Company Profile

Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization affiliated with the John Hopkins University.  For 50 years and over and in over 155 countries, Jhpiego has worked to prevent the needless deaths of women and their families. Jhpiego works with health experts, governments and community leaders to provide high-quality health care for their people. Jhpiego develops strategies to help countries care for themselves by training competent health care workers, strengthening health systems and improving delivery of care. Jhpiego designs innovative, effective and low-cost health care solutions to ensure a level of care for women and their families. These practical, evidence-based interventions are breaking down barriers to high-quality health care for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Job Description

Project Overview
Breast cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer death in women across Africa. In Ghana, breast cancer has the highest incidence and mortality of all cancers. Jhpiego is partnering with the Pfizer Foundation on Breast cancer End-to-end care from Assessment to Treatment (BEAT) Breast Cancer in Ghana —a transformational initiative aimed at reducing mortality among women with Breast Cancer through stage-shifting, early diagnostics, and timely treatment. This partnership seeks to reduce the symptomatic period of breast cancer in Ghana from the current 12 months to less than three months by rooting the intervention in innovations, women-centered care, and patient navigation pathways to saturate PHC capacity for early detection by clinical breast exam (CBE), institutionalize breast health awareness interventions in social behavior change communications (SBCC) platforms, ensure timely diagnosis by decentralizing diagnoses at the secondary level, and facilitate access to multimodality treatment.  

Jhpiego aims to strive towards creating strong, innovative, and sustainable implementation models integrated into Ghana’s health system and grounded in a woman-centered approach to ensure respectful and responsive services for all women with breast cancer. 

The project will be implemented across selected districts in the Ashanti, Greater Accra, and Northern regions of Ghana over a 3-year period. 

We are currently looking for suitable professional to fill the following positions:

• Job Location: Accra 
• Position Reports to: Project Director
• Supervises: Regional Technical Officers (Greater Accra, Ashanti and Northern Regions)

• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support for the design, management, and implementation of Brest Cancer activities
• Collaborate with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and GHS to support the National Breast Cancer program, by global and national standards and alignment with national policies and strategies
• Support Ghana Health Services authorities to identify solutions for implementation challenges through regular participation in national Breast Cancer TWGs including the MOH steering committee
• Ensure that the project team coordinates effectively with government and other partners at national, regional, and district levels
• Build close working relationships with other partners and represent the project in stakeholder fora as needed
• In collaboration with the project team, provide technical inputs on the project work for scope, schedule, and projected budget expenses 
• Actively maintain current knowledge of Breast Cancer stage shifting, diagnosis, and treatment modalities including SOPs and guidelines, any emerging technical innovations and advances, also familiar with the WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI)
• Ensure high-quality of relevant Breast Cancer outreaches, stakeholder engagements and health worker capacity building
• Liaise with the global Breast Cancer TA team and Jhpiego partners to ensure that approaches, training tools, job aids, and other approaches are in line with guidance from the global technical secretariat and adapted to Ghana’s context. 
• Mentor, support, supervise, and manage a team of highly qualified technical staff and align their efforts in concert with program goals to ensure rapid and sustainable results.
• Contribute to regular reporting to donor on project progress; coordinate with the MERL team to ensure data collection and reporting tools are implemented consistently 
• Provide technical contributions of potential subgrantees/subcontractors, including defining scopes of work in coordination with the project team
• Comply with Jhpiego and JHU operational policies and regulations
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills or Experience

• A Medical Doctor, Nurse, or Midwife is required, with a preference for candidates with a Master of Public Health (MPH) or an advanced degree.
• Experience in planning and implementing reproductive health and public health programs, specifically related to Ghana’s Breast Cancer and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Program.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in women’s cancers screening, diagnosis and treatment including programs.
• Trained and certified in the screening and treatment of Breast and Cervical Cancer.
• Familiarity with the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) important.
• Strong knowledge and experience in using data for informed decision-making.
• Familiarity with Ghana Health Services and the ability to collaborate effectively with government officials at all levels.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with both local and international partner organizations.  
• Strong skills in program decision-making, facilitation, team building, and coordination.  
• Excellent writing and communication skills, including experience in technical writing for publication.  
• Demonstrable experience working with donors.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse international teams and eager to learn and empower others.  
• Able to thrive in a complex environment with multiple tasks, tight deadlines, and performance pressures.  
• Willing and able to travel frequently to implementation regions, districts, and health facilities.  
• Familiarity and experience working with MS Suite, Zoom and other virtual platforms