About WADAN:

Founded in 2002, The Welfare Association for the Development of Afghanistan (WADAN) is an indigenous NGO that envisages a peaceful, literate, drug-free, democratic, developed, and well-off Afghanistan.

Job Details:

Position Title:                MCH-Handbook Project Provincial Coordinator

Job Locations:              Faryab, Ghazni, Helmand, Jawzjan, Khost, Logar, Oruzgan, Paktia, Samangan, Sar-e Pol, Wardak, Zabul, Paktika

Nationality:                     Afghan

Category:                       Healthcare, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Capacity Building,

Employment Type:         Full-time

Salary:                            As per  the organization’s salary policy

No of Positions:             13

Vacancy #:                     W-H-021

Organization:                 WADAN

Working experience:     3 years in a related sector

Contract duration:          Project-Based

Gender:                          Male/Female

Closing date:                  20 October 2020

About the project

Since January 2016, the MoPH, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other partners have been acting together to develop Afghanistan’s first-ever integrated home-based hand-held personal maternal, child, health and nutrition record. Therefore, a prototype, the Afghanistan MCH Handbook (MCH-HB), has recently been developed and assessed. Now, the MoPH is now ready to scale up the MCH-HB across the 34 provinces in Afghanistan.

Job summary

WADAN is hiring 13 people as the Maternal Child Health Handbook Project provincial Coordinator (MCH-HB) Coordinator for different provinces. Apply for the positions if you are eligible.

Furthermore, under the general guidance of the MCH-HB Project Manager, the MCH-HB Project Provincial Coordinator will offer technical inputs on MCH-HB scale-up project activities in close cooperation with the RMNCAHD, Provincial Public Health Directorates, and implementing NGOs.

Furthermore, he/he will directly report to PPHD and MCH-HB Project Manager and will be a full-time staff member of the PPHD. She/he will provide technical assistance and observe the timely implementation of MCH-HB project activities as per the project implementation plan.

In addition, the incumbent needs to provide technical inputs to direct the Provincial Public Health Directorates and BPHS implementers for the well-timed execution, monitoring, and overseeing of the project. Moreover, the position holder should be eager to travel to the field/provinces.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordination and Management of Scale-up
• Coordinate with the PPHOs, implementer NGOs, and other stakeholders at the provincial level and ensure fluid implementation of the project.
• Deliver updates in the RMNCAH sub-committee and HFs in charge of meeting as a regular agenda, as well as in the PHCC meetings.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and yearly work plans associated with the project implementation plan.
• Hold quarterly project review meetings.
• Support PPHOs and implementing the NGO team on the implementation of MCH-HB.

Training:

• Utilize the MCH-HB training guide to train the PHO team and implementing NGO technical team in their training and helpful supervision role.
• Timely implementation of training and orientation sessions for health care providers, CHW/CHS, and Provincial Health Managers.
• Organize post-training follow up sessions in health facilities.

Supplies and distribution:

• Use the ‘supplies’ MCH-HB SOP to train PPHO and implementing the GNO team in their supplies and delivery role.
• Follow up on the timely distribution of MCH HB and materials to the health facilities.
• Update project management team on the distribution of MCH HB and stock-outs in relevant HFs.

Supervision and data reporting:

• Carry out regular monitoring to ensure quality implementation of the MCH-HB project.
• Provide written feedback to the HFs and implementing NGO and prepare an action plan against monitoring findings.
• Prepare monthly progress reports of the project using the standard pattern.
• Provide data as per the requirement of the MCH-HB dashboard.

Functional competencies:

• Coordination and communication skills: demonstrated experience in coordinating maternal, newborn, and child health activities and timely reporting of project activities through different conduits
• Advocacy: Advancing a policy-oriented agenda
• Results-oriented program development, management, and reporting
• Innovation and communication of evidence-based effective approaches
• Financial management and resource mobilization

Core Competencies:

• Values: Integrity/Commitment to the MoPH mandate, Information sharing/Continued learning, respecting diversity
• Managing Relationships: Working in teams, Communicating information and ideas, Conflict and self-management
• Working with people: Empowering people/Performance management.

Reporting requirement: The coordinators should ensure timely communication of information and report to the PPHD and MCH-HB Project Manager.

Job requirements

1. Qualifications:

• Hold a Medical Doctor (MD) degree
• Knowledge of  Afghanistan’s health system, BPHS/EPHS program, MCH-HB implementation, national RMNCAHD strategic priorities

2. Experience:

• At least three years of professional experience in the field of maternal and child health, preferably in the area of capacity building, project management, monitoring, and supervision, as well as demonstrated experience in implementing health projects

3. Other skills:

• Languages: Fluency in speaking Dari, Pashto, and English languages as well as  professional business writing skills
• Computer skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office software applications and data analysis software

How to apply?

Candidates can apply through email only.

Please write the Position Title, Vacancy No., and name of the position you are applying for in the subject line of the email; otherwise, your application will not be evaluated.

Preference would be given to the local residents of the province.

Submission Email:  jobs@wadan.org