Technical support for effective planning and integration of adolescent health:

• Work closely with RBC/MCCH team to plan and develop strategies for high impact interventions related to adolescents’ health and well-being at the facility, school, and community levels, ensuring inclusion, gender equity, integration, innovation, scale, and sustainability.
• Provide technical oversight, strategic direction and ensure appropriate support for quality implementation and scale of integrated and gender responsive adolescent health programmes.
• Support and oversee the formulation of comprehensive service packages, tools, and SOPs for scaling up inclusive and gender-responsive adolescent health services ensuring alignment with national policies, strategies, and guidelines (e.g., HSSP5, RMNCAH, FP/ASRH, YFS Guidelines), leveraging digital health solutions where applicable.
• Oversee capacity-building activities among health care providers, school counselors/teachers, and community level agents (e.g., community health workers, youth volunteers) in inclusive and gender-responsive adolescent and youth-friendly service provision in collaboration with districts and partner organizations.
• Develop a framework to monitor progress of implementation of work plan activities related to adolescent health, ensuring that activities are executed according to plan, positively effecting key indicators, and that any issues are flagged and addressed through planning with team members and adjusting implementation approaches.
• Support capacity strengthening in adolescent-specific data, age and sex disaggregated data collection, analysis and use to inform evidence-based adolescent health interventions at both service delivery and community level and provide data-driven insights to improve indicator availability and influence decision-making at national level.
• Contribute to the development of policy briefs, technical reports, and publications on adolescent health issues and to the documentation and dissemination of lessons learned, best practices, and success stories to inform policy and programming at the national and global levels.

Coordination and leadership

• Work collaboratively with UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA and UNAIDS, other MOH/ RBC divisions (e.g., mental health), and sectoral ministries such as ministries of youth and education, to ensure good coordination and efficient programming and management of the adolescent health program.
• Provide technical support for the coordination and harmonization of the adolescent health programme, including strengthening and broadening the scope of the ASRH TWG to holistically address adolescent health issues across MoH/RBC departments and other relevant government line ministries and institutions (NCDA, MINIYOUTH, MINEDUC & MIGEPROF).
• Effectively lead the engagement of adolescent boys and girls in decision making processes including policy dialogue and programming, as well as well as their meaningful participation in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of adolescent health programmes.
• Effectively involve local government, health care providers, civil society, religious leaders, to foster community-wide commitments, to strengthen actions and create an enabling environment at the community level to foster young people’s healthy behaviours, including the use of SBC and community outreach activities to increase awareness and demand for services.
• Coordinate data-driven advocacy and capacity-strengthening across key government sectors to ensure prioritization and integration of adolescent health considerations within national policy development, budgeting and M&E processes.

Requirements: 

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health, Epidemiology, Reproductive Health including clinical background (medical, nursing or midwifery). Having social sciences background would be of added value. Candidates with a first degree (Bachelors) in relevant fields may also be considered if they have at least 5 years of experience in related fields.
• At least 5 years of professional experience implementing and/or supporting reproductive health programmes at national or sub-national levels.
• Proven experience working with and for adolescents and young people, and track record of successful implementation of similar programmes in Rwanda.
• Demonstrate a commitment to gender equality and the ability to integrate gender perspectives into health programmes, ensuring that both male and female adolescents benefit equally from health services and interventions.
• Experience to mentor health providers using competency-based approaches, as well as experience in training health workers in clinical aspects related to adolescent health.
• Ability to work with senior MoH officials, executive of civil society organizations, senior members of development partners on adolescent health issues including SRHR.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the Rwandan Health care system.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and develop technical capacity in national programmes and technical staff in adolescent health.
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills in English and Kinyarwanda. The knowledge of French language is of added value.
• Strong skills in word processing, excel spreadsheets and power point presentation.