Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job purpose
The purpose of this position will be to establish and maintain relationships with the County Ministry of Health with a focus on county health executive leadership and the county health management teams. This position will ensure relationships between JH and county health management teams are maintained leading to smooth implementation of JH interventions in the county.

Duties and responsibilities
Strengthen Jacaranda Health County Engagement
• Establish and maintain working relationships with County Health Management Teams (CHMT) ensuring that JH remains a priority partner to the county leadership
• Engage and maintain close relationships with county executive leadership to facilitate county support on policy and budget issues
• Maintain close contact with the CHMTs and keep abreast with county maternal health priorities and needs and communicate back to internal stakeholders
• Conduct county level annual needs assessment to identify priority areas of interventions for Jacaranda Health
• Maintain effective and regular communication with the county leadership ensuring that county requests are prioritized and addressed comprehensively
• Lead and facilitate JH engagement with the counties ensuring that counties commit to cost share in the implementation of JH programs
Increase Jacaranda Health Visibility at the county level
• Identify and present JH at county health platforms relating to maternal and newborn health issues and position JH as the maternal health lead partner
• Collaborate with counties/CHMT and convene JH specific progress review meetings to ensure that the county leadership is kept up to date with program progress and impact of program interventions
• Put measures in place to ensure that JH regularly reports (Monthly, quarterly, and biannually) to the county on the progress of program implementation and that the proposed action points in the reports are actioned by the county and JH
• Attend and present JH in county level meetings such as TWGs, AWP planning meetings and stakeholder forums
• Identify county innovative communication channels through which JH progress, impact and support can be communicated.
Provide Program Support
• Lead the initial engagement with new counties, establish county buy in, entry meetings and agreement between counties and JH
• Provide linkage between JH programs at the county level and the CHMT and the county health executive leadership
• Provide guidance to the programs teams in adapting and implementing JH programs to respond to specific county priorities and county requests
• Identify and address county leadership challenges to ensure that there is seamless implementation of Jacaranda Health programs in counties.
• Engage with CHMT to plan for joint supportive supervision visits ensuring that the implementation of JH solutions is as per county quality standards
• Identify potential risks to JH and its programs because of JH partnership with counties and propose risk mitigation strategies
• Identify potential private partners JH can partner with in specific counties to drive cost-share and reduce on duplication of efforts

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Health-related field, Business Administration, Public Relations, or any other related fields
• A master’s degree or professional certification in relevant field will be an added advantage
Relevant Experience
• A minimum of 9 years’ experience in implementing county level programs
• Experience in implementing public sector programs and working closely with health management teams
• Experience in establishing and maintaining partnerships with county health officials

Technical Competencies
• Understanding of the devolved health function
• Strategic thinking
• Conflict Resolution
• Problem identification and resolution
• Documentation and technical writing skills

Behavioral Competencies
• Strong Customer Service Orientation
• Ability to Drive Change and foster Innovation
• Results Focused with ability to achieve and sustain results
• Planning and Organizing
• Take Responsibility, initiate tasks and follow them to completion
• Influence Decisions and Actions for multiple stakeholders
• Communicate and Share Information in an effective manner with both internal and external customers
• Build Strong and working relationships
• Understand internal and external client perspectives

Contract Period
This position is expected to be a contract of 12 months (renewable)

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 108

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Interested candidates should send their applications to jhslcareers@jacarandahealth.org
No hard copies required or accepted. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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