Technical Coordinator-Adolescent MNH

Duty Station: Tatopani Rural Municipality
Reports to: Program Coordinator
Staff Reporting: Field Officer-Adolescent MNH
Contract Length: 3 Year year’s

About Project

In response to Adolescent MNH related challenges and opportunities and using Save the Children’s global expertise and learning in adolescent MNH, the Adolescent MNH project propose to work closely with adolescents, local partners, and the Nepali government to improve the ability of pregnant and parenting adolescents and their newborns to survive and thrive. The project, which we will call Action aMNH until a Nepali name is co-created with adolescents, will work in four municipalities across three districts (Jajarkot, Kalikot, and Jumla) in Karnali province. These districts and municipalities overlap with Save the Children’s SAHAYATRA project, which we plan to build on, and are among the most vulnerable communities in Karnali province.

Theme/ Programme

• Objective 1: Improve pregnant and parenting adolescents’ MNH knowledge, skills, and behaviors.
• Objective 2: Improve the quality and respectfulness of antenatal care, delivery, postnatal care, and postpartum family planning services for pregnant and parenting adolescents.
• Objective 3: Increase the meaningful engagement of adolescents in the mechanisms by which communities hold health services accountable for meeting their needs and rights.

Role Purpose:

Under the direct supervision of Program Coordinator, the Technical Coordinator is responsible to provide technical leadership and support to adolescent MNH project at District/ Palika level and provide overall technical backstopping with a specific focus on leading the quality-of-care component of the project including capacity transfer to the project team and government counterparts. Key role includes:

KEY Reponsibilities

• Responsible to coordinate with relevant government stakeholders at local level and other partners
• primarily working in the field of adolescent MNH to enhance collaborative implementation responsive to the needs of Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents.
• Conduct technical monitoring and provide technical guidance/coaching and backstopping and provide timely feedback to field level Adolescent MNH related project team.
• Coordinate closely with SAHAYATRA-III health team and other SC project and with other actors beyond project working on improving MNH situation and develop collaboration with them to create synergies and deliver better results.
• Lead the implementation of Minimum Service Standard (MSS) to identify key gaps and facilitate to develop and implementation of action plan.
• Lead the implementation of onsite coaching and mentoring for health service providers including facilitating institutionalization of simulation-based mentoring at Palika level.
• Lead the training need assessment and support Palikas in developing training plans to enhance readiness to deliver MNH services.
• Lead and engage in local level advocacy to leverage resources for quality Adolescent MNH services.
• Ensure documentation of high-quality progress reports, best practices, learning/challenges of the project.

Project reporting and documentation

• Prepared monthly project tracking and quarterly, semi-annually, and annual report and submit to program coordinator and save the children and updating the information related to the project.
• Support to develop case studies/success story, action photos, learning, and challenges for the program documentation. Submit field monitoring reports to program Manager.
• Preparation support to submit event reports, data base along with indicator surveys. Undertaken field visits for monitoring and supervision of program personnel.
• Share the field visit reports to the line manager with area to be improved and betterment.
• Work closely with MEAL& Documentation Officer to ensure the project progress is in track and quality set in the project documents are met.
• Initiate corrective actions based on the feedback from MEAL & Documentation Officer.

Required qualification, skill, and experience

Master’s in nursing, midwifery, and medicine with 2 years (1 years for GEDSI group) of experience in maternal and neonatal health sector or bachelor’s in nursing, midwifery, and medicine with 4 years (2 years for GEDSI) of experience in implementation of onsite coaching and mentoring is highly preferred.

Additional job responsibilities

The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the Post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Safeguarding obligation

We need to keep children, adult at risk and community safe. The position holder is responsible to ensure that the position holder conduct is in line with the KIRDARC and SCI’s Safeguarding policies. Hence our selection process includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children, adult at risk and community from abuse, exploitation, and harassment

Safeguarding our Staff

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the KIRDARC and SCI anti harassment policy.