FHI 360
Position Summary:
The incumbent will be responsible for the coordination and provision of quality family planning outreach services across all provinces targeting the hard to reach and underserved populations. Located at a provincial level the incumbent will support all districts in the province to scale up access to family planning that include Long Acting Reversible Methods (LARC).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the provision of efficient, effective, and responsive family planning services in line with the set policies, protocols, standing orders and practices, while ensuring a quality service delivery, that is consistent with the aims and values of Family Planning,
- Ensures that clinical standards are always adhered to as well as provision of quality service
- Ensures the outreach team has adequate stocks, equipment and staff for quality service delivery
- Represents the organization at provincial and district stakeholder meetings
- Prepares and timeous submission of required period reports
- Ensures collection and compilation of high-quality data to monitor progress.
- Prepares monthly schedules for the team and establishing partnerships with key stakeholders to ensure uptake of services
- Analyses outreach sites and identification of opportunities and areas that need to be piloted, eliminated or expanded
- Ensures the maintenance of records and statistics as required, ensuring accurate statistics are supplied within required time frames
- Supervises his/her team and act as a role model for team members within Family Planning.
- Provision of induction, integration, and assessment of new clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Identifying learning needs of the team and provides /facilitates relevant training
- Assist in training of external health professionals
- Ensures principles of continuous quality improvement into all activities
- Ensure all health and safety procedures are adhered to, to ensure their own safety the safety of others team and all clients. and actively participates in maintaining a safe working environment.
- Ensures disposal of waste in line with set policies and procedures
- Supervise Officers working on program development
- Support the development of annual program implementation plans in line with the strategic plan
- Works effectively to ensure regular and accurate reporting on organizational performance and needs.
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Ability to work with people of different social background
- Ability to build, maintain, supervise and motivates an effective team.
- Excellent organizational, planning and logistical skills with a proactive attitude and attention to detail
- Strong inter-personal skills, enhancing teamwork and organizational culture
- Ability to handle confidential information appropriately
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task as the tasks demand
- Will collect and collate information from multiple sources, analyzing the quantitative and qualitative data to make appropriate decisions
Qualifications and Responsibilities:
- Degree/Diploma in Nursing with a post graduate qualification in midwifery
- Diploma in community nursing with at least 5 years post qualification experience, 2 of which must be in a supervisory position;
- Certificate in Family Planning Training (Basic and LARC)
- Computer Literacy