Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Vacancy Notice

JOHNS HOPKINS (Center for Communication Programs) Vacancy Announcement:

At the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), we believe in the power of communication to save lives, by empowering people to adopt healthy behaviors for themselves, their families, and their communities. Good health is critical not only to an individual's well-being but also to the community and national development, impacting educational and economic success.

CCP is currently seeking expressions of interest from qualified candidates for the following positions for an anticipated five-year USAID adolescent reproductive health/family planning project in Nepal.

1. Deputy Chief of Party

General summary/purpose:

 At the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), we believe in the power of communication to save lives, by empowering people to adopt healthy behaviors for themselves, their families, and their communities. Good health is critical not only to an individual’s well-being but also to the community and national development, impacting educational and economic success. CCP is seeking a Deputy Chief of Party for the Adolescent Reproductive Health /Family Health (RH/FP) project which will focus on strengthening the government, non-government and private sector systems to meet the needs of youth and adolescents. The position will operate under the leadership of the Chief of Party and will oversee and ensure the management and operations of all project activities. Funding for the position is dependent on the award of a donor-funded program.

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Oversee the management and operations of the project as a whole.
• Act for–or represent–the Chief of Party as necessary.
• Serves as a member of the project’s Senior Management Team
• Manages work planning, budgeting and reporting calendars
• Review the quality of all major project deliverables, including work plans, monitoring, and evaluation plans, project strategies and policies, and other major outputs.
• Ensures compliance with donor policies and mandates.
• Coordinates the development of financial reporting in collaboration with the Finance Director.
• Manages modification with sub-recipients communicates with partners about budgets and modifications.
• Proposes systems and operations for maximum productivity, together with the Finance Director and Chief of Party
• Supports the project’s knowledge management, learning, and external communications agendas.
• Travels to the field to provide technical and managerial oversight

Technical qualifications or specialized certifications:

• A Masters’ degree in Business, Public Health, Communication, or a related field with at least ten (10) years of experience in international health and development, including senior-level management positions and experience managing large and complex projects implemented by multi-partner consortia, or a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Public Health, Communication, or a related field with at least fifteen (15) years of experience in international health and development, including in senior-level management positions and experience managing large and complex projects implemented by multi-partner consortia.

Special knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• A deep command of management processes generally and USAID reporting and compliance requirements specifically and demonstrate an ability to produce quality results on schedule.
• A demonstrated record of recruiting, managing, and developing personnel for large and complex projects.
• Has at least five (5) years’ experience managing the reporting and compliance requirements for large health and development contracts or agreements that serve clients in developing countries funded by U.S. Government funds.
• Minimum ten years related experience in family planning, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) or related experience required
• Experience in multi-stakeholder facilitation and collaboration, including government and donors, and in particular ability to navigate, collaborate with, and leverage systems within the public, NGO, and private sectors.
• Experience engaging and/or working with the GON and its partners is essential.
• Ability to ensure adherence to applicable donor rules and regulations and local in-country laws.

Language Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to communicate and conduct meetings and presentations in both English and Nepali.

Computer Skills:

• MS Word, Excel, MS PowerPoint, other standard software.

Preferred:

• Nepali citizen preferred

2. Service Delivery Technical Advisor:

General summary/purpose: 

At the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), we believe in the power of communication to save lives, by empowering people to adopt healthy behaviors for themselves, their families, and their communities. Good health is critical not only to an individual’s well-being but also to the community and national development, impacting educational and economic success.

CCP is seeking a Service Delivery Technical Advisor to serve in a leadership role on an Adolescent Reproductive Health /Family Health (RH/FP) project. The project will focus on strengthening the government, non-government, and private sector systems to meet the needs of youth and adolescents.

The position will operate under the leadership of the Chief of Party and will oversee and ensure the technical and methodological soundness of project service delivery activities. In collaboration with the project team and partners, the position will support the design and implementation of service delivery strategies based on scientific evidence. The Advisor will collaborate with public and private sector partners to identify gaps in service delivery and develop systems that improve access and quality of services.  The position is dependent on the award of a donor-funded program.  

Specific duties and responsibilities:

• Ensure the technical quality of appropriate project activities and the integration of gender-transformative and adolescent-responsive strategies.
• Ensure program activities align with the latest approaches, evidence, and thinking around adolescent health programming.
• Oversee service linkages with the public and private sectors.
• Work with health care providers, local authorities, community members, adolescents, and other key stakeholders to identify clinical, community-based service delivery issues that impede access to care and uptake of services.
• Apply approaches to ensure the design and implementation of services is responsive to the needs of adolescents.
• Lead the formulation of innovative approaches for scale-up of adolescent-responsive FP/RH services.
• Develop and/or update evidence-based training materials, standards, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems needed for implementation of the Project to meet the needs of USAID and the Government of Nepal.
• Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational levels.
• Provide technical assistance for conducting site assessments and strengthening referral systems, in-service and/or pre-service education, mentorship, and supportive supervision.
• Coordinate service delivery, and service quality advocacy, linkages with demand generation, and policy support, across project sites as required.
• Actively participate in relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums representing the project.
• Identify and implement appropriate facility- and community-based strategies to address adolescent FP/RH service delivery gaps.
• Identify training needs for clinical and community healthcare providers and assist in the design and implementation of measures to address those needs.
• Work closely with the Chief of Party on setting project priorities and directions and responding to requests for support from local counterparts.
• Support the M&E staff to design, implement a plan to track data/results to inform adjustments in project implementation.
• Document successes, lessons learned, and challenges in implementation as well as reports of project activities and results for the project and donor, including routine quarterly and annual reports and other reporting requirements as requested.
• Work with the M&E team to Author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences.
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses.
• Provide service delivery technical guidance on the development of the project strategic plan, work plan, and project monitoring, in close collaboration with project leadership.

Technical qualifications or specialized certifications:

• A Master’s degree (doctor or nurse) or Public Health is required.

Special knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• A Master’s degree (doctor or nurse) or Public Health is required.
• Deep understanding and experience in developing and implementing Reproductive Health/Family planning Service strengthening programs required with the ability to apply understanding and experience for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.
• Minimum ten years of related experience in clinical or community-based service delivery strengthening related to Family Planning, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH), or related experience required.
• Demonstrated experience strengthening adolescent-responsive FP/RH service delivery at the federal, provincial or municipal levels in clinics, schools, or communities.
• Experience in multi-stakeholder facilitation and collaboration, including government and donors, and in particular ability to navigate, collaborate with, and leverage systems within the public, NGO, and private sectors.
• Experience engaging and/or working with the GON and its partners is essential.
• Ability to ensure adherence to applicable donor rules and regulations and local in-country laws. Ability to travel within Nepal.
• Experience with the Nepal health system preferred.

Language Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to communicate and conduct meetings and presentations in both English and Nepali.

Computer Skills 

• MS Word, Excel, MS PowerPoint, other standard software.
• Social media

Preferred:

• Nepali citizen preferred

3. Senior Monitoring, Evaluation Learning Advisor

General summary/purpose: 

At the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP), we believe in the power of communication to save lives, by empowering people to adopt healthy behaviors for themselves, their families, and their communities. Good health is critical not only to an individual’s well-being but also to the community and national development, impacting educational and economic success.

CCP is seeking a Senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor for the Adolescent Reproductive Health /Family Health (RH/FP) project which will focus on strengthening the government, non-government and private sector systems to meet the needs of youth and adolescents.

The position will operate under the leadership of the Chief of Party and will oversee and ensure the technical and methodological soundness of all project activities. Funding for the position is dependent on the award of a donor-funded program.

The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Advisor will oversee all monitoring, evaluation, learning, and quality assurance/continuous quality improvement activities/components of a five-year USAID-funded project in Nepal. This position will support collaboration, learning, and program adaptation. 

She/he will support other project partners, as well as USAID service delivery implementing partners to develop, train, and apply new and proven approaches to MEL with a lens on Social and Behavior Change (SBC). Travel within Nepal will be required. 

Technical qualifications or specialized certifications:

• Master’s degree in Public Health, epidemiology, biostatistics research methods, or behavioral science with relevance to SBC research, monitoring, and evaluation or Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with a minimum of fifteen (15) years’ experience.

Special knowledge, skills, and abilities: 

• Coordinate the development and implementation of the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan (AMELP) and corresponding M&E systems.
• Provide strategic oversight for the entire MEL plan, including the design of the monitoring framework and on-going configuration of digital platforms (including visualization dashboards) to track outputs and intermediate and behavioral outcomes as identified in the project’s AMELP.
• Make adaptations to the project AMELP each year based on new or shifting program objectives, and ensure adherence to the plan.
• Lead and supervise the development and updating of M&E tools as needed and the collection and analysis of process data to monitor project activities.
• Develop standard operating procedures (manuals, training) for data collection, data entry, data analysis, and management of devices related to data collection or use.
• Ensure ethical procedures and adherence to the AMELP plan and Institutional Review Board (IRB) protocol and liaise with the local ethics review board.
• Develop a coordinated approach to data collection of project partners, followed by the collation and sharing of results both internally with the team and externally with stakeholders.
• Ensure Data collection, quality assurance, and storage,
• Track, analyze, and produce comprehensive and succinct reports and documentation on indicators and measures.
• Co-facilitate training workshops, including agenda, curriculum, manuals, and materials necessary to appropriately train individuals involved in monitoring activities and data use.
• Provide support to and build the capacity of partner organizations and existing traditional structures to design, implement, and evaluate community engagement activities.
• Carry out field visits as needed and work with staff in a collaborative manner to increase their technical capacity for monitoring and evaluation.
• Work with the program team to ensure proper documentation via knowledge management approaches.

Preferred:

• Nepali citizen preferred

NOTE: All positions are subject to actual award and funding.

Interested candidates can download Job Descriptions from the link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j9zrg5ivb9ni65b/AACbi8qNuGS3o5TubHg6B5ZCa?d1 

Interested candidates should submit their application along with a cover letter and CV, with two references no later than August 14, 2020,/ Shrawan 30, 2077 (Friday) 5:00 pm by e-mail to [email protected]

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Females and candidates from socially excluded communities are encouraged to apply.

Please note that appealing or trying to influence the outcome of the selection at any stage of the process shall lead to automatic disqualification.