VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.
Project background
VillageReach Malawi, with funding from the Gavi Alliance (“Gavi”), is conducting an implementation research project to:
1) Understand how integration of HPV vaccine and adolescent health service delivery can be improved during outreach services to better appeal to adolescents, their caregivers and health workers;
2) Implement proposed solutions identified through point 1 and continually gather feedback to refine implementation and understand contextual facilitators of success, and
3) Evaluate differences in outcomes of interest in intervention areas relative to control areas.
This participatory implementation research project is being implemented in Malawi and Mozambique for a period of 16 months starting August 2024 and until December 2025. The primary outcome is: Increased HPV vaccination coverage among girls (9-14 years old). Secondary outcomes of interest include: Improved adolescent health service uptake (i.e. # adolescents who attend outreach sessions, # adolescent 9-14 who receive any health service other than HPV vaccination during an outreach session). This project will contribute new evidence on logistical feasibility, adolescent/caregiver acceptability of HPV vaccine delivery approaches, and the cost of the integrated service approach as key drivers and proxies of HPV uptake sustainability. The project employs a human centered design approach to engage with targeted communities, stakeholders and beneficiaries to identify barriers to and co- create solutions that will improve HPV vaccine uptake.
Role description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities are outlined below. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
Program Management and Program Quality (70%)
The Immunization Coordinator shall ensure high quality of program implementation by undertaking the following roles:
Partnership Management (10%)
Business Development (10%)
Budget Management (10%)
Other
This position reports to the M&E Manager. The incumbent will collaborate and coordinate with the M&E Manager to ensure programmatic alignment and for performance reporting and monitoring. This role will also collaborate with other VillageReach Managers and with global team staff based in the Africa region and in the United States. This position will be based in Malawi.
VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.
Achieving Great Results:
1. Risk Taking and Innovation
· Key Behaviors: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.
2. Business Judgement
· Key Behaviors: Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.
3. Building Strong Teams
· Key Behaviors: Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.
Setting Direction:
1. Compelling Communication
· Key Behaviors: Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.
2. Resilient Self Leadership
· Key Behaviors: Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.
3. Stewardship and Personal Alignment
· Key Behaviors: Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.
Bringing Others with You:
1. Influencing Leadership
· Key Behaviors: Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure.
2. Radical Partnership
· Key Behaviors: Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.
3. Cultivates a Growth Mindset
· Key Behaviors: Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.
4. Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion
· Key Behaviors: Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.
Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position has some supervisory responsibilities. The position will supervise data collectors and research assistants as needed and as recruited by the project.
VillageReach has no private offices, employees work in a shared, open environment with task and conference rooms accessible to employees for privacy and meetings. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Due to the time zone differences between our USA office and our Country Offices and location of other global staff, US based staff are expected to be available for early morning meetings starting at 6am. In addition, our Regional Africa based staff and Country office staff are expected to be available for late afternoon/evening meetings up to 6pm.
Approximately 60% of the workday is spent sitting. Must be able to lift 25 lbs.
VillageReach is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. We believe that diverse, equitably weighted perspectives foster an organizational capacity to create novel solutions that improve health in the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, innovations and impact, VillageReach is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse global workforce.
This is an immediate hire and therefore resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis until 30 October 2024. To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter plus any other desired materials to our online portal: http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/. In your cover letter, please address (1)Why you are interested in this position, (2)What is one reason you think you’d be a good fit for this position and, (3)what is one strength you would bring to this position?
The hiring process will include the following steps:
VillageReach is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We expect everyone working with us to share this commitment through our code of conduct.All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which may include criminal records. VillageReach participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.
VillageReach has an established compensation structure that is based on the relevant market and internally transparent. The range for this position is $34,300 to $42,500 USD. We hire people into the established range based on one’s experience and education and considering internal equity. We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our compensation overview on our website for more information and for more information on employee benefits.
