No of Positions: 27
Supervisor: Program Coordinator
Location: Selected Municipalities of all 10 districts in Karnali Province
- Dolpa
- Mugu
- Humla
- Jumla
- Kalikot
- Jajarkot
- Rukum West
- Salyan
- Surkhet
- Dailekh
With
technical oversight and support from the Province-based Health Systems
Strengthening Specialist and Information Systems Specialist, through
Senior Program Coordinator, the Health Systems Officer will work
closely with designated MNCH/FP officer to support Municipal health
officials and health workers to strengthen municipal health systems
including; hands on support for annual and periodic health sector
planning, budgeting and budget execution, monitoring and periodic review
including ensuring data quality (management, analyses), full function
of DHIS2 and HMIS reporting, updating and dissemination of municipal
health profiles, promote use of data for planning, budgeting, develop
municipal health policy, act, guidelines, protocols, supporting to
establish accountability mechanism at municipality and health facility
along with the capacity strengthening of Health Facility Management
Committees HFOMCs. S/he will directly report to the Program Coordinator
based in Surkhet.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Technical Assistance - Health Systems and Governance
- Provide
hands on support to municipality on annual planning (in line with
seven-step planning process) and budgeting (by utilizing tools and
guidelines prepared by MOFAGA and MOHP) periodic planning, resource
allocation, developing annual Calendar of Operation, budget execution,
monitoring and evaluation, human resource management and other health
systems areas as required
- Provide technical support to
prepare/update municipal level health profile, inclusive of stakeholder
analyses (working in the Municipality)
- In consultation with HSS
technical officer, provide hands on support to the municipalities to
prepare municipal health policy, Act, Strategies, Protocols and other
guiding documents.
- Work with municipality officials (both
elected and staff members) to enhance governance, accountability and
citizen engagement with the health service delivery and health
management.
- Facilitate municipality to coordinate with Health
Service Offices/province authorities to ensure continuous supply of
essential medicines, commodities and supplies, receive adequate
technical support to address stock out of commodities at
municipal/health facility level.
- Provide hands on support to
municipal authority to conduct periodic and annual reviews and planning
meetings; help to establish a system for annual/periodic review,
ensuring GESI issues are adequately addressed and incorporated in plan,
promoting best practice in the use of evidence to monitor progress and
performance, identify gaps and support to design feasible solutions to
address gaps in service coverage and health systems performance.
- Provide
technical support to strengthen the effective functioning of Health
Facility Operation and Management Committees (HFOMC)
- Provide
hands on support to municipality in preparation, implementation and
progress tracking of health emergency preparedness and response plan (in
close coordination with health emergency response team)
- In
collaboration with MNCH/FP Technical officer reinforce the functionality
of Quality Assurance mechanisms in municipalities by facilitating
discussions of quality-of-care issues with Municipal Social Development
Committees and/or health committees.
- Provide technical support
for quality improvement initiatives in municipalities and health
facilities which includes joint monitoring visits to HFs.
- Facilitate
municipality to identify and develop Municipality/District-level
clinical mentors for the sustainability of coaching/mentoring at health
facilities.
- Advocate municipality to allocate maximum budget in health sector
- Engage
with municipal executive committee, health committee and health section
staffs to provide hands on support to strengthen municipal health
systems
- Advocate and support municipalities to ensure work plan
activities and budget are updated in SuTRA software and plan activities
are executed in timely manner
Technical Assistance – Generation and Use of Health Data
- Ensure
that municipal and facility-level HMIS and LMIS recording and reporting
systems are functioning well, municipalities are able to access,
analyze and interpret the data, real-time data in support of
evidence-based planning and resource allocation.
- Facilitate to
develop HMIS and Basic Health Logistics champion in all municipalities
and DHIS2 champion in selected municipalities.
- Facilitate,
supply and support proper use of facility-based recording and reporting
tools. Support to update facility-level information of HMIS tools,
encourage municipality and/or health program coordination bodies to
ensure timely supply of those tools. Ensure quality of information/data
during recording and reporting process.
- Provide hands on support
to municipalities and health facilities primarily in low performing
health facilities to analyze health data to identify
un-reached/underserved populations, barriers, and to prepare micro-plans
to improve their utilization and to link with annual planning,
budgeting, and monitoring activities
- In coordination with HIS
technical officer, support municipalities and health facilities in using
DHIS2 and eLMIS platform to report, review and use municipal HMIS and
LMIS data respectively.
- Facilitate visualization of facility
and municipal level health data (dashboards, infographics) and assist
municipal and provincial health sections to ensure that the data is
widely available to the public through appropriate communication
channels.
Program Management and Coordination
- Actively
engage and work with other partners, stakeholders and private sector
service providers at municipal level to promote effective collaboration,
create synergy and reduce the duplication of work in planning and
implementation of the activities.
- Ensure accurate and timely
submission of required technical and financial reports and deliverables,
including lessons learned, exemplary practices for the health systems
strengthening and information system components in assigned geographical
area.
- Assist in project planning meetings, training sessions
and consultations, collecting additional information from
Municipalities, health facilities etc as needed and assigned.
- Make logistical arrangements for project team travelling to their assigned municipalities, as needed.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of project intervention in SSBH database and other formats as required.
Qualification requirements include the following:
- Bachelor
Degree in Public Health, Health Informatics, Health Management,
Epidemiology, Health and Social Sciences or other relevant field.
- Minimum
of 2 years of relevant professional experience in health systems
and/or monitoring, evaluation, and learning in the public health field
- Understanding
of Government of Nepal’s health care delivery system including service
availability, utilization, quality aspects in federal context
- Experience working with USAID program and other health-related projects
- Strong interpersonal skills, advocacy, coordination and networking, excellent team leadership and problem-solving abilities
- Good report writing skills in English and Nepali, communication and advocacy skills, including oral presentation
- Computer proficiency (MS Word, MS Excel, Power points and information systems)
- Willing
to work in remote municipality of Karnali; those who are from and/or
working in the Karnali province will be given preference.