Position: Senior Health Officer

The Role

The Senior Health Officer reports directly to the Area Project Manager or Program/Project Manager where applicable and will be responsible for ensuring the technical quality of services, strategic leadership, and oversight of the project in the Country.

The Senior Health Officer works with consortium partners and Community-Based Organizations to provide technical support in relation to setting the project targets, works with the Project Manager and project officers to develop and execute the project action plans, and monitors the implementation process of the work plans, for quality assurance.

Applicants will facilitate operational capacity-building initiatives, and technical capacity, and supports coordination with local government and other key partners in relation to promoting sexual and reproductive health for youth and young women. The Senior Health Officer directs and supervises consultants supporting the development of resources, toolkits, training materials, and others.

Applicants will work with the project’s partners and stakeholders to facilitate project activities and input into the overall project. The Senior Health Officer will be expected to serve a technical role, which includes regular travel to the project sites, with the Project Officer, to meet with partners to provide technical assistance and ensure the smooth continuity of the project activities.

Interested applicants will also be expected to initiate collaboration among key stakeholders and represent RTP at technical meetings.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Interested applicants will perform the following responsibilities:

1 .  Technical Leadership (50%):

• Firstly, provide technical leadership to project teams to support quality program delivery
• Secondly, work closely with the line manager to strengthen and standardize program technical assistance frameworks to ensure alignment with government and global best standard practices on the project and maximize alignment across consortium partners.
• Thirdly, collaborate with headquarters and all partners to ensure programming aligns with RTP’s mission and vision and that project best practices and lessons learned are shared
• Also, lead efforts to ensure that critical, high-quality project knowledge and information is identified, made available, and accessible to project teams.
• Moreover, provide technical support to implementing partners to adapt and co-create school and community-based sexual education interventions, health service quality improvement efforts, and community engagement strategies to address barriers to adolescents’ access to SRHR information and services and gender inequality.
• Furthermore, collaborating with the Project Team and other specialists to track project deliverables ensuring they meet appropriate levels of quality and are on time and per the project plan.
• Last but not least, lead RTP in donor policy influence and advocacy at the national and regional level
• Lastly, conduct regular monitoring visits to support project staff and implementing partners in delivering project outputs.

2 . Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships (20%):

• Participate in Technical Working Groups, maintaining communication and feedback loops with the project manager on all substantive work regarding the project.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings related to sexual and reproductive health at the national and regional level
• Build collaborative relationships between sexual and reproductive health activities with the broader networks
• Look for synergies among consortium partners and push for effective interactions (partner meetings, national strategy sessions, workshops, county-level work, etc.)
• Provide clear communication and updates to the project manager, project staff, HQ, national and local governments, consortium partners, and implementing partners

3 . Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (15%):

• Provide inputs to the development of project technical reports as required by the donor, including documentation of successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation
• Manage or advise on selected research initiatives identified to test essential hypotheses related to health programs.
• Provide technical support to the project and MEL strategy development and implementation
• Contribute to core publications, articles, books, and panels to share research results and practice.
• Consolidate learning from the program to inform strategic direction, priorities, and learning.

4 . Advocacy and Policy (10%):

• Serve as Right To Play representative in national/regional meetings focusing on sexual and reproductive health, as needed, to develop and strengthen core partnerships and networks with key stakeholders in the health sector, including governments, networks, and multi-lateral institutions, to contribute to the health policy dialogue.
• Supports collective advocacy initiatives at the national level to advance key health positions and contribute to policy papers, standards, and tools in collaboration with national networks
• Facilitate other aspects of health programming at the national level based on needs. May include facilitating relationships, issue-specific problem solving, escalating questions to the national level, developing project management solutions to SRH program challenges, enabling stakeholder collaboration, coordination/follow-up of agreed action points, etc.