Jobs at Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK)

Job Purpose

• The job holder will be responsible for supporting and undertaking planned activities and service delivery systems improvement under the Bread For The World supported reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) project, to improve mother and child health outcomes, through quality improvement approaches, building health provider competencies and expertise across the supported health facilities. This position reports to RMNCAH Coordinator.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight and supportive supervision and mentorship on RMNCAH/FP to all project sites.
• Contribute to the development of localized strategies for integration of RMNCAH with primary health care and into universal health coverage to improve mother and child health outcomes.
• Ensure that evidence-based high impact RMNCAH interventions are adopted and tracked throughout the project supported facilities and communities to improve overall service delivery at the facility but more specifically the RMNCAH/FP intervention areas.
• Provide RMNCAH technical assistance to CHAK Program projects to support technical excellence, data capture, analysis and reporting of lessons learned.
• Support regular analysis of all RMNCAH programs and distil approaches to address integration, quality assurance and scale up of service delivery within supported MHUs.
• Participate in knowledge management, scientific and technical leadership efforts to document impact of RMNCAH interventions, capture and dissemination of lessons learned.
• Build and maintain good relationships with the County Health Management Teams, local Implementing partners and other stakeholders.
• Actively participate in county level technical working groups, capacity building and advocacy forums to ensure full integration of the CHAK RMNCAH activities in the counties.
• Compile and make regular project performance monitoring reports of the planned BFTW activities.

Qualifications

• Post graduate Diploma in obstetrics and gynecology, Degree in nursing.
• Holder of a Certificate of Registration from a relevant Professional Council.
• Holder of a Valid Practice License from a relevant Professional Council.
• Master of Public Health with a focus on primary health Care, community FP/RMNCAH.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in RMNCAH programs, with demonstrable experience in implementation of community and facility based RMNCAH activities.
• Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Management and leadership skills.
• Computer literacy.
• Project management skills.
• Resource mobilization and proposal development skills.
• Conflict resolution and mediation skills.
• Excellent report writing and analytical skills.
• Integrity.

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Job Responsibilities

• Collect, verify, collate, and report all data required for USAID, MOH and CHAK reports. This encompasses data cleaning and upload to CHAK/UJTP DHIS2 instance, DATIM, CPMIS and Partner portal on weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis. 
• Collaborate with County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) and County Department of Children Services (CDCS) to conduct routine data quality audit (DQA)/validation, `provide targeted feedback to improve data quality and follow up on data quality improve 
• Take lead in promotion and scale up of EMR Point of Care (POC) model at county level. 
• Support the CHMTs in roll out and implementation of case-based surveillance (CBS) activities in priority facilities. 
• Work with beneficiaries and Consortium partners to develop a beneficiary feedback mechanism for timely decision making, and improvements to programming through collaborative, adaptation and learning approaches. 
• Take part in county/sub county/facility data review and data consumption meetings and prepare reliable and accurate accompanying narratives 
• Capacity building of project, partners, MOH and grantees staff in quality data collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of health information at county and health facility levels for program planning and management. 
• Support the identification of case studies and human-interest stories for inclusion in periodic progress reports to the donor, CHAK, and other stakeholders. 
• Ensure county project activities are compliant with the approved work plan and that project results are aligned with the project monitoring plan; will also contribute to development of project strategies; work plans and budgets. 
• Maintain positive relations with government counterparts, program partners and other relevant stakeholders. 

Job Requirements

• Academic- Bachelor’s Degree in Biostatistics or Epidemiology, Health informatics, Public Health or other health-related degree from an accredited university.

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• Experience- Experience of at least five (5) years in Monitoring and Evaluation of Key Populations, Care and Treatment, OVC and COVID-19 PEPFAR programs.

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• Experience- Experience in the use of PEPFAR programs M&E systems and platforms like DATIM, KHIS2 and Kenya EMR, to support a learning agenda and evolve a theory of change to maximize impact.

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• Experience- Experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring of M&E activities with CHMTs.

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• Experience- Understanding of Kenya Health Systems.

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• Experience- Expertise in MS office suite – Excel, Access & PowerPoint, and data visualisation tools like Power-BI.

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• Experience- Proficiency in use of any of the following Statistical tools; SAS, Stata, R or SPSS.

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• Experience- Proven experience in design and development DHIS2 instance for HIV projects.

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• Experience- Strong knowledge and experience in supporting Collaborative, Learning, and Adaptation (CLA) processes.

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Personal Attributes

• Computer literacy
• Integrity