Back Registered midwife – Health Specialist

MONTROSE is an international development project management and consultancy company providing support to clients operating in the developing world. Specialised in the sectors of health, education, rural livelihoods and private sector development, our clients include bilateral and multilateral development agencies, the private sector, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and other development stakeholders.

Background

The Health Pooled Fund began its third phase (HPF3) in July 2018 and is supported to run until 2023 by the British Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the Government of Canada, the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (SIDA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and the European Union (EU). A consortium led by Crown Agents and including Montrose is responsible for managing and implementing HPF3.

HPF3 supports delivery of community level essential primary health care, secondary health care and referral health services, stabilisation of local health systems, and procurement and supply chain management of essential medical commodities. HPF3 supports services in eight out of 10 states of South Sudan: Eastern Equatoria, Central Equatoria, Western Equatoria, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Unity, and Lakes.

The programme will improve the health and wellbeing of the population through increased coverage, access and utilisation of quality lifesaving health, sexual and reproductive health and nutrition services under the following five outputs:

Output 1: Delivery and increased availability/readiness of quality health services at facilities.

Output 2: Community level interventions that increase awareness, prevention and treatment of common conditions.

Output 3: Availability of safe, effective and quality essential medicines and supplies.

Output 4: Stable health systems that enhance accountability and responsive to the needs of the people.

Output 5: Funds and processes that are efficient, effective, inclusive and offer value for money.

Position summary

The Health Specialist will work across all implementing partners (IPs) and HPF team collaboratively in order to achieve the programme’s objectives and outcomes.

Specific roles and responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for the IP quality improvement dashboard for Output 1 and ensure timely uploading and analysis of results per IP.
• Identify urgent technical gaps and training needs in relation to technical standards and protocols for the delivery of key health services and verify their adoption and uniform application across the programme, in collaboration with IPs.
• Verify relevant tools, guidelines, manuals and other documentation used by the IPs.
• Regularly review achievements of the programme against indicators and logframe targets and then present the findings to the HPF team and stakeholders.
• Attend all IP review meetings (monthly and quarterly) and implement all relevant action points.
• Work with the other health specialists to ensure learning and sharing across the IPs supported by HPF3.
• Review and provide complete and comprehensive feedback on the IP costed work plan, IP quarterly and annual progress reports, risk registers and IP spending.
• Draft relevant sections of the HPF3 monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
• Work with MEL team and operational research manager to identify subject areas in health for further study and analysis and advise on best practices to improve the quality of health service delivery, capture stories, document and share lessons learned.
• Review emergency response applications from IPs, provide on-time and comprehensive feedback, monitor implementation progress and agree on mitigation measures with the IP.
• Any other tasks or responsibilities based on organisational or programming needs as assigned by the line manager.

Essential skills and qualifications

• Diploma as a registered midwife.
• Masters qualification in international public health would be an advantage.
• High standard of technical writing with experience of drafting reports, technical bulletins, policy briefs.
• Extensive experience with implementation of activities and the challenges of working in the South Sudanese context.
• At least 5 years’ experience post-graduation.
• Hold South Sudanese citizenship