Overview
Save the Children is seeking an Emergency Response Manager – Health and Nutrition to lead a multi-country humanitarian action addressing acute malnutrition and related health crises in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar. The role is responsible for the strategic, operational, and managerial oversight of the regional response, ensuring timely, high-quality, and on-budget delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee integrated nutrition, primary health care, WASH, protection, cash assistance, and anticipatory action interventions.
- Ensure strong coordination among country offices, consortium partners, and key stakeholders.
- Manage budgets, lead teams, and drive adaptive decision-making in complex emergency contexts.
- In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role may require working outside the normal role profile and flexible working hours.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years’ experience managing complex, multi-location humanitarian or nexus programmes, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
- Proven experience managing large-scale nutrition or health responses (CMAM/IMAM/NiE), with protection integration preferred.
- Experience leading multi-country or multi-partner consortia.
- Strong experience with ECHO grants, compliance, and reporting.
- Operational expertise in supply chain management, cash/voucher programming, WASH in health facilities, protection and safeguarding integration, and MEAL systems.
- Experience engaging with government ministries, UN agencies, and clusters.
- Strong budget management skills (budgets over €2M).
- Excellent people management, partner coordination, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Willingness to travel up to 50% across Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Madagascar.
- Desirable: Experience with anticipatory action, crisis modifiers, or shock-responsive programming.
- Desirable: Experience working in Southern Africa and with Save the Children systems.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Humanitarian Assistance, International Development, or related discipline.
