Pre-Service Education Team Leader Job Vacancy at IntraHealth International, Kampala, Uganda

Job Title     Pre-Service Education Team Leader
Job Location:     Kampala, Uganda
Requisition Number:     14-0024
Job Type     Proposal (Contingent Upon Award)
Employer:  IntraHealth International

About Us

For over 30 years, in more than 100 countries, IntraHealth International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships.

In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and private-sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth champions the needs and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses to community health workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure they have the tools, supplies, information, training, and support they need to provide communities they serve with the best possible opportunity for health and well-being.

IntraHealth is seeking a Pre-Service Education (PSE) Team Leader to be based in Kampala, Uganda. This position is contingent upon funding.

Primary Responsibilities:
The Pre-Service Education (PSE) Team Leader will provide technical assistance to strengthen pre-service training in Uganda on behalf of this project. The PSE Team Leader’s responsibilities shall include planning, coordination, and technical direction and oversight of all PSE project activities for health. S/he will provide strategic guidance, vision and leadership to all PSE aspects of the program working closely with the MOH, MOE and all key GOE stakeholders in Uganda. S/he will work closely with the Chief of Party (COP) and Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) on all reports, documentation and deliverables required by the donor, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). S/he will travel within Uganda to program sites and participate in conferences and/or meetings, as needed. The PSE Team Leader will report to the DCOP.


Essential Responsibilities:
• Provide senior technical leadership in developing trainings and innovative strategies to increase the supply and availability of various cadres of health works and to ensure their sustainable replacement and retention.
• Serve as a key member on the Project Leadership Team (PLT) as one of the key senior technical staff members.
• Ensure educational and training programs are appropriately aligned with the job expectations of the target cadres and the needs of the persons who will be trained.
• Provide technical assistance on standardizing training curricula.
• Create or modify instructional plans and materials as needed to establish practical, simple, instructionally sound, focused training approaches that can be replicated in existing conditions.
• Work with counterparts using Performance Improvement and Learning for Performance approaches to identify the specific areas where training institutes need strengthening and follow up as indicated.
• Develop strategies for strengthening practicum sites, mentors, and tutors and building local capacity.
• Prepare trainers to deliver and manage trainings.
• Participate in the development of all PSE aspects of annual work plans, monitoring and evaluation plans, and budgets according to USAID requirements.
• Oversee the collection of information and the documentation of progress towards results for all PSE project activities in partnership with all key stakeholders and the COP.
• Identify short-term technical assistance PSE needs; develop scopes of work, and arrange for contracting and fielding of qualified international and local consultants as needed.
• Monitor program activities, and progress related to impact and sustainability of innovative interventions.

Job Requirements    

• Master’s degree in Education, Public Health Education/Behavior Change or related areas with at least 8 years of relevant clinical, and training and learning experience. 
• Experience providing technical leadership in the implementation of PSE programs, preferably for health cadres in Uganda.
•  Proven ability to direct and manage a team with the ability to work with partners, USAID and the headquarters staff.
• Demonstrated diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to work in a complex and changing environment with all key stakeholders.
• Ability to liaise with donors, implementing partners and host country government.
• Proven ability to develop and work within approved work plans.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Computer literacy in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• Willingness to travel 25% within the country and periodically internationally.

Deadline Date: 30/05/2014

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