Overview
This role provides technical leadership and capacity building for health and nutrition programs, focusing on polio eradication and integrated interventions. The purpose is to strengthen health systems and improve immunization coverage.
Key Responsibilities
- Actively participate in national and provincial Interagency Coordination Committees (ICC) and working groups.
- Conduct partner meetings and organize review and planning forums.
- Build partnerships with agencies involved in polio eradication.
- Strengthen immunization systems to reduce zero-dose children and improve coverage.
- Support 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 for Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH).
- Coordinate integrated interventions for Child health (iCCM/IMNCI).
- Coordinate integrated interventions for nutrition (MUAC/edema screening, IYCF counseling, CMAM referrals).
- Ensure proper implementation of Global Health Security (GHS) activities.
- Provide capacity building for Health Officer staff.
- Ensure quality monitoring of health capacity building events.
- Assist research as part of a research team.
- Assist ME team in data interpretation and report writing.
- Identify best/promising practices for documentation and dissemination.
- Share good practices among health zones and provinces.
- Support timely documentation and use of information to improve polio eradication activities.
- Contribute to the development of project proposals with Health components.
- Provide key ground data and information to the GAM team.
- Assist field staff in writing and ensuring timely submission of HN activity reports.
- Assist NO Health Nutrition Technical Program Manager in monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of health projects.
- 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
- Experience in Immunization and Disease surveillance
- Experience in MNCH and Nutrition
- Experience in Global Health Security (GHS)
- Experience in health Zone management
- Theory of change and logical framework development
- Database management, statistical skills and ability to critically evaluate health data
- Professional experience in training/capacity building
- Multi-sectoral/integrated program design and implementation
Qualifications
- University degree in Medical Sciences
- Master in Public Health preferred
- Computer literate in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus note, etc.
