Overview
Support the implementation of a project to ensure every mother and child survives through the promotion of Primary Health Care in Sierra Leone, with an emphasis on rolling out the Maternal and Child Health Handbook.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical assistance and support for the scale-up of the MCH handbook.
- Contribute towards and support the creation of an enabling environment for Quality of Care around MCH care services.
- Provide technical support to ensure capacity building on Quality of Care in an integrated manner.
- Develop and implement an enhanced performance management and accountability approach.
- Provide technical assistance and contribute towards local level decentralized planning, budgeting, implementation of integrated services and monitoring.
- Support communication and community engagement approaches for families to empower them on ‘positive parenting’.
- Provide technical assistance in the implementation of the Community scorecard.
- Support strengthened partnerships and coordination mechanisms.
- Participate in regular coordination meetings.
- Serve as a UNICEF alternate focal point in PHC forums.
- Promote a collaborative approach to address challenges in service delivery and data management.
- Identify coordination gaps and provide solutions or strategies.
- Support capacity building of DHMTs and partners to strengthen governance and oversight.
Required Experience
- 3 years of progressively work experience in public health programmes specifically in program planning, implementation and management, child health and nutrition service delivery and specifically primary health care promotion and/or health systems strengthening.
- Any voluntary experience in any of these functional areas supported by organizational certification will be considered.
- Previous experience in a developing country and/or UN agency is an asset.
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, Public Health, Primary Health Care or Nutrition, Child Development, Social Development, Community Development or other relevant disciplines.
