Title
Senior Child Health Development Advisor
Location
Washington DC
Department Name
Program Advancement
Pact Overview
Pact Overview
At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of dignified living. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.
Department Overview
Pact exists to help create a world where those who are poor and marginalized exercise their voice, build their own solutions, and take ownership of their future. The Program Advancement team contributes to realizing this purpose by: •Working across Pact to ensure that Quality and Impact are central to everything we do;
•Playing a key role in new business acquisition from prepositioning to submission;
•Articulating Pact’s expertize externally;
•Influencing decision makers through focused, relevant communications;
•Continually striving to learn and share knowledge and find.
Position Purpose
Reporting to the Director of Global Health the Sr. Child Health Advisor is accountable for working with Pact country offices to improve child focused programming and scale up interventions where needed. Specifically, in close coordination with Pact country office teams, s/he will prepare implementation plans and advise on technical aspects of improving newborn, child and adolescent health to achieve country program aspirations for improving children’s health and security, including for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) affected by HIV and AIDS. The role will focus on the continuum of health care from maternal health, safe delivery, and newborn, child and adolescent health but also integrate household economic strengthening, child protection, child labor, governance, mental health, and social service system strengthening.
The Sr. Advisor contributes to the pre-positioning for and technical design of proposals that ensure the strength of Pacts’ business development pipeline while assuring compliance with Pact standard operating procedures, relevant quality standards, legislation, and all applicable national and international regulations. The Sr. Advisor contributes to a global “community of practice” made up of interested individuals inside Pact to share information from within and outside Pact to help advance the state of the art of health practice and measurement at Pact.
The role will work toward the strategic goals and objectives on Pact’s strategy map and the accompanying Balanced Score Card metrics, specifically focusing on program quality, transparency and accountability, enhanced and diversified revenue, deepening partnerships and continuing to improve global indicator design and relevance.
Key Responsibilities
1.Provide technical leadership to Pact country offices for effective prioritization, program planning, development and results-based management of child and adolescent health programs.
2.Build partnerships with national, regional and international NGOs, groups, networks, and governments involved in newborn, child and adolescent health and related activities.
3.Facilitate sharing expertise and knowledge exchange including country-to-country exchange of information, resources, and lessons learned in relevant areas.
4.Design an integrated package of health care interventions across the continuum of care from pre-natal care and safe delivery through adolescence.
5.Ensure the Child and OVC projects are effectively implemented.
6.Lead Pact’s presence in Child/OVC technical working groups and representation to donors and global health partners.
7.Play a representational role for Pact in relevant forums and work with field offices to develop and present papers that help Pact build its reputation as a leader within the Child/OVC field and the wider industry.
8.Communicate Pact’s approaches and best practices at international forums.
9.Play a key role in defining and leading new business development in the Child and OVC sectors and support the development of technical design of evidence-based projects ensure that all proposals submitted by Pact in the Child and OVC sectors are technically sound and capitalize upon learning from international best practice.
10.Network with partners and donors active in the sectors and gather intelligence on up-coming funding opportunities.
Basic Requirements
•Advanced degree in child development, public health, or relevant related discipline.
•Eight years of relevant work experience, preferably with some in-country experience.
•Substantial experience in HIV, maternal/child health and child survival.
•Clinical and technical knowledge of maternal and newborn health is essential.
•Experience working PEPFAR and other international development organizations an asset.
•Availability to travel up to 40% time.
•Fluency in English (written & verbal) is essential. Knowledge of any French and/or Spanish an asset.
Preferred Qualifications
•Communicates effectively to varied audiences, including during formal public speaking.
•Has good leadership and supervisory skills.
•Translates strategic direction into plans and objectives.
•Analyzes and integrates quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.
•Quickly builds rapport with individuals and groups; maintains an effective network of individuals across organizational departments.
•Identifies urgent and potentially difficult decisions and acts on them promptly.
•Demonstrates, applies and shares expert technical knowledge across the organization.
Pact is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factors.
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