Overview
The role involves providing technical leadership and support for health and nutrition programs, focusing on polio eradication, maternal and newborn health, child health, and nutrition interventions. It also includes capacity development, research assistance, and resource mobilization.
Key Responsibilities
- Actively participate in national and provincial Interagency Coordination Committees (ICC) and other forums.
- Support provincial ICC and district task forces.
- Organize regular partner meetings, review, and planning forums.
- Build partnerships with agencies involved in polio eradication.
- Strengthen immunization systems to achieve polio eradication.
- 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 in the field.
- Assist ME team in data interpretation and report writing.
- Identify best/promising practices and success stories for documentation and dissemination.
- Support timely documentation and use of information to improve health activities.
- Contribute to the development of project proposals with Health components.
- Provide 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.
