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• Job Locations US-VA-Arlington
  Job Title Communications Intern
  The Infectious Disease Cluster in the Technical Strategy Team within the Health Programs Group is implementing an action plan to better coordinate portfolio-wide tracking and support for country projects with infectious disease components (HIV, TB, Malaria). One area of the action plan focuses on improving external visibility for the work that MSH is doing in these areas and promoting thought leadership. The Intern will work in support of this aspect of the team’s work.   Student Takeaways: - Familiarity with HIV program achievements and challenges - Experience in strategic communication for an international development health program   Please Note:  - Internship candidates must be full or part time students earning university credit for their internship. - This is an unpaid internship and candidates are responsible for their own housing and transportation.

  Job ID

  13-10038

  City

  Arlington

  Country

  United States

• Job Locations CD-Kananga
  Job Title Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Specialist
  MSH is seeking an Internally Displaced People (IDP) Specialist for a short-term humanitarian response project in DRC.   Conflict in the Kasaï region of central DRC, sparked by a violent local militia uprising that began in August 2016, has caused significant population displacement and substantial disruption to the health system’s ability to deliver essential health services. In Kasaï Central province, host to 77% of the region’s 1.3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), health service readiness was well below the national average even before the present crisis erupted. Ongoing efforts by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and Population Services International (PSI) to strengthen the provincial and health zone-level health system to reliably and equitably deliver essential services, under the current USAID-funded IHPplus and PMI Expansion projects, have been disrupted. In the proposed program, MSH and PSI will support the health system in Kasaï Central in coordinating with humanitarian actors to meet the urgent health needs of IDPs and others directly affected by conflict, while leveraging the ongoing capacity development and service delivery support that they continue to provide through currently programmed activities. We will strengthen outreach to IDPs where they have found refuge, building on established, proven approaches to identify cases, deliver community-based health services, rehabilitate health facilities as needed, develop and strengthen community-to-facility referral systems and networks, ensure that health data collection includes conflict-affected communities and IDP locations, and reach vulnerable populations with evidence-based, gender-sensitive, and context-appropriate social and behavior change communication messages. Working with the humanitarian logistics platform, we will address urgent needs for essential medicines and commodities both in IDP locations and at health facilities. Across all activities, program activities will strengthen the resilience of the DRC health system, build local skills and capabilities, and enable effective program transition.   The program will work in 187 health areas affected by the conflict in 25 health zones in Kasaï Central where the current USAID IHPplus and PMI Expansion projects are operating. MSH and PSI will prioritize support to the 187 health areas where the 928,166 IDPs were reported per MSH’s rapid situational analysis, in collaboration with the DPS management team. Within the 187 health areas, the program will prioritize support to 85 health facilities.   This consultancy will be from October 2017- February 2018. Local candidates are preferred.

  Job ID

  13-9779

  City

  Kananga

  Country

  Congo, The Democratic Republic of the

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