Child and Adolescent Health Specialist

Child and Adolescent Health Specialist - Uganda Health Activity, Uganda

FHI 360 seeks a Child and Adolescent Health Specialist to provide technical support to the Government of Uganda (GoU) to improve the access to and use of quality child and adolescent health services, including immunization, at community and health facility levels. The Child and Adolescent Health Specialist will be based in Kabale or Moroto sub-regions, providing technical support and guidance to healthcare facilities and communities in respective catchment areas. This will require frequent travels to respective catchment area communities and facilities.

Job Summary/Responsibilities:

The Child and Adolescent Health Specialist will assist the Integrated Service Delivery Advisor in ensuring the overall success of the project. S/He and will be responsible for providing technical guidance on the implementation and monitoring of facility and community-based interventions, and contributing to creation and dissemination of knowledge products. The Child and Adolescent Health Specialist will work closely with the program team, under the leadership of the Integrated Service Delivery Advisor to execute the following responsibilities:

Provide overall technical direction and guidance related to evidence-based child and adolescent health programming, including immunization, for facility and community-level interventions, based on local and global best practices.
Support technical aspects of projects including staff and partner capacity building.
Contribute to program/project design, implementation, learning, and monitoring and evaluation through active collaboration with project teams.
Conduct analysis of project implementation to identify areas for improvement and propose appropriate technical strategy and guidelines.
Provide guidance and technical support in alignment with GoU child and adolescent policies and strategies, including USAID development priorities.
Support the development and refinement of child and adolescent health capacity strengthening and quality improvement project inputs (trainings/mentoring/coaching, tools, guidelines, and standards) to support GoU interventions.
Develop or write technical briefs, reports, or other necessary materials to facilitate research, best practices, policies, and procedures.
Contribute to the learning agenda by identifying information gaps in child and adolescent health and immunization that could be filled by secondary data analysis, literature reviews, field testing of new approaches, and collaborative learning events.