Job Description - community engagement and community led responses evaluation - Team Leader
Company Description:
MEDx eHealthCenter B.V. is a healthcare transformation agency; committed to the development, deployment, and implementation of UHC programs and projects.
We believe that UHC is to public health, what Blockchain is to the fourth industrial revolution. It is ‘the’ catalyst for the transition to a global public health 4.0 at scale. The UN SDG emphasized the need for UHC prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the pandemic has heightened the urgency for UHC and created a suitable climate to leapfrog health systems around the world through UHC-oriented programs & initiatives.
Our aim is to strengthen the fabric and foundation of local health systems. We do this in two ways.
Firstly, by helping governments and institutions articulate their UHC ambitions into concrete plans, and find answers to questions such as ‘what to prioritize in the short-mid term?’, ‘What competencies to get around the table or where to find them?’ and ‘How to qualify risks in the UHC context and manage them?’.
Secondly, by driving holistic and more integrated solutions to local health systems before the next waves of health crisis hit. To achieve this, we work with diverse teams of professionals and partners to bridge the cultural or communication gaps to consumers and introduce a truly international perspective to drive optimal outcomes in local health systems.
Our Products’ portfolio includes the digital Hospital, an offline medical record card, and the AR Guide for smart medical equipment maintenance. Prior and current projects with customers have entailed the development of smart solutions to manage the penetration of healthcare services. This, to prolong the exploitation of public health assets in medical facilities in emerging countries.
Our Scope cuts across the 7 foundational pillars of health systems, including material care (equipment, technology & infrastructure), medicinal care (pharma & labs), medical care (human capital), financial care, institutional care (policy capital), patient care and family care. We aim for smart solutions to enable sustainability and scalability to drive outcomes at scale.
Your Challenge
Community engagement is a process of developing relationships, which are characterized by respect, trust and a common sense of purpose, that enable stakeholders to work together to address health-related issues and promote well-being to achieve positive health impact and outcomes. The meaningful engagement of communities most affected by the three diseases in the context of The company related decisions and processes (e.g. CCMs, country dialogues, funding request development, National Strategic Plan review and development processes as well as grant making) is critical to the effective design, implementation and oversight of The company investments and to ensuring sustainable impact. Community-led responses are actions that are delivered in settings or locations outside of formal health facilities , and that are specifically informed, managed and implemented by and for communities themselves. Community Engagement is understood as the involvement/engagement process whereas Community Led Responses is the implementation process.
Community engagement and responses that are led by communities – and the systems and structures needed to support them – are central to the work of the The company and its vision of “a world free of the burden for better health for all.
The company’s Strategy for 2017-22, “investing to end epidemics”, clearly recognizes the critical role of community engagement and community led responses in achieving the strategic objectives (SOs). The important role of community-led organizations in responses, and the need for meaningful engagement of those most impacted by the diseases in decision making.
Despite cross-partnership recognition that community engagement and community-led responses are key components to achieving the SOs, the various reviews/evaluations undertaken by the The company (Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG), Technical Review Panel (TRP), Community, Rights and Gender (CRG)/MECA7 team as well as the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)8 have concluded that there is scope for improvement in achieving the SOs through community engagement and community-led responses and the importance of community health sector interaction and complementarity. We need your help in achieving this.
We are looking for
A senior team leader who has robust management skills and experience, and of experienced evaluators who together combine a good understanding of the The company or similar organization; extensive experience in public health, including health systems and either HIV/TB/malaria, community, gender and human rights; and strong understanding of partnerships and aid coordination in global public health.
Team Leader
15-20 years’ experience in work related to health and development, including cross- agency work experience at a strategic level.
Extensive experience in complex reviews/evaluations on health systems and at least one of HIV, TB and malaria;
Expertise in working with communities and Key Populations
Advanced experience in evaluating development programs and respectivefunding/delivery arrangements in the international health arena;
Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering strategic recommendations at theexecutive level of similar organizations.
Experience of assessment of organizational policies, initiatives and procedures.Experience or understanding of The company grant processes and arrangement, e.g., CCM, funding request, grant making, and grant implementation processes is an asset.
Team members
Advanced experience (at least 10 years) in evaluating development programs andrespective funding/delivery arrangements in the international health domain.
Specialist skills with experience in structured synthesis of information from a broad rangeof source materials and country case studies.
Documented evidence of conducting evaluation studies related to procurement and supplychain management, health systems, community systems, rights and gender, The companyspecific diseases and partnerships.
Advanced university degree or comparable training in public health, health policy andmanagement, economics, health finance, medicine or a related area;
In addition to the skills and qualifications listed above, all team members should haveadvanced professional proficiency in English, with clear and succinct writing as well as good interview and diplomatic skills. Other languages especially French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and/or Arabic would be an added advantage, and may be required.
Contact
If you are interested in this challenging opportunity and you recognize yourself in the above profile, we invite you to apply online. In case of questions you can contact info@medx.care
NotesThe expected publication end date of this vacancy is January 10th, 2022.
Job
Community Engagement and Community Led responses
Primary Location
Other Locations
Multiple
Organization
MEDx eHealthCenter B.V., Veldhoven
Schedule
Full-time