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Senior Newborn and Child Health Advisor, Health Services Delivery Project

Tracking Code
4960
Job Description

PATH is an international, nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health. PATH's mission is to improve the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthening systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors.

We are anticipating the release of the Health Services Delivery Project, a USAID funded program in Bangladesh. Leadership of the project could fall within our Reproductive Health and/or Mother and Child Health and Nutrition programs. The objective of the USAID Health Services Delivery Project is to support the delivery of an essential service package (ESP) through a network of non-government organizations (NGO) clinics that primarily targets the poor and underserved. This project will incorporate new approaches to promote optimal health behaviors and community participation, and to enhance local ownership of service delivery through institutional strengthening.

In anticipation of the release of this project we are collecting a database of potential candidates for several positions, one of which is a Senior Newborn and Child Health Advisor.

Please note: To be considered you must have current as well as ongoing legal authorization to work in Bangladesh.

The Senior Newborn and Child Health Advisor will ensure that the project increases the use of quality newborn and child health services among NGO providers, satellite clinics and community health workers. She/he will do this by providing expert and innovative medical and clinical advice to project design, delivery and evaluation, while coordinating closely with service delivery counterparts. She/he will provide technical leadership in the area of neonatal health and child survival to an integrated, multidisciplinary USAID-funded health program. Efforts will focus on improving the availability, use, and quality of neonatal and child health services at the community level. She/he will work closely with other team members to assure that successes are documented and linked closely with other country health initiatives.

ANTICIPATED RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide leadership and technical direction to implement, evaluate, and expand the availability and use of effective interventions to improve neonatal health and child survival.
  • Increase access to community and clinic-based services for essential newborn care and sick newborn care, with a focus primarily on newborn infections.
  • Manage the development of the neonatal advocacy approach and apply it as appropriate at the regional, and country levels to mobilize resources and influence policies.
  • Develop and initiate strategies for community interventions in urban and rural environments to reach the poor with targeted services.
  • Develop learning agenda to transfer knowledge on best practices and lessons learned and provide training and technical assistance for implementation of essential neonatal services.
  • Assure that evidence-based interventions and proven technologies are utilized to enhance provider service delivery and problem solving for health service delivery obstacles to neonatal and child health.
  • Synthesize data to inform the project and to provide guidance to USAID on best and promising practices.
  • Participate in country-level planning and strategic design.
  • Compile program implementation results for quarterly and annual reports.
  • Develop tools and conduct quality of care, skills and management assessments.
  • Strengthen staff capacity and provide technical support to implement recommendations generated through the assessments.
  • Represent the project on national and district neonatal and child health related working groups.
  • Build capacity to collect and use health information for better health service planning and delivery.
  • In collaboration with project colleagues, create and/or adapt standardized monitoring and evaluation systems with appropriate neonatal and child health indicators to assure quality of implementation.
Required Experience

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Advanced degree (Sc.D., Ph.D., MPH, Dr.PH) and/or MD or MBBS or related advanced degree with experience in peri-neonatal health;
  • Minimum of 10 years experience in policy development, planning, implementation and evaluation of newborn care and child survival programs in developing countries and/or health systems strengthening;
  • S/he will have strong knowledge of the global and Bangladesh neonatal and child health evidence.
  • Proven success in working in or with NGOs and government health systems at state and/or community levels.
  • Experience with program management and supervision of multi-faceted, community-based neonatal interventions.
  • Experience working with USAID-funded activities.
  • Possess significant knowledge of the Bangladesh health sector at all levels of the system, including knowledge of health sector reform.
  • Experience working with other experts and host country staff from the public, private, and NGO sectors at both the community and facility levels.
  • Strong relations with relevant departments of the Government of Bangladesh.
  • Experience working with global, regional, and country partners.
  • Strong teamwork and team-building skills.
  • Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills in English and Bengali.
  • Ability to travel frequently throughout the country as required.
  • Legal authorization to work in Bangladesh.

Job Location
Dhaka, BANGLADESH

Senior Newborn and Child Health Advisor, Health Services Delivery Project