The Country Office has secured funding from the UK’s FCDO UW programme, which is a UN Joint Programme with UNICEF and WHO, providing technical assistance to the Government to strengthen health system particularly around the pillars of integration, quality of care, resilience building and governance in selected districts.

The Health System/ SRHR Specialist leads the CO’s strategic approach to accelerate progress towards universal SRHR, in particular towards the three Transformative Results. S/he oversees Umoyo Wathu (UW) on Health System Strengthening and supervises the other SRHR team members. S/he will work under the supervision of Deputy Representative to promote innovative approaches on the integration of SRHR with other programme areas. S/he also assists the Deputy Representative on managerial and strategic matters related to SRHR. 

The primary roles of the Health System/ SRHR Specialist are:

• Policy dialogue and advocacy.
• Programme leadership through day-to-day oversight for the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of Programme activities and work plans.
• Resource management of the SRHR components of the Country Programme, including SRHR related budgets and consultancies.
• Evidence management, knowledge management and innovation related to SRHR matters.
• Strengthening of CO’s strategic partnerships with Government, NGOs, civil society, other UN agencies, development partners, and academia on SRHR matters.
• Quality assurance of technical support and capacity development.
• Managing her/his team effectively, including management of travel, leave and training plans.
• Managing and coordinating the implementation of Umoyo Wathu (UW) on Health System Strengthening UN Joint programme