Jhpiego Bangladesh

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University. For 40 years and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Since 1977, Jhpiego has been working in Bangladesh in partnership with MoH&FW and national/international NGOs. Jhpiego provides technical support for strengthening health system in the area of maternal & child health and Family Planning to increase access to high-quality health care to improve health outcomes and save the lives of women and their children. Jhpiego’s support to Bangladesh has been expanded to other areas such as- postpartum family planning, quality improvement, policy advocacy and research.

Position: Project officer

Number of Vacancy : Not specific

Job Context

  • Position Reports to: District Manager
  • Location: Cox’s Bazar District
  • The Project officer will work closely with the District Managers and coordinate with program team to improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes through increased access to quality Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP) services and strengthened capacity of providers and facilities within the host community of Cox’s Bazar district in Chattogram Division and also admin team to ensure all types of administrative support of program team.

Job Responsibilities

  • Assist District manager in developing a pool of PPFP trainers and QA managers in Chittagong divisions/ Cox’s Bazar district in coordination with relevant training institutions
  • Support and monitor progress made through district level
  • according to the work plan
  • Assist District manager to conduct facility visits to ensure selected facilities are adequately set up to provide PPFP services
  • Work with government trainers within the health system to support master trainers pools to train healthcare providers on PPFP service delivery
  • Organize and support PPFP counseling orientations with community health workers, immunization providers and their supervisors
  • Facilitate review meetings with community health workers, immunization providers and their supervisors to review progress, exchange learnings and resolve challenges as needed
  • Maintain program files both hard and soft copies for ready records
  • Prepare and update stakeholders contacts quarterly basis and share with program staff as and when needed
  • Support the preparation of budget and training materials at district and Upzilla level as needed
  • Schedule and support visitors and coordinate field visits/meetings
  • Draft/compile program documents, letters, invitations and correspondence as needed
  • Work based in Cox’s Bazar district with frequent field travel at district
  • Other tasks as identified by the supervisor

Employment Status : Full-time

Educational Requirements : Bachelor’s degree in social science or Business studies is required

Experience Requirements: 5 to 6 year(s)

Additional Requirements

  • Technical expertise in FP and/or Maternal, Newborn, and Child health services
  • experience in providing technical oversight in FP or maternal health projects or to community-based programs will be preferred
  • Experience working in district and upazila levels and ability to communicate with local community and Country Office team
  • Experience in facilitation and coordination and organizing training
  • Managerial capacity for project implementation at field level.
  • Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and under pressure

Job Location : Based in Cox’s Bazar district


Application deadline: July 24, 2019

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Jhpiego Bangladesh
House 10/B (3rd Floor), Road 90, Gulshan-2, Dhaka, Bangladesh