DHTs and program staff.
Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and
organizational level in maternal, newborn and child health including
focused antenatal care; essential and basic and/or comprehensive emergency
obstetric and newborn care; postpartum and postnatal care. Develop, test,
harvest and scale up a variety of facility- and community- based
approaches to improve MNCH services delivery and utilization using quality
improvement approaches.
Advocate with national, regional and community-level health
institutions to raise awareness about their role in improving health
outcomes in. maternal, new-born and child health

Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:

The applicant should possess a good Bachelor of Medicine and
Bachelor of Surgery degree with Master’s degree in Obstetrics and
Gynaecology and/or Public Health.
At least five (5) years’ experience and demonstrated practical
skills in technical advisory role in the area of MNCH at regional,
district, clinical and community level.
Previous experience managing quality improvement interventions and
technical/institutional capacity building programs primarily through a
technical assistance approach.
Excellent track record and experience interacting with the district
health system and good knowledge of the community support structures.
Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Ugandan decentralized health
care system.
Excellent analytical, communication and report writing skills