Overview
Provide technical assistance to integrate Maternal Health, midwifery, SRHR, and family planning interventions into Sierra Leone’s Global Fund Cycle 8 funding request.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct a desk review of national strategies and Global Fund guidelines.
- Map integration gaps in existing health service delivery points.
- Document the integration of RH/FP commodities into the GF-supported distribution system.
- Develop an Inception Report and roadmap.
- Facilitate national and sub-national dialogues with key stakeholders.
- Gather inputs on bottlenecks preventing integrated care.
- Build technical consensus on prioritized interventions.
- Support the drafting of integrated interventions within the GC8 Funding Request Form.
- Incorporate human rights, gender-transformative, and community-led components.
- Formulate and incorporate community health systems interventions.
- Position SRHR/MNH interventions to leverage GC8 catalytic matching-fund windows.
- Collaborate with costing and health economics experts.
- Present draft integrated sections at national validation workshops.
- Address feedback from stakeholders and review panels.
- Provide a final assignment report.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive professional experience in managing or advising public health programs, specifically focusing on Maternal Health or SRHR.
- Demonstrated experience in drafting successful Global Fund Funding Requests or managing Global Fund-supported programming.
- Experience in working with the UN, Ministry of Health, NGOs and/or development partner institutions.
- Deep familiarity with the Global Fund's architectural frameworks, specifically the Cycle 7 / Cycle 8 Modular Frameworks.
- Prior experience working within sub-Saharan Africa, with specific experience in Sierra Leone’s healthcare landscape considered a distinct advantage.
- Proven capacity to facilitate multi-stakeholder dialogues under compressed timelines.
- Strong analytical skills with a track record of translating epidemiological and financial data into strategic national programmatic text.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Public Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, Global Health Policy, or a closely related social science field.
