Child Health and Immunization Consultant at SoCha

Technical and Strategic Support:

• Articulate and extend USAID’s strategic partnership vision, strategies, and tactics at the national and FH focal counties. Enhance understanding of the Family Health integrated strategy towards achieving national and county results for the health of women, children, adolescents, and youth.
• Facilitate the delivery of technical assistance for the development and oversight of strategic partnerships on a key national and county health strategic plans’ priority result areas through use of data and guided by current child health and immunization policies and strategies.
• Provide high level technical guidance in child health and immunization to assigned counties, including senior-level officials.
• Work in collaboration with USAID HPN staff, A/C/AORs and Activity Management Teams (AMTs) to plan and implement USAID’s child health, immunization and vaccine preventable disease (VPD) surveillance and response programs using an integrated approach.
• Provide updated technical information on child health, immunization and VPD surveillance issues in line with USAID’s program policies to partners and a wide group of public health collaborators as it becomes available. This information generally involves how to implement, monitor, and evaluate Family Health programs using data, and report progress to key stakeholders.
• Develop and nurture formal and informal partnerships with civil society, faith-based organizations, county-based academia, and private organizations and provide technical assistance to counties on barriers towards achieving child health, immunization VPD surveillance goals. This will involve working with broad based partners on the development and implementation of high impact interventions including modalities to develop, sustain and expand partnerships.
• Provide technical expertise on child health, immunization and VPD surveillance issues at national (e.g., UHC) and county level and advise HPN on opportunities to collaborate and synergize with other donors, multilateral and private sector organizations working in the counties.
• Provide strategic and technical leadership in the preparation of key annual and mid-term planning and reporting documents including the County Integrated Development Plans, and the Quarterly, Semi-Annual and Annual Progress Reports, and facilitate regular programmatic reviews with national child health, immunization and VPD surveillance programs, counties and other relevant stakeholders.
• Conduct thorough literature review and proactive engagement stakeholders, keep abreast of emerging developments in the national and global issues, and advise accordingly on how these policies, strategies and technical guidelines can most effectively be incorporated to enable the Mission to maintain the fidelity and relevance of Family Health programs.
• Provide strategic advice to the Family Health COE on partnership development and management and methodologies to improve the performance of USAID’s health investments for improved FP/RMNCAH outcomes in thirteen (13) focus counties. 

Coordination and Representation:

• Using diplomacy and technical acumen, establish strategic working relationships with senior health officials and committees at county and lower levels, donor agencies, civil society organizations, and private sector health counterparts to enhance coordination and regular and timely sharing of information on health programs at county level, including changes in key policies, and legal and regulatory environments that could affect child health, immunization, and VPD surveillance in the implementation of USAID programs.
• Provide guidance to USAID on identifying and developing relationships with stakeholders at National and county levels and ensure that results and impact of child health, immunization, and VPD surveillance programs.
• Participate in technical consultations and meetings at national and county technical working groups and related partnership meetings with cross-sectoral teams and the private sector and share follow up actions with USAID.
• Document and develop materials on processes and lessons learned in outcome-based programming for child health, immunization, and VPD surveillance programs.
• Work in close consultation with counties to provide required guidance on how best to collaborate and coordinate child health, immunization and VPD surveillance programs with county governments and other stakeholders such as civil society and the private sector at county level.

Qualifications and Skills:

Education:

• A master’s degree in either Public Health, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medicine or Social Sciences is required.

Prior Work Experience: 

• Minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in health program management for a development organization, including managing FP/RMNCAH programs or other relevant public health programs that involve coordination with a wide variety of stakeholders in a government department, international agency or implementing partner, is required.

Language Proficiency:

• Excellent oral and written English and Kiswahili skills are required.