Enabel recruits 01 Strategy and Policy Expert in Public Health

Opportunités de carrière : RWA/19/001-4 – Strategy and Policy expert in Public Health (11530)

POUR UN MONDE OÙ LES FEMMES ET LES HOMMES VIVENT DANS UN ÉTAT DE DROIT, ONT ACCÈS, EN TOUTE ÉGALITÉ, À DES SERVICES PUBLICS DE QUALITÉ, ET ONT LA LIBERTÉ DE RÉALISER LEURS ASPIRATIONS.

Strategy and policy expert in Public Health (h/f) – Kigali

Enabel est l’Agence belge de développement. Nous accomplissons toute mission de service public qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de l’Agenda 2030 pour le développement durable, en Belgique et à l’étranger. Ainsi, Enabel renforce l’impact de la Belgique en matière de développement international en exécutant également des missions pour des mandants tiers, tant nationaux qu’internationaux.

Short Summary

The general objective is: “The delivery of sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning services, as well as increased access of households to health care”.

The specific objective is: “To ensure that all women, new-borns, children, adolescents and men have universal access to quality integrated Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) and/or Family Planning & Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (FP/ASRH) services”.

The intervention, through a grant agreement with MoH, will support the roll-out of the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health strategy (2018-2024) and the Family Planning/Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health strategy (2018-2024) to increase the national coverage of these services.

Through Result based financing,  the intervention will support activities involving (i) the purchase of family planning and other essential commodities, (ii) human resource professional development, (iii) medical infrastructure and equipment, (iv) health information, data systems and management as well as (v) advocacy, outreach and behaviour change communication.

Description de la fonction

The expert  in Public Health will assure the strategic and operational follow-up of the grant agreement signed with MINECOFIN/MoH for the implementation of the intervention.

Function

 N+1: Resident Representative

Partners: Ministry of Health and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (Primary Recipient); District Hospitals/District Health Management Team, other Social Cluster Ministries (Education, Youth, Gender) and selected Civil Society Organisations (Secondary Recipients).

Main tasks

The expert is respnsible for the strategic dialogue under the RBF component of the health sector pillar of the Rwanda Country Programme Portfolio;

The expert will guide and cordinate the verification of results and with input from the Public Financial Management adviser to assess the earmarked budget and expenditures vis-à-vis interventions that attribute/contribute to the intended results;

Will assure technical cordination with the other intervention of the health pillar within the portfolio;

Will participate in the regular meetings f Technical Working Groups in the areas of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health, Human Resources for Health, Research & Knowledge Management (among others);

Will participate in the integrated supprtive supervision / data quality assessment missions twice a year;

Will apprve the quality of the annual result reports submitted by partners;

Will maintain a cllaborative relationship with the Global Fund and the Local Fund Agent with regard to external verification processes;

Will cntribute to the development of the RBF tool within Enabel’s context through capitalising on lessons learned from implementing the mixture of inputs (securing the full financing of earmarked interventions), but more importantly outputs (results measurement) controls;

Expected resulsts of the function

Assure the strategic and perational piloting of the new Results Based Financing instrument:

Ascertainment of the veracity of results according to the pre-defined targets

Contribution to the mitigation of weaknesses in data systems implicated in measuring results

Coordinate with the project component of the health portfolio to scale up best practices and innovations.

Votre profil

Master’s degree or PhD in Public Health

At least 5 years of experience and knowledge of health systems both at decentralised/operational and  strategic level in a development setting

Proven experience  in policy dialogue at national level in a development context

Experience  in bilateral development cooperation

Proven relevant experience in the area of Women’s and Children’s Health

Knowledge in action-research, knowledge management and knowledge building including basic statistics and epidemiology

Clear and concise writing skills, good communication, presentation and facilitation skills

Good capacity to conduct action research and surveys

Demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a multi-actor environment

Ability to work under stressful conditions with no objection to working overtime and undertaking field missions

Knowledge of the local context is considered an asset

Fluent in English, basic knowledge of French, Dutch and Kinyarwanda an asset

Good knowledge of ICT ( Word, Excel, Power Point and Database)

Nous vous offrons

You will work on a full-time basis.

Duty station: Kigali – Rwanda, with frequent travelling in Rwanda.

Desired starting date : 1th of July 2019

Duration of the assignment: until the 30th of June 2024

Monthly salary package: (cat B417) between 5 247, 17euro and 7 344,22 euro (this includes the gross monthly salary and the expat benefits: hardship allowance and expat allowance). The salary is calculated, depending on the composition of the family and the number of years of relevant experience.

Mind

A recruitment pool may be constituted following this recruitment procedure for similar functions in our intervention countries.

Intéressé(e)?

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Alors n’attendez plus et postulez avec votre CV actualisé et une lettre de motivation, au plus tard le 12/06/2019.

Pour toute question supplémentaire, contactez l’équipe de recrutement via l’adresse humres@enabel.be.