Grameen Foundation Jobs: Implementation Manager

The ICT Innovation Programme of the Grameen Technology Center is working with Ghana Health Service and Columbia University to increase the quality and quantity of healthcare services provided to women and children in Ghana through the identification and pilot testing of scalable mobile phone based applications.

This project, Mobile Technology for Community Health (MoTeCH), will develop and pilot mobile phone based health applications in the UER and Cental Region. One application focuses on pregnant women and provides them with information about their pregnancy and when they should seek antenatal care. A related application focuses on community health workers, providing them with information about their the people in the their community who are in need of antenatal care. A system is also being developed to use mobile phones to feed detailed community-level health information into the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS), saving nurse time and increasing the level of detail available at the district level

Job Description

Position Title: Implementation Manager, Mobile Technology for Community Health Initiative
Status: Full time, Project Employee (End date, 07/31/2011)
Location: Accra, Ghana with regular travel to Awuto Senya in the Central Region and occasionally to the Upper East Region
Class: Exempt (Not Eligible for Overtime Pay)
Date: January 2011

The implementing manager will be responsible for overseeing and project managing the replication of the mobile phone intervention that is currently operating in Upper East region to one more district in Central Region

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Offer valid till: 30 Dec, 2010