Req Number: psi-00001354
Location(s): Kigali         

PSI seeks highly qualified candidates for the position of Technical Advisor, Health Services for PSI/ Rwanda. The candidate will provide effective leadership and strategic management of PSI/Rwanda's health interventions to ensure they are targeted, evidence based, and using international best practice approaches to achieve health impact. This full-time position is based in Kigali, Rwanda and reports to the Country Representative. 

Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to support PSI/Rwanda's Social Marketing and Behavior Change Communications programs in HIV, family planning, malaria and child survival


• Build the technical expertise and program management capacity of senior technical staff to design and manage effective and efficient interventions


• Support technical Program Directors to set and achieve ambitious DALY, sales and distribution targets and monitor their performance towards these goals


• Ensure all Program Directors develop and implement project logframes and annual marketing plans using the Delta process for all interventions and monitor their performance


• Ensure Program Directors develop research briefs and use research results to identify priorities and drive intervention strategies


• Improve the efficiency and health impact of prevention programs while effectively leveraging staff and resources and developing strategies that maximize synergies between health areas


• Support program directors in identifying and assessing market need and feasibility for new products and services within existing health areas


• Identify and pursue opportunities for new cross cutting health interventions and new technologies


• Contribute to the development of PSI/Rwanda's five year strategic plan


• Maintain regular and strong donor, Government and other stakeholder relations, including building partner technical capacity as needed

Experience:

• Masters degree in relevant field (MBA, MSW, MPH) or equivalent experience


• Technical expertise in the area of HIV, reproductive health, maternal and/or child health preferred


• 3-5 years demonstrated health experience


• At least four years of work experience in a developing country


• Familiarity with international health, development issues and the international donor community


• Experience logical frameworks, marketing planning and program management tools preferred


• Ability to work effectively in partnership with a variety of audiences and organizations


• Fluency in spoken and written English


• Fluency in French preferred


• INGO experience strongly preferred


• Excellent writing, presentation and interpersonal communication skills preferred

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