Job Vacancy: Consultancy for the development of National Safemotherhood Strategy

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Job Vacancy: Job title: Consultancy for the development of National Safemotherhood Strategy

Job description: Overview

USAID Momentum Country and Global Leadership Quality of Care (MCGL QoC) project is a multi-year project that provides technical and capacity development assistance (TCDA) to ministries of health and other country partners to expand global leadership and learning and enable government-led partnerships to deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions that accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity. MCGL QOC has a geographic scope restricted to the national level but extended through partners to currently 24 States of Nigeria.

Rationale/Justification

MCGL-QoC wishes to support the Reproductive Health Division of the Department of Family Health; Federal Ministry of Health with the services of a Consultant. He/She will lead the process of developing the Safe Motherhood, End Preventive Maternal Mortality Strategy for Doctors, Nurses/Midwives, Community Health Extension Workers, Program managers, Administrators, Policy makers etc to improve Quality of Care in Nigeria. The scope of the review process would involve the following:

• Review and make inputs to the Zero draft
• Adapt/Adopt locally and internationally existing materials/documents.
• National stakeholders’ reviews
• Finalization and Validation of document
• Launching and Dissemination

RATE: NGN 100,000 PER DAY

Responsibilities

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• Lead the National Safe Motherhood development process• Support Desk review of End Preventive Maternal Mortality Materials
• Support/plan the stakeholders’ consultative analysis meeting
• Orient stakeholders on the processes.
• Articulate and document the identified areas of focus in (d)
• Support/plan meetings to review/finalize the draft National Safe Motherhood

DELIVERABLE

• Draft National Safe Motherhood Strategy document

Required Qualifications

• University degree, preferably in one of the following: Obstetrics and Gynaecology,Nursing/ Midwifery, Public Health.
• Post-graduate degree in Public Health, in Epidemiology or other related public health fields will be an advantage
• Previous Experience in Adaptation of policy, curriculum etc
• Currently in Clinical Practice
• Certified/LSS Master Trainer is an added advantage
• Public Health Publications on maternal and newborn health
• Good knowledge of MS Office packages, including working knowledge of health data management packages like EPI INFO, etc
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work under pressure and collaboratively in a team.
• Advanced level of spoken and written English

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

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Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

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Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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Location: Abuja, FCT

Job date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:57:23 GMT

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