Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies:
Deep understanding of health systems strengthening approaches in low- and middle-income countries including knowledge of key global priorities and networks.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services: Deep knowledge sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Setting vision and strategy: Proven ability to develop, drive and embed global strategy.
Global Health System: Deep knowledge of SRHR ecosystem within the global health and development context.
HSS experience: Demonstrated results in one or more of the six WHO building blocks of Health Systems Strengthening, with a focus on community systems.
Change Leadership: Ability to lead change across a broad group of stakeholders in an inclusive manner.
Taking risks and innovating: Skilled at identifying and taking forward opportunities to increase scale, impact, quality and sustainability of HSS interventions.
Interpersonal skills: Skilled in cultivating and working relationships with varied stakeholders, including colleagues, partners, governments and clients. Have ability to motivate, influence, collaborate with others, as required.
Self-awareness and personnel development: committed to growing as a leader and as a professional.
Capacity building: Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity and support others to learn and grow their skills.
Minimally Required Organizational Competencies:
Self-Management: Ability to work independently and ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-pace environment.
Team player: Able to collaborate and think creatively and strategically and engage new partners.
Passion for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Demonstrated commitment to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health, including safe abortion, gender, maternal, child health services.
Languages: Excellent verbal and written English skills is required. Proven writing and speaking skills in French is desirable.
Compelling and thoughtful communication style: that meets the needs of internal and external audiences and engenders trust and collaboration.
Confidentiality: Ability to maintain confidentiality on work-related matters.
Minimally Required Education, Training and Experience:
At least 12 years’ experience as senior-level professional developing, managing, implementing and evaluating health systems strengthening programs at scale, ideally in area of service delivery and community-health systems improvement, with a minimum of (8) years’ experience in working in multiple sub-Saharan Africa countries.
A Master’s degree in Public Health or a related field.
Familiarity with multilateral and bilateral donors including USAID preferred.
Experience of working for an MOH at leadership and management level would be an asset.
Other Information:
Travel required (up to 20%)
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