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International Rescue Committee

Health Technical Advisor

Kampala, Uganda

Donswift Company Ltd

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Physician

Kampala, Uganda

Uganda National Oil Company

CLOSED

Health & Safety Officer

Kampala, Uganda

TPO Uganda

CLOSED

Clinical Psychologist

Kampala, Uganda

C-Care Uganda

CLOSED

Dispenser

Kampala, Uganda

Infectious Disease Institute

CLOSED

Senior Epidemiologist – Disease Burden Analysis

Kampala, Uganda

Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)

CLOSED

Clinical Officer

Kampala, Uganda

Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)

CLOSED

Laboratory Technologist

Kampala, Uganda

Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)

CLOSED

Nurse

Kampala, Uganda

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UNICEF

CLOSED

Health Manager

Kampala, Uganda

Health Technical Advisor

Closing: Jul 24, 2024

18 days remaining

Published: Jul 3, 2024 (4 days ago)

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Education: MD/RN, RN with public health or equivalent with a Master’s/post-graduate degree in Public Health, Public Health Nutrition or equivalent.

Work Experience:

  • A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing big health programs, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, INGO or comparable international agency required.
  • Experience in the matter related the public health programs, humanitarian health response, and system development and strengthening.
  • Experience in specified technical areas including comprehensive primary healthcare, technical tools and materials development and monitoring and evaluation is highly desired. Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
  • Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian, post-crisis, or climate impacted contexts.
  • Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
  • Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.
  • Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written English is essential.


Responsibilities

Education: MD/RN, RN with public health or equivalent with a Master’s/post-graduate degree in Public Health, Public Health Nutrition or equivalent.

Work Experience:

  • A minimum of 6-8 years of relevant experience in implementing and/or managing big health programs, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, INGO or comparable international agency required.
  • Experience in the matter related the public health programs, humanitarian health response, and system development and strengthening.
  • Experience in specified technical areas including comprehensive primary healthcare, technical tools and materials development and monitoring and evaluation is highly desired. Experience in strategy development and working across sectors or disciplines is highly desired.
  • Experience and familiarity with related donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian, post-crisis, or climate impacted contexts.
  • Demonstrated expertise in technical program design, monitoring and evaluation, with the ability to turn concepts and strategy into measurable action.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver projects on time and independently.
  • Demonstrated ability to navigate a dynamic, cross-functional, global team structure in a large multi-national organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong analytic problem-solving skills.
  • Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
  • Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.
  • Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written English is essential.


  • Substantially contribute to the development of proposal theories of change and log frames, and ensure country programs have access and the trainings to the relevant resources, such as the health outcomes, evidence frameworks, global and regional capacity statements, as well as the IMPACT standards
  • Support the in-country technical lead in analyzing relevant information including available M&E and client responsiveness data, to prepare for design meetings/conversations.
  • Review and advise on use of core indicators, including alignment of donor indicators, and guidance on indicator targets and disaggregation.
  • Advise on program modalities and strategic partnership development based on evidence, scale considerations, and how we can best support, complement, and reinforce local systems.
  • Advise on and/or provide hands-on support on health assessments, including application and contextualization of technical standards and tools.
  • Participate in project design meetings for all relevant health proposals (remotely or in person)
  • Review and validate design meeting decisions around technical design quality, including alignment of narratives, log-frames, and budgets, to IRC standards and health outcomes.
  • Promote and support design collaboration with health partners and clients.
  • Review and advice on program and project level indicator selection and target setting and support data driven decision making.
  • Promote and support gender equality and diversity inclusion throughout project design, field visits, and through the process of health need assessments.
  • Implementation Support:You will support country program staff and other key stakeholders in implementing technical interventions:
  • Support country programs and other stakeholders with the recruitment and training of technical coordinators, specialists, as well as health project leads.
  • Assess program quality and inform improvements, quality of care, including infection prevention and control, providing follow-up support to country programs as needed.
  • Collaborate with country program colleagues to monitor and analyze key indicators to inform periodic data review, program adaptation, and course-correction as needed.
  • Provide mentorship to Technical Coordinators on the interpretation of data, including monitoring data, annual statistics data, quality data, client feedback and evaluations. Participate in data review meetings, particularly technical data review meetings.
  • Provide technical capacity strengthening through ongoing mentoring, coaching, and trainings with country program focal points, while ensure the country programs have regularly assess the needs of capacity building and develop the adapted capacity building plans.
  • As requested and guided by the region and the country programs, attend internal meetings with the IRC health local partners, other sectors, in addition to other external representations and meetings as requested by the supervisor, such as donors, health clusters academic fora, donor meetings, inter-agency working groups, technical working groups and various global/regional fora as assigned by the supervisor.
  • Participate in coordination efforts within the health unit and with other technical units and departments in IRC as required.
  • Contribute and support the health technical unit globally to achieve and implement different work streams as informed by the IRC health strategy such as immunization, nutrition, contraception, Infectious disease prevention and control, and last mile delivery, etc.
  • Collaborate with Quality in Emergencies STAs and Emergencies and Humanitarian Action Unit (EHAU) counterparts during emergency classifications to support country programs to assess, design and implement high quality programming in acute emergency situations, in line with QiE TA Model
  • Knowledge & Learning:You will support continuous sectoral learning and IRC technical leadership:
  • Document learnings from health program activities and share takeaways and opportunities.
  • Share cross-contextual learnings with country program staff across the region, and health unit.
  • Collaborate with other technical advisors within the region to promote integrated programming leadership at different stages of program design, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Refresh the sectoral evidence-base in collaboration with global and regional staff to influence approaches.
  • Contribute to the delivery of health unit strategic priorities, and support the process do developing different case studies, identify areas for future research and end of health project evaluation,
  • Maintain currency with sectoral best practices through continual learning and development.
  • Provide mentorship to technical coordinators to identify projects/ interventions that should be evaluated, and review and approve evaluation methodologies, analysis plan and final reports.
  • Support high quality program and project evaluations
  • With Technical Coordinators, co-draft the development of learning agenda and learning questions for projects or sector portfolios.


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