USAID RH 2.0 Philippines- Service Delivery Senior Advisor

• Fortify responsiveness and quality of service delivery.
• Bolster and institutionalize key health system functions in support of FP/ARH.

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight to strengthen and expand the provision of quality, client-centered respectful FP/RH for underserved population, including men, women and adolescents. Ensure program activities are evidence-based, adapted to local context and needs, and reflect state-of-the-art knowledge and best practices for FP/RH/ARH health service provision.
• Lead technical coordination with key government counterparts such as but not limited to DOH, CPD and DepEd.
• Oversee project technical contributions across clinical FP/RH/ARH interventions.
• Lead design, promotion and adoption of high-impact practices through support to the key country stakeholders.
• In coordination with the MERLA Director, support qualitative research design efforts to better understand supportive supervision mechanisms.
• Lead and contribute to activities to design operational frameworks and guides for engaging private sector.
• Build on frameworks to enhance policies, guidelines, and dissemination efforts with Project partners.
• Lead project efforts to scale-up high-impact interventions and establish mechanisms to sustain practices.
• Contribute to the preparation of annual work plans and program reporting and documentation of success stories.
• May serve as a representative of the project to clients, stakeholders, and partners, providing key inputs for Service Delivery technical decisions.
• Document and publish results and lessons learned.
• Serve as member of Senior Management Team.
• Directly supervise select staff at national level. Provide indirect management and technical direction to subnational staff.

• University degree (or higher) in clinical health field (nursing, medicine, surgery) and at least 12 years of progressive experience leading and implementing technical activities related to FP/RH and ARH service delivery and/or systems strengthening.
• Demonstrated experience in service delivery in the Philippines, including provincial or regional hands-on service delivery and service delivery point management experience, quality improvement, FP/RH and ARH expertise.
• Experience in convening and forging effective working relationships with health and non-health sector actors and private sector stakeholders to improve access to RH services, FP/RH and ARH preferred.
• Additional experience in at least two of the following public health areas: implementation research, maternal health, nutrition, BCC, public policy and advocacy, gender mainstreaming, universal health care.

• Ability to oversee and provide guidance for Philippines quality of care policy and guideline development and workforce training.
• Demonstrated success in facilitation, training, and TA for health systems leaders and providers.
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior government officials, NGO partners, donor agencies and community/facility partners.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

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