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Company | Jhpiego |
Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
Category | Public Health |
Location | Tamale |
Job Status | Full-time |
Salary | GH¢ |
Education | Medical/Clini... |
Experience | N/A |
Job Expires | Jul 08, 2022 |
Contact | ... |
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Company Profile Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University. For 50 years and over and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Job Description
Job Overview Jhpiego is seeking a Senior Advisor to provide technical leadership for the COVID-19 response in Ghana. Under the USAID-funded RISE project, Jhpiego is supporting Ghana Health Services (GHS) to prevent, detect and respond to COVID-19. A significant focus of our work is accelerating and strengthening the technical and operational capacity of GHS’s local healthcare workers to deliver high quality COVID-19 vaccination services. This includes the provision of technical assistance around COVID vaccination campaign preparedness activities, campaign implementation, and post campaign monitoring and evaluation of performance. The Senior Advisor will guide the team on where to prioritize resource allocation toward the implementation of high quality, safe and effective vaccination activities with an aim to reduce the impact of the pandemic on Ghana’s Health System and the communities. The Senior Advisor will be responsible for ensuring technical and operational rigor in the planning and scaled execution of COVID-19 vaccination campaign activities being implemented at the national, regional, district and facility level. This includes providing technical assistance towards ensuring equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines, ensuring access to the most vulnerable communities in the 7 regions RISE is supporting, which involves ensuring improved coordination and communication amongst the regional, district and sub-district teams as well as frontline health workers. Additionally, liaising regularly with GHS Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI), USAID/Ghana, and other partners regarding technical strategy, monitoring and evaluation of project milestones and targets. The Senior Technical Advisor for Immunizations will work closely with the National EPI team in COVID-19 vaccination programme (Covax) and provide technical assistance towards updating of the National Vaccine Deployment plans, Regional and District level micro-plans and participating in relevant technical working groups. Duties and Responsibilities
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