Safe Abortion Manager (m/f)

Duties

• Serve as main point of contact and represent PSI at Safe Abortion Technical Working Group
• Increase sustainability, impact and integration with MISAU and other partners
• Catalyze national solutions through which Mozambican women in reproductive age (WRA) are enabled to use quality safe abortion (SA) services
• Catalyze effective collection, analysis and use of SA services data to support evidence-based decision-making
• Catalyze the provincial directorates to adhere to standard operating procedures for quality safe abortion care provision
• Explore, inform and recommend PSI Mozambique on the best and proper approaches according on the level of implementation of SA in each province
• Coordinate the implementation model to generate evidence of what works to scale up quality SA care to all the districts of the three provinces:
• Identify and recommend local stakeholders and innovative implementation approaches
• Align the donor indicators with the MISAU safe abortion priorities
• Document learnings from the implementation
• Review SA services supervision and results on a quarterly basis with the Head of Public Health Department of each of the three provinces to analyze, improve, and maintain motivation for using the SA services
• Organize technical and logistic support for SA scale up in the three provinces
• Coordinate the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual SA services reports in line with MISAU reporting requirements
• Focus on usability and acceptability of the quality SA services by the DPS
• Participate in relevant meetings within the Ministry of Health to ensure that the SA services are in line with the national guidelines and recommendations
• Ensures timely delivery of feedback to the Head of Public Health Department of each of the three provinces and District Health Authorities (Médico Chefe)
• Monitor the implementation of recommended actions

Requisites

• Master’s degree in Public Health, General Practitioner or any other relevant field
• At least 5 years of working experience in the Public Health System, preferably managing Health Programs
• Demonstrated experience in reporting tools, data analysis, donor reporting, and facilitation of use of data for decision-making
• Relevant experience in working with Sexual and Reproductive Health/Safe Abortion/Family Planning is an added advantage
• Experience in project and team management
• Experience in results-based management, monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent knowledge of donor and Government approaches and regulations
• Familiarity with international health, development issues and the international donor community
• Excellent writing, presentation and interpersonal communication skills
• Well organized, strong attention to detail, and ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Outstanding Portuguese & English language skills, both spoken and written
• Ability to work both independently and in team

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted