Human Resources for Health Lead

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs and implements activities to improve HRH availability, distribution, and skills to meet the health sector needs with specific emphasis on primary health care and: Family Planning/Reproductive Health (FP/RH), Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health (MNCAH) and Nutrition.
• Provides technical assistance to central and municipal stakeholders to institutionalize HRH governance and planning, monitoring, analysis and forecasting of health workforce needs, workload analysis and HRH data management and utilization.
• Establishes strong relationship with the key MOH stakeholders to ensure activities are tailored to the specific needs and local context.
• Supports integration of the community health workforce into formal systems.
• Supports efforts to identify skills gaps and learning opportunities to advance the management skills, ethics and professionalism of health workers.
• Liaises with professional associations, the HRH council and other key stakeholders to develop strategies to disseminate scopes of practice and key guidelines.
• Contributes to the formulation of project strategy and work plans.
• Contributes to relevant project documentation and reporting.
• Other duties as assigned by the Country Director.

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced clinical degree (e.g. medical or nursing) with experience in clinical training.
• Experience with standards setting for clinical professions, highly preferred.
• Minimum 5 years' experience and technical expertise in HRH programs and understanding of best practices in health workforce allocation.
• Strong understanding of current government HRH priorities, standards, resources, and systems in Timor-Leste.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English and preferably in Tetum.

Apply at https://palladium.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/21905