Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM)
Overview
FPAM mission is ‘to providing quality, accessible and affordable comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services for young people, women, men and underserved’, working to reduce maternal mortality and rapid population growth by ensuring that women and young people, mostly underserved and from hard-to-reach areas, have access to information and service options in family planning/sexual reproductive health (FP/SRH) and HIV/AIDS.
FPAM is a member of a consortium led by AMREF that will be implementing a USAID funded multi-year health systems strengthening and service delivery MOMENTUM project, component 2 in Chitipa, Karonga, Kasungu, Salima and Nkhotakota districts. The project goal is reducing maternal, new-born, and child mortality through improved access and quality of health service delivery.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, the consortium will work to provide quality primary care for essential and integrated Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH) FP/RH, nutrition, WASH and malaria; Empower individuals, communities and local organizations to demand higher quality and more available health services, and improve their health seeking behaviour, and engaging multiple sectors to address the social determinants of health.
FPAM is therefore inviting suitably qualified applicants for the following positions:
Family Planning and Reproductive Health Technical Advisor (Ref/2022/08/001)
Position Overview
The Family Planning (FP) and Reproductive Health (RH) Technical Advisor based in Lilongwe
will report to the Project Director and provide technical leadership for planning, implementation,
monitoring and evaluation of high-quality integrated FP/RH interventions for the USAID-funded
Momentum project in Malawi.
The high impact interventions include LAPM, LARC, EC, PAC, PPFP, and CBFP. The advisor will participate and contribute towards work plans, strategy development, program implementation, program monitoring, and evaluation in relation to FP/RH interventions and approaches across all activities.
Some Roles and Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
• Provide technical and strategic guidance on FP and RH that is technically sound, evidence-
based and aligns to the priorities of Ministry of Health and responsive to USAID
• Provide technical assistance for developing capacity building approaches, using proven
training approaches and performance improvement approaches
• Facilitate the utilization of standardized evidence based national standards, guidelines and
protocols for FP and RH
• Advocate with Ministry of Health for adoption of new and scaling up of existing evidence
based FP and RH best practices for adoption at health facilities.
• Provide technical guidance in developing strategies and scaling up integration of FP in Immunization, Immediate Post-Partum and Post Abortion Care.
Management
• Contribute to documenting and communicating FP/RH achievements for the project, share learning
and best practices internally and externally.
• Lead on FP/RH contributions to scheduled project progress update meetings of Technical, Financial
and M&E with MOMENTUM 1 management
• Contribute to the multi-sectoral collaboration with other relevant stakeholders and partners in
Malawi to lead coherent, coordinated and integrated FP/RH response in Malawi
• Perform other duties as assigned by the MOMENTUM 2 MNCH/FP/RH Technical Leader to
advance FP and RH efforts of the project.
Position Requirements
• An MSc. in Nursing, Medicine, Public Health, social science, or any other related field; a Bachelor’s degree with wide experience in FP/RH to be considered.
• Wide understanding of the Malawi National FP/RH programme priorities and links to global commitments
• At least 5 years of experience in FP/RH initiatives with or supporting Government of Malawi and stakeholders at national and district level with 3 years’ experience in
managerial role.
• Familiarity with Government of Malawi priorities and evidenced- based practices aimed at
improving the quality of and access to FP/RH services.
• Knowledge of national and district FP/RH networks and systems.
Method of Application
Before you apply make sure you access full details about these positions through the FPAM website: www.fpamalawi.org. or by requesting the document through the following e-mail address: vacancy@fpamalawi.org
Please send your cover letter, CV and copies of relevant Certificates with three traceable referees through email to:
vacancy@fpamalawi.org.