Job opportunities – Intrahealth International

1.Community Health Specialists (3)

Why Choose IntraHealth

For almost 40 years in over 100 countries, IntraHealth has partnered with local communities to make sure health workers are present where they’re needed most, ready to do the job, connected to the technology they need, and safe to do their very best work. Our programs are designed with a deep understanding of and appreciation for the context of human rights, gender equality and discrimination, economic empowerment, and changing populations. And the longstanding relationships we’ve built with government agencies, private-sector partners, and members of civil society make our efforts stronger and more effective.  Join us and together we can make lasting changes in global health—for all of us.

The Ingobyi Activity is a five-year cooperative agreement to improve the quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) and malaria services, in a sustainable manner with the goal of reducing neonatal, child and maternal mortality in Rwanda. The Ingobyi Activity builds upon the tremendous gains Rwanda has made in the health sector as well as previous USAID investments in the health sector to provide a healthier, more productive future for all Rwandans. Ingobyi improves the availability, quality, and utilization of RMNCH and malaria services with resilience and sustainability. The Activity partners with the Government of Rwanda (GOR) to build on the country’s considerable achievements, guided by national health strategies, goals, objectives and data.

Summary of role

IntraHealth would like to hire three (3) Community Health Specialists to be based in various locations (Rwamagana, Nyanza, and Rubavu), who will provide technical and program support in planning and implementation of community health services including Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), Community Based Provision of Family Planning (CBP-FP), Community Based Maternal and Neonatal Health (CBMNH), and Community based nutrition (CB-N) for the USAID-funded Ingobyi Activity. Each community health specialist will be responsible for about 3 districts where s/he will coordinate all community health activities. The position will report directly to the Zonal Coordinator.

 Responsibilities include but not limited to:

Planning and integration of maternal newborn and malaria support

• Work closely with the technical team – particularly the Malaria, Maternal and FP, Newborn and Child health specialists, as well as the Zonal Coordinator, to plan, implement and scale-up strategies for high impact interventions at the community level.
• Monitor the implementation of Ingobyi’s Workplan related to community-level interventions such as ICCM, maternal, and newborn health activities and ensure that all activities are executed according to plan and in an integrated manner.
• Work collaboratively with other Ingobyi Activity team members and MOH/RBC to ensure good coordination and efficient programming and management of community health interventions.

Implementation and Operations

• Lead iCCM, HBM, CBP, CBMNH, and CBN related interventions in the assigned zone, including the adaptation of best practices and evidence-based approaches into the local context.
• Plan implementation of activities in close collaboration with the respective zone-based technical specialists and RBC/MCCH counterparts.
• Support development of community health technical documents and reports.
• Conduct training on community health packages.
• Contribute to the roll-out of e-learning for community health workers.
• Conduct supportive supervision for CHW supervisors and CHWs.
• Support mentorship and supportive supervision for iCCM, HBM, CBPFP, CBMNH, and CBN activities and ensure that CHWs have updated learning tools, job aides, and reporting tools.
• Assist finance staff to prepare finance forms to advance/reimburse funds for on-going activities.
• Prepare and avail job-aides and training materials in coordination with Ingobyi and MOH/RBC technical teams and ensure that materials and supplies reach targeted sites in a timely manner.
• Prepare and submit reports on community health interventions in a timely manner.
• Assist with organization of technical meetings, training, field visits, events, and other activities.
• Assist with other programmatic and administrative duties as required.
• Prepare and submit reports to the supervisor in a timely manner;

Learning, documentation, and sharing of lessons learned

• Contribute/coordinate with Ingobyi Activity’s MEL team to ensure that the project meets deliverables in accordance with the MEL framework.
• Collaborate with the MEL team, and other project personnel, to support ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Ensure that iCCM, HBM, CBP-FP, CBMNH, and CB-N related activities are properly documented, and that program data are systematically collected, analyzed, submitted and properly archived as well as shared across the project to inform learning.
• Share experiences related to community-based maternal, newborn, family planning, and malaria activities to inform the design of Ingobyi Activity’s subsequent work plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in general nursing, public health, or other related fields. Candidates with master’s degree in public health will be preferred.
• Valid license issued by Rwanda National Council of Nurses and Midwives, Rwanda Allied Health Professions Council, or Rwanda Medical and Dental Council.
• At least five (5) years of professional experience working in maternal, newborn, family planning, and malaria programs at the community level.
• Fluency in English, French, and Kinyarwanda.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Experience in capacity building skills, including training and mentoring skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report-writing and formal communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office programs including MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.
• Solid skills in documentation and report writing.
• Ability to travel nationally frequently.

