District Cluster Coordinator

Sindh Based

Pathfinder Overview

Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve.

Job Summary

The incumbent will have the overall responsibility as focal person to support implementation, monitoring and supervision of activities under the Building Healthy Families Activity (USAID funded) in specified districts of Sindh, while also ensuring coordination and liaison at District level. Manage the interventions and maintains inventory of project material, operational and financial processes, help in tracking project activities and support in consolidation of reports, organize reviews, record proceedings and ensure timely feedback for submission to Program department

Key Job Outcomes:

Meeting, Coordination and Facilitation

• Coordinates, organizes and facilitates one-to-one meetings with key stakeholders to develop follow-up action plans. Invites all stakeholders and ensure their participation in meetings.
• Coordinates visits and organizes meetings of the delegation(s) with the project stakeholders in the district.
• Serve as focal person to coordinate the implementation of field Project activities at district level.

Forums and Committees

• Participates in partner oversight committee meetings and arranges individual interactions with them.
• Advocate and liaise with district level health, population, environment focal persons, to create multisectoral coordination groups
• Support quarterly meetings for multisectoral groups at the district level

Maintaining Project Champion Relationships

• Identify, coordinates and interacts with family planning champions in the district to ensure their participation in working groups and advocate with stakeholders for FP initiatives.
• Coordinate work planning for health care providers, and community service providers
• Support flood response activities to be expedited on ground in respective districts

Status Reports

• Prepares and submit reports as required with regular time frequency by Programs Department.
• Supervise and monitor subawardee/CBOs action plans in communities, and plan quarterly meetings with program team
• Coordinate and facilitate payments in the field as committed under agreement after due scrutiny and verification. Maintain record of documents for accounting and audit as required by Finance Department.
• Prepare and submit reports as required (monthly/quarterly) with regular time frequency by Program Department.

Provincial Coordination

• Coordinates with Provincial Coordinator and update them of their activities, especially those that need provincial support.
• Attend 35% activities of local partners to observe, validate and support in the field.
• Gather necessary data and information to support project implementation.
• Coordination with the USAID team PI Provincial Office and keep record of progress/ results/ update share of related activities.
• Participate and record minutes of meetings and send them to Provincial office to update Pathfinder on progress of activities.

Data Management

• Will ensure data is made available to the province on agreed time frames and is then processed and shared with Provincial coordinator. Should be able to analyze the data in real time for performance management of the districts.
• Maintain complete pictorial records of all meetings at District level
• Facilitate Pathfinder and donor during monitoring visit of activities.
• Undertake any other task related to the project as assigned by Pakistan office.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and other related discipline
• 5+ years related experience in the development health sector, including the association with NGO/INGO and public sector
• Prefer: Experience in practical field work in FP MNCH & sexual and reproductive health and rights

Minimally Required Job-Specific Competencies:

• Strategies on Policy Issues: Foundational skills in strategic communications with the public sector, private organizations and policy makers about relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to SRHR.
• Advocacy: Foundational advocacy skills with specific advocacy assignments and tasks in the development sector projects.
• Country Specific Public Health System: Foundational knowledge of countries’ public health systems.
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services: Foundational knowledge of family planning and reproductive health principles, practices and services of assigned program, including program strategies and indicators.

Minimally Required Organizational Competencies:

• PC Applications: Advanced knowledge of MS Outlook, MS Word.
• Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services: Advanced knowledge of climate change, family planning and reproductive health principles, practices and services, including program strategies and indicators.
• Project Management Planning and Management: Proven ability to plan and manage cross-functional initiatives.
• Analysis and Sound Judgement: Advanced analytical and trouble shooting skills. Ability to make sound judgments. Ability to improve processes, promote excellence and demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.
• Languages: Proven ability to write and speak using local language and English language
• Communication: Advanced oral and written communication skills using different forms of media. Ability to translate complex concepts to individuals at all levels. Ability to speak across a range of technical issues that may be outside the individual’s area of expertise.
• Passion for Climate Change, Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: Commitment to  working on issues of climate change, family planning, reproductive health services, gender, maternal, child health services, and eradication of harmful traditional practices
• Influencing and Customer Service Skills: Proven ability to influence using diplomacy skills with key stakeholders. In-depth demonstrated customer service skills.
• Organization, Planning and Multi-tasking: Advanced organizational and planning skills, project planning and management skills. Proven ability to set priorities, meet deadlines and multi-task with minimal supervision. Proven ability to coordinate activities.
• Self-Management and Teamwork: Ability to work independently or as a member of the team, ability to be detailed-oriented and consistently accurate, ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-paced environment, and ability to quickly learn new systems, processes and procedures and adapt local practices to global standards.
• Matrix Management: Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization.

Confidentiality: Proven ability to maintain confidentiality on work-related issues.

Other Information:

• Travel required (45% or less)
• Uses cellular and office phone, laptop or desktop computer
• This job description format focuses on the main duties of the position and is not intended to list every potential task or assignment.
• Duties can and will change to meet the changing priorities of the department and organization.

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