TEAM/PROGRAMME: Health and Nutrition, PDQI

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

LOCATION: Addis Ababa, Save the Children CO, up to 50% travel to the field.

ROLE PURPOSE:  

The Senior Health Advisor, with  in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and networking skills to deliver CSP for the CO, will be responsible for proving technical support in program design with quality technical inputs and to contribution to the child survival breakthrough, drawing upon Health and Nutrition strategic priorities. The role will contribute to health and nutrition strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high quality programmes that deliver change for children in both emergency and development programming.

The role supports national advocacy and influencing, while driving strategic partnerships for new health related business development. It supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams and partners. The role will support Health and Nutrition Thematic Director and the team to ensure the CO health and nutrition thematic sector contribution to the CO CSP and to the survive breakthrough in particular while also contributes to respective regional health, capacities where they exist, and contribute to regional learning, evidence generation and knowledge management where appropriate.

The role will work closely with operations colleagues and with partners in Ethiopia CO, building their capacity and building ownership and agency of local organisations.  This position will be expected to engage with the country health sector, and coordination mechanisms, as well as represent the organisation with key stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health and its structures including Ethiopian Public Health Institute, Regional Health Bureaus and other key health sector INGOs/CSOs. The role would be expected to provide support emergency preparedness, DRR and support the assessment, design and implementation of humanitarian responses with the Roving Health and Nutrition Advisors and other program staff in the CO.

 The role includes on-job technical support at field level health experts where the incumbent is expected to travel to all Save the Children operation areas and spend approximately 50% of his/her time at the across range of priority issues including active technical support to existing maternal, newborn and child health and immunization projects.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Health and Nutrition Thematic Director

Staff reporting to this post:  None while expected to provide coaching and mentoring support to Roving Health and Nutrition Advisors, operational and other technical colleagues and local partners

Budget Responsibilities: TBC

Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children members, the Country Office Programme Development & Quality team, advocacy colleagues, Regional Advisors, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors etc. The role is also expected to engage with internal technical working groups and communities of practice.

Context : Humanitarian and development

Primary Technical areas: Health

Primary Sub technical area: Child Health, Maternal and Newborn Health

Secondary Technical areas: Nutrition and WASH  

Secondary Sub technical area: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Social Behaviour Change

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :

  Ensuring Quality Programme Design 25%LOE

• Technically contribute to the health and nutrition thematic sector on the development of health related strategies with particular emphasis on maternal, newborn and child and community health which will be part the contribution to CO CSP 2022-2024 and 2030 breakthroughs, especially the SURVIVE breakthrough.

• Serve as a member of the health and nutrition technical leadership at the CO to work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities that allow for both integration into broader programmes and standalone health projects; engage with health technical partners including the ministry of health and its bodies such as Maternal and Child Health Directorate, Ethiopian Public Health  Institute (EPHI), various national level technical working groups, clusters, donors and colleagues across Save the Children

• Take role in technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality integrated health programmes for children with public health resources, building on global best practice. Ensure that gender, disability and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation.

• Promote optimal health programming approach as an overarching framework of the national maternal and newborn and child health and development strategies that supports working in collaboration and partnership with stakeholders at national and sub-national levels

• Capacity build, mentor and build a supportive health community across the Country Office, in conjunction with other public health colleagues in Nutrition and WASH.

• Provide inputs to the thematic planning and facilitating high level technical meetings and conferences within the sector.

• Support health program operation team to understand and contextualise global guidance, quality standards like quality benchmarks, common approaches, donor and stakeholder quality requirements and other quality parameters.

• Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our child rights programming approach), with a strong focus on child participation.

• Promote a Health Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments and national bodies, local partners and working towards impact, scale and sustainability.

•    Ensuring Quality Program Implementation 50%LOE

  • Provide oversight and guidance to the health programme implementation teams to ensure that programme components are technically sound, implementation methods are consistent with national and global strategies, acknowledged good practice (e.g. Save the Children Common Approaches); and are likely to achieve scale, as well as equitable and sustainable results.

  • Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of health programmes at the community level.

  •   Closely work with and support roving health and nutrition advisors to technically support area specific update and situations analysis for both development and humanitarian conditions.

  • Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) teams to carry out gender and power analysis, and conduct quality monitoring against international standards through participatory methodologies that promote gender equality and social justice (including child-friendly and gender sensitive/transformative methodologies);. 

  •  Contribute towards the creation of an organisational learning culture that promotes the use of disaggregated data, evidence and analysis (including gender and power analysis) and understands its link to quality and accountable programming; Contribute to strengthening the use of equality-focused programme principles and good practice across themes and sectors.

    • Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.

    • Contribute to organisational learning on health ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global health, nutrition and WASH community in Save the Children. Contribute to strengthening the use of health competencies within training and learning initiatives in the sector. 

    •  Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop emergency preparedness plans, and conduct sectoral assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis using SC assessment processes and tools) and to design and deliver emergency response and recovery programmes. Ensure synergies between humanitarian Child Protection teams, data and programme design.  

       Networking & External Engagement: 25%LOE

    •   In alignment with the health and nutrition thematic priority and the CSP, engage in representing SC with partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in Health.  

    • As part of the CO health technical leadership, in collaboration with business development team and other units, contribute in strengthening strategic partnerships in identifying partners and donors to strengthen health portfolio of the country office.

    • Develop and strengthen strategic relations, bilaterally and in network, with key influencing health sector stakeholders, particularly ministry of health and its agencies such as Ethiopia Public Health Institute, Ethiopia Food and Drug Authority, Ethiopia Pharmaceutical Supply Agency and respective regional health bureaus and its structures as well as UN agencies and private and institutional donors in country.

    • Ensure that Save the Children is influencing and learning from others through national technical coordination and networking bodies such as health clusters and working groups.

    • Strengthen civil society engagement in national dialogues and policy processes through working closely with advocacy and child rights governance colleagues. Ensure that the diverse voices of children, girls and boys are equitably heard and represented in our Health work.

    •  Represent the program to National and Local government representatives, donors, partner agencies, etc. as required.

      • Ensure the quality, clarity and consistency of technical components of internal and external reports (e.g. programme reports, sit-reps, internal updates), working closely with awards, and programme implementation and communications colleagues as needed.

      • Leverage and liaise with technical colleagues from across Save the Children, including technical working groups and centers of excellence, ensuring that learning from the Country Office is shared with others and global lessons brought back.

      • BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

        Accountability:

        • holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

        • holds their team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in accordance with the context,  providing the necessary development to improve performance 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 professional development and encourages their team 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, technical advisors and working groups, 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; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

        • The post holder must commit to work in an international agency that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion and fights racism, gender inequality and discrimination in all forms; and to model positive behaviours that demonstrate a commitment to equality and respect to all colleagues, partners and communities. 

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS 

• BSC degree in Public Health , Health, Medical or related qualifications 

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

•  Minimum of 12 years of experience in technically lead, manage and implement health development projects

• Understanding of the health sector, systems and policies in Ethiopia, and an understanding of the health priorities impacted on by the regional or neighbouring situation.

• Familiar with health systems, and health service provision including community health and the engagement of civil society organisations

• Experience and skill in building capacity and provide mentorship health program managers, specialists, officers and coordinators

• Experience and skill in identify and documenting learnings, best practices, and facilitate learnings

• Solid experience in designing and technically support the implementation of health programming that ensure programmes/projects towards impact, scale and sustainability

• Good experience in training, and capacity building of workforce and health staff

• Experience of the national context, strategies and policies to enable advocacy at national / regional level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights, including the right to health services and food.

• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources. 

• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children

• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.

• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.  

Commitment to Save the Children values

KEY COMPETENCIES

·      Child Rights: Promotes an enabling environment for participation, and accountability to children

·      Be the Innovator: Promotes innovation to find new and better approaches to driving progress for children

Deliver Results at Scale: Promotes a clear focus on impact in a project and programme design, management, and oversight

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 marginalised children and adolescent

• Building & Strengthening Partnerships: Promotes working with diverse partners as critical to delivery

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

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their 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.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. The duty station of the position holder will be in Addis Ababa This role is offered on the basis of national terms and conditions only.

The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realize the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

How to Apply

Application Information:

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Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at THIS LINK

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.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.