Job title: Director-Nursing & Midwifery
Company: Jhpiego
Job description: Jhpiego is a nonprofit global health leader and Johns Hopkins University affiliate that is saving lives, improving health, and transforming futures. We partner with governments, health experts, and local communities to build the skills and systems that guarantee a healthier future for women and families. Jhpiego translates the best science and practice into moments of care that can mean the difference between life and death for women and families. The moment a woman gives birth; the moment a midwife helps a newborn to breathe. Our partnerships are revolutionizing health care for the world’s most disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
In India, Jhpiego works across various states in close collaboration with national and state governments, providing technical assistance in the areas of family planning, maternal and child health, strengthening human resources for health, and non-communicable diseases. These projects are funded by USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), MSD for Mothers, and others.
Jhpiego is hiring for the position of Director-Nursing & Midwifery based in New Delhi for providing technical assistance to all Human Resources for Health initiatives, including all Nursing and Midwifery projects. The position will provide strategic vision and technical leadership to the portfolio.
Responsibilities
Nurses and midwives constitute the largest group of healthcare workers globally and stand to make a significant impact on furthering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the global push towards universal health coverage (UHC), and expansion of primary care services. However, the nursing and midwifery professions have been historically under-represented within forums setting global, national, and local health agendas.
Given its long history of supporting midwifery professionals and organizations, Jhpiego is uniquely qualified to enhance the impact of both nurses and midwives in healthcare delivery. Director-Nursing & Midwifery will focus on promoting the clinical, professional, and leadership capacity of its nurses and midwives, as well as nurse/midwife-led care in Jhpiego programs aligned closely with Jhpiego’s global and country-level vision for nursing and midwifery.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide assigned project oversight and technical assistance to the project staff for implementing technically sound interventions while building their capacity in the required areas
- Develop budgets, monitor expenditures, and maintain good financial stewardship of the projects
- Prepare a learning agenda for the project in collaboration with the project, knowledge management, and MEL teams
- Guide implementation of knowledge management and communications plans to ensure that key project achievements and lessons learned are documented and disseminated.
- Demonstrate evidence-based clinical practices and values needed to change historical practices, as required
- Encourage innovations and best practices
- Lead the development of donor progress reports
- Build excellent working relationships with all key stakeholders in the ministry of health and other ministries at the state level
- Ensure timely implementation of assigned project activities as per the agreed project workplan at the national and state level
- Provide programmatic and technical inputs for the projects from international and national staff, partners, and short-term consultants to ensure smooth implementation
- Oversee and support the development of all nursing and midwifery-related technical and learning materials as per Jhpiego guidelines
- Ensure compliance with Jhpiego policies, systems, and processes
- Represent Jhpiego at various meetings and conduct advocacy for the assigned projects
- Undertake all other activities, as required for the project and assigned by the supervisor
Required Qualifications
Abilities/Skills:
- Ability to work with a diverse technical team
- Ability to multitask and work in a multicultural environment
- Ability to drive the vision and manage a diverse set of team members, mentoring them and providing management oversight to all the teams
- Excellent diplomacy skills, and a proven ability to establish, and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with government, donors, and other key stakeholders
- Ability to coach, mentor, and develop technical capacity in state and regional projects and technical staff
- Ability to handle a variety of assignments under competing timelines
- Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to travel at least 30% of the time
Qualification:
- Advanced degree in Nursing; an additional degree in management desired
- 12-15 years of professional experience working in healthcare, and nursing & midwifery projects
- At least 3-5 years of previous experience leading small to medium grants in a similar role
- Extensive experience working with counterparts at various levels of government and the non-government sector in managing international development assistance projects
- Strong technical expertise, good management skills, and extraordinary communication skills
- Demonstrated outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, organizational, team-building, and representational skills
- Familiarity with the Indian health system, newer initiatives in the health sector, relevant government policies, and strategies, particularly national and state-level health missions
Jhpiego offers a highly dynamic and enabling work environment and provides competitive compensation based on experience and background. Interested candidates should submit their updated CV with a cover letter to
’Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.’’
Expected salary:
Location: India
Job date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:05:52 GMT
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