Technical Advisor, Crvs Improvement Program

Technical Advisor, CRVS Improvement Program

The Technical Advisor - CRVS Improvement Program will lead technical assistance in two countries in Asia, including planning and implementation of work plans, and primarily managing consultants who serve as Country Coordinators and Country Implementation providers. The Technical Advisor will also be responsible for budgeting and expenditure reconciliation and may provide limited technical assistance to CRVS awardees of our Global Grants Program in the region or elsewhere. The TA will work under the supervision of the Regional Deputy Director - Singapore Office.

Vital Strategies is committed to helping prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to protecting the safety of our employees.

Vital Strategies is committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) organization. We believe our programs are strengthened when they are developed and supported by individuals with diverse life experiences, whose understanding of social and cultural issues can help make our work and workforce more inclusive.

**Job Purpose**

Vital Strategies is an international public health organization. Our programs strengthen public health systems and address the world’s leading causes of illness, injury and death. We currently work in 73 countries, supporting data-driven decision making in government, advancing evidence-based public health policies and mounting strategic communication campaigns. Vital Strategies’ priorities are driven by the greatest potential to improve and save lives. They include non-communicable disease prevention, cardiovascular health promotion, tobacco control, road safety, obesity prevention, epidemic prevention, overdose prevention, environmental health, vital statistics systems building and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment research. Our programs are primarily concentrated in low
- and middle-income countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific; the Overdose Prevention Program is our first initiative in the U.S.

The Singapore based Asia Regional Office (ARO) of Vital Strategies drives regional business development and partnerships and serves as a regional management hub with functions such as administration, finance, and grants. The office also provides oversight support, engaging technical experts, while managing a diverse workforce spread throughout the region. The ARO helps ensure that programs and projects are coordinated, providing a shared knowledge base, and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between projects across the region.

**The Position**

This position supports the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, which aims to enhance public health data collection and use in low
- and middle-income countries. The goal of the initiative is to ensure that a billion more people live in countries where data are used to steer public policy and program decisions. Under the Initiative, Vital Strategies, in partnership with other global public health organizations, is implementing a multi-year program to improve civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) in numerous countries and municipalities in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. Vital Strategies has full responsibility for provision of technical assistance to several of these.

The CRVS Improvement Program involves interventions designed to improve the registration of births and deaths; improve the availability and quality of cause of death information for both facility
- and home-based events and improve the timeliness of available vital statistics information and reports.

**The Technical Advisor - CRVS Improvement Program** will lead technical assistance provision in two countries in Asia, including planning and implementation of work plans, and managing Country Coordinators and Country Implementation Teams. The Technical Advisor will also be responsible for budgeting and expenditure reconciliation and may provide limited technical assistance to CRVS awardees of our Global Grants Program grants in the region or elsewhere. The TA will be located in our Singapore office and work under the supervision of the Regional Deputy Director - Singapore Office.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Reporting to Regional Deputy Director, CRVS, the Technical Advisor will provide technical assistance to national ministries of health and other key stakeholders in 2 priority or ‘focus’ countries participating in the CRVS arm Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for Health Initiative.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
***Country work planning**
- Establish relationships and collaborate with senior government officials to develop country-owned work plans, based on government priorities
- Work with government counterparts to identify priority intervention areas and interventions; define scopes of work; and develop detailed budgeted work plans that identify priority activities and results needed to maximize local impact.
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