FIELD PROGRAM MANAGER

Project Overview

Jhpiego is implementing a five-year Urban Health Activity in Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Activity aims to strengthen urban health systems and improve equitable health outcomes among all urban dwellers by working with districts, municipalities, and the Kampala Capital City Authority to provide quality primary healthcare services. It also focuses on optimizing available resources and enhancing private sector capacity to ensure sustainable improvements in health outcomes and a more resilient urban healthcare system. The Activity will address poor quality of care, congestion in public health facilities, uncoordinated referral system, weak community and surveillance structures, limited private sector capacity, and gaps in enabling environment results in poor health outcomes. The project's key expected results include the following: improved access to and use of quality, maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH), family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), nutrition, and malaria services and improved disease outbreak response.  

Position Purpose 

The District Manager will oversee project implementation in the district of jurisdiction including municipalities therein. The District Manager will be based at the district (Mukono or Wakiso) and will provide management and technical leadership to project activities, ensuring strong partnership with district and municipal authorities, health management teams, private health sector and fostering coordination as well as synergy with other projects operating within the district.  The District Manager will promote programmatic and clinical excellence and innovative approaches in building highly skilled and functioning public and private health workforce ready to offer quality RMNCAH, nutrition, IPC/WASH, family planning, and malaria services in the district. The district manager will strengthen the district’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies. The District Manager will provide leadership in the development, management and implementation of project activities leading to desired project results.  The district manager will determine the needs for technical assistance from project teams and request such assistance in a timely way. The district manager will oversee operations of the district office and directly supervises the district-based project teams.  S/He is responsible for ensuring project objectives are met and results are achieved. 

Applications will be shortlisted on rolling basis. 

• Establishes and maintains partnerships with district authorities and health management teams as well as develop and implement program activities. 

• Ensures timely technical assistance in RMNCAH, nutrition, IPC/WASH, malaria services and management of public health emergencies. 

• Leads the district office team to develop evidence-based work plans to achieve project goal and objectives 

• Coordinates with the Kampala Local Maternity and Newborn System (LMNS) to improve delivery of services and referral pathways. 

• Leads regular technical meetings with the district and the project’s main office team to review program implementation and identify measures to overcome implementation challenges and enhance quality services.  

• Accountable for the delivery of strategic program objectives at the district level, with regular reporting on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis.  

• Supervises staff assigned to the district project office and manages daily operations to ensure achievement of  program objectives, including mentorship and coaching for the team.  

• Ensures staff and partners comply with Jhpiego, USG and GOU policies, laws, rules and regulations. 

• Work with the USG funded and other Green Cities CSOs to plan, implement and monitor climate health interventions. 

• Coordinates and supervises CSOs receiving innovative grants in the district 

• Supports the project M&E team and district/municipal health information staff to increase HMIS reporting by both the public and private sector. 

• Develop a district level stakeholder matrix and communication plan to leverage interventions and resources from other stakeholders. 

• Represents the Urban Health Activity at the district level and any other forum as required.  

• Implements other duties as assigned by the supervisor. 

• Master's degree in public health with a degree in Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Nutrition, pharmacy, social sciences or equivalent. MBA is an added advantage. 

Experience and Skills 

• Demonstrated experience of not less than eight (8) years of working on donor-funded health programs with a preference for experience in RMNCAH and management position.  

• Must have atleast 4 years of supervisory experience in an INGO. 

• Deep understanding of Uganda’s health system at the national, district and community levels 

• Proven professional experience working on or supporting work within the target districts, public and private health facilities.  

• Experience of supporting private health institutions to increase access to health care and understanding of their pain points. 

• Experience of supporting integrated service delivery, quality improvement and data use in health care 

• Proven leadership skills and expertise in the management of health programs and fostering teamwork.  

• Familiarity with USAID or other USG administrative, management and reporting procedures/systems.  

•  Strong interpersonal communication, teamwork, partnering, negotiation and consensus building skills.  

• Ability to prioritize amongst competing demands with minimal supervision.  

• Willingness to travel within the Kampala metropolitan area.  

• Computer literacy in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.  

• Good oral and written English communication skills required.