Senior Manager, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights and Gender Based Violence
Population Services International (PSI)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical leadership and oversight to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of the program and to achieve rapid and sustained goals, objectives and targets within the prescribed timeframes.
- Serve as the program’s primary point of contact with the donor, other consortium members, MOH, and other stakeholders; ensure alignment and harmonization with other programming where appropriate, including national and global strategies.
- Prepare quality and timely program reports as per donor requirements
- Management of work plans and budgets through; tracking and monitoring work plan and budget implementation and expenditures.
- Support public sector engagements for SRHR/GBV services at both the National and County level
- Harmonize the program with public sector service delivery models for sustainability and promote cross learning and efficiencies in the consortium
- Coordination with County RH coordinators, SRHR champions and GBV team
- Provides timely and adequate technical support on SRHR/GBV, including guidance on continuous quality, improvement, use of priority SRHR/GBV interventions, supporting and motivating frontline health workers (clinicians, nurses), and building capacity (including on-the-job training) on selected SRHR/GBV topics.
- Maintains a constructive dialogue and technical exchange with technical (SRHR, GBV, MNCH, HIV, TB,
- Nutrition) and counterparts / implementing partners to effectively support integration health services in the facilities to offer quality SRH services.
- Advocate for provision of sexual reproductive health and GBV services to the youth and adolescent
- Work closely with the M & E advisor; o tracks monthly uptake of SRHR / GBV services and availability of FP commodities through development of dashboards for both the counties and performance of the implementing partners reviews, analyzes, and evaluates the effectiveness of SRHR/GBV activities and provides recommendations for improvements.
- Advocate for use of DHI2 in reporting for SRH/GBV services and commodities
- Work closely with the county coordinators in tracking FP commodity reporting and availability to ensure that stock outs are minimized and eliminated where possible
- Manage SRHR/GBV capacity building activities that include training needs assessment, execution of training, mentorship and support supervision in collaboration with implementing partners, county departments of health and MoH Family Health division.
- Liaise with the MoH Family Health division on FP commodity stock out
- Facilitate availability of SRH/GBV policy and guidelines and sensitization on utilization in collaboration with the County RH coordinators
- Lead in documentation and dissemination of best practices and lessons learnt
- Ensure compliance with donor and PS Kenya operational policies and regulations
- Ensure integration and linkages between the thematic areas of RMNCAH, FP, SRHR, child marriage, teenage pregnancy prevention, access to shelter, and GBV
- Support integration of gender transformative and human right based approaches into Accelerate programme including integration between RMNCAH, SRHR, FP and GBV services
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Successfully achieved the program deliverables
- Effective management of the consortium members and all critical stakeholders
- High quality project documents; annual work plans, budget narratives, MEL plans, learning agenda, reports.
- Budget management as per the quarterly/bi-annual and annual plans / projections
- Strong relationship with government, donors and other key stakeholders.
PERSON SPECIFICATIONS
Academic Qualifications
- Master’s Level of Education in related field: MPH, MSc Epidemiology/ Public Health, social sciences and
- Demography, or other relevant discipline with 8 or more years of responsibility in managing Sexual
- Reproductive Health and Rights and Gender Based Violence programme, including Family Planning, fivewhich are in management role.
- Commitment to human rights
Professional Qualifications
- Knowledge of current global and national Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights landscape, including Family
- Planning programming, protocols, standards, best practices
- Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences
Experience
- Program management skills, including leading strategy, planning, financial and risk management, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
- Field knowledge and hands-on experience of working using human-rights based approaches (HRBA)
- Experience in managing and implementing SRHR/GBV programs
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse partners, networks and allies.
- Experience working with health workers on health systems strengthening and service delivery.
- Relevant experience in data collection, analysis, and interpretation and/or in using data to identify and meet program monitoring and evaluation needs and contributing to SRHR/GBV policies
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