Job offer: Family Planning Technical Officer (Clinical Officer)

Company Profile

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University.  For 50 years and over and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

As the leading global partner for the Momentum Country and Global Leadership program, MCGL is a five-year USAID funded global award that works with country governments and local non-governmental organizations to provide targeted technical and capacity development assistance.  

MCGL builds upon existing evidence and best practices and catalyzes innovations that enable government-led partnerships to deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions that accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity at scale. The project also contributes to global technical leadership, learning, and USAID’s policy dialogue to achieve global maternal, newborn, and child health, voluntary family planning, and reproductive health (MNCH/FP/RH) goals by supporting globally endorsed initiatives, strategies, frameworks, guidelines, and action plans. 

Project Overview
The Momentum Country and Global Leadership program, implemented by Jhpiego and partners, is a five-year USAID funded global award that works with country governments and local non-governmental organizations to provide targeted technical and capacity development assistance.  MOMENTUM builds upon existing evidence and best practices and catalyzes innovations that enable government-led partnerships to deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions that accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity at scale. 

We are currently seeking to fill the following position to support the project’s technical program in Ghana:

I. MCGL Family Planning

Job Location :   Accra

Reports to :   Technical Advisor

Supervises :   N/A

Job SummaryThe FP Technical Officer will assist the project team in working with Ghana Health Service and other relevant stakeholders to implement key activities at the national and site level.  This will include assisting with the development of work plans, liaising with staff, other partners and rolling out activities, reporting, leading capacity strengthening activities and mentorship.  Duties and Responsibilities

Provide FP technical assistance on capacity development activities within the designated program regions. 

Assist with the design implementation, monitoring and assessment of activities. 

Write/produce project monitoring tracking matrices and relevant reports as required. 

Work closely with technical lead and program staff to ensure quality implementation of programs 

Conduct training and technical site assessments of health facilities in collaboration with GHS

Assist in the development of new program approaches that are linked to related services  

Work with GHS and stakeholders to implement on the job trainings, maintain services, and on-site mentoring and supportive supervision 

Support clinical training and supportive supervision of staff and counterparts as necessary

Support and guide Jhpiego’s monitoring, evaluation and research activities

Perform other duties as necessary or as assigned 

 

Education Required: Bachelor’s Degree