Technical Advisor, Advocacy and Accountability at Jhpiego

Overview

• This position will support core functions within the USAID MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership (MCGL) project’s Advocacy and Accountability team. The Technical Advisor, Advocacy and Accountability will work under the general guidance of the Director for Advocacy and Accountability and in close collaboration with the maternal newborn health (MNH), family planning (FP) and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) technical teams to provide technical and management support. The position is dedicated to supporting MCGL’s advocacy, accountability and policy dialogue portfolios and will work across global and country project teams to support implementation and institutionalization of best practices, including supporting day-to-day planning, development, execution of projects, and documentation in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities
Portfolio Management

• Provides overall management support across the Advocacy and Accountability portfolio in close collaboration with the assigned activity leads
• Leads day-to-day coordination and organizing for the portfolio, including organizing recurring meetings with internal and external stakeholders and supporting note taking and follow up
• Informs and reminds responsible staff/external stakeholders of follow-up dates and deadlines for response or specific actions, supplying supporting material as appropriate
• Supports compiling, reviewing and finalizing of relevant reports across the portfolio for submission to the donor and MCGL leadership, monitoring and highlighting relevant project deadlines
• Develops agendas, presentations, reports and documents for technical team review and addresses feedback to finalize
• Proactively identify areas for team discussion and coordination and maintain a list of priority agenda items for internal team meetings
• Serves as liaison for the Advocacy and Accountability across MCGL’s technical and Communications teams and within Jhpiego

Technical Assistance, Quality Programming and capacity development

• Supports the technical design, implementation, monitoring, assessment and coordination of program activities across the portfolio, including the learning agenda
• Supports preparation of data visualization and country briefs for policy dialogues, including developing interactive data visualizations for policy dashboards, reports and technical briefs
• Coordinates and contributes to the development of literature reviews, landscape analysis reports, policy briefs, and other implementation research specific to policy dialogue and evidence-based advocacy
• Supports MCGL’s Locally Led Development Working Group (WG) including providing support to the co-chairs for the WG management including drafting annual workplans and following up with members to ensure timely implementation of activities
• Supports technical capacity development for the portfolio across countries in MCGL technical areas. This includes preparation of capacity development technical materials, facilitation and follow up.

Organizational and Capacity Building

• Supports networks sustainability agenda setting and capacity development and any needed transition in support of MCGL legacy vision and the locally-development working group after the project ends
• Supports/collaborates with Pact as needed on the activities aligned to the portfolio local partners organizational and capacity development.

Global Strategy Development and Implementation

• Supports portfolio aligned global strategy development, and implementation
• Represents the portfolio as needed/assigned in global networks and partnerships such a FP2030, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) among others.

Knowledge Management & Learning

• Supports knowledge management for all products for the Advocacy and Accountability portfolio and subawards
• Provides support for development of external communication priorities including success stories, blogs, and other program and technical related communication materials that demonstrate MCGL’s technical expertise, results, and programming excellence
• Supports field staff and local partners to present and disseminate learning from country implementation
• Supports cross-COP coordination and learning in collaboration with other MCGL and Jhpiego-led COPs to ensure implementation of best practices in COP management and engagement.
• Contributes to the development of peer-reviewed publications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health
• Graduate degree in MPH

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of at least 2 technical areas MCGL works in – FP/RH and MNH, with strong preference for advocacy and accountability
• Over 7 years related experience preferred, such as experience as a program officer/advisor, senior program coordinator, or other work as relevant to the position
• Strong written and oral presentation skills for technical reports, presentations, policy briefs, whitepapers, among others
• Experience managing small to medium size public health projects in low- and middle-income countries
• Strong problem solving and decision-making skills: identifying the problem; locating, gathering, and organizing relevant information; generating alternatives; choosing a solution; implementing the solution
• Strong teamwork skills: identifying team membership and role; establishing productive relationships; meeting team objectives; resolving conflicts
• Experience handling program tasks (e.g., work plans, reporting, budget)
• Demonstrated superior organizational skills and excellent written and oral communication skills with diverse groups; including ability to communicate with high-level stakeholders
• Experience managing partner relationships and coordinating among multiple stakeholders preferred
• Strong attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Superior organizational skills
• Team player