Senior Technical Coordinator / Technical Coordinator, Technical Assistance
New York City, NY

Job Description

The Role

At Last Mile Health (LMH), we make bold commitments that inspire innovation.

We are looking for dynamic individuals to join our Health Investment and Policy (HIP) team who have a strong history of performance and are capable of leading or supporting community health systems technical advisory across our country portfolios - currently Liberia, Uganda, Malawi. The HIP team's approach aims to combine deep technical knowledge of community health performance with improvements in the enabling health systems and an understanding of vision and process for health systems reform.

To accomplish this, we need a diverse, and multi-disciplinary team that includes both Senior Technical Coordinators and Technical Coordinators. In particular, we are looking for individuals who have experience in one or more of the following technical areas:

* Primary Health Care Training and Supervision
* Health Workforce Performance Management, including direct workforce performance and performance supervisory and manager levels
* Policy Development, Design, Management and Governance
* Coalition building and government engagement
* Health Information Systems for Primary Health Care

This position will be based in New York City but involves extensive travel (30-40%) to Uganda and/or Malawi.

What You'll Do

* Directly manage the execution of community health systems engagements, inclusive of stakeholder management, project management, responsibility for completing deliverables or organizing the project team to complete deliverables, reporting, budget, and knowledge management for projects
* Support external relationship management in partnership with practice area lead, including regular communications, presentations, and thought partnership
* Facilitate complex multi-stakeholder conversations at both subnational and national levels, build consensus around decisions, and translate these decisions at multiple levels
* Work with partners (LMH country teams, NGO partners), institutions (USAID, UNICEF), and Ministry of Health (all levels) to provide technical input into the design and implementation of projects to support national community health systems and ensure that the LMH team is addressing the client/partner's need
* Develop data sets from disparate sources of information, identify trends and insights from data, and effectively communicate trends visually and verbally to partner stakeholders to influence decision-making and inform advocacy approaches
* Analyze literature and conduct desk research on national policy environment, disease profile, health programs, stakeholder landscape, etc. across our country portfolios
* Represent Last Mile Health with external stakeholders, share our lessons, and help the organization build new partnerships for impact

What You'll Bring

* Experience working with governments as a technical expert or technical assistant in one or more of the technical areas listed above
* Technical Coordinator: Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience, or Master's degree and 3-5 years of experience.
* Senior Technical Coordinator: Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience, or Master's degree and 5 years of experience.

You'll Impress Us If

* You have experience working with governments in resource limited settings
* You have experience direct experience working on policy advocacy for public health policies in low-income countries

About Last Mile Health

Last Mile Health (LMH) saves lives in the world's most remote communities by partnering with governments to bring critical primary care services to the doorsteps of people living in the last mile. LMH is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization with offices in Liberia, Boston and New York. For more information, visit www.lastmilehealth.org.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at LMH. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.