COMPETENCIES:

Managing Performance: Ability to plan and design practices, processes, and procedures that allow for effective management of people, resources, and processes to optimize overall organizational performance. Managing for performance includes the ability to delegate and encourage growth and leadership across the team(s) as part of maximizing performance and productivity.

Strategic Thinking: Applies organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for IntraHealth while recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational challenges. Ability to develop organization- and industry-specific expertise and apply sound decision-making processes to reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable business plans.

Effective Communication (Oral & Written): Understands effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience; and receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors

Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling the organization’s exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Innovation: Develops new, better, or significantly different ideas, methods, solutions, or initiatives within assigned role that result in improvement of IntraHealth’s performance and meeting objectives, results, and global commitments.

Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research, and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high-quality results for IntraHealth’s success. Exercises ethical practices, respectful words and behaviors, and equitable treatment of others in all activities.

Summary of Benefits

IntraHealth International, Inc. is a great place to work and prides itself on its comprehensive benefits package.  We offer competitive salaries and a dynamic inclusive work environment which supports health workers so they can improve the lives of people throughout the world.

IntraHealth International is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and requires affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.  This is also to include inquiry about, disclosing, or discussing their compensation or the compensation of other applicants or employees.

Only applicants fulfilling the above requirements will be contacted. If you don’t hear from us within two weeks from the submission deadline, consider your application unsuccessful.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you are interested, apply before July 30, 2020 via the link below: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/INT1028/JobBoard/e2116091-25aa-2eb8-64d2-db11ee75b469/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=55f5856b-c236-408b-b5ee-6f7ca35c4217

 Notes:

• During the application, each applicant is requested to choose a preferred location (Nyanza, Rwamagana or Rubavu).

2.Community Health Advisor

Why Choose IntraHealth

For almost 40 years in over 100 countries, IntraHealth has partnered with local communities to make sure health workers are present where they’re needed most, ready to do the job, connected to the technology they need, and safe to do their very best work. Our programs are designed with a deep understanding of and appreciation for the context of human rights, gender equality and discrimination, economic empowerment, and changing populations. And the longstanding relationships we’ve built with government agencies, private-sector partners, and members of civil society make our efforts stronger and more effective.  Join us and together we can make lasting changes in global health—for all of us.

The Ingobyi Activity is a five-year cooperative agreement to improve the quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) and malaria services, in a sustainable manner with the goal of reducing neonatal, child and maternal mortality in Rwanda. The Ingobyi Activity builds upon the tremendous gains Rwanda has made in the health sector as well as previous USAID investments in the health sector to provide a healthier, more productive future for all Rwandans. Ingobyi improves the availability, quality, and utilization of RMNCH and malaria services with resilience and sustainability. The Activity partners with the Government of Rwanda (GOR) to build on the country’s considerable achievements, guided by national health strategies, goals, objectives, and data.

Summary of role

IntraHealth would like to hire the Community Health Advisor who will provide technical and programmatic oversight and direction in the areas of community health, and act as an integral part of Ingobyi Activity team. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, providing leadership and technical guidance in the development and implementation of Community Health activities under the leadership of the Senior Malaria Specialist. The Community Health Advisor will also work with Ingobyi Activity technical team and MOH/RBC staff to define and implement strategies aiming at improving the provision of quality community health services including Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), Community Based Provision of Family Planning (CBP/FP), Community Based Maternal and Neonatal Health (CBMNH), and Community based nutrition (CB-N). S/he will guide and oversee technical and training needs, review and adapt training materials, lead training and document/disseminate, and contribute to the evaluation and scale-up of promising practices in facility and community settings.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

