Organization: Health Builders
Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Eligible Citizenship: Rwanda
Application Code: R04-Nat
Job Function: Monitoring and Evaluation / Quality Improvement, Program / Project Management
Issue Area: Health Systems Strengthening / Healthcare Access
About
Health Builders believes that health is at the heart of human progress. Our vision is for all people to have access to high quality healthcare, allowing them to live dignified, healthy, and prosperous lives. All of Health Builders’ work revolves around the following values:
- Individual dignity, compassion, and respect for everyone's basic human right to health
- A commitment to community, sustainability through local engagement
- Honesty and transparency, partnerships built on mutual trust
- A standard of excellence, efficiency with strong leadership
Understanding good health as a fundamental driver of economic growth and development, our mission is to strengthen management of health systems and build health care infrastructure. We accomplish our mission through three pillars of work:
- Advancing health management. Our team works with district and health center staff to provide hands-on technical assistance and supportive supervision in eight key areas: human resources, infrastructure, financial management, community health insurance management, pharmacy logistics, health information systems, planning and coordination, and information technology.
- Developing health infrastructure. We fill infrastructure gaps by initiating and overseeing the construction of state-of-the-art, modern health centers where they currently do not exist. Health Builders also works with existing facilities to become fully functional, ensuring quality health care for surrounding communities.
- Supporting technology for health. We work with partners on the ground to ensure that systems-level technology solutions are effective, sustainable, and scalable. Our aim is to increase access to health services for improved health outcomes through initiatives such as safe water sources, medical oxygen distribution and usage, and solar power at health facilities.
Position Overview
The Clinical Services Associate will primarily support Health Builders’ work in advancing health management activities as they apply to improved provision of basic, primary health care. This includes assessing basic nursing and health provider performance at the health center level, and helping our staff to refine, implement, and assess a series of interventions aimed at improving neonatal, child, and maternal health outcomes. The Clinical Services Associate may also be asked to support our work in advancing health management by advising field-based staff on how to refine health center-based management interventions, supporting monitoring and evaluation efforts, and providing oversight to ensure the efficacy of our health system strengthening efforts. Across all work, s/he shall seek out opportunities to build the technical capacity of our staff in clinical knowledge, quantitative, analytical, and organizational skills for lasting sustainability.
Responsibilities
Support the advancement of any clinical components of ongoing programs, which may include:
- Developing, coordinating, and assessing clinical application trainings or clinical supervision as they apply to current/ongoing grants
- Monitoring and evaluation (e.g. developing tools, conducting baseline and impact assessments, compiling best practices and lessons learned, etc.)
- Preparing work plans, reports, and other project management materials as needed
- Representing Health Builders to key stakeholders
Work with staff to develop and streamline management intervention tools across six interventions districts. This area of work may include:
- Developing and improving data collection and management systems at the district, health center, and/or hospital level, with a focus on key health indicators, ensuring regular, high-quality data collection and analysis, and timely, strategic response to reporting
- Improving systems for maternal and child health programs including pharmacy procurement, forecasting, and distribution
Provide oversight on monitoring and evaluation systems, including assisting with data collection and analysis, revising current tools, and using evidence to inform interventions and outcomes.
Desired Skills and Experience
Items indicated with an asterisk (*) are required- Bachelor’s degree*
- Preferred: Master’s degree in public health or related field, nursing degree or medical degree
- Clinical background or experience: familiarity with basic nursing applications and clinical settings*
- Ability to work in French and/or Kinyarwanda*
- Ability to work as part of a team, but also capable of working independently and taking initiative without significant oversight*
- Prepared to travel extensively in-country*
- Comfortable living and working in rural, low resource settings*
- Extraordinary flexibility and innovation in unexpected situations
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, coordination, and communication skills (inclusive of verbal, written, listening, presentation, and facilitation skills with comfort in a training role)
- Proficiency using email
- Experience in clinical training and curricula development, experience in nursing education a plus
- Experience in community based training or assessment programs
- Strong interest and prior experience in global public health programming, particularly in primary health and maternal and child health initiatives
- Prior exposure to global public health and/or development issues
Fellowship Logistics
During the fellowship year, all fellows are provided with:
- A living stipend of $650/month
- Housing and utilities
- Health insurance
- A professional development grant of $600
- An award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year
- Travel costs covered to and from placement site, training and retreats
*Note: The living stipend and the completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.
Living and Working in Rwanda: Fellows are provided with basic housing and a utilities stipend during the fellowship year. GHC coordinates housing for fellows in shared apartments or houses that meet GHC's safety standards. Fellows at Health Builders will be housed in Kigali, an urban city and capital of Rwanda. National fellows have the option to remain in their own housing and receive a supplemental housing stipend.
