Jhpiego
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Quality Assurance Officers
Job ID: 2022-4723
Location: NP
Category: International Positions
Employment Status: Full-Time
Overview
USAID Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) is an adolescent co-led initiative to empower girls and boys, 10-19 years and including the most marginalized, to attain their adolescent reproductive health (ARH) rights. The goal of the project is to support adolescents to reach their full potential by; ensuring they receive correct and appropriate reproductive health (RH) information and guidance to decision-making skills, creating an environment conductive to making healthy reproductive health decisions and facilitating translation of these decisions into healthy behaviors. The project will operate over a five-year period.
The Quality Assurance (QA) Officers will support and encourage technical leadership in the areas of family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) with specific focus on ARH Service and Quality Assurance (QA) for the ARH project. QA officers will be posted within Madhesh (6 districts), Lumbini (3 districts) and Karanali Province (2 districts) and operate from the ARH District Project Office. Each position will support a number of project municipalities.
The position will operate under the leadership of the Provincial ARH Services and Quality Assurance Specialist technically and in coordination with District ARH and QA Coordinator and the district-based officers. In collaboration with project team and partners, the position will support implementation of ARH project technical and service delivery strategies based on evidence, best practices and lessons learned focusing towards local level / municipalities.
Location: 11 District Posts in Madhesh Province (6 districts), Lumbini Province (3 districts) and Karanali Province(2 districts)
This position is open to Nepali nationals only.
Responsibilities
Program planning, implementation and Quality assurance
- Ensure a deep understanding of ARH project approaches, relevant technical evidence and thinking around adolescent health programming over the life of project.
- Apply ARH project approaches to ensure a Total Market Approach to the design and implementation of services is responsive to the needs of adolescents.
- Provide strategic input and recommendations for effective implementation of project activities as well as needed adaptations as per the learnings from gaps in quality service provision.
- Identify training needs for clinical and community healthcare providers and assist in the design and implementation of measures to address those needs
- Work with health care providers, local authorities, community members, adolescents and other key stakeholders to identify and address clinical, community-based service delivery issues that impede access to care and uptake of services
- In close coordination with government and other stakeholders, provide technical assistance for strengthening QA/QI and training systems for ARH within municipalities and facilities, including: conducting site assessments; strengthening QA/QI systems (including accreditation/certification); in-service training and/or pre-service education; mentorship; and supportive supervision
Reporting and Documentation
- Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation as well as reports of project activities and results for the project and donor, including routine quarterly and annual reports and other reporting requirements as requested
Capacity Enhancement of Service Providers and Youth on ARH
- Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual, facility and organizational level in specific areas of expertise including but not limited to:
-Adolescent-responsive health services
-FP/RH
-Quality improvement
-Facility and provider readiness - Identify and implement appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address adolescent FP/RH service delivery gaps
Coordination and Liaison
- Respectfully engage with adolescents, including priority sub-populations within the project, as critical stakeholders who are engaged throughout project design, implementation and monitoring.
- Maintain excellent relationships with CARE, other consortium partners, district partners, municipalities and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses
- Coordinate within the ARH project team and with external stakeholders on advocacy, demand generation, and policy support, as required
- Actively participate in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing the project and Jhpiego
Required Qualifications:
- A Medical or Nursing or Public Health Degree with at least 3 years’ experience implementing and/or providing technical assistance in FP/RH and adolescent health donor-funded projects
- Demonstrated experience training clinical and community-based healthcare workers on adolescent health, FP and RH
- Experience working on performance and quality improvement and strengthening service delivery projects including training; and ensuring relevant project monitoring and evaluation activities are fulfilled
- Demonstrated experience strengthening adolescent-responsive FP/RH service delivery at the regional, national, clinical and community-level
- Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Nepal’s healthcare system, particularly the public health system in federal context.
- Experience engaging beneficiaries particularly adolescents in programming, activity design and M&E activities desirable
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Ability to travel to project sites
- Proficiency in English, Nepali and local languages
- Previous experience working in Madhesh, Lumbini and Karnali Province and proficiency in relevant local languages a plus
Our consortium has a strong commitment to Inclusion and Diversity. We have a zero-tolerance policy on fraud and corruption, sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse and child abuse.
Preference will be given for equity, inclusion, and diversity considerations and those from marginalized groups. Women are highly encouraged to apply.
Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.
Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, references, and salary history.
For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org
Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer