Regional Coordinators (2 Positions)

Reports to: The Project manager

Contract term: Contract 12 months (renewed every three months)

Number of positions: 2

Duty station: Addis Ababa with travel to woredas

The International Institute for Primary Health Care – Ethiopia (IPHC-E) is an organization affiliated with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MOH) and supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. IPHC-E provides technical assistance in Primary Health Care to the Ministry of Health and other countries through capacity building training, knowledge generation, management and sharing, program design and implementation. We support the MOH through evidence-based policy recommendations, training of PHC leaders for both young and established, implementation of innovation laboratories, and engagement on PHC related policy and strategy designs. We engage in global advocacy to bring PHC as a primary driver to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Ethiopia and beyond.

In addition to building the capacity of Primary Health Care systems in Ethiopia and across the globe, the Institute focuses heavily on projects which aim to ensure that programs are successfully implemented, lessons are documented and shared with policy makers and implementers with the goal of consolidating and scaling up innovations..

The Project

IPHC-E is collaborating on a project called “Technical Assistance to the Establishment of Model Woredas for Seqota Declaration in Ethiopia” which is a venture bringing together the MOH and IPHC-E with support from Big Win Philanthropy. The transformational goal of this project is to accelerate the reduction of childhood stunting by creating a synergistic approach between Community Labs, Growth Monitoring and Promotion and Yelemat Turufat. This partnership aims to establish replicable model woredas that can serve as a “lighthouse” for all woredas nationwide and beyond for driving sustainable nutrition improvements in Ethiopia.

Thus, IPHC-E is looking to a regional project coordinator who would facilitate the Technical Assistance for establishing Model Woredas, facilitate rapid assessment, identify gaps, build capacity, supervise woreda advisors and implementations of high impact interventions. The project coordinators will lead the TA at regional level – Oromia Region.

Scope of work

The International Institute for Primary Health Care – Ethiopia is collaborating with the MOH Ethiopia, Nutrition Lead Executive Office/National Program Delivery Unit for the Seqota Declaration, Ministry of Agriculture and Big Win Philanthropy. The regional coordinator will closely work with the regional PDU, Technical working and advisory teams that will be established for the purpose. The regional coordinator is expected to communicate with all partners engaged in the project at regional and woreda levels. The regional coordinator facilitates all components of project implementation at regional and woreda level in consultation with the Project manager. The coordinator is expected to have technical capacitates in interviewing people and writing reports.

Duties and responsibilities of the Coordinator:

• Serve as the focal persons for the project and in all activities of the TA project at regional level
• Search and compile documents that are relevant to the TA at regional and woreda levels
• Communicate with stakeholders and attend meetings, take notes and document conversations in the region
• Update progress the project manager
• Organize and conduct stakeholder meetings/workshops and capacity building activities at regional level and assist TA project woredas
• Document meeting minutes and proceedings and provide feedback
• Communicate with relevant stakeholders as directed by the national coordinator
• Collect data through informal and formal communication with stakeholders (RHB, RBA, and other partners)
• Contribute ideas on how best to enhance project activities including the Rapid Assessment, development of manuals, advocacy
• Engage in report writing
• Participate in other activities of the TA project assigned by the central coordinator
• Coordinate all the TA activities at regional level
• Support project advisors at woreda level

Deliverables:

• Along with the central team it supports successful completion of: Component 1: Preparation and rapid assessment, Component 2: package-community led high impact interventions, Component 3: implementation support, and Component 4: M&E and documentation
• Identify woredas by the status of GMP, Community Lab and Yelemat Tirufat and assess gaps
• Minutes, proceedings, documents, files and reports at regional level; compile woreda level reports and submit them to the central coordinator
• Documents of best practices and innovations
• Validate Rapid Assessment reports
• Plan and conduct sensitization and capacity building workshops in collaboration with the central team
• Progress report and M& E results
• Advocacy materials and reports

Required qualifications, experiences and skills:

• Master’s degree in public health, Public Health Nutrition or Master’s degree in social science with relevant experience in Primary Health Care
• Being multi lingual is advantageous particularly speaking and writing in Oromiffa (This is besides English and Amharic)
• Previous experience in similar projects or experience in Seqota Declaration is preferrable
• Outstanding experience in coordination of successful projects
• Excellent communication skills in speaking as well as in writing
• Has skills in writing reports and experience in report writing
• Is proficient in Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Power point)
• Has strong quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills
• A minimum of 5-year experience in public health research after graduate degree
• Able to understand and communicate technicalities to stakeholders related to nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific interventions
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Able to work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams
• Published 1 or more papers in peer reviewed journals

Compensation and Modalities of Payment

• Salary will be negotiated. Period of employment 12 months.