Organization Profile: Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, ensure availability of safe abortion services and post-abortion care, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.

Program Overview
Pathfinder International seeks a Child Health Advisor for a USAID/Haiti service delivery and health systems strengthening project, Services de Santé de Qualité pour Haiti (SSQH). The overall purpose of the SSQH project is to improve the health status of the Haitian population, specifically in the areas of HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health, and maternal and child health and nutrition. This will be achieved by: (1) increasing utilization of the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population’s (MSPP) integrated package of services at the primary care and community levels; (2) improving the functionality of the USG-supported health referral networks; (3) facilitating sustainable delivery of quality health services through the institutionalization of key management practices at both facility and community levels; and (4) strengthening departmental health authorities’ capacity to manage and monitor service delivery.

Key objectives for the project in the areas of child health are:
1. Increase the number of children aged <1 year that are fully vaccinated in the project catchment areas;
2. Increase the number of children who received DPT3 vaccine by age 12 months;
3. Increase the number of children under five who received Vitamin A from USG-supported programs;
4. Decrease the number of underweight children under five years of age; and
5. Increase the number of individuals trained in child health and nutrition through USG-supported programs.

Position Purpose
The Child Health Advisor provides technical leadership and support for child health service provision at both the facility and community levels. In coordination with project partners, s/he will provide technical assistance to providers to strengthen service quality in child health at all targeted sites, ensuring utilization of quality of care protocols based upon MSPP norms and guidelines. S/he will contribute to key project deliverables, including donor reports, data validation and analysis, strategy papers, workplans, and other relevant tools and documents. The Child Health Advisor reports to the Technical Director.

Specific Duties
The Child Health Advisor’s specific duties include, but are not limited to:
• Provide onsite and remote technical assistance to facility- and community-based providers to strengthen service quality in child health, including vaccination, diarrhea prevention and treatment, vitamin A supplementation, acute respiratory infection treatment, growth monitoring and promotion, deworming, and integrated management of child illness (IMCI);
• Support vaccination activities at community levels and in national campaigns, in alignment with MSPP strategies;
• Provide in-service and refresher trainings to facility and community-based health workers in ICMI services and prevention and management of diarrhea, pneumonia, and the detection of early signs of dehydration and cholera;
• Participate and represent SSQH in child health departmental meetings and national clusters (i.e. DPEV and DDS) and other partner and donor meetings;
• Contribute to strategy development, as appropriate, and implementation to increase access to child health services at both facility and communities levels;
• Contribute to project deliverables and data management

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:
• Medical doctor or nurse, with a degree from a recognized institution;
• Licensed by MSPP;
• Five years’ experience in community health;
• Minimum three years’ experience in a similar position;
• Experience working on donor-funded, integrated service delivery project
• Proficient in French
Desired
• Master’s degree in management or public health
• English language skills

Personal Characteristics
• Team player, with good inter-personal skills;
• Demonstrated leadership experience;
• Excellent communicator, able to share information with ease;
• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels; and
• Ability to work effectively and independently in a wide variety of situations

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