Cluster HRH Coordinators (6 Positions)

About the Ethiopian Midwives Association

The Ethiopian Midwives Association (EMwA) is a professional association established in 1992 to advance the midwifery profession and improve access to and the quality of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) services in Ethiopia. EMwA is committed to empowering midwives through comprehensive education, continuing professional development (CPD), and leadership opportunities, while strengthening health systems by promoting the integration of midwife-led care into health policies, programs, and community-based services. Through these efforts, EMwA strives to ensure equitable and universal access to high-quality, evidence-based maternal and reproductive health services for all.

We are recruiting six Cluster HRH Project Coordinators, one for each cluster station, to lead Human Resources for Health (HRH) project activities in the cluster.

About the position

The Cluster Human Resources for Health (HRH) Project Coordinator will support the Jhpiego-led HRH Project funded by the U.S. Department of State in which EMwA is sub granted.  The primary purpose of this position is to strengthen health workforce management across the healthcare system, primarily within the public sector while supporting select private sector engagements at the local government authority level. Specifically, the role will focus on enhancing pre- and in-service education for multidisciplinary health cadres, building capacity in Leadership, Management, and Governance (LMG), and strengthening overall human resource planning, development, and management. The Woreda HRH Health System Strengthening Officer supports the implementation of an integrated HRH interventions that strengthen woreda and health facilities’ leadership, governance, management, and workforce systems, while institutionalizing data-driven HRH planning, learning, and decision-making to create the organizational and institutional conditions necessary for health professionals to perform effectively and deliver high-quality health services. This will include providing support to improve organizational structure and staffing, HR leadership and governance development; evidence-based planning for human resources; strengthening integrated Human Resources Information System (iHRIS), effective HR management including recruitment, deployment, motivation, and retention; and health education and health workforce regulation.

Key Duties and responsibilities

Under the guidance and leadership of the Project manager, Cluster Human Resources for Health(HRH) Project coordinator are expected to strengthen the Regional and  Woreda Health Offices (WoHOs), and their respective Primary Health Care Units (PHCUs) capacity to manage and improve their health workforce capacity, productivity, retention, and service quality while ensuring alignment with national HRH and PHC priorities. S/he will contribute to organizational and human resources management capacity assessments, program learning, monitoring and evaluation and research.

• Prepare activity plans, progress reports and success stories of the project at the respected Clusters.
• Support the process of Compiling, standardize and disseminate competency-based education and assessment packages to target HEIs through on-site orientation.
• Coordinate activities to review National Licensure Examination (NLE) results, identify competency gaps, share accreditation experiences and define priority PSE actions.
• Provide need-based, competency-based blended CPD for target woredas.
• Coach and mentors selected health facilities and health Science collages (HSCs) in hard-to-reach areas to establish Accredited CDP providers.
• Support organizational capacity strengthening based on OSCAR or equivalent organizational capacity assessments.
• Support income generation through local entrepreneurship and digital initiatives.
• Support CPD providers and Health facilities to plan, implement and Monitor Category II CPD activities.
• Support implementation of local capacity building, coaching, and mentorship on health workforce planning, forecasting of HR needs, leadership, governance, and management capacity and other HRH functions at Woreda and health facilities levels.
• Coordinate peer-to-peer learning across PHCUs
• Coordinate supportive supervision visits to health facilities on HRH function including on iHRIS implementation
• Support on public private partnership to have a comprehensive HR data from the private health facilities
• Arrange competency-based clinical attachments, with workplace application, for health care providers from low-performing PHCUs at high-performing referral facilities.
• Implement facility-to-facility clinical mentorship, supervised practice, digital learning and follow-up to improve performance in low-performing PHCUs.
• Support WoHO and PHCUs on HRH data collection, compilation analysis and use of HRH data for decision making
• Support on proper implementation of the iHRIS at woreda and facility level.
• Implement on medico-legal case reviews and semi-annual virtual orientations for WoHO and PHCU health care providers to strengthen ethical practice, patient safety and system improvement.
• Support regional health bureaus and Local CPD centers to use HRIS-based digital dashboards to monitor CPD accreditation, participation, completion, re-licensure compliance and competency development.
• Institutionalize use of the Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) Tool at facility level for workforce planning
• Implement innovative deployment, motivation, and retention schemes that address workforce shortages and high turnover rates.
• Perform other duties appropriate to the position as assigned by the Hub HRH Coordinator or his/her designate

Education:

• MSc in Midwifery, MSc/MPH with midwifery background or BSC in Midwifery.

Experience:

• at least 7 years (BSc) or 3 year (MSc) ,

Technical skills:

• knowledge of competency-based education, CPD accreditation, licensure and the Ethiopian health system; ability to use digital tools such as HRIS dashboards.

Core skills:

• training and facilitation, stakeholder coordination, reporting, and working independently in hard-to-reach areas.

Language:

• fluency in English and Local language of the duty station.

Assets:

• working experience in HRH, health professional education, CPD, clinical mentorship or health program coordination, being a member of EMwA and experience in the cluster region preferred.

Other:

• willingness to travel frequently within the cluster.