KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide technical leadership and oversight to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of the program and to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives and targets within the prescribed timeframes.
Serve as the program’s primary point of contact with the donor, other consortium members, MOH, and other stakeholders; ensure alignment and harmonization with other programming where appropriate, including national and global strategies.
Prepare quality and timely program reports as per donor requirements
Management of work plans and budgets through; tracking and monitoring work plan and budget implementation and expenditures.
Support public sector engagements for SRHR/GBV services at both the National and County level
Harmonize the program with public sector service delivery models for sustainability and promote cross learning and efficiencies in the consortium
Coordination with County RH coordinators, SRHR champions and GBV team
Provides timely and adequate technical support on SRHR/GBV, including guidance on continuous quality, improvement, use of priority SRHR/GBV interventions, supporting and motivating frontline health workers (clinicians, nurses), and building capacity (including on-the-job training) on selected SRHR/GBV topics.
Maintains a constructive dialogue and technical exchange with technical (SRHR, GBV, MNCH, HIV, TB,
Nutrition) and counterparts / implementing partners to effectively support integration health services in the facilities to offer quality SRH services.
Advocate for provision of sexual reproductive health and GBV services to the youth and adolescent
Work closely with the M & E advisor; o tracks monthly uptake of SRHR / GBV services and availability of FP commodities through development of dashboards for both the counties and performance of the implementing partners reviews, analyzes, and evaluates the effectiveness of SRHR/GBV activities and provides recommendations for improvements.
Advocate for use of DHI2 in reporting for SRH/GBV services and commodities
Work closely with the county coordinators in tracking FP commodity reporting and availability to ensure that stock outs are minimized and eliminated where possible
Manage SRHR/GBV capacity building activities that include training needs assessment, execution of training, mentorship and support supervision in collaboration with implementing partners, county departments of health and MoH Family Health division.
Liaise with the MoH Family Health division on FP commodity stock out
Facilitate availability of SRH/GBV policy and guidelines and sensitization on utilization in collaboration with the County RH coordinators
Lead in documentation and dissemination of best practices and lessons learnt
Ensure compliance with donor and PS Kenya operational policies and regulations
Ensure integration and linkages between the thematic areas of RMNCAH, FP, SRHR, child marriage, teenage pregnancy prevention, access to shelter, and GBV
Support integration of gender transformative and human right based approaches into Accelerate programme including integration between RMNCAH, SRHR, FP and GBV services
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Successfully achieved the program deliverables
Effective management of the consortium members and all critical stakeholders
High quality project documents; annual work plans, budget narratives, MEL plans, learning agenda, reports.
Budget management as per the quarterly/bi-annual and annual plans / projections
Strong relationship with government, donors and other key stakeholders.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Academic Qualifications
Master’s Level of Education in related field: MPH, MSc Epidemiology/ Public Health, social sciences and
Demography, or other relevant discipline with 8 or more years of responsibility in managing Sexual
Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender Based Violence programme, including Family Planning, fivewhich are in management role.
Commitment to human rights
Professional Qualifications
Knowledge of current global and national Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights landscape, including Family
Planning programming, protocols, standards, best practices
Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences
Experience
Program management skills, including leading strategy, planning, financial and risk management, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Field knowledge and hands-on experience of working using human-rights based approaches (HRBA)
Experience in managing and implementing SRHR/GBV programs
Ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse partners, networks and allies.
Experience working with health workers on health systems strengthening and service delivery.
Relevant experience in data collection, analysis, and interpretation and/or in using data to identify and meet program monitoring and evaluation needs and contributing to SRHR/GBV policies
Apply via :
recruitment@pskenya.org
