Technical Advisor II: Health Workforce Technical Advisor

The Global Health Fellows Program II (GHFP-II) seeks a Health Workforce Technical Advisor (GHFP II-P1-049) to work within the Service Delivery Improvement Division of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health.

GHFP-II is a five year cooperative agreement implemented and managed by the Public Health Institute in partnership with CDC Development Solutions and Management Systems International. GHFP-II is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The Health Workforce Technical Advisor will provide technical assistance for human resources for health, capacity building in leadership, management and governance, and systems strengthening in the Service Delivery Improvement Division’s projects and activities. The Technical Advisor will substantively contribute to the oversight, implementation, and management of the human resources (CapacityPlus) and capacity building (Leadership, Management and Governance (LMG)) Projects, including technical review of project work plans, budgets, monitoring and evaluation plans, project products, and annual management reviews.

A. Project Oversight: primarily for the human resources (CapacityPlus) and capacity building (LMG) projects and for other Division projects as called upon

• Provide technical and strategic guidance to the projects

• Support the projects’ implementation through guiding, developing and reviewing documentation prepared by the Cooperating Agencies (CA), including core budget requests, work plans, performance monitoring plans, progress reports, technical products and publications; tracking financial reporting; and presenting project results during annual results reviews

• Provide ongoing technical management and support the financial oversight of the projects

• Help ensure that projects adhere to USAID rules, regulations, and requirements

• Prepare written project documentation as needed for the projects, including waivers, technical memos to the file, and other supporting documents

• Coordinate with other PRH Divisions (including Research and Technology Utilization, Policy, Evaluation and Communication, and Contraceptive Supply and Logistics) and Technical Priority Champions and other Offices, to identify opportunities to collaborate on implementation of evidence-based interventions and approaches that support the scale up of health workforce interventions

• Identify opportunities and develop plans for gathering, synthesizing and reviewing evidence on health workforce interventions and approaches; defining evidence-based health workforce interventions and approaches; and supporting strategies for applying and scaling-up evidence-based health workforce interventions and approaches

• Establish and maintain communications with USAID Missions to inform them about the projects; coordinate support for the projects’ field activities through work planning; and monitoring project implementation, performance and results in country programs

• Facilitate project monitoring through weekly meetings, annual management reviews and follow-up communications, and making field site visits to assess and/or monitor program progress

• Support project evaluation through designing evaluations and assessments, drafting related scopes of work and supporting outside evaluation teams

• Collaborate with staff from other Bureau for Global Health Offices, Regional Bureaus, other technical bureaus and offices, other US Government agencies, other donors, multilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs) and others

B. Serve as Health Workforce Technical Advisor to Bureau for Global Health, other Bureaus, Agency programs and initiatives, and Missions

• Lead or support project design by providing technical input, drafting concept papers and scopes of work for RFA/RFPs, and serving on Technical Evaluation Committees

• Participate as a member of one or more Bureau for Global Health Country Support Teams and participate in Country Team phone calls

• Participate in Bureau for Global Health, PEPFAR and other USG interagency Health Workforce and/or Family Planning Technical Working Groups

• Review and provide feedback on Mission reporting documentation

• Assist the Division Chief and staff with preparation of briefing documents for country visitors, USAID and State officials, responses to congressional inquiries, as needed

• Provide technical and strategic planning guidance to USAID field Missions for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health workforce project activities, country strategies, GHI strategies, drafting documentation as needed

• Conduct site visits to selected countries

• Collaborate with and, as requested, make technical contributions to, other USAID programs and initiatives such as the Global Health Initiative, BEST, the President’s Malaria Initiative, PEPFAR, Feed the Future, USAID Forward, GH Forward, and other programs

• Coordinate strategic approaches to and project activities of the health workforce with: (a) other divisions in PRH, (b) other health divisions, such as health systems, (c) other sectors such as education, income generation and governance, and (d) Regional Bureaus

• Collaborate with staff from USAID Missions, other USG agencies, NGOs, FBOs, donors and multilaterals in country, and representatives from the host government and the NGO/FBO and commercial sectors

• Disseminate health workforce evidence-based best practices and findings

Other tasks or responsibilities may be assigned based on (a) organizational and programming need and/or (b) the Technical Advisor’s own interests.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in public health, health policy, business administration, social sciences, or other relevant discipline, such as medicine, nursing and midwifery

• Minimum five years’ experience in design, administration, management and implementation of health programs in public, NGO and/or private sectors in developing countries with a focus on leadership, management and/or governance programs, human resources for health, and/or health systems strengthening, with at least 2 years’ experience in an international or resource challenged setting

• Recent knowledge and experience in human resources for health in developing countries

• Demonstrated knowledge of management, leadership and/or governance

• Demonstrated understanding of public health issues: family planning/reproductive health, maternal and child health, health systems strengthening or HIV/AIDS

• Basic knowledge of USAID reforms, health initiatives and rules and regulations

• Strong project management skills and knowledge of USAID projects

• Experience managing USAID funded programs preferred

• Foreign language fluency preferred

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in an inclusive and collaborative team environment

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation

• Strong computer skills including MS Office Suite and other software related to presentations

• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally (about 25%)

• US Citizenship or US Legal Permanent Residency required

Salary based on commensurate experience and earnings history. The Public Health Institute offers a comprehensive benefits package including professional development programs http://www.ghfp.net/docs/2012_Benefits_Booklet_GHFP.pdf

How to apply:

All applicants are required to apply for this position through GHFP-II’s online recruitment system at https://www.ghfp.net/recruitment/. All applications must be submitted by 5:00 pm Eastern Time on July 12, 2012. We are proud to be an EEO/AA Employer.

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