GLOBAL HEALTH WORKFORCE PROGRAMME (GHWP) KENYA GRANTS CONSULTANT

GLOBAL HEALTH WORKFORCE PROGRAMME (GHWP)

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR RESPONSIBILITIES OF THET GHWP KENYA GRANTS CONSULTANT

Introduction to the Global Health Workforce Programme

Funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, the Global Health Workforce Programme (GHWP) will aim to develop the health workforce (HWF) in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, supporting them to build stronger, more resilient health systems for post-pandemic recovery and to make progress towards universal health coverage.

Grants for UK-LMIC and cross-LMIC partnerships will be awarded to respond to national HWF priorities identified through a scoping assessment carried out by THET in September/October 2023.

With a strong focus on building local ownership and sustainability, these partnerships will contribute to the following programmatic outcomes:

1. Partnerships contributing towards improved health workforce leadership capacity aligned with health workforce strategies, that will support reduction in gender inequalities.

2. Partnerships aligning with and contributing towards retention and wellbeing strategies.

3. Improved number and quality of training opportunities for health workers.

4. Co-developed and documented learning on health workforce interventions shared with key national and international stakeholders.

THET will award up to 20 strategic grants of £200,000 – £350,000 that feed into the country scoping priorities and outputs outlined above. The grants will broadly be split across the three countries, however the exact split is dependent on the number and quality of applications received.

Up to 15 smaller grants of up to £50,000 will also be available for projects that tackle specific areas such as innovation, rural health facilities, leadership opportunities for women and protected groups, and the climate crisis.

Grants will be available to UK-LMIC health partnerships and LMIC-LMIC health partnerships. There are no institutional eligibility criteria as long as ODA rules are followed, so grants can be awarded to healthcare providers, royal colleges, universities, professional associations, NGOs, alliances, diaspora networks etc, but not to Ministry of Health departments.

This document serves as a Terms of Reference for the type of work the THET Grants Consultant should expect to carry out as part of this.

Main responsibilities

Workstream 1: Grants Management

• Manage a portfolio of health partnership grants, overseeing contracting and financial disbursements.
• Ensure grant holders understand what is required of them with regards project management (including M&E, finances, activity plan and reporting, partnership relations, procurement etc.) and support them where necessary to overcome identified challenges.
• Conduct visits to the grant holder institutions throughout the programme, and hold regular online meetings, to accompany progress, ensure that challenges identified through reports and monitoring visits are being successfully overcome and that any new challenges, concerns, developments or opportunities are identified quickly.
• Review grant holder narrative and finance reports, and provide feedback on the level of achievement, need for further information and recommendations for improvement.
• Conduct audits to grant holder institutions.
• Identify any changes to the personnel amongst grant holders
• Contribute to learning analysis meetings, as well as quarterly donor reports and end of project impact reports.
• Contribute to grant holder sharing and learning events.
• Provide other administrative support where required.

Workstream 2: Programme quality and design

• Contribute to the design of organisational and health partnership quality programme approaches, including standards, processes, tools and guidance.
• Contribute to the delivery of capacity development interventions for grant holders.

Workstream 3: Grants database administration

• Ensure optimum use of the grants management database (on the Salesforce platform), including input of data, grant analysis, production of reports, and analysis of monitoring and evaluation methods.
• Support the internal team and grant holders to navigate the database.
• Liaise with the database supplier to troubleshoot any issues.

Workstream 4: Administration and events

• Support preparations for, attend and present national, grant holder and THET events
• Liaise with the in-country administrator in providing logistical support around health partnership events/visa processes/ethical approvals, UK teams, etc.

Contractual responsibilities

The Consultant is expected to work full-time, Monday to Friday, until March 2025. They will report to the THET Programmes Coordinator based in London, and liaise closely with the in-country representative and administrator.

The Consultant will receive a daily rate of GBP £146. In total, depending on the start date the total fee will not exceed £45,760. Please note that this is non-negotiable and will cover all expenses apart from project-related travel, meeting and communication expenses. Consultants will share an allowance with the in-country representative and administrator to help deliver the work, with £300 a month available for communications and other office-related expenses, and £300 a month for travel and meeting costs.

Receipts must be kept, where possible, in order to claim for support costs. Consultants will not be expected to use their own funds to cover project-related costs.

Invoice process: Invoices must be submitted monthly in £ GBP, and the HRMC exchange rate used to calculate any support costs expenses. The monthly exchange rate to be used should match the month the costs were made (and the month should match the receipt).

Person Specification:

Qualifications

Essential:

Bachelor’s Degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant discipline.

Desirable:

Master’s Degree level in a relevant discipline, such as Public Health.

Experience

Essential:

• Minimum seven years’ experience in the NGO and/or health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Project coordination, administration, and the project management cycle

• Budget preparation, tracking and monitoring

• Preparing and delivering written and verbal communications to a range of audiences

  Desirable:

• Grants management

• Working closely with international teams

• Monitoring and evaluation

• Database management

Knowledge

Essential:

• Understanding of, and interest, in international development and global health issues.
• Awareness of Monitoring and Evaluation principles.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of issues relating to health workforce capacity development in low- and middle-income countries

Skills

Essential:

• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Well-developed IT skills and competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Excellent time management skills and ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Team player able to work independently when required and to manage a diverse and heavy workload.
• Attention to detail.
• Good financial management skills.

Desirable:

• Ability to analyse, synthesise and communicate complex issues in a clear manner.
• Confident in developing the capacity development of others.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence in dealing with international teams and senior external stakeholders

Values

• Strong commitment to THET’s cause and values.
• Highly motivated self-starter.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Intercultural sensitivity and awareness.

Other

• The candidate must be willing to work in insecure areas and travel to rural areas.
• THET is an equal opportunity employer, and any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
• A commitment to matrix working.

ABOUT TROPICAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION TRUST (THET)

One billion people will never see a qualified health worker in their lives. For over thirty years, THET – www.thet.org – has been working to change this, training health workers to build a world where everyone has access to affordable and quality healthcare. We do this by leveraging the expertise and energy of the UK health community, supporting health partnerships between hospitals, colleges and clinics in the UK and those overseas.

From reducing maternal deaths in Uganda to improving the quality of hospital care for injured children in Myanmar, we work to strengthen local health systems and build a healthier future for all. In the past ten years alone, THET has reached over 100,000 health workers across 31 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in partnership with over 130 UK institutions and UK health workers who have contributed over 60,000 days of their time as volunteers. Health partnerships have contributed to more effective and efficient health systems in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs).1 They also benefit the UK health sector through improved health professional competencies, motivation, health service innovations and global influence.2

THET is a fund manager for health partnership grants programmes on behalf of UK government and corporations. Health partnerships are long-term, institutional relationships between health organisations in the UK and their counterparts in LMICs, and are based on ideas of co-development, reciprocal learning and mutual benefit. Staff from UK health institutions volunteer their time developing and carrying out health systems strengthening activities at their LMIC partner institution, be that training, curriculum development, leadership and governance, etc.