Project HOPE is an international NGO with employees and volunteers who work around the globe, responding to the world’s most pressing global health challenges. Throughout our 65-year legacy, Project HOPE has treated millions of patients, provided more than $3 billion worth of medicines to local health care organizations around the world helped build hundreds of health programs from the ground up, and responded to humanitarian crises worldwide.
BACKGROUND ON Ghana IHP
The purpose of the USAID-funded Ghana Integrated Health Partnership (IHP) activity to strategically contribute to the Government of Ghana’s strategies to reduce preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths, including stillbirths, and improve their overall health and well-being by 2030. Activities are expected to advance Ghana toward increased localization, strengthening the capacity of Ghana institutions and local organizations to introduce, deliver, scale-up, and sustain the use of evidence-based, quality RMNCH, voluntary family planning, malaria, and global health security services. The project will increase access, utilization and quality of maternal and child health, family planning, malaria, and nutrition services to reduce preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths in northern Ghana.
POSITION SUMMARY
Project HOPE seeks a Senior Neonatal Nurse Specialist to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of high-quality newborn interventions (including small and sick newborn), while working closely with relevant units at all levels of the Ghana Health Service, respective national level stakeholders and within targeted regions. The specialist will work with the project and GHS mentors to strengthen the quality of newborn care including both in the delivery room and in the NICU. He / She will provide direct NICU mentorship at the tertiary level delivery rooms and NICUs to ensure quality in these busy and complex settings and represent the project at various national Newborn technical working groups and committee meetings, as suggested by the RMNCH Senior Technical Advisor. She or He will capture key lessons learned and ensure deliverables within these technical areas are implemented according to the set workplan, with necessary adjustments, as required, based on learnings and best practices.
Education Required: Qualified
- Must be an experienced Neonatal Nurse Specialist with public health and programming experience.
- Minimum of 3 years' experience in successful programming and implementation of neonatal programs.
- Experience implementing WHO newborn care guidelines (Helping Babies Breathe, Essential Care for Every Baby, Essential Care for Small Babies, KMC etc)
- English Fluency, fluency in local languages important
- Comfortable with Microsoft program
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
- The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee must be mobile in an office environment and able to use standard office equipment.
- Must be able to communicate in verbal and written form.
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