Overview
The role provides technical leadership and support for health and nutrition programs, focusing on polio eradication, maternal and newborn health, child health, and nutrition interventions. It involves capacity development, research assistance, resource mobilization, and quality assurance of health activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Actively participate in national and provincial Interagency Coordination Committees (ICC) and district task forces.
- Conduct regular CGPP partners' meetings and organize review and planning forums.
- Organize regular meetings with health zone offices, church synods, community leaders, and other stakeholders.
- Build partnerships between CGPP NGOs and international, national, and provincial agencies.
- Strengthen provincial and health zone immunization systems.
- Support provincial and district planning and implementation of supplemental polio immunizations and outbreak response campaigns.
- Support community-based surveillance for AFP/VPD case detection, reporting, and response.
- Coordinate integrated interventions of Maternal and Newborn health.
- Coordinate integrated interventions of Child health.
- Coordinate integrated interventions of nutrition.
- Ensure the proper implementation of Global Health Security (GHS) activities.
- Provide capacity building of Health Officer staff.
- Ensure quality monitoring of all health capacity building events.
- Assist research in the field.
- Assist ME (Monitoring and Evaluation) team in data interpretation and writing reports.
- Identify best/promising practices and success stories for documentation and dissemination.
- Share good practices among health zones and provinces.
- Support timely documentation and use of information to improve the quality of polio eradication activities.
- Contribute to the development of project proposals that have Health component.
- Provide key ground data and information to the GAM (Grant Acquisition and Management) team.
- Assist field staff to write and ensure timely submission of HN activity reports and grant-specific reports.
- Assist NO Health Nutrition Technical Program Manager in monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of the health project.
- Ensure project alignment with TA/TP and meets minimum standards.
- Ensure post-round independent monitoring and data review.
Required Experience
- At least Five years experiences working in international NGOs
- At least three years experiences in health program management, in immunization program, MNCH and Nutrition program is preferred.
- Proven experience in managing community projects
- Project management and design experience
- Project implementation and monitoring and evaluation
Qualifications
- University degree in Medical Sciences
- Master in Public Health preferred
- Computer literate in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus note, etc.
