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Job Summary/Responsibilities:

• The Technical Advisor, Child and Adolescent Health will work closely with the program team, under the leadership of the Senior Technical Advisor, Integrated Health Service Delivery to execute the following responsibilities:

• Lead the technical direction of the regional activities related to evidence-based child and adolescent health programming, including immunization, for facility and community-level interventions, based on local and global best practices.

• Provide strategic leadership on child and adolescent health policy and programming in ways that are sensitive and beneficial and in harmony with other child and adolescent health projects and coordinating mechanisms.

• Contribute to program/project design, implementation, learning, and monitoring and evaluation through active collaboration with project teams and GoU structures at central, regional, district and facility levels.

• Oversee the selection of appropriate child and adolescent health technical assistance interventions to meet national, regional, district, facility and community needs.

• Provide guidance and technical support in alignment with GoU RMNCH policies and strategies, including USAID development priorities.

• Lead the development and refinement of child and adolescent health capacity strengthening and quality improvement project inputs (trainings/mentoring/coaching, tools, guidelines, and standards) to support GoU interventions.

• Contribute to the learning agenda by identifying information gaps in child and adolescent health and immunization that could be filled by secondary data analysis, literature reviews, field testing of new approaches, and collaborative learning events, and lead technical inputs on learning activities related to child health, immunization, and adolescent health.

• Build the child health, adolescent health, and immunization technical capacity of regional, district, and facility teams through technical updates, training, exchange visits, literature sharing, and mentorship.

• Actively engage in networks and forums to support GoU RMNCH priorities and promote involvement of multiple government sectors, donors, and the private sector in child health and adolescent health related initiatives.

• Maintain diplomatic and high-quality interactions and clear and consistent communications internally and with partners.