 Technical Leadership

• Provide technical oversight, strategic direction and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of community health program activities;
• Identify appropriate facility and community-based strategies to address community health service delivery gaps;
• Formulate sustainable solutions to address community health gaps, utilizing cross-cutting capacity building approaches, such as mentorship and targeted quality improvement.
• Adapt/develop evidence-based community health training materials, curricula, counselling cards, and supervisory systems, dashboard, and registers needed for implementation of Ingobyi Activity’s community health interventions to meet the needs and requirements of the Government of Rwanda and USAID.
• Plan and implement capacity-building activities among health care providers and Community Health Workers in collaboration with districts and partner organizations.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and capacity strengthening at the individual and organizational level in specific areas of expertise, including, but not limited to: Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), Community Based Provision of Family Planning (CBP/FP), Community Based Maternal and Neonatal Health (CBMNH), and Community based nutrition (CB-N);
• Actively participate in all community health technical working groups and represent Ingobyi Activity in other professional forums as needed.
• Work closely with e-learning team to develop, pilot, and scale up the e-learning approach for CHWs.
• Work with health care providers, local authorities, community members, and program team members to identify and address service delivery gaps that impede access to community health services.
• Document and maintain an inventory of successful community health tools, approaches and best practices; and
• Contribute to the development of technical reports and publications related to community health.

 Management

• Work closely with Community Health Specialists and zonal coordinators based in various zones.
• Maintain excellent relationships with MOH, USAID and other in-country stakeholders.
• Work with M&E staff to design and implement plans to track data/results related to community health and use data/findings to plan interventions accordingly.
• Provide technical support during program monitoring and development of annual work plans.
• Prepare and share periodic reports and update all technical staff on successes, challenges and lessons learned in implementation of community health activities; and
• Perform any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

 Requirement and qualifications

• Master of Nursing, Master of Public Health, or related relevant field with strong public health experience
• At least 8 years’ experience implementing and/or supporting community health programs
• At least 4 years’ experience in implementing large donor-funded projects with a preference for experience in Community based maternal, newborn, family planning and malaria programs.
• Proven professional experience working or supporting the MoH and RBC as well as community health technical working group
• Qualification as an “advanced trainer”, i.e. a person able to train and mentor other trainers in using competency-based approaches, experience in training health providers on community health packages will be an added value
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the Rwandan healthcare system
• Familiarity with USAID or other USG administrative, management and reporting procedures
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in community health
• Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English; French and Kinyarwanda is preferred
• Strong skills in word processing, PowerPoint and Excel spread sheets
• Ability to travel nationally (frequently)

COMPETENCIES:

Managing Performance: Ability to plan and design practices, processes, and procedures that allow for effective management of people, resources, and processes to optimize overall organizational performance. Managing for performance includes the ability to delegate and encourage growth and leadership across the team(s) as part of maximizing performance and productivity.

Strategic Thinking: Applies organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for IntraHealth while recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational challenges. Ability to develop organization- and industry-specific expertise and apply sound decision-making processes to reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable business plans.

Effective Communication (Oral & Written): Understands effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience; and receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors

Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling the organization’s exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Innovation: Develops new, better or significantly different ideas, methods, solutions, or initiatives within assigned role that result in improvement of IntraHealth’s performance and meeting objectives, results, and global commitments.

Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research, and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high-quality results for IntraHealth’s success. Exercises ethical practices, respectful words and behaviors, and equitable treatment of others in all activities.

 Summary of Benefits

IntraHealth International, Inc. is a great place to work and prides itself on its comprehensive benefits package.  We offer competitive salaries and a dynamic inclusive work environment which supports health workers so they can improve the lives of people throughout the world.

IntraHealth International is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and requires affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.  This is also to include inquiry about, disclosing, or discussing their compensation or the compensation of other applicants or employees.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you are interested, apply before July 30, 2020 via the link below: https://recruiting.ultipro.com/INT1028/JobBoard/e2116091-25aa-2eb8-64d2-db11ee75b469/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=24c64a77-031d-4954-ba88-e96de40d8030

3.eLearning Advisor

Why Choose IntraHealth

For almost 40 years in over 100 countries, IntraHealth has partnered with local communities to make sure health workers are present where they’re needed most, ready to do the job, connected to the technology they need, and safe to do their very best work. Our programs are designed with a deep understanding of and appreciation for the context of human rights, gender equality and discrimination, economic empowerment, and changing populations. And the longstanding relationships we’ve built with government agencies, private-sector partners, and members of civil society make our efforts stronger and more effective.  Join us and together we can make lasting changes in global health—for all of us.

