{"id":3989,"date":"2011-06-13T02:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T02:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2016-11-24T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:10:30","slug":"world-agroforestry-centre-icraf-regional-mch-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/world-agroforestry-centre-icraf-regional-mch-advisor.html","title":{"rendered":"World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF): Regional MCH Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"
The MDG Centre was established in July 2004 by The Earth Institute (EI) at ColumbiaUniversity (New York) and the UN Millennium Project with a broad purpose of assisting countries to develop operational strategies for achieving the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), and to support their implementation at both local and national levels. In early 2006, the MDG Centre reorganized the programme to establish two sub-regional centres covering East and Southern Africa (based in Nairobi) and West and Central Africa (based in Bamako). The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) serves as the administrative host of the MDG Centre \u2013 WCA, based on a services agreement with the Earth Institute.<\/p>\n
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Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The MDG Centre – West and Central Africa focuses on two complementary scales: The initial countries of concentration of the MDG Centre – West and Central Africa are Mali, Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria with a possibility of expansion to other West African countries.<\/p>\n Overall purpose of the job Supervision Main tasks of the job: Under the leadership of the NYC-based MVP Health Director and the Health Team Leader based at the MDG Centre, the Regional MCH Advisor provides strategic, technical and implementation advice and support to the health coordinators on all Maternal and Child Health. In particular, the MCH specialist will:<\/p>\n B.\u00a0Contribute to policy development, scale-up and knowledge building C.\u00a0Other responsibilities <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Required Skills or Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Terms of offer<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n How To Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Applicants should apply by email, sending a cover letter summarizing their relevance to this position, a full C.V. and names and contact information of three referees knowledgeable about the candidate\u2019s professional qualifications and work experience to:<\/p>\n Assa Ben Wahab:\u00a0awague@centreomd.org<\/strong><\/a> \u201cApplication for MDG-WCA Regional Maternal and Child Health Advisor MVP\u201d should be clearly marked on the subject line of the email message. Applications will be considered until 16th June 2011 or until the position is filled.<\/p>\n Only short-listed applicants meeting the above requirements will be contacted.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The MDG Centre was established in July 2004 by The Earth Institute (EI) at ColumbiaUniversity (New York) and the UN Millennium Project with a broad purpose of assisting countries to…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[979,1357,1358,978],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-12l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(i)\u00a0the national level, through support provided to processes related to MDGs based on national strategies planning and implementation; and
\n(ii)\u00a0the local level, to assist and empower pilot African villages and cities so that inhabitants lift themselves out of their poverty trap and achieve all MDGs through the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) and the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI).<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>The Regional MCH Advisor for MVP is to help put in place, in the Millennium Villages, activities and policies that will help communities and countries accelerate progress towards achieving MDGs.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>The Regional MCH advisor position is a member of the MDG Center Team and reports functionally to the Health Team Leader of the MDG Centre on interventions, implementation, and monitoring\/evaluation and to the Director of the MDG centre on management and administrative issues.<\/p>\n
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\nA.\u00a0Provide Technical Assistance and Support to the Millennium Villages<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>The MCH specialist provides technical advice and support on MCH issues to the Director of Health and MDG Centre Health Team Leader and the Health Systems Specialist in MDG center as well as to the MVP Health Coordinator in NYC including:<\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>As a staff member of The MDG Centre, the Regional MCH Advisor is also expected to:<\/p>\n\n
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\nMDG\/ICRAF offers a regionally competitive salary with an excellent benefits package. The employment contract is for a period of oneyear with the possibility of renewal. MDG\/ICRAF prides itself on its collegial, supportive and gender sensitive working environment and believes that staff diversity promotes excellence.\u00a0 Women are strongly encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>copy to Ben Aboubacar:\u00a0docabou@yahoo.fr<\/strong><\/a>
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