Organization: Health Builders
Location: Ngoma District, Rwanda
Eligible Citizenship: Rwanda
Application Code: R05-Nat
Job Function: Monitoring and Evaluation / Quality Improvement, Program / Project Management, Strategic Planning / Consulting
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 Management Services Associate will work closely with a team of Health Management Advisors to support Health Builders and its mission to strengthen Rwanda’s health systems. S/he will provide regular management performance evaluations and hands-on technical assistance to health facilities in different districts. The Management Services Associate will be responsible for advancing health management activities by advising healthcare professionals on how to refine health center-based management interventions, supporting monitoring and evaluation efforts, and providing oversight to ensure the efficacy of the organization’s health system strengthening efforts.
Responsibilities
Health management capacity building
- Mentor and coach districts in developing and implementing effective systems to manage financial resources, including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
- Assess health care staffing and training needs and assist in development of strategy to address those needs
- Build management capacity of health system staff
Quality improvement
- Improve the data management abilities at the district and health center level to ensure regular, high quality data collection and analysis, and timely, strategic response to reporting
- Develop methodologies for assessing and improving quality of district health care services, or enhancing existing methodologies
Program management
- Collaborate with community-based health insurance schemes to ensure that the population has sustainable financial access to health care services
- Support the development of action plans, budgets and procurement forecasts
- Identify and enhance key project management and reporting systems
- Identify and resolve implementation challenges
- Ensure alignment of project goals across relevant stakeholders
Special projects
- Build partnerships in the district health sector
- Serve as a liaison for Health Builders at the local and national level
- Carry out any other duties assigned by supervisors
Desired Skills and Experience
Items indicated with an asterisk (*) are required- Bachelor’s degree*
- Preferred: an advanced degree in health sciences, public health, management, finances or a related field, with coursework in business, management, statistics, health sciences, etc.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines*
- Excellent organizational skills and an ability to multitask*
- Minimum of two years in a similar role with a proven record in technical capacity building across different health interventions, ideally in rural communities in an African country
- Experience working effectively with Ministries of Health, NGO partners, local organizations, and government counterparts at all levels
- Strong team player and collaborator
- Strong attention to detail
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- Capacity building experience in hospitals or health centers
- 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; past experience living in Africa or other resource-poor settings
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, coordination, and communication skills (inclusive of verbal, written, listening, presentation and facilitation skills with comfort in a training role)
- Ability to work in French
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 Ngoma District, a peri-urban center in Rwanda. National fellows have the option to remain in their own housing and receive a supplemental housing stipend.