District Specialist Community Health-RMNCH+N will closely work with district and block level officers of Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Child Development to strengthen and improve family planning, maternal health, newborn health and nutrition outputs and outcomes in his/her allocated geography with a particular focus on community based interventions for improving the availability, utilization and quality of Family planning, Maternal, Newborn & Child health, and Nutrition related services below AAM-PHC Level
S/he will design and monitor mentoring and capacity building support to CHO, ANM, ASHA, AWW and their supervisory structure on RMNCH and nutrition intervention, digital recording and tracking of clients and other responsibilities as deemed fit
Key Responsibilities:
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
Technical:
Consolidate IHAT s community health approaches, programme performance, and stakeholder feedback to inform organizational strategy on community health initiatives.
Improve coverage, utilization and quality of Integrated Village Health and Nutrition Days (iVHND) in the geographical area.
Improve tracking of High-Risk Pregnancy s (HRP, Low Birth Weight newborns and Severe Acute Malnourished (SAM) children.
Design and implement solutions to reduce home deliveries pockets in the geographical areas.
Roll out of digital health and nutrition applications in the designated geographies.
S/he will work in coordination with the key district and block personnel of Department of Health and Family Welfare (DHFW) and Department of Bal Vikas Seva evam Pushtahar (ICDS) in the allocated district to support implementation of health and nutrition programs of GoUP.
S/he will support the health and ICDS officials in strengthening existing service delivery, capacity building, review, home visits platforms and community interventions on RMNCH+N thematic areas.
S/he will support the district health and ICDS officials in planning, rolling-out and strengthening the activities under RMNCH and Nutrition
S/he will be responsible for and support the priority community interventions related to health and nutrition, like LBWs, HRP tracking, SAM children, Maternal weight gain, Integrated VHND and reducing home deliveries etc.
S/he will support other innovations and new initiatives
S/he will provide regular feedback to the government counterparts based on the field observation, facilitate gaps filling in availability of drugs, equipment and logistics at service delivery platforms
S/he will prioritize geographies based on available evidence on RMNCH+ N and support Block Outreach Coordinator (BOC)to plan and roll out activities accordingly, in addition to ongoing mentoring support.
S/he will organize monthly review meetings with BOC and explore possible solutions to the gaps identified and follow up on addressing the same.
S/he will actively participate in District level meetings and highlight progress, success stories and areas of improvement for appropriate action from the district administration.
S/he coordinate with the District Senior Specialist/District FP Specialist at the district level to strengthen community-facility-community linkages
S/he will maintain good working relationships government officials, and other development partners working in the district to strengthen RMNCH and Nutrition related community interventions
S/he will conduct joint field visits with district and block health and ICDS officials for strengthening supportive supervision mechanism
S/he will actively participate in PIP development process and development of District Health Action Plans and support in rollout of the same.
S/he will support transition and sustainability of successful interventions of IHAT-UPTSU to GoUP with support of State teams
S/he will provide timely updates about activities in the district through program monitoring reports, surveys, documentation of gaps, learnings and success stories
S/he will support rollout of Implementation Research (IR) initiatives in the district.
Any other work assigned by the line manager.
Work Experience:
At least 3 years of experience working with RMNCH/ Nutrition preferably in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Previous exposure to working with the government/ development agency in community-based interventions will be preferred.
The candidate must have Master s degree in Social Sciences/ Rural Development/ Public Health/
