Marie Stopes International Jobs

Location: Africa.

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is the prime on a $60 m, 5 year proposal to the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation and DFID entitled Africa Health Markets for Equity (AHME).

AHME is a partnership of 6 organizations: Marie Stopes International, Population Services International, Society for Family Health, IFC’s Health in Africa group, Grameen Foundation, andPharmAccess International.

Programming is focused in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana.

AHME proposes to improve the coverage of priority health technologies among the poor in Africa through integrating social franchising with demand-side financing approaches at scale.

Job Title: Consultant

Location: Nairobi

Reporting to: Head of Social Franchising

Probationary Period: N/A

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a marketing focused, results oriented social enterprise.

We develop efficient, effective and sustainable family planning programmes in the UK and overseas.

The UK division provides services to men and women over 130,000 times a year.

The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The Prevention of Unwanted Births and its mission of ensuring the individuals right to: Children By Choice Not Chance. It is a role requirement that the consultant must fully comply with, promote and live

MSI Core Values: mission driven, customer focused, results orientated, pioneering, sustainable and people centered

Key Responsibilities Measure

Facilitate the start up of AHME at the country level

Organization of stakeholder meetingsMeasure: Stakeholder reports per county

Preparation of training/commodity plans,Measure: Completed training/commodity plans per county

Development of risk registersMeasure: Country tailored risk registers per county

Convene kick off meetings in countryMeasure: Meeting report and action plans per county

Document start up with country level start up guidelines including financial and narrative report requirements and schedule for all partners.Measure: Country level start up guidelines including financial and narrative reporting requirements.

Facilitate start up of AHME management structure

Create TOR for AHME board, Technical Advisory Board, Project Management TeamMeasure: Programme operational guidelines for AHME Board, Advisory Committee and programme Management Team.

Convene initial meetings at all levelsMeasure: Meeting reports and action plans

Develop communications strategy for AHME

Develop internal communications strategy for MSI to ensure all internal stakeholders are aware of AHME and their contributionsMeasure: Internal communications plan and preliminary communication products

Develop external communications strategy for stakeholders within implementation countries and donors to ensure all external stakeholders are aware of AHME and their contributionsMeasure: External communications plan and preliminary communication products

Facilitate contracting process with AHME partnership

Coordinate and contracting process for MSI with donor partners and between partners and MSIMeasure: Signed and completed contracts.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications: Master’s Degree in Public Health

Experience: