Regional Clinical Advisor-Jigjiga

Overall Objectives for the Job

Provide comprehensive clinical support to Regional Health Bureaus, Zonal and Woreda Health Offices and health facilities under the Presidents Malaria initiatives (PMI) funded Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment (MDT) Activity. Reporting to the regional program manager, the regional clinical advisor is responsible for supporting improvement of quality of malaria case management across MDT activity supported health facilities in the respective region.

Major duties and responsibilities:

The incumbent will be responsible to provide technical supports to the case management activities in the following areas:

Provide technical assistance for regional planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of malaria diagnosis and case management activities.

Assist development and/or review of support tools to improve fever case management.

Conducting baseline and follow up assessment on malaria diagnosis and case management activities.

Assist development of MDT training materials and conducting onsite and offsite trainings

Assist design of quality assurance program for fever case management and facilitate its implementation at the supported health facilities

Provide regular supportive supervision and mentorship to regional and woreda malaria programs and facility clinical staff on fever case management

Participate in the regular regional technical working group meetings

Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor

Minimum Qualifications & Requirements

MD with at least two years of experience in clinical practice

Experience in conducting trainings, supervisions, and clinical mentorship

Experience in development and review of documents related to clinical case management services

Ability to work in team with good team spirit

Computer skills (Word, Power point, Spread sheet, etc