Save the Children

Position: Health and Nutrition Advisor – South, SW and Central Area Programs

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Posted date: 19 hours ago

Application Deadline: Mar, 4/2022 (9 days left)

EAM/PROGRAMME: Health and Nutrition

LOCATION: Ethiopia Country Office- with 50-70% travel to the field

GRADE: 1B

Employment Type: National

Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Health and Nutrition advisor will be responsible to lead all technical development and human health and nutrition programs in the respective assigned area office in planning and executing capacity building actions, ensuring the implementation of Save the children’s quality improvement frameworks including quality benchmarks, common approaches aligning with the organizational strategic plan and priorities. The Advisor coordinates and leads technical assistance on health and nutrition projects in coordination with relevant project managers and technical advisors to ensure the projects contribute to the achievement of the thematic program strategic plans. S/he will work to establish and strengthen relationships and a critical link between Save the Children’s global, regional and in-country stakeholders and partners. The position holder will be responsible to ensure lessons derived through the implementation of projects are well articulated, documented, and disseminated both internally and externally. He is in charge of the strategic mainstreaming of relevant cross-cutting issues in new projects.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Health and Nutrition Thematic Director

Staff reporting to this post: no direct reports but will have a functional/technical management responsibility with health and nutrition project managers of the Area Programs using a matrix management arrangement

Budget Responsibilities: None

Context: Humanitarian and development

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES with the expected level of effort

Technical Leadership: 5%

• Provide technical leadership to education
• Technically initiate, lead, and supports the development of education-related technical strategies and support roll-out of the strategy

Program Design and Proposal Development: 20%

• Scoping of opportunities through members and donors engagement
• Contribute to initiation and lead the technical development of high-quality proposals that take into account the programing principles and quality standards of SCI
• Provide technical input to improve the planning through provision of up-to-date needs/data/information; data management and use for reporting

Technical responsibilities in Quality Program Design and Implementation: 40%

• Technically lead the rollout of our key H&N common approaches such as Nourishing the Youngest, Saving Newborn Lives and Treating Children Close
• Lead the design and support the implementation and monitoring of health and nutrition; ensure that technical best practice (including Save the Children’s Common Approaches) is applied in collaboration with program operation units and staff
• Lead the development and application of robust program quality benchmarks for all health and nutrition projects
• Conduct regular joint supportive supervisions by using predesigned quality benchmarks and indicator tracking tools, identify gaps, provide on-site hands-on support to address quality gaps, and ensure that improvement measures are captured into the automated system and adequately addressed
• Ensure that gender, disability, resilience, and children’s and beneficiaries’ participation are fully considered and are reflected in all health and nutrition program design and implementation
• Provide technical input to improve the planning, data management, and use, training, monitoring, and/or evaluation of health and nutrition and immunization services
• Provide technical backstopping as needed during humanitarian health and nutrition responses for the country office
• Closely work with and contribute on the national technical advocacy platforms, task forces, working groups, and subgroups
• Respond to requests for technical expertise from field offices and health and nutrition and Immunization projects
• Provide technical assistance to projects through on-site and virtual platforms as appropriate
• Provide technical expertise for country interventions related to maternal-child health and immunization and equity approaches
• Take responsibility for discharging TE-related responsibilities of PDQ as shown in CO’s Activity Map document
• Produce and roll out technical manuals, guidelines, and tools to ensure the effective and quality implementation of projects.

Advocacy, Networking, and External Engagement: 5%

• Provide technical leadership in policy dialogue and on health and nutrition technical and policy engagement in collaboration with other national and international organizations
• Participate and represent SCI on various national technical advocacy platforms, taskforces, clusters, working groups, and subgroups as appropriate
• Develop and maintain relationships with SC member health and nutrition teams and working groups
• Participate in regular child survival and immunization technical working groups, health, and nutrition sector review meetings, joint supervision, and other national-level sector-led activities relevant to child health and immunization
• Regularly coordinate with member and regional office health and nutrition technical staff, identify staff health and nutrition technical support requirements, inclusive of field visits, as and when necessary

Evidence and Learning: 30%

• Extract, synthesize and produce high-quality evidence and work closely with the evidence and learning team in disseminating findings internally and externally including SCI
• Roll out the technical evidence and learning plans and agendas and produce and present high-quality reports
• Monitor new developments in MCH and Immunization technical areas and facilitate transfer and application of knowledge
• Provide technical leadership and closely work with MEAL and other sectors in strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation and use of data across all levels to improve program performance
• Identifies emerging practice, pilots and assesses the nutritional impact and added value for communities, and advises on modifications to standard programming based on the result to maximize health and nutrition impact.
• Identify, introduce and take measures for scaling up effective and efficient or evidence-based best/innovative practices/approaches for emergency and development context emergency response and apply in emergency settings.
• Exercise digital technologies in health and nutrition programs generates evidence of the effectiveness of digital health and nutrition tools to improve the quality of health and health services.
• Undertake health and nutrition community of practices sessions regularly for CO teams
• Understand and apply cross-cutting issues of resilience, gender, child participation, disability, and others to ensure their incorporation into program design and implementation

KEY COMPETENCIES (Indicative / Key Competencies) - A selected candidate is expected to possess the competencies shown below.

Technical competencies:

• Drives MNCH and MIYCN Programming including SCI Common Approaches, programming principles, Theory of Changes, and Program Quality Framework and applies them in all stages of a program
• Understanding of the impact of emergencies on health programming and health outcomes: Engages in the humanitarian aid architecture, the cluster approach, and inter-cluster coordination of public health information
• Writes strong and high-quality documents such as proposals, reports, technical papers
• Able to build sustainable and integrated MCH and Immunization programs: Builds the capacity of others to design and implement integrated MCH and Immunization sensitive and specific programming and advocacy
• Able to link-local to national and global level advocacy efforts, supporting localization of change and influencing global policy development
• Advance adaptive and innovative health and nutrition
• Proven experience and competencies in designing and implementing quality health and nutrition projects at community levels
• Designing adaptable, efficient, and high-quality health and nutrition programs
• Data analytic and presentation

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Promotes evidence-based policy and public engagement that includes the voices of children and their communities
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Displays a commitment to ensuring everything we do considers the most deprived and marginalized children
• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to the delivery

Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in their own work and in work with colleagues and peers

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling Save the Children in ensuring staff health and safety
• Holds staff accountable to deliver on their responsibilities to ensure all staff working in a safe working environment - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary support to improve staff health and safety practices, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development, and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members, and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in public health or other related fields, Masters Degree Preferable.

Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in technical leadership and management of large scale MNCH and MIYCN projects in both humanitarian and development operating contexts
• Proven experience of high quality and winning project design and proposal development experience
• Possess strong technical competencies in core common approaches and programming principles of SCI
• Proven experience and competencies in producing and disseminating high quality and impact program evidence and lessons
• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to lead and work effectively in team situations
• Experiences in providing impactful technical support on health and nutrition TWGs at national or regional levels for Federal Ministry of health or Regional health bureaus
• Good knowledge and experience of the Ethiopian Health and nutrition systems and policies
• Experience in developing donor relationships, working with national-level technical working groups, working with government partners, with partner agencies
• Experience in policy analysis and policy engagement experience
• Strong result orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets
• Good skill and competencies in communicating, organizing group discussion, and presentation
• Good computer skills (MS Word, MS Excel, and other data-generating tools)
• Commitment to Save the Children values

How to Apply

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Additional job responsibilities: The role holder could carry out additional duties as assigned by the health and nutrition thematic director based on his/her level of skills and experience

Equal Opportunities

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse

Safeguarding our Staff:

• The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SC Health and Safety policies and procedures