The Ingobyi Activity is a five-year cooperative agreement to improve the quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) and malaria services, in a sustainable manner with the goal of reducing neonatal, child and maternal mortality in Rwanda. The Ingobyi Activity builds upon the tremendous gains Rwanda has made in the health sector as well as previous USAID investments in the health sector to provide a healthier, more productive future for all Rwandans. Ingobyi improves the availability, quality and utilization of RMNCH and malaria services with resilience and sustainability. The Activity partners with the Government of Rwanda (GOR) to build on the country’s considerable achievements, guided by national health strategies, goals, objectives and data.

Summary of role

IntraHealth would like to hire the eLearning Advisor who will provide technical and programmatic direction related to the development and rollout of e-learning courses for community health workers (CHWs). This includes the production of instructional audio-visual materials that will be used during refresher training of CHWs. This activity is part of Ingobyi Activity’s support to the Rwandan Ministry of Health (MOH) to contribute to the reduction of infant and maternal mortality and incidence of malaria in Rwanda, focusing on improving the availability, quality and utilization of RMNCH and malaria services and improving the health of women, adolescents, and children under five. Under the leadership of Senior Malaria Specialist, the eLearning Advisor will supervise the Digital Health Officer and other eLearning team members.

Essential Functions

• Re-designs e-learning management systems, making them accessible, flexible, and straightforward for users like community health workers.
• Works with project team to design and develop standards for shareable content object reference model (SCORM) compliant e-learning.
• Develops storyboards and scripts for e-learning.
• Collaboration with internal teams, external teams, and management to ensure requirements are being met and projects are kept on schedule.
• Integrates emerging instructional methods and technologies into e-learning.
• Coordinate audio-visual content review sessions and improves materials accordingly.
• Add/upload/edit several types of content to e-learning platform: text, image, and video.
• Monitor, document, and report the use of e-learning including user performance.
• Provide technical support to national and district trainers, facilitators, and end-users of the e-learning platform.
• Work with e-learning team at central level to provide technical support for harmonization of various e-learning systems and electronic records for community health workers.
• Use e-learning data to generate reports and lessons learned to help evaluate the program.
• Ensure positive user experience and adapt changes as needed.
• Represent the team in external meetings related to e-learning.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Experience:

• Masters’ s degree in multimedia design, graphic design, or instructional design, ICT, or a related field.
• At least 6 – 8 years of demonstrated experience as an e-learning developer/system designer.
• At least 2 years of experience using Adobe packages and learning management systems.
• A self-starter and able to work with minimal direction/guidance.
• Must have a lot of attention to detail.

Additional skills (Preferred)

• Experience in customizing learning management systems (e.g. Moodle or Articulate 360);
• Able to produce training programs for distance training;
• Knowledge in video production and graphic design;
• Advanced level in using Adobe creative suite with the focus on Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Adobe Audition, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign;
• Skills in software management and education techniques;

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Excellent follow-up, time management, and organization skills;
• Strong editing, written and oral communication skills and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously;
• Proactive technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills;

• Outstanding academic record at an accredited university; and
• Strong organizational skills.

COMPETENCIES:

Managing Performance: Ability to plan and design practices, processes, and procedures that allow for effective management of people, resources, and processes to optimize overall organizational performance. Managing for performance includes the ability to delegate and encourage growth and leadership across the team(s) as part of maximizing performance and productivity.

Strategic Thinking: Applies organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for IntraHealth while recognizing, anticipating and resolving organizational challenges. Ability to develop organization- and industry-specific expertise and apply sound decision-making processes to reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable business plans.

Effective Communication (Oral & Written): Understands effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience; and receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors

Risk Management: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling the organization’s exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Innovation: Develops new, better or significantly different ideas, methods, solutions or initiatives within assigned role that result in improvement of IntraHealth’s performance and meeting objectives, results and global commitments.

Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research, and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high-quality results for IntraHealth’s success. Exercises ethical practices, respectful words and behaviors, and equitable treatment of others in all activities.

Summary of Benefits

IntraHealth International, Inc. is a great place to work and prides itself on its comprehensive benefits package.  We offer competitive salaries and a dynamic inclusive work environment which supports health workers so they can improve the lives of people throughout the world.

IntraHealth International is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and requires affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.  This is also to include inquiry about, disclosing, or discussing their compensation or the compensation of other applicants or employees.

HOW TO APPLY:

If you are interested, apply before July 30, 2020 via the link below:

https://recruiting.ultipro.com/INT1028/JobBoard/e2116091-25aa-2eb8-64d2-db11ee75b469/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=7fec783d-1ede-471a-8001-eaaf93cbb6d0