Specialist, Human Resources For Health And Community Health Worker Programming, Strategy, Investment

Investing in Human Resources for Health (HRH) including Community Health Workers (CHWs) is essential for achieving the health-related sustainable development goals, including ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, addressing health inequities and achieving universal health coverage. The Global Fund is a major source of funding for HRH/CHWs in the context of strengthening health systems. For the Grant Cycle 7 period ) investment in HRH/CHWs was over $1.9 B USD. These investment levels are expected to be broadly maintained in the upcoming Grant Cycle 8 period. Core priorities for HRH/CHW programming in GC8 include: sustainability planning and gradual transition of HRH/CHW to government funding; integrated HRH/CHW education and capacity building, leveraging digital innovation; and strengthening alignment of HRH/CHW and quality improvement investments to service integration priorities with a particular focus on services for women and children at primary health care level. These priorities are further enabled by a dedicated private sector-funded Catalytic Initiative on integrated community and health services for women and children. This is primarily programmed through Matching Funds to country grants, and complemented by a centrally managed Strategic Initiative (SI). The Specialist for HRH/CHW programming will work in the Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) / Pandemic Preparedness and Response (PPR) Team and will1. Serve as a key technical resource for francophone country portfolios, and support country teams on CHW programming, human resources for health and broader RSSH.2. Serve as project manager for the SI, with a specific focus on supporting regional partnerships on CHW programming.3. Support team internal functions including collaboration on HRH-CHW programming across the Global Fund teams.

Key Responsibilities
1. Provide technical advice and support to country teams on Human Resources for Health and CHW programming The Specialist will serve as technical focal point for priority portfolios to ensure robust and timely implementation of HRH/CHW investments including those supported by the Catalytic Initiative. Working closely with country teams and in close coordination with other HRH-CHW and RSSH team members, tasks include: Provide technical support to countries on CHW programming, community health systems strengthening and integrated service delivery Provide technical and strategic support to country teams across the grant cycle to advance the implementation, integration, and sustainability of HRH/CHW investments. This includes: supporting quality implementation of HRH/CHW activities; monitoring progress against key milestones and results; identifying and mitigating risks; fostering the integration of CHWs within HRH systems and PHC platforms, and supporting country-led sustainability planning, in collaboration with HFD. Support design of TA elements e.g. support CTs to frame TA needs, draft concept notes, draft or review To Rs, and review TA deliverables Carry out joint missions with country teams, and support portfolio reviews as needed. Support resource development and consolidation of evidence, good practice, guidance, technical resources on priority topics.2. Serve as Project Manager of the Strategic Initiative on Integrated Community and Health Services (CHW component)The Specialist will ensure smooth delivery of an integrated package of technical support through a regional technical provider: Lead the process of regional TA provider selection and contracting with specific focus on elements relating to CHW programming. Monitor and manage TA provider performance, ensuring high quality and timely technical assistance. Ensure strong relevance and complementarity between SI component and country / regional priorities, and alignment with internal integration and sustainability priorities Manage all reporting and communication (internal and external) for the relevant components of the Strategic Initiative, with specific focus on leading reporting to private sector donors supporting the CHW components, and contributing to integrated internal reporting for the Integrated community and health services for women and children. Supported by RSSH Program Officers, develop workplans, financial forecasts, reporting tools, performance dashboards, critical milestones and other project management tools to ensure effective delivery.3. Support team internal functions including collaboration on HRH-CHW programming across Global Fund teams. Support analysis of Global Fund’s HRH/CHW investments Lead synthesis of lessons learned and promising practices from country implementation, and support evidence syntheses, in relation to CHW integration in PHC systems, integration of disease-specific CHWs into national CHW programs and other relevant priority topics Support development of dashboards and work plans, contribute to strategy guidance notes, develop technical briefs Support internal and