Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 22 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose
On Call Africa is looking for a Project Officer to support the implementation of our Facility-Based Quality Improvement Project (FQIP).
Project Information
Facility-Based Quality Improvement Project (F-QIP):
Facility-Based Quality Improvement Project aims to:
1. Support the MoH towards its strategic goal of developing, piloting, and building evidence for a model rural-health system.
2. Co-develop a MOH-led standardized tool and process for rural health facility quality improvement which informs district and provincial planning.

Project Outcomes:
1. Existing and emerging standards for Rural Healthcare Facilities (RHF) are collated into a simple tool to support MoH assessments of RHFs.
2. Standardised approaches to MOH-led assessments and QI roadmap development, prioritisation and implementation are developed.
3. Strengthened relationship, collaboration and communication between district and provincial health offices to drive quality improvement and supervise and train healthcare workers
4. Evidence collected and shared to inform MoH policy and practice.

Main Duties of Project Officer
The FQIP Project Officer will be expected to contribute to efforts of project management; project delivery; partnerships; and other tasks including: Participate in FQIP and broader programme review meetings; donor reporting; internal reporting; M&E; respond to requests for information from stakeholders as required; undertake other professional tasks as reasonably requested by the Programme Manager.
The FQIP Project Officer will also be responsible for:
• Support facility- and community-led rural health system assessments
Lead on the training and capacity building of health workers and community based volunteers
• Collaborate with other programme teams to support our holistic approach to strengthening rural health systems
• Maintain and strengthen relationships and engagements with DHOs
• Develop activity budgets and submit relevant requests and retirements to deliver these activities
• Support monthly planning and forecasting
• Coordinate and manage the collection, analysis and interpretation of field data and preparation of reports
• Support the development and quarterly updating of project implementation plans and reforecasts
• Review monthly expenditure reports and vehicle log books to ensure expenditure and mileage is coded accurately
• Deliver project activities in accordance with project implementation plans
• Coordinate periodic impact assessments and evaluations of our programmatic work in partnership with the Impact and Communications team
• Support the Programme Manager to complete reporting documentation required internally and externally
• Support programme staff to fulfil their role in respect to Monitoring & Evaluation, especially to use monitoring tools including software for data collection and analysis
• Conduct regular monitoring initiatives and produce clear documentation of findings
• Support OCA staff and partners to use M&E and other research findings to improve programme performance (outcomes)
• Support fundraising, partners and field staff to generate and disseminate relevant case studies from our operational areas of successes and lessons from our work

Experience and Technical Skills
• University degree in clinical studies, such as nursing, public health nursing or EHT.
• Public health experience
• Minimum three (3) years of experience with project implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting in the health sector. Preferably within rural health settings
• Strong understanding of the challenges faced in delivering quality healthcare to all in rural settings
• Experience in transferring knowledge (either formal training or knowledge management)
• Oral and written fluency in English
• Demonstrable intermediate skills in MS Office – Excel, Power Point, Access and Word
• Excellent knowledge of various planning tools, including log frames and Gantt charts
• Knowledge of DHIS2

Skills and Abilities
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Numeric Literacy
• Ability to schedule and manage tasks effectively, setting priorities and meeting deadlines including working under pressure and prioritising workload according to the changing needs of the programme
• Ability to apply conceptual, analytical and evaluative skills and identify potential issues
• Excellent writing and editing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills including motivational attitude
• Ability to work as part of a team and as such will be required to collaborate with staff across the organisation
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in Tonga
• Commitment to On Call Africa’s values and a working style that reflects these values

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
• To apply for this role, please use the link here to complete the online application form. You will be required to answer all questions and upload your CV. Applications must be submitted by 31st January 2024 at 17:00.
• Please note that CVs and cover letters submitted by email will not be considered for this role.

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