HEALTH CARE (PHC) PROGRAM SPECIALIST
TO: ALL INTERESTED CANDIDATES
SUBJECT: RECRUITMENT FOR
ONE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE (PHC) PROGRAM SPECIALIST
WITHIN THE OFFICE OF HEALTH POPULATION AND NUTRITION
USAID/MADAGASCAR
METHOD OF TWELVE (12) MONTHS PERSONAL SERVICES CONTRACT,
EMPLOYMENT: RENEWABLE, SALARY EQUIVALENT TO GRADE FSN-10 OR FP-5
APPLICATION
CLOSING DATE: 4:00 PM, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
NOTE: ALL NON MALAGASY APPLICANTS MUST HAVE THE REQUIRED WORK AND/OR RESIDENCY PERMITS TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION.
The USAID Mission in Madagascar is soliciting expressions of interest from qualified candidates to serve as a Primary Health Care (PHC) Program Specialist within the Health, Population and Nutrition Office (HPN). The contract is for an initial period of one (1) year subject to renewal based on annual performance review, continuing need for the services, and availability of funds.
Overall Responsibilities
Actively participate in all aspects of the overall Health Population and Nutrition (HPN) Office with a focus on results, teamwork, participation, empowerment, accountability, and customer focus. The incumbent will work with numerous counterparts, implementing partners, and technical experts.
The Primary Health Care (PHC) Program Specialist serves as the HPN Office technical lead for nutrition and community health. S/he also provides technical input for the Food Security program as required. S/he works with the Senior PHC Program Managers to ensure the quality, effectiveness, and results of integrated primary health care activities including nutrition, health systems, and cross-cutting CHW areas with an initial focus on community-level activities. S/he monitors minimum quality standards as well as lessons learned and best practices to share across programs and implementing partners. To that end, the PHC Program Specialist spends at least 25% of his/her time completing site monitoring visits. S/he promotes synergy and linkages within USAID program activities and between other donor programs, and private sector activities; and, ensures technical coordination and information sharing with the Government of Madagascar. S/he promotes a strategic vision, partnerships and alliance building to mobilize and maximize resources.
Major programming, technical, monitoring and management responsibilities are described below.
A. Activity Monitoring and Management Responsibilities
Work closely with Senior PHC Program Managers to monitor all aspects of PHC and nutrition activity implementation to ensure minimum quality standards as well as lessons learned and best practices are shared across programs. S/he holds regular meetings with implementing partners, reviewing and providing comments on annual work plans and semi-annual reports and annual reports, and undertakes regular site monitoring visits (at least 25%) to ensure quality and performance.
Act as Contracting/Agreement Officer’s Technical Representative or alternate for acquisition and assistance instruments as required, managing PHC activities to ensure performance: review annual work plans, narrative reports and sub-contractor/grantee documents; develop/monitor budgeting and fiscal accountability; monitor short term technical assistance; prepare analyses and documentation required to obligate funds, and initiate and/or make any necessary amendments required for activity implementation.
Act as Activity Manager for Global Health Bureau field support partners working in PHC and nutrition as required: develop/review scopes of work, annual budgets, and work plans; monitor program performance; prepare analyses and documentation required to obligate funds.
Ensure timely progress towards planned outputs and results; keep management team apprised of progress and issues; make recommendations to solve problems, and take the lead in implementing agreed upon actions.
Participate in activity conceptualization and design; write and edit Activity Approval documents, program descriptions and statements of work; develop Government Cost Estimates (budgets); prepare activity memos and justifications; lead or participate on Technical Evaluation Committees as required.
Assist in the development and refinement of benchmarks and indicators to assess the PHC and nutrition activity and program progress and impact.
Ensure that mitigative environmental components designed for the activity are being implemented effectively.
Verify that recipient activities conform to the terms and conditions of the award.
Ensure that assets are safeguarded against waste, loss, unauthorized use, or misappropriation.
Check validity of performance data acquisition, and ensure that the data to be reported to USAID fulfills quality standards for validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness.
Prepare written analyses, trip reports, briefing materials, activity descriptions, press releases, speeches, success stories, and other documents as required.
B. Programming Responsibilities
Provide analysis and written content for USAID/Madagascar sector and country strategy documents on PHC, nutrition, and food security as required; ensure that nutrition activities under the current HPN strategy utilize existing coordination and implementation structures and organizations, and build on previous USAID-funded and national activities.
In collaboration with PHC Senior Program Managers, collect, review, analyze and report primary health care and nutrition data for annual planning and reporting documents; respond to information requests from all sources; draft public affairs materials as needed.
Review and provide technical comments and recommendations on scopes of work, work plans, and reports pertaining to PHC and nutrition; ensure synergy, linkages, and complementarity between the USAID/Madagascar Primary Health Care and nutrition program activities and those of other actors working in Madagascar (Government of Madagascar, donors, local and international non-governmental organizations, private sector, etc.).
C. Technical Responsibilities
As USAID/Madagascar’s nutrition, health systems, and community health technical expert, serve as principle advisor to HPN management on related issues.
Stay up to date with international and local state-of-the-art nutrition and community health technical approaches; analyze and interpret policy, strategy, and technical documents to ensure USAID/Madagascar related activities are aligned with and integrating state-of-the-art practices.
Develop and maintain an extensive network of key public health contacts with a focus on Primary Health Care and nutrition.
Represent USAID in sectorial technical working groups and coordination meetings; inform the development of nutrition and community health policy, strategy, and technical documents as required.
