Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

Government accompaniment

• Support major project components undertaken by DHMT counterparts, including the hiring of key clinical and operational staff
• Along with the Senior Technical Advisor, facilitate management and quality improvement trainings for key DHMT counterparts
• Work closely with DHMT counterparts and the Senior Technical Advisor to prepare for district level in-charges meeting
• Pragmatically support government counterparts by identifying and resolving obstacles to program success, and paving the way for significant health projects and health improvements in the district
• Visiting district-level facilities to support the implementation of trainings and improvements to selected facilities based on PIH health system strengthening models
• Support district teams in creating full district project fora that regularly (semesterly) bring together all key DHMT, MoHS, and facility staff in order to develop a project identity and to address shared challenges beyond any one facility or program area

Planning and organizing

• Facilitate planning, drafting, and implementation of district-level project plans
• Facilitate rotation of DHMT and MoHS staff (especially Clinical lead and Clinical mentors) to Kono learning district work with their thematic cohort
• Provide regular updates to the Senior Technical Advisor on project progress at the district and facility levels
• Draft or assist in drafting of presentations, working documents and budgets, chair meetings and keep minutes. Track and monitor activities
• Support DHMTs through assessing DHMT capacity against project goals, and supporting professional development, HR development and policy and service delivery planning
• Lead on selected aspects on the development of PIH’s overall national approach to health systems strengthening, working closely with the Senior Technical Advisor

Leadership and relationships

Build strong relationships with District Health Management Teams as key representative of PIH at district-level in a spirit of partnership

Clarify responsibilities for district health plan outcomes; ensure that each major project component has an “owner” within the DHMT

Deliver management training on topics such as goal setting, supportive supervision, project planning and management, data for decision-making, and standardized tools

Promote and model tenets of PIH philosophy such as ‘the patients are our bosses’

Act as coach and mentor to national district-based staff in M&E and operations

Education and Work Experience Requirements:

Qualifications

Required

• Medical Doctor or master’s in public health with at least 5 years of experience
• Self-driven, with track record successfully managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders. ‘Gets things done’
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, and ability to structure and recall information, and develop processes and systems for project and information management
• Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders including from public sector and across organisations, including through 1:1 coaching and hosting formal workshops and trainings
• Solid technical writing skills, and able to produce meeting notes, SOPs, guidelines etc.
• Numerate, comfortable with budgeting and Excel skills, and comfortable with analysing data in Excel
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to work with humility and achieve results, including in settings with resource limitations, through an entrepreneurial mindset, planning and persistence
• Willingness to spend multiple weeks a month in field locations in rural Sierra Leone
• Passion for PIH’s mission and commitment to social justice and developing a preferential option for the poor in healthcare

Desirable

Experience working in the public health sector (ideally, alongside DHMTs) in Sub-Saharan Africa

Prior experience in Sierra Leone

Experience with large scale projects/quality improvement/management consulting or similar

Experience with health systems strengthening, especially maternal/child health or primary care

Technical skills in one or more of quality improvement; medicine; lab strengthening; pharmacy strengthening; supply chain

Experience with donor-funded projects in public health or international development, especially high-compliance institutional donors (e.g., USAID, CDC, GAC, FCDO, World Bank, Global Fund etc.)

Familiarity with PIH’s 5S health systems strengthening model

Strong technical writing skills and advanced Excel skills