Senior Advisor, Health Systems and Sustainability(Global) at Pathfinder International

Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies:

• Deep understanding of health systems strengthening approaches in low- and middle-income countries including knowledge of key global priorities and networks.
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services: Deep knowledge sexual and reproductive health and rights.
• Setting vision and strategy: Proven ability to develop, drive and embed global strategy.
• Global Health System: Deep knowledge of SRHR ecosystem within the global health and development context.
• HSS experience: Demonstrated results in one or more of the six WHO building blocks of Health Systems Strengthening, with a focus on community systems.
• Change Leadership: Ability to lead change across a broad group of stakeholders in an inclusive manner.
• Taking risks and innovating: Skilled at identifying and taking forward opportunities to increase scale, impact, quality and sustainability of HSS interventions.
• Interpersonal skills: Skilled in cultivating and working relationships with varied stakeholders, including colleagues, partners, governments and clients. Have ability to motivate, influence, collaborate with others, as required.
• Self-awareness and personnel development: committed to growing as a leader and as a professional.
• Capacity building: Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity and support others to learn and grow their skills.

Minimally Required Organizational Competencies:

• Self-Management: Ability to work independently and ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-pace environment.
• Team player: Able to collaborate and think creatively and strategically and engage new partners.
• Passion for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Demonstrated commitment to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health, including safe abortion, gender, maternal, child health services.
• Languages: Excellent verbal and written English skills is required. Proven writing and speaking skills in French is desirable.
• Compelling and thoughtful communication style: that meets the needs of internal and external audiences and engenders trust and collaboration.

Confidentiality: Ability to maintain confidentiality on work-related matters.

Minimally Required Education, Training and Experience:

• At least 12 years’ experience as senior-level professional developing, managing, implementing and evaluating health systems strengthening programs at scale, ideally in area of service delivery and community-health systems improvement, with a minimum of (8) years’ experience in working in multiple sub-Saharan Africa countries.
• A Master’s degree in Public Health or a related field.
• Familiarity with multilateral and bilateral donors including USAID preferred.

Experience of working for an MOH at leadership and management level would be an asset.

Other Information:
Travel required (up to 20%)