Serve as the link between USAID/Madagascar’s nutrition activities and AID/W Global Health, Africa Bureau, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), and Feed the Future staff.
Ensure synergy and linkages between nutrition activities across the HPN Office’s portfolio and other program elements including Maternal and Newborn Care, Child Health, Water and Sanitation, and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI); ensure synergies and linkages with other USAID/Madagascar programs, especially the Food Security Unit.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SELECTION CRITERIA
1. EDUCATION (10 points)
University degree in the social sciences, health, or management fields.
2. PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE (18 points)
Minimum of five years work experience with international development assistance programs, at least two of the five years required must be in a health related field.
Candidates with fewer years of experience can be considered, but will be hired at a lower grade if selected for the position.
3. LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Fluency in English (18 points)
Fluent professional level speaking, reading and writing at the level IV in English is required. At this level, an employee is required to possess a high degree of proficiency in both written and spoken English, including the ability to translate Malagasy and/or French language into precise and correct English, and English into French. On occasion, this may require acting as an interpreter in situations where considerable importance attaches to proper word meaning.
Fluency in French (2 points)
Fluent professional level speaking, reading and writing at the level IV in French language is required. The standard for this level is as described above.
4. JOB KNOWLEDGE (22 points)
Incumbent must have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the community-based primary health care and nutrition sector in Madagascar including relevant policies and guidelines, health development partners, programming initiatives, issues and challenges.
5. SKILLS AND ABILITIES (30 points)
- Analysis and preparation of technical and program reports;
- Good interpersonal and communication skills with beneficiaries, health development and implementing partners, GOM and international technical experts among others;
- Use word processing, power-point presentation and spreadsheet software.
ADDITIONAL SELECTION PROCESS AND CRITERIA
When equally qualified, U.S. Citizen Eligible Family Members (AEFMs) and U.S. Veterans will be given preference. Therefore, it is essential that the candidate address the required qualifications above in the application.
1. Management will consider nepotism/conflict of interest, budget, and residency status in determining successful candidacy.
2. Current employees serving a probationary period are not eligible to apply.
3. Currently employed U.S. Citizen EFMs who hold a FMA appointment are ineligible to apply for advertised positions within the first 90 calendar days of their employment.
4. Currently employed Not-Ordinarily Residents (NORs) hired under a Personal Services Agreement (PSA) are ineligible to apply for advertised positions within the first 90 calendar days of their employment, unless currently hired into a position with a When Actually Employed (WAE) work schedule.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICANTS
Interested applicants for this position MUST submit the following or the application will not be considered:
1. A cover letter which specifically addresses each of the selection criteria. This cover letter must be submitted in English and French. The cover letter should provide more details about how the applicant’s skills and prior experience make him/her qualified for the position. Applicants who do not include this information in their applications will not receive further consideration;
2. Completed and SIGNED Federal form OF-612.
This form is mandatory and is available at USAID vacancy website: http://www.usaid.gov/missions/mg/work/vacancies.html
and at US Embassy Consular Service entrance (opposite to “Leader Price”), Route Digue, Lot 207 A, Point Liberty, Andranoro Antehiroka, Antananarivo;
3. Curriculum vitae (CV);
4. Photocopies of relevant education degrees and certificates demonstrating that the applicant meets the minimum education requirement. Applicants are encouraged to submit photocopies. Originals cannot be returned;
5. Applicants are required to provide at least three (3) references with complete contact information, including E-mail address and telephone numbers, who are not family members or relatives. The applicant's references must be able to provide substantive information about his/her past performance and abilities. USAID/Madagascar reserves the right to obtain from previous employers relevant information concerning the applicant's past performance and may consider such information in its evaluation.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Part of USAID selection criteria is knowledge of English language. USAID/Madagascar will arrange a listening and reading TOEIC test (Test Of English for International Communication) for the pre-selected candidates. To help individuals to practice before taking the test, books and exercises are accessible at the Public Affairs Section (PAS) library located at the US Embassy, Lot 207 A Point Liberty, Route Digue. Those materials are available on site only. PAS is open Monday through Thursday, from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. If you need more information please call 033 44 327 02.
For more details about TOEIC, please visit: http://www.ets.org/toeic
CLEARANCES
The selected individual must obtain tested English language, medical and security clearances before starting work. USAID/Madagascar will assist in this matter.
SALARY
The position is classified at an FSN-10/FP-5 Grade. The selected candidate may be hired at the FSN-9/FP-5 level “trainee” position for the first year of employment, at USAID/Madagascar’s discretion. Promotion to FSN-10/FP-5 will be subject to a satisfactory performance.
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE
Submit your application by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 to
USAID/ Madagascar EXO/HR, Lot 207A, Point Liberty,
(Route Digue) Andranoro, Antehiroka,
Antananarivo 105 Madagascar
or to the following e-mail address:
Attachments to your e-mail should be either in Word format (.doc) or in Adobe Acrobat Reader format (.pdf).
Please mark the envelope or the e-mail subject line with “PERNOT 2012-01”.
TO BE CONSIDERED, applications must include ALL the required documents and information, and be received at USAID Office by the above deadline.
EEO/AA: USAID IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER AND PROVIDES EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND FAIR AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT IN EMPLOYMENT TO ALL PEOPLE WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX, NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE, DISABILITY, POLITICAL AFFILIATION, MARITAL STATUS, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
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