Vacancies at the Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
The Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global
health nonprofit organization, uses proven approaches developed over 40
years to help leaders, health managers, and communities in developing
nations build stronger health systems for greater health impact. We work
to save lives by closing the
gap between knowledge and action in public
health. Since its founding in 1971, MSH has worked in over 150
countries with policy makers, health professionals, and health care
consumers to improve the quality, availability and affordability of
health services.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Technical Advisor, TB, PSM
Job ID: 13-9529
Location: Abuja
Group/Office: HPG
Grade: N/A
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: A362 - Nigeria Challenge TB
Reports To: Senior Technical Advisor, TB
Overview
- The Senior Technical Advisor (STA) is responsible for providing
direct technical assistance to national TB programs/MoH aimed at
ensuring universal access to TB medicines through strengthening
pharmaceutical systems1, supply chain2 management, management
information systems, pharmaceutical services3, and providing technical
leadership to donors and Global TB initiatives, such as the Global Fund
(GF) and the Global Drug Facility (GDF).
- S/he supports Challenge TB and country programs portfolios and
in-country teams in the development and implementation of technical
activities ensuring their adequate contribution to Challenge TB results.
- S/he is the primary liaison between Challenge TB and the USAID
Country Missions, Government counterparts, stakeholders, and partners
involved with pharmaceutical management activities and/or implementing
related programs in the countries and region. S/he supports measurement
and documentation of portfolio results.
Specific Responsibilities
The Senior Technical Advisor TB,PSM will provide overall
technical assistance in collaboration with MSH TB Project Director,
Principal Technical Advisor TB,MSH ,Senior Technical Advisor, TB,
National TB and leprosy Control programme(NTBLCP) of Nigeria and other
stakeholders to:
- Identify and map key stakeholders and their contributions in the
country’s TB medicines supply system, including both domestic and
international.
- Establish communication with the NTP, MOH, key stakeholders, and
inform of the activity purpose, vision, methodology, and desired
outcomes.
- In conjunction with the local counterparts, collect data and
maintain evidence of the countries’ TB medicines supply practices, such
as related to: TB recording and reporting (data pertaining to supply
management); inventory management; rocurement processes and lead-times
(including MOH, GDF, TGF, etc); forecasting; quantification; supply
planning; data flows and data collection tools; data quality assurance;
early warning mechanisms for preventing stock-outs/wastage.
- Identify feasible interventions option aimed at strengthening
the TB medicines supply system and improving access to TB medicines,
discuss with stakeholders, develop a strengthening plan and have it
endorsed by NTP and relevant stakeholders.
- Collect country data and forecast first and second line TB
medicine requirements with NTP and key partner and document assumptions
and get consensus from key takeholders to finalize forecasting or
quantification.
- Generate quarterly activity reports from QuanTB to inform NTP
and other key in country partners about TB medicine status and proposed
solutions.
- Work collaboratively and leverage funds with partners as needed to achieve desired outcomes.
- Introduce and support implementation of Quan TB as an Early
Warning tool building on the existing country’s platforms, gain
acceptance, develop capacity building plan with NTP and ensure Early
Warning System (EWS) reports are produced in the GDF-QuanTB format).
- Collaborate with NTP and key partners to develop SOPs for Quan TB as EWS; identify and train key users.
- Under the leadership of the NTP, establish a coordination
routine with the WHO , USAID, GDF Regional Supply Officers (RSOs), TGF
and other partners to report country EWS data on the quarterly basis,
communicate potential TB medicines problems and work closely with key
persons to address problems.
- Establish a mechanism to monitor the TB medicines supply lead
times(GDF, GF and MOH lead times) and communicate the performance to
NTPs and partners involved in the supply system; immediately report
noncompliance with the lead times to NTPs and partners.
Qualifications and Experience
- Graduate degree in a Health-related field; Physician or Pharmacist qualification preferred.
- Specialized training and/or experience relating to
pharmaceutical systems, management information systems, supply chain
management or pharmaceutical services.
- Experience with programs supported by bilateral agencies such as
USAID and international agencies such as the Global Fund, the Global
Drug Facility.
- Ability to write lucid technical reports and documents in English is required.
- Competence in use of word processing programs required, and
experience with spreadsheets and database applications strongly
preferred.
- Ability to use NTBLCP such as QuanTB & e-TB manager will be an added advantage.
- Relevant experience in the implementation of international and
country TB revention, care, and treatment programs, strengthening of
National TB programs, and experience with management of medicines supply
and information systems for TB including pharmacovigiliance.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple
tasks simultaneously; excellent interpersonal skills and ability to
work effectively in a team spirit.
- Ability and availability to travel in-country and internationally 30% of time or more.
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
Job ID: 13-9522
Location: Niger
Grade: I
Group/Office: HPG
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: A512 - Nigeria CaTSS
Reports To: State Team Leader
Overview
- The success of the CaTSS project depends largely on accurate,
complete and timely reporting of achievements to PEPFAR/USAID.
Achievement of set targets is of utmost importance.
- Hence, the objective of the M&E Specialist position is to
provide technical leadership in the roll-out of CaTSS M&E plan in
the states integrating it with other health systems and generating
strategic data for program management, reporting and documentation of
best practices.
Specific Responsibilities
- Provide technical input in the development of an integrated
State CaTSS project plan in collaboration with the Directors, Advisors
and State Teams.
- Take lead in building the capacity of health units’ M&E
staff and relevant health and community workers in collection,
summarization, analysis and presentation of M&E data.
- Manage the roll-out of the project M&E data quality assurance system including quarterly data quality audits.
- Assist the STL to coordinate the establishment/strengthening of one state M&E system that informs policy and practice.
- Take lead in the implementation of CaTSS state M&E plan and
reporting formats for PEPFAR indicators and targets in collaboration
with the State Team, Advisors and Directors
- Establish system for flow of information from service-delivery
points to the CaTSS central data base and ensure timely M&E
technical support to all implementing health facilities.
- Ensure state-of-the art database management practice at the state.
- Analyze M&E data on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis and flag action areas to the project management.
- Work with LCaTSS management to document and publish best practices.
Accountabilities:
- Supervision: Works independently and reports to the State Team Leader.
- Decision Making: Working within project strategy and policy
guidelines, makes decisions with regards to work responsibilities and is
accountable for them.
- Responsibility over data or information: Has access to
information within project, and is responsible for program data
generation and management.
- Responsibility over assets: Overall responsibility assigned assets in the program.
- Responsibility over Staff: None
Management responsibilities:
- Spearheading the roll-out of CaTSS M&E plan in line with PEPFAR and national reporting requirements
- Member of the State Project Management Team that is responsible for overall project performance
Qualifications and Experience
- Postgraduate Degree in Statistics, Epidemiology or related field with focus on monitoring and evaluation and/or Biostatistics.
- Excellent inter-personal, multi-cultural and team building skills.
- Strong computer skills particularly in spreadsheets, database and statistical applications.
- Significant experience working in HIV/AIDS programs in Nigeria.
- Familiarity with PEPFAR reporting systems highly desirable,
particularly for HIV Counseling and Testing, prevention of
Mother-to-Child Transmission, ART, palliative care, and OVC desirable
- Excellent writing skills, oral and written communication skills and fluency in English
- At least 4 years hand-on-experience in monitoring and evaluation
with very good analytical, presentation, communication and reporting
skills.
- Significant experience in developing monitoring plans and/or
management information systems 4 years of which spent working with NGOs
in an African setting.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Application Deadline: 18th April, 2017.