Overview:
The Maternal and Child Survival Program(MCSP) is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with a focus on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives deaths within a generation. In Pakistan MCSP will be working on Accelerating Family Planning in Pakistan (AFPP) to quickly accelerate the achievement of: 1) Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) objectives in Pakistan and 2) USAID/Pakistan’s Ending Preventable Maternal and Child Deaths (EPCMD) objectives in the area of Family Planning (FP). MCSP/AFPP is a one-year project and will be working in three provinces of Pakistan- Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan.
The Technical Advisor will provide technical support in the areas of implementing high quality family planning program leading to improved quality of FP services and thus increased number of FP users in the selected provinces.The Selected Candidate will provide managerial and technical oversight and guidance to the AFPP Services Project in Pakistan through working closely with the Project Director, who is responsible for the overall strategic direction and technical oversight for the project in Pakistan; and the project implementation teams to ensure that project resources are applied appropriately. Responsibilities include providing leadership and technical guidance in the development and implementation of AFPP activities over the life of the project (1 Year). Particularly focused on delivering high quality FP training programs their follow up through supportive supervision and ensuring the timely, high-quality implementation and reporting of project activities.
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Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.
Jhpiego is a equal opportunity employer.
Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving the delivery of care. Jhpiego has been working in Pakistan since 1997 when it provided technical assistance under a series of maternal and reproductive health projects funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). One of the Project aims in Pakistan is to improve the quality of public and private sector health services. Healthcare providers will be trained; health facilities renovated and services will be expanded and improved. We also will improve access of women and children to health services especially the poor and those who do not or cannot go for health care, by educating communities and families and setting up better transport and communications systems. By 2017, thousands of deaths of women, newborn babies and infants will have been prevented as a result of the USAID/Pakistan MCH Program. USAID/Pakistan has, in cooperation with the USAID Office of Inspector General, established the Anti-Fraud Hotline to provide an avenue for the reporting of fraud, waste, and abuse which may be associated with USAID funded projects in Pakistan. Complaints are handled with complete confidentiality and individuals are encouraged to report when corruption, fraud, waste or abuse may exit in the USAID/Pakistan projects. Reports can be filed anonymously via the easy-to-use Hotline (toll-free number 0800 84700); e-mail at [email protected]; fax at 021-35390410; postal address at 5-C, 2nd Floor Khayaban-e-Itthad, Phase VII, DHA, Karachi, Pakistan; and on the website www.anti-fraudhotline.com.”