Senior Technical Advisor
SM Healthcare Placements is inviting applications from suitably qualified individuals for the position of Senior Technical Advisor in Durban, Kwazulu Natal for an exciting role within an International NGO in the health care field.
This is a position to provide technical guidance, support and coordination of quality improvement activities for HIV projects in the programs. The incumbent will support teams to effectively design, implement, document and report quality improvement activities using a data driven focus that sets priorities for improvements aligned to on-going strategic imperatives.
To apply:
Interested applicants should send to kzn@smhealthcareplacements.co.za
Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.
The following are the qualifications, experience, knowledge and attributes requirements:
Education, Training and Experience
- MBCHB, Post graduate qualification in health management and/or public health oriented field, statistics, and health informatics or related social science from an accredited institution.
- Valid driver’s license and own transport.
- Must be willing to travel internationally at short notice and must have valid passport.
- Minimum of 10 years’ public sector experience, including in a senior management role.
- Post graduate qualification in Public Health, Health Policy, Health services management, or related field.
- Clinical expertise and experience managing complex operational research projects.
- Demonstrable knowledge and skills in implementation of QI interventions and management of QI data
- Knowledge of DOH healthcare systems and structures including familiarity with policies, programme priorities and regulations.
- Experience working in a donor funded environment particularly under PEPFAR funding.
- Fluency in one or more national South African languages.
- Exceptional strategic thinking and an ability to analyse and synthesise data from a range of sources.
- Exceptional Interpersonal skills with a strong ability to develop beneficial relationships and networks in order to achieve results.
- Excellent communication and writing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects while working as part of a team; Conflict handling, decision making, strong negotiation skills and resilience.
Key performance areas
- Build capacity for quality improvement through institutionalising the use of quality improvement methods to improve service delivery and client outcomes through training, onsite coaching and support supervision.
- Support the development of systems for continuous learning, quality improvement methods and tools.
- Document innovations and support the scale up successful approaches.
- Align and evaluate programme key performance areas against the organisational goals and objectives
- Support teams in the design and implementation of programme interventions and strengthening of all components in current programmes.
- Establishes a continuous performance and quality improvement effort and monitoring and reporting system. Regularly reports the status of performance and quality improvement efforts and impacts.
- Coordinate the successful implementation of programme activities to ensure that the programmes meet set targets in accordance with national and PEPFAR standards.
- Support new funding opportunities, including concept development, technical writing, and technical review of new proposals.
- Consult on and support the monitoring and evaluation and operations research activities to document the outcomes and impact of tge programmes, as well as in the identification of priority research and evaluation questions.
- Maintain on-going collaborations, participation in technical forums, and regular communications with stakeholders as relevant.
Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Applicants, who have not been contacted within 2 - 3 weeks of the closing date, should assume that their application has not been successful.
SM Healthcare Placements is an equal opportunity employer.
