Newborn Health Research Specialist vacancy
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Newborn Health Research Specialist
Child SafeguardingLevel 3 – the role holder won't have contact with children and/ or youthful people, or access to particular data about children or youthful people, as part of their work; thus, a police check won't be obligatory unless the content or position of the part changes, in which case the Child securing position will be reviewed. part PURPOSE Ethiopia has registered substantial progress in reducing invigorated and child morbidity over the once decades due to a strong leadership of the Ministry of Health( MoH) and RHBs, collaboration of sweats and ferocious investment in the health system by government, development mates, and the community at large. The under- five mortality rate has declined by two thirds significantly from the 1990 figure of,000 live births to,000 live births in 2019. Disaggregation of the mortality data by age reveals that the decline in neonatal mortality isn't as emotional as the child and child mortality numbers. Save the Children has been contributing for this remarkable achievement for further than two decades through designing and enforcing substantiation- grounded systems that ameliorate Newborn and Child Health in the country. To further gauge up crucial lifesaving interventions for the reduction in child mortality and to ameliorate the status of invigorated health, Save the Children will apply an invention design tosupport identification and referral of low birth weight babies born at home and in the community to the formal health system. The Specialist will lead in the perpetration of the invigorated exploration design by effectively designing and developing perpetration strategies and detailed perpetration plans to insure successful perpetration of the airman design across all health installations in the airman area. The Specialist will nearly work with and under the guidance from the Project Steering platoon, Program Area Director, Operation Team, Senior Health Advisor, Sr. substantiation, Learning and Innovation Advisor and all the public/ transnational Innovation Team. The Specialist will coordinate the design of exploration protocol; grease IRB blessing, and will support perpetration, monitoring and evaluation, and attestation of the interventions. A crucial responsibility of the part and findings. The post holder is to insure effective data collection to support suppositions testing and decision- making during the evidence- of- conception phase of the airman. Will have a strong programmatic/ clinical background with some experience of exploration processes. compass OF part Reports to Hawassa Field Office Manager confines Save the Children works in all regions in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of roughly,600 members and current expenditure of roughly$ 90 million each time. Staff directly reporting to this post none Length of Contract- January 2023 – December 2023
Place of Work – Hawassa with regular trip to perpetration area and collaboration meetings at public and indigenous position
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Technical Support and operation of Program perpetration With the support from the FOM and country office specialized counsels insure the effective and effective delivery and operation of Newborn Health Project conditioning; Cover the perpetration of NH bottom length program interventions in the perpetration woredas, health installation and health post position; Liaise with the design steering platoon with regard to design progress and accommodations. Develop and timely submit work plans and budgets for Newborn Health Innovation Pilot Project conditioning Organize and grease exposure trainings and discussion forums with community influential members to produce mindfulness of both the result and its benefit and ameliorate acceptance at community position Support the develop of applicable training on the intervention and care of preterm and low birth weight babies applicable to the airman. Technically support Regional Child and Newborn health taskforce at RHB on neonatal health issues especially on preterm and low birth weight new- borns programs. Work with applicable RHB departments and directorates to insure integration and regular reporting of applicable pointers on child health program particularly watch for preterm and low birth weight infant in the DHIS2Ensure thatcross-cutting themes like gender, securing and advocacy rudiments are well integrated into the design plans and perpetration Lead on the medication of regular reports and design final report on invigorated health program progress and share and circulate the report to applicable bodies for policy and advocacy. Monitoring, Evaluation, literacy and Knowledge participating In discussion with Country TAs on Health and MEAL, unite with Regional University Team on the development of the exploration protocol for the invigorated health exploration Support in the development of the tool and coordinate data collection with University Team Serve as a crucial platoon member on specialized evaluation panels and design steering platoon for the exploration offer and tools. grease Regional Ethical concurrence to conduct the invigorated exploration grease trainings for Regional/ Zonal/ Woreda NCH Experts to orient on the tool and engage in the perpetration grease trainings and discussion meetings with HWs HEWs on the digital result and its perpetration grease data collection and oversee quality throughout the exploration perpetration process grease/ organize dispersion factory/ literacy platforms to partake the findings of the studies to inform scale up and unborn design design Regularly collect, assay, partake, validate, and use applicable data on the perpetration of the digital result, progress on identification and referral of LBW babies and on crucial NCH pointers In collaboration with the Learning and KM platoon, lead, unite, and oversee the process of establishing stylish practices in form of case studies, success stories, in addition to the routine daily,bi-annual and periodic reports. In collaboration with the Monitoring, Evaluation and literacy (MEL) platoon insure that data collected is accurate and valid and captures process and outgrowth pointers.
Representation, Networking and Advocacy nearly work with and contribute on the indigenous child survival taskforce and groups (installation and community grounded working groups). Represent SC in Regional Newborn and Child Health TWG meetings collaboration platforms and other events for purposes of participating literacy and strengthening collaboration and cooperation on invigorated health. grease effective cooperation with stakeholders engaged in the perpetration of invigorated and child health program. Advocate for coffers and commitment for spanning up of the earnings from design perpetration Represent SCI in applicable working groups, task forces, forums and staff health related fora
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice) Responsibility Holds tone- responsible for making opinions, managing coffers efficiently, achieving and part modelling Save the Children in icing staff health and safety Holds staff responsible to deliver on their liabilities to insure all staff working in safe working terrain – giving them the freedom to deliver in the stylish way they see fit, furnishing the necessary support to ameliorate staff health and safety practices and applying applicable consequences when results aren't achieved Ambition Sets ambitious and grueling pretensions for themselves( and their platoon), takes responsibility for their own particular development and encourages others to do the same Extensively shares their particular vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others unborn acquainted, thinks strategically Collaboration Builds and maintains effective connections, with their platoon, associates, members and external mates and sympathizers Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to Creativity Develops and encourages new and innovative results Willing to take chastened pitfalls Integrity Honest, encourages openness and translucency
Job Conditions QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
• Master’s degree or over on public health
• A health care professional (medical or nursing) with experience in MNH or pediatrics.
• A minimum of 8 times’ experience in program designing, planning, monitoring, perpetration and evaluation of new born & child health programs both at community & installation position (especially on ICMNCI, IMNCI & CBNC, NICU, KMC, ENC andetc.)
• substantial exploration experience in development surrounds, rather with solid exploration experience in health wisdom,
• Strong monitoring and exploration analysis chops in both quantitative and qualitative exploration styles
• Experience at public position in the MOH or Regional Health divisions in the area of invigorated and child health, exploration and knowledge operation (desirable).
• Good knowledge and experience of the Ethiopian health systems and health policy
• Experience in working with/ guiding public position specialized working groups, working with government mates, with mate agencies.
• Good skill in communicating, persuasion, organizing group discussion, and donation
• Good computer skill( MS word, MS excel, MS access and other data generating tools) Commitment to Save the Children values
How to Apply
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