Project Officer at Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET)

Job Description

Location: KMET Offices, Kisumu with 70% field travels

Duration: 1 (One) Year fixed contract,

Reporting to: Team Leader – Innovative

Projects Availability: April 2, 2018 

Closing Date: February 2, 2018

Job Purpose:

The CICF Project Officer will play a key role in providing technical support, coordination and supervision of project activities. This include conducting trainings/refresher trainings, mentorship to health providers, supervision of trained providers, supporting data collection and reporting, facilitating joint program review meetings, validating quality of data collected and ensuring that data is being used by county health management teams/providers to support program decisions. The position holder may also be called upon to represent KMET in Maternal Neonatal Health partner meetings at the National and County levels.

General specifications applicable to the position; 

• Strong analytical skills and strategic planning abilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a team member.
• Willingness to travel and work in hard-to-reach areas, occasionally under strenuous conditions.
• Computer literacy and excellent documentation skills is a must.
• Availability and willingness to work extra hours on request by the county teams and partners.
• Highly developed culturally sensitive awareness and ability to work well with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Ability to intervene with crisis management or troubleshooting as necessary.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching. 
• Excellent time management and planning capacity.
• Experience of working with local partners and County Government in RH/MNCH is an added advantage
• Roles and responsibilities
• Coordination of CICF activities including health provider trainings in collaboration with the County health teams
• Sensitize County Health Management teams and other stakeholders on ESM-UBT
• Map, enroll and facilitate training of both Public and Private Health providers on UBT use for uncontrolled Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH). 
• Conduct assessment and lead in developing suitable quality improvement plans for PPH management § Monitor performance of health facilities using the UBT through analysis of various indicators for the UBT uptake. § Liaise with the MoH to conduct supervision of providers as well as conducting on-job training to make all UBT facilities active.
• Implement quality assurance guidelines and provide support supervision to the facilities through individual facility quality improvement plans.
• Foster good relations by attending regional, national and county stakeholders meetings and portraying a good image of the organization. § In liaison with Business Development Officer, map potential distribution points and create demand for UBT in the target counties.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting on the project progress.
• Any other related duties

Desired competencies:

• Results focused:
  • Move focus from analysis to action;
  • show persistence to overcome obstacles;
  • take immediate action to solve problems;
• Plan & Organize:
  • develop clear action plans that address the details needed to achieve objectives;
  • define resources and actions to achieve objectives within constraints;
• establish priorities. 
• Attention to detail:
  • ensure that all important details of a situation are attended to;
  • and develop a follow up systems to keep things in order 
• Resilience:
  • ability to travel for long hours and distance and be able to deliver.

Qualifications: 

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Public Health or Clinical Medicine from KMTC is preferred.
• At least 3 years work experience in the health/public health sector including experience as EMNOC trainer with the Ministry of Health or an NGO.
• Strong experience in facilitating trainings, providing institutional support and technical assistance on issues related to Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) service provision as well as be able to develop mentorship and support supervision tools.
• Experience in RH/maternal newborn and child health programming including facility and community based health service improvement is essential.
• Knowledge of Government policies on RH/MNCH and understanding on how to contribute to their development with political analytical skills, sensitivity and diplomacy.
• Experience in research methods, data collection and analysis is an added advantage.