Health and Community Systems Strengthening

**Hours**: Regular/Full Time

**Department**:Technical Programs

**Salary**:Commensurate with experience and qualifications

**Reports to**: Chief of Party

**Location: Johannesburg, South Africa**

**University Research Co., LLC (URC)**

Guided by a strong vision of equitable and resilient systems that respond to people’s needs and emerging threats, URC helps countries and local actors to build, implement, and sustain science-driven, scalable solutions. Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical expertise to empower governments, communities, and service providers toward strengthening their own health and social systems and improve service quality. We aim to expand access to and improve the quality of services, addressing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; global health security and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene. In our interactions with each other and our clients, we stay true to our values for transformative change by focusing on:

- **Creativity**: by unleashing our creativity, we enhance engagement and interaction to improve problem-solving.
- **Collaboration**: not only our work towards the same vision and mission instill staff with a strong sense of purpose, but also enables us to complement each other’s skills and allocate work to maximize everyone’s strengths.
- **Accountability**: we hold ourselves responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions.
- **Diversity, equity, and inclusion**:we embrace the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where our leadership and staff model behavior that enriches our organization, demonstrates respect for all people, and supports opportunities for all staff.
- **Transparency**:we understand that when employees deeply trust one another and their leaders, they will be more engaged in their roles because they will not be worried about unfair treatment.

**Responsibilities**:
The Health Systems Strengthening Advisor will be responsible for guiding the design and implementation of overall capacity development/training activities related to health systems strengthening in support of TB services for the project. Primary responsibilities include the following:

- Advise and collaborate with the NDOH, NTP, Provincial, District, relevant private and public sector partners, and community health structures on the development, implementation, and evaluation of technical cooperation programs in the areas of health systems development, and health services organization and management
- Promote and support the establishment of policies, norms and standards for the design, organizing and functional programming and operation of health systems, integrated health services networks including hospital and other health facilities and services, and public health infrastructure and services
- Supervise three technical specialists seconded to the NDOH
- Assist in development, implementation and oversight of pilot programs testing innovations to improve TB services
- Assist in development, implementation and oversight of QI endeavors to improve TB services
- Assist in rolling out eSupervision and other tools to improve health systems
- Assist in rolling out tools and approaches to infection control practices
- Assist in rolling out tools and approaches to improving TB diagnostics, case identification and linkage to treatment services
- Provide technical cooperation for the development of health services, with emphasis on the primary health care (PHC Re-engineering and ICSM) and the structure and operation of local health systems that provide a setting for the joint participation of the public sector social security systems **(NHI), **the private sector, and government agencies at national, provincial, district and community levels.
- Support the strengthening of institutional capabilities to develop programmatic and support systems for sustainable oversight mechanisms for laboratory, TB, TBHIV, MDR programs and PHC re engineering teams
- Assist in piloting Cepheid's Omni point of care tool and its larger roll out
- Work with NDOH and NHLS to strengthen strategies to improve access to new diagnostic services for TB and MDR TB

**Qualifications**:

- At least 8 years' experience in Health Systems Strengthening in setting similar to South Africa
- Experience implementing TB programs/ knowledge of TB service delivery approaches
- A demonstrated ability to establish work in a diverse environment
- Excellent English language, written and oral skills
- A master's degree in public health or equivalent
- USAID experience preferred

Citizens of South Africa are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Unless otherwise directed we will retain your CV in our database for future opportunities._

**_URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer._**

**_We value and seek diversity in our workforce_