Overview
The Health and Nutrition Specialist is responsible for leading the office's work on mother and child health, nutrition, immunization, and environmental health, providing technical support for health reforms and improved public financing for children.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the office work on mother and child health, nutrition, immunization and environmental health.
- Ensure high quality technical support is provided to support health reforms.
- Support improved public financing for children with more efficient and effective spending to support preventive health priorities.
- Provide strong management and leadership to the health team to deliver timely and quality results against the annual workplan and in line with the CPD.
- Responsible for effective budget management, as well as ensuring compliance with donor conditionalities and effective coordination with development partners.
- Proactively and strongly coordinate and collaborate to effectively and efficiently manage health and nutrition work, including health financing, in coordination with social policy colleagues.
- Build strong partnership with the Ministry of Health to support the strengthening of the health system especially at the preventive primary health care level.
- Lead advocacy on effective implementation of planning and budgeting that supports strengthened preventive health care at the primary health level.
- Ensure timely and efficient programme implementation through excellent coordination and collaboration with other health team members.
- Build and leverage partnerships with IFIs and other key global players in health and health financing in the country to influence strategic decisions.
- Ensure timely and quality delivery of results through effective team and budget management.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 5 years of proven professional experience in planning, implementation and management in health systems strengthening and reforms in Middle Income Country contexts.
- Evidence of proactive leadership, agility and strategic thinking to ensure timely and effective programme delivery, including in complex policy and donor coordination contexts.
- Proven experience in partnership building with government, IFIs, other UN agencies.
- Developing country work experience is considered an asset.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: public health/nutrition, pediatric health, family health, health research, global/international health, health policy and/or management, environmental health sciences, biostatistics, socio-medical, health education, epidemiology, or another relevant technical field.
