Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

Qualifications and Skills

Main Responsibilities

• Plan, prioritise, and implement activities at the provincial, district, and health facility levels with MISAU and the various community-based partners;
• Participate in the coordination and prioritisation of activities, including planning on-the-job training and health statistics meetings;
• Collaborate with the management team to develop work plans, and analyse and prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reports according to project procedures;
• Actively participate in provincial/district technical group meetings where topics related to SRH/FP, maternal health, adolescents and youth, and other relevant project issues are discussed;
• Ensure the development of joint and continuous activities with community partners at the health facility, district, and provincial levels to achieve greater technical and programmatic sustainability of these community partners in collaboration with health institutions;
• Support the development, strengthening, and management of clinical systems related to comprehensive abortion care, contraception, and gender-based violence, including better quality and use of information for decision-making, and support managers to achieve not only an improvement in SRHR service quality but also an improvement in the management of the supply chain of medicines and medical supplies, human resources (HR), infection control (IC), and community engagement;
• Provide technical support to health providers in health facilities supported by the project through strengthening the MISAU clinical mentor network;
• Provide technical support to organisations by assisting with supervisions and technical meetings with activists and other agents involved in the project’s implementation;
• Support assistance to providers and the referral systems, and liaise with multisectoral mechanism groups for addressing GBV victims;
• Carry out other tasks assigned by the Program Manager and Provincial Coordinator;
• Develop action plans and requisitions to follow up on actions under the supervision of the Program Manager and Provincial Coordinator;
• Support the implementation of data collection tools, project surveys, and other tasks;
• Document lessons learned and best practices from the project, including drafting success stories;
• Ensure that issues are addressed quickly and effectively, with support from the provincial and national office staff, as necessary;
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

Basic Requirements

• Qualified Maternal and Child Health Nurse at the higher level;
• 5 years of professional experience in providing technical assistance and programme management in the SRHR field (particularly FP and Abortion), with experience and understanding of issues and approaches for delivering integrated reproductive health and rights services, including family planning, essential maternal and obstetric care in primary health care settings;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Fluency in spoken and written Portuguese; intermediate English is required, and fluency in a local language is an advantage;
• Proficiency in using software packages, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
• Ability to develop teamwork and maintain working relationships with the government, non-governmental agencies, and other cooperation partners at the local level.

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