Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Country Lead - Uganda
Company Description
We are a global team of experts and innovators tackling some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. We work with leaders and change makers around the globe to bring health strategies to life. We provide ideas, advice and technical know-how that enable our partners to build a path to lasting change.
With 30 years’ experience in global health, we collaborate with our partners to explore existing evidence, combine expertise, scale up ideas and co-create solutions that accelerate change. This includes collaborating on policy design, managing initiatives, building powerful coalitions and galvanising social movements. Our impact is felt across whole communities, with a focus on women, girls and those who have been marginalised.
As part of MSI Reproductive Choices, all our profits go back into supporting MSI’s own mission of children by choice, not chance.
We believe in a world where everyone can access the high-quality health services they need, without financial burden.
FCDO’s Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) programme (Lot 2) will provide approximately £132m to deliver integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services in 13 countries in Africa and 3 in Asia. The WISH programme builds on previous successful initiatives supported by FCDO and others to expand sexual and reproductive health care services and support countries which have made FP2020 commitments to achieve them. The programme is expected to ensure that women are able to safely plan their pregnancies and improve their sexual and reproductive health, particularly the young and marginalised.
The programme will increase access to family planning and integrated sexual and reproductive health services for women, men and young people across Africa and Asia through a combination of: (i) rights-based provision of private sector sexual and reproductive health information and services, and strengthening of public sector health information and services; (ii) addressing barriers to family planning uptake at individual, interpersonal, community and institutional level; and (iii) improving policies, government financing and commodity security to create an enabling environment for family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The programme is designed to contribute to the following four outputs: 1) Community/individual choice: people have the knowledge and community support to make informed SRHR decisions and advocate for quality services; 2) National Ownership: improved policies, government financing, commodity security and public sector SRHR capacity and services; 3) Private Sector Access: access to quality, voluntary FP and other SRH services, eliminating barriers for young and marginalised women; and 4) Global Goods: evidence-based innovations and practice shared globally to increase women’s choice and access to SRHR services.
WISH2ACTION is led by the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) with the following consortium partners: Options (national ownership lead); Marie Stopes International (service delivery partner); International Rescue Committee (service delivery partner); Development Media International (social norm and behaviour change lead) and Handicap International (inclusion of disabilities).
Options’ approach to National Ownership is to support governments to prioritise SRHR in domestic financing, and to develop and implement evidence-based policies and plans to meet commitments that create an enabling environment for SRHR and address the unmet need for SRHR, particularly among the poor, youth under 20, and people with disability. The following results will help achieve stronger national ownership for SRHR:
• Evidence-based culture within national and sub-national governments that use data to drive legal, financial, policy and quality of care decisions and actions.
• Strengthened legal, financial, policy and quality of care demonstrated through leadership by national and sub-national governments.
• Functional and sustainable accountability systems that track SRHR commitments and key indicators, and use this evidence to hold leaders to account.
The 5-year UK aid funded ‘Reducing high fertility rates and Improving Sexual reproductive health outcomes in Uganda’ programme (RISE) began in November 2018 with the goal of increasing the uptake of modern contraceptive use in seven major regions of Uganda. The RISE consortium is led by MSI Uganda.
Options is supporting Output 4 of the RISE programme during the period September 2021 to the end of project (October 2023), with a specific focus on strengthening accountability for a supportive environment for sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The key objective of Output 4 is to develop the capacity and interest of local actors at the sub-national and national levels to engage with and hold government accountable in building a supportive environment for reproductive health services. Options will provide technical support to MSI Uganda and the respective CSOs and work closely with consortium partners to deliver Output 4, with a specific focus on the sun-national level.
Position
Options seeks a Country Lead to lead on the Womens Intergrated Sexual Health Programme (WISH2ACTION) and the Reducing high fertility rates and Improving Sexual reproductive health outcomes programme (RISE) in Uganda.
Responsibilities:
The Country Lead will be responsible for delivering Options’ approach to achieving national ownership and sustainability pathways of change, working closely with their team and other consortium partners in Uganda to ensure strategic linkages with other outputs.

You will be responsible for:
• Providing strategic technical leadership of Options’ role on the programme (country ownership & sustainability)
• Managing the Options team at country level to ensure the efficient and cost-effective delivery of a high quality programme that produces its results
• Providing direct technical expertise in Health policy and planning
• Overseeing relations with the consortium, governments, and client and promote learning
• Representing Options broader interests in country to develop new business

Requirements
To succeed in this role, you will have:
• Master’s Degree in public health, health economics, health management or a related field.
• Solid understanding of the Ugandan health sector, including the relationship between national and sub-national levels;
• At least 5 years work experience and knowledge of priority SRH/FP issues facing women and girls in Uganda;
• Considerable experience in leading the delivery of donor-funded programmes, particularly those funded by FCDO and USAID
• Strong experience in facilitating evidence based planning process or policy reforms to track progress on health indicators and commitments
For more information, please refer to the job description
Other information
• As an equal opportunity employer, Options Consultancy Services is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage or civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified candidates from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Options Consultancy Services.
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, promote diversity and inclusion, are energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply, please fill in the form here
• Closing date for applications is: 13 March 2022
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview.
• Please note that this role will be subject to full pre-employment background checks including criminal record check, identification check, employment references and right to work verification (where appropriate

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