Summary
Date Posted: Monday, December 23 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Living Goods is a member of the Jhpiego-led consortium implementing a five-year Urban Health Activity in Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Activity aims to strengthen urban health systems and improve equitable health outcomes among all urban dwellers by working with districts, municipalities, and the Kampala Capital City Authority to provide quality primary healthcare services. It also focuses on optimizing available resources and enhancing private sector capacity to ensure sustainable improvements in health outcomes and a more resilient urban healthcare system. The Activity will address poor quality of care, congestion in public health facilities, uncoordinated referral system, weak community and surveillance structures, limited private sector capacity, and gaps in the enabling environment result in poor health outcomes. The project's key expected results include the following: improved access to and use of quality, maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), nutrition, and malaria services and improved disease outbreak response. 

The Position:
The Community Engagement Advisor will contribute to the achievement of the overall goal of the project by increasing stakeholder engagement and feedback for improved health sector accountability, which will increase government effectiveness, responsiveness, transparency, and accountability. This will be achieved through providing information, wider stakeholder consultation, collaboration, and empowerment. He/She will also provide leadership, coordination, management and partnership oversight to Living Good’s USAID-Urban Health Activity project team across Mukono, Kampala, and Wakiso Districts.
The advisor will ensure the activity meets established standards while strengthening the delivery of quality essential community health services, including promotion, prevention, and treatment. Key responsibilities include enhancing the adoption of positive health behaviors, improving access to community health services, strengthening community disease surveillance, and advancing plastic and pollution management.

Responsibilities:
Leadership and management
• Support and manage integration and alignment of USAID-Urban Health Activity with Jhpiego, Living goods, Local governments and other partners in the implementation areas.
• Collaborate with other teams and team members to integrate efforts to institutionalize and increase sustainability across the components and sectors of the overall program.
• Compile, disseminate, and ensure the implementation of key documents related to the activity, including proposals, budgets, and reports, in collaboration with project teams and key stakeholders.
• Lead the implementation of management decisions/recommendations in implementation area i.e., all project sites to meet quality standards as per USAID project management guidelines
• Develop human resource capacity and manage staff development plans, to build a cadre of high performing staff and teams.
• Oversee the development of activity’s annual and quarterly plans and budgets and cascading to the project Teams and LG leadership.
• Maintain positive relationships with stakeholders.
• Supervise the activity team and provide technical support, training and mentoring to officers and other staff as needed
Technical support
• Support the design and implementation of community engagement activities
• Design the community engagement model aligned to the overall activity’s objectives
• Develop tools and processes to facilitate partnerships to improve stewardship and accountability.
• Define community information needs and develop communication plan accordingly
Operations Planning and performance Management
• Monitor and guide the implementation of USAID- Urban Health Activity initiatives in a cohesive manner, ensuring the attainment of the program's objectives within the designated timeframe and allocated resources.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement around Community Health and champion all agreed Innovations in the implementation areas.
• Regular monitoring of the project KPIs using dashboard and other tools to ensure that set project KPIs and Targets are being achieved with Quality.
• Support the activity scheduled evaluation designs, monitoring, and evaluation processes (baseline surveys, evaluations, dipsticks) i.e. ensure that they are conducted, Quality reports written and approved in a timely manner.
• Ensure the various project operation tools (Community Health Work Registry, Monthly work plans, Weekly and Monthly Reports) are submitted on time and of good quality.
• Implementation of audit recommendations and prevention of reoccurrence of any management issues.
• Document and present Urban Health Activity performance internally and externally.
• Manage interdepartmental collaboration to ensure maximum support to the Urban Health Activity.
Financial and Assets Management
• Support processes that ensure allowable financial management and accountability standards and ensure that the budget lines are well managed with acceptable spending rates.
• Design a Risk matrix for the project, conduct pre-operational risk audits through regular field supervision to minimize any potential risks.
Networking and advocacy
• Foster strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and alliances at local government unit on championing community health initiatives in the implementation areas.
• Spearhead, coordinate and promote local advocacy and accountability lobbying and influencing community Health initiatives geared towards improving adoption of positive behaviors.
• Document learning’s from the Project Area and link with National level advocacy initiatives
• Represent LG, USAID-Urban Health Activity at the local government and national level engagements organized outside or within the implementation area.
Reporting
• Ensure proper documentation and data collection through the development of related tools and appropriate supervision.
• Prepare comprehensive periodic reports for sharing with the consortium lead and Living goods leadership and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that high quality data is generated and reported at all levels (community, branch etc.)
• Ensure proper documentation and data quality through participation in tool development and data quality assessments (DQAs).

Key Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, development studies, management, Education, or public health).
• Possession of a master’s degree is an advantage.
• 7-9 years working experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• A thorough understanding of project design and implementation processes
• Familiarity with community Health programming approaches.
• Excellent people manager with good team-building skills and proven record of managing and developing teams of professionals, including those in dispersed/distant locations.
• Organization and time management skills to manage priorities within own workload, identify deadlines and cope with conflicting demands.
• Partnership management skills.  Ability to work on projects funded by multilateral or bilateral donors such as USAID, GAVI, DfID or The Global Fund. Has ability to build and sustain the confidence of donors, the government, and other implementing partners. know how to navigate partnerships at the county level.
Compensation:
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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