Job Details

• Provide technical leadership and assistance to ensure that national standards and procedures for performance management are efficiently operationalized at provincial and district levels of the health system.
• Collaborate with MOH in implementation of sustainability roadmap. Support refinement of roadmaps for provincial and district transition to self-reliance
• Provide leadership and direction in utilization of CQI approaches and methodologies along with surveillance data to better provide TA to address unmet needs
• Provide leadership and direction in enhancing the functionality of core MOH HIV/TB health systems
• Participate in national TWGs to influence updating and adapting health system SOPs
• Oversee capacity building of provincial and district health officers in leadership and management, and performance management
• Guide policy makers for future investment in health workforce in context of HIV services. Provide leadership in enhancing MOH coordination and oversight, including planning, budgeting and implementation, helping identify all program dedicated resources from MOH, donors and implementing partners and facilitate coordination of their deployment to achieve the set target
• Contribute to the development and implementation of appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address service delivery gaps related to governance and performance management
• Lead the design, development and implementation and monitoring of performance and quality improvement initiatives, including CQI interventions
• Provide technical assistance for the development of quality assessments, quality improvement plans and reviews for PHO and DHO oversight of facility and community sites;
• Ensure all provincial and district level QA activities are in accordance with work plans designed to meet targets and deliverables;
• Support MOH counterparts to develop and adapt strategies and interventions to ensure the quality and responsiveness of HIV services in the community and facilities for the province and districts;
• Support PHO and DHO to ensure that all sites – facility and community – are in line with national and international quality standards as evidenced by successful quality assurance assessments and adaption of continuous quality improvement initiatives;
• Ensure all program and quality improvement strategies are based on sound technical content, and are sustainable and place special emphasis on use of performance and quality improvement approaches in all sites and other service delivery modalities;
• Attend QA Technical Working Group meetings, and represent the organization on different fora where Quality Assurance activities are taking place;
• Manage staff performance and coordinate closely with the HR team to address performance gaps as well as recognizing high performers.
• Maintain excellent relationships with CDC and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses
• Provide technical leadership to the development the project strategic plan, work plan, and project monitoring, in close collaboration with MOH, donor, other stakeholders to ensure timely implementation and compliance to the requirements and regulations of the award

Communication and Knowledge Management

• Represent the project in national provincial and district level fora, and other meetings as needed, ensure collaboration with other partners/stakeholders, and work closely with PHO, to ensure alignment with their priorities and guidance.
• Represent the project and Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors and other key stakeholders in public, private sector and professional circles through networking, meetings, conferences, and presentations;
• Ensure proper consistent utilization of organization’s brand in relevant organizational supported programs activities in ensuring Jhpiego recognition and visibility
• Maintain effective internal communications to ensure that all relevant departments functions are kept informed of communications objectives;
• Author/co-author abstracts, presentations, manuscripts, and success stories; collaborate with the communications specialist to develop stories for internal/ external audiences;
• Ensure sharing of information and knowledge with other country programs, regionally and globally, and with the donor, and contribute to systems that support knowledge management

Required Qualifications