Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services - GL D - Defined duration until December 2026 (High Impact Africa 2 Department)
The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Publication date:
20 December 2024Workload:
100%- Place of work:Geneva
Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services - GL D - Defined duration until December 2026 (High Impact Africa 2 Department)
The Global Fund’s Grant Management Division (GMD), in collaboration with teams across the Global Fund Secretariat, is responsible for the overall management of the Global Fund’s grant investments at country and regional level, driving impact in implementing countries. It provides leadership and strategic direction to the Global Fund’s country operations and drives the translation of the GF strategy into operational milestones at global, regional, and country portfolio level, including signing grants, making disbursements, regular portfolio monitoring and oversight. It works in a complex and rapidly evolving environment with implementing partners, including Principal Recipients (PRs), sub-recipients (SRs), Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM), in-country health sector and humanitarian clusters, multiple stakeholders from public, private sectors and communities to drive success on the ground and manage the growth in portfolio investments value, expanding breadth and depth of program and systems strengthening interventions, sophistication of program design, data driven decision making, differentiated approaches, intensified program quality focus, introduction of new health products, services and interventions.
The Global Fund’s approach to ending HIV, TB and Malaria (HTM) is underpinned by investments in building resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH). As part of a transition to more integrated, people-centered quality services, the Global Fund aims to integrate HTM service provision and other relevant services into primary health care (PHC) by strengthening community and primary health care platforms. This includes emphasizing the role of community health workers, promoting better integration of service delivery, including of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services at all levels, and digital health.
Various countries have planned for the introduction and/or scale-up of such approaches through prioritized portfolio investments, including in challenging operating environments where barriers to services are often intensified.
The Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services will play a crucial role in incentivizing and facilitating this country-level work and will collaborate at country and regional level with a multitude of technical and development partners, national technical leads, decision makers, community actors and other key stakeholders who support the vision of integrated, people-centered quality services.
The Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services will be based in a regional team in the Grant Management Division (GMD) and will collaborate with Public Health Monitoring & Evaluation Specialists (PHME) and other members of Country Teams, other Implementation Specialists in the region, and relevant functional Specialists within the Technical Advice and Partnerships Department (TAP) and Community Rights and Gender Department (CRG) to advance grant implementation and achievement of results for the assigned country portfolios. The Implementation Specialist will also liaise with the Private Sector Engagement Department (PSED) on donor communication, reporting, and other engagement as relevant.
The Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality will contribute to the design and implementation of proactive operational planning for investments in high-quality, integrated health services, including for SRH, under Global Fund grants, regular monitoring and assessments of performance against set milestones and targets, ongoing problem solving, iterative lessons learned and integration in adaptive improvement and acceleration plans. The Implementation Specialist will drive the continued collaboration, joint investment opportunities and alignment with other donors. S/he will provide guidance on resources, training and coordination of relevant technical assistance (TA) to improve the plans for effective and efficient implementation of community health worker, SRH, and related digital health interventions. The Implementation Specialist will also lead the development and socialization of a learning agenda for implementation of integrated service delivery.
The Global Fund aims to accelerate the end of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria as epidemics. The organization invests more than US$4 billion per year to support programs run by local experts in countries and communities most in need. Since 2020, through the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM), additional funding has been made available to support countries to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and build resilient community and public health systems.
The Global Fund’s Grant Management Division (GMD), in collaboration with teams across the Global Fund Secretariat, is responsible for the overall management of the Global Fund’s grant investments at country and regional level, driving impact in implementing countries. It provides leadership and strategic direction to the Global Fund’s country operations and drives the translation of the GF strategy into operational milestones at global, regional, and country portfolio level, including signing grants, making disbursements, regular portfolio monitoring and oversight. It works in a complex and rapidly evolving environment with implementing partners, including Principal Recipients (PRs), sub-recipients (SRs), Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCM), in-country health sector and humanitarian clusters, multiple stakeholders from public, private sectors and communities to drive success on the ground and manage the growth in portfolio investments value, expanding breadth and depth of program and systems strengthening interventions, sophistication of program design, data driven decision making, differentiated approaches, intensified program quality focus, introduction of new health products, services and interventions.
The Global Fund’s approach to ending HIV, TB and Malaria (HTM) is underpinned by investments in building resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH). As part of a transition to more integrated, people-centered quality services, the Global Fund aims to integrate HTM service provision and other relevant services into primary health care (PHC) by strengthening community and primary health care platforms. This includes emphasizing the role of community health workers, promoting better integration of service delivery, including of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services at all levels, and digital health.
Various countries have planned for the introduction and/or scale-up of such approaches through prioritized portfolio investments, including in challenging operating environments where barriers to services are often intensified.
The Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services will play a crucial role in incentivizing and facilitating this country-level work and will collaborate at country and regional level with a multitude of technical and development partners, national technical leads, decision makers, community actors and other key stakeholders who support the vision of integrated, people-centered quality services.
The Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services will be based in a regional team in the Grant Management Division (GMD) and will collaborate with Public Health Monitoring & Evaluation Specialists (PHME) and other members of Country Teams, other Implementation Specialists in the region, and relevant functional Specialists within the Technical Advice and Partnerships Department (TAP) and Community Rights and Gender Department (CRG) to advance grant implementation and achievement of results for the assigned country portfolios. The Implementation Specialist will also liaise with the Private Sector Engagement Department (PSED) on donor communication, reporting, and other engagement as relevant.
The Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality will contribute to the design and implementation of proactive operational planning for investments in high-quality, integrated health services, including for SRH, under Global Fund grants, regular monitoring and assessments of performance against set milestones and targets, ongoing problem solving, iterative lessons learned and integration in adaptive improvement and acceleration plans. The Implementation Specialist will drive the continued collaboration, joint investment opportunities and alignment with other donors. S/he will provide guidance on resources, training and coordination of relevant technical assistance (TA) to improve the plans for effective and efficient implementation of community health worker, SRH, and related digital health interventions. The Implementation Specialist will also lead the development and socialization of a learning agenda for implementation of integrated service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the Implementation Specialist, Integration & Quality of Services include:
1. Investments guidance, planning and engagement
- Provide guidance, in close collaboration with relevant technical teams, on the design and ongoing adaptation of grant investments and strategies to advance the uptake, roll-out and/or scale-up of integrated approaches and platforms, innovative tools including but not limited to digital health, and best practices to improve access to and delivery of high-quality, integrated health services.
- Lead engagement with principal recipients (PRs) and other key actors in the in-country implementation ecosystem, including technical agency leads, community actors, key decision makers, and country level technical and financing partners to elaborate vision of success and implementation roadmaps, including key milestones and metrics for monitoring progress and results achievements in prioritized investment areas (e.g primary healthcare integration, SRH, digital health).
- Oversee operational assessments in response to country-specific needs, to enable accelerated operationalization, execution and/or scale up of interventions in prioritized investment areas.
- Identify key stakeholders and facilitate partnership engagement to advance integration and quality of services at country level, including the establishment of new or expanded relationships with wider group of national stakeholders working to strengthen primary and community health platforms.
- Facilitate dialogues to align priorities, integrate innovations (e.g. integrated service packages, digital health), link with broader health reforms (e.g. universal health coverage, social protection) and enhance in-country mechanisms for governance, monitoring, execution and technical support for related investments.
2. Facilitate and mobilize support for high quality implementation
- Oversee execution of in-country implementation roadmaps, including regular tracking and reporting on progress, timely escalation, trouble shooting, and problem-solving.
- Lead implementation gaps analysis, identification of critical bottlenecks in implementation of prioritized investments, and facilitate the development of adaptive action plans for accelerated implementation.
- Map, mobilize and coordinate TA needs and opportunities as relevant to address implementation bottlenecks and accelerate integrated, high quality service delivery in prioritized investment areas, leveraging institutional and in-country resources, including those provided through Strategic Initiatives (SI) and Centrally Managed Limited Investments (CMLI).
- In coordination with relevant functional Specialists in TAP, oversee development of integrated TA plans, act as a focal point for ensuring TA offer meets country demand and key portfolio priorities, monitor execution of TA, and contribute to quality assurance of TA products.
- Represent GMD in cross-departmental program implementation team to ensure alignment on critical delivery and reporting milestones, regular follow up, and coordination across teams working to operationalize donor partnerships, as relevant.
3. Monitoring and learning agenda
- Conduct regular monitoring, data tracking and analysis to review delivery progress of grant investments.
- Lead collation, review and aggregation of results to inform internal and external reporting to donors and other stakeholders, as relevant.
- Represent the Global Fund in various donor engagement fora to provide updates on the progress of grant investments and strengthen partnership engagement, including at country level.
- Disseminate innovations in operational design and implementation approaches, including integrated service models and linkages with other health and social services (e.g. SRH, immunization, nutrition, health insurance packages) and improved service delivery and quality of care.
- Document lessons learned, innovations and best practices in integrated service delivery design and implementation, facilitating knowledge exchange through reports and presentations at national and regional fora. Collaborate with relevant functional Specialists in TAP to systematize learning for Secretariat and external audiences.
Perform other relevant duties as required by the Department Head.
Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Advanced university degree in public health, health policy and administration, health system management, health economics, or related field.
Desirable:
- Project management or business analytics qualifications
Experience
Essential:
- Minimum seven years of relevant professional experience in provision of technical assistance and/or implementation of public health interventions including health systems strengthening, SRH and/or community health in developing countries
- Solid experience in working with multiple stakeholders at national and international levels, with demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively in complex, multi-disciplinary and diverse environments.
- Strong track record in project management, strategy and policy analysis, program planning and management, monitoring & evaluation, and/or equivalent experience.
- Significant experience in structured problem solving and strategic planning, with the ability to analyze issues related to, for example, health system strengthening, health governance, country-level technical support and delivery models.
- Demonstrated experience in driving performance and/or change in an operationally and politically complex context.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable:
- Experience of supporting health sector initiatives and health programs in countries with ‘Challenging Operating Environments’
- Relevant professional experience in provision of technical assistance and/or implementation of public health interventions including health systems strengthening and/or pandemic preparedness and response in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Knowledge of the digital health landscape with a particular focus on tools and approaches to support primary healthcare, CHWs and/or SRH integration
Competencies
Languages:
Fluency in English [and French] is required for this role. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.
Technical competencies:
- Ability to consult, communicate and represent the Global Fund with country stakeholders and partners on specific projects/ tasks.
- Strong business focus, result oriented with an excellent understanding of how to influence stakeholders.
- Sound judgment with ability to provide high-quality advice and identify alternatives and options in planning and decision-making.
- Ability to solve complex issues with minimum guidance and supervision, and to adapt policy and guidance to the country reality and contexts.
- Knowledge of the Global Fund and its partnership model, governance, polices and processes.
Functional Competencies:
- Geopolitical Awareness – Level 2
- Global/Public Health – Level 2
- Multicultural Understanding – Level 2
- Analytical – Level 2
- Business – Level 2
- Negotiations – Level 2
- Project Management – Level 2
- Operational Policy – Level 2
- Strengthening Systems for Health – Level 2
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Job Posting End Date
05 January 2025