Pathfinder Overview
Pathfinder International is dedicated to creating access to and improving the quality of family planning, reproductive health, abortion, and community- and facility-based HIV and AIDS care and services. In partnership with host country governments and nongovernmental organizations, we train facility-based health care providers to improve both the quality and range of their technical and counseling skills. Facility-based services are further improved through provision of equipment and facility renovations. We mobilize communities to advocate for quality services and improve access through trained community-based volunteers. Pathfinder improves youth’s access to health care by creating youth-friendly services and training peer educators to promote them. In each project, Pathfinder works with our partners to improve both their management and program implementation capacity. Through all that we do, Pathfinder strives to empower women, men, adolescents, and communities to make choices and create environments conducive to healthy reproductive behaviors.
Program Overview
Pathfinder International’s Angola program activities include Reproductive Health/Family Planning (RH/FP), malaria, providing technical assistance, and building local capacity of health service providers to provide quality services. Pathfinder has been expanding FP services in Angola through, increasing the capacity of Ministry of Health service providers in RH/FP; integration of FP services into other programs; and community mobilization to raise awareness of FP. USAID has recently awarded Pathfinder an Associate Award through the Extended Services Delivery (ESD) project to continue assisting the Government of Angola (GoA) in strengthening health systems related to FP and RH in Luanda Province and beyond. Pathfinder is working with the GoA to increase access to and demand for quality FP services while targeting youth, working with support groups to mobilize and involve communities in behavior change, and supporting male involvement. The project will expand the number of trained FP providers and integrate FP training for non-FP providers and community agents. Community mobilization activities are being conducted to increase knowledge of FP, involve communities in oversight of service quality at health posts and health units, and mobilize communities for behavior change and to increase demand for services. Particular focus will be placed on reaching youth and reducing barriers to accessing FP services in the four municipalities of Cazenga, Cacuaco, Kilamba Kiaxi and Viana of Luanda Province, but will include additional municipalities in another province as determined by Pathfinder International, MOH and USAID/Angola priorities.
With funds from Exxon Mobile, Pathfinder is training service providers at the two newly built maternity wards in the Kilamba Kiaxe Mbondo Chape Health Center and the Cacuaco N’Dala Muleba Health Center. In partnership with the Provincial Department of Health, providers are being trained in FP and healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy, training of trainers for malaria at the facility level, supervising, and monitoring the standards of practice for malaria care and treatment. Pathfinder is addressing malaria morbidity and mortality by distributing insecticide treated nets (ITNs), adding intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) for pregnant women to the provider trainings on comprehensive maternal and child health care in those health centers, and including malaria information and messages to the community education and mobilization activities to raise people’s awareness of malaria prevention and treatment.
Position Purpose
The Logistics Coordinator is responsible for providing technical assistance in family planning and other public health commodities supply chain management to the Government, donors, and non-governmental family-planning organizations. S/he is expected to lead the technical work of logistics and supply chain management within the project team and to coordinate the work of regional logistics staff. The Logistics Coordinator works under the direction of the Country Representative and closely with short-term technical assistance providers and senior government officials for the technical aspect of the project’s mandate in country.
Responsibilities include supporting the Country Representative in the development of technical strategies and work plans and the organization and provision of in-country technical assistance in forecasting and quantification of commodity needs, warehousing/storage, inventory management, transportation and distribution of supply, logistics information system management, supply chain performance monitoring.
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