family planning/quality improvement CoordinatorUniversity Research Co.

Hours: 40 hours a week
Salary: Commensurate with required experience and qualifications
Reports to: Provincial Officer
Grade: Philippines - Grade E Technical
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.
Overview:
URC is searching for an experienced Family Planning/Quality Improvement (FP/QI) Coordinator for the USAID BARMMHealth project in Philippines. BARMMHealth is a five-year project to bolster the capacity of the Ministry of Health- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM) in facilitating local health solutions in family planning, adolescent and youth reproductive health, and maternal and child health, towards self-reliance and sustainability.
The project works on three objectives: Improve social norms and strengthened healthy behaviors among underserved adolescents, youth, women and men, fortify quality of family planning and maternal and child health service, and bolster key public health policies and systems needed to support behaviors and services for maternal and child health.
Responsibilities:
The FP/QI Coordinator will support field-level QI activities and ensure improved quality FP services delivery.
Specific responsibilities include the following:
Supports field-level QI activities, including coaching and supportive supervision of provincial improvement teams and FP-QI coordinator;.
Liaises with local facilities to determine priorities and engage supervisors in capacity building interventions;
Collaborates with Integrated Provincial Health Office to lead on-site continuing medical education activities, and other QI activities as needed;
Ensures measurable changes in quality of FP service delivery;
Ensures increase in the utilization of services; and
Collaborates with MEL team to ensure high-quality data collection and analysis on project activity performance.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Excellent communication skills, work ethic, ability to work under pressure, ability to work with people of different cultural backgrounds, and ability to develop and maintain relationships with internal and external colleagues, including geographically dispersed teams.
Qualifications:
Required Experience and Qualifications
Minimum of 3 years of working experience in the field of gender, youth and family planning (an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered);
Previous experience in BARMM preferred;
Strong previous leadership experience preferred; and
Strong written and spoken English and local languages.
This job is open to candidates legally authorized to work in Philippines.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We value and seek diversity in our workforce
University Research Co.

Sulu
Permanent
Full-time