Health & Nutrition Coordinator

Job Purpose

The Health & Nutrition Coordinator is responsible for providing strategic technical direction and leadership on health and nutrition programming in Concern Ethiopia. This includes raising quality, impact and innovation in health and nutrition programming, leading on new project development and design for all contexts, ensuring adherence to national and international standards and Concern guidelines. The Health and Nutrition Coordinator is also responsible for representation, collaboration and coordination at federal and regional level with key partners including government offices, United Nations, donors and other agencies. S/he will provide overall technical and managerial oversight of all health and nutrition (H&N) interventions in line with approved project proposals and plans - on time, within scope and on budget - in liaison with Programme Directors.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Technical Support & Quality Assurance

• Harmonise and develop HSS guidance, tools and methodology used in Concern health and nutrition programmes, in line with government endorsed material, Health, and Nutrition Strategy and ensure distributed to all programme areas/programme managers.
• Ensure that any health components of wider health and nutrition programming are functioning properly, technically strong and providing quality care to all beneficiaries while respecting guidelines and principles of good practice.
• Identifying, advocating and strengthening local human resource capacity and gaps.
• Mobilise communities to advocate for community health systems and priorities.
• Train staff (emergency and development) and government counterparts on understanding and applying HSS approach in all projects.
• Identify and address key bottlenecks (move from substitution to supporting or strengthening the system) related to health supply management (especially last mile delivery).
• Work with government and health facility staff to strengthen financial management skills in order to improve health services.
• Support health and nutrition programming, including HMIS/DHIS, AIMNCI/ICCM, reproductive health, public health emergency management/emergency response/infectious disease/drug usage.
• Support introduction of one health approach to specific project areas as required.
• Conduct regular technical visits (supportive supervision) to support effective implementation, monitoring, evaluation and documentation of ongoing health and nutrition/HSS activities.
• Build coaching techniques and problem solving to address identified systems barriers.

Programme Development & Design

• Support development of proposals, prepare reports and documentation related to health, nutrition and HSS, bringing on board new and innovative initiatives.
• Lead on development and adaptation, of “CMAM Surge” for acute malnutrition and key childhood diseases and subsequent evaluation, documentation, dissemination and scale up.
• Ensure appropriate health, nutrition and HSS standard indicators used for monitoring process, achieved outputs and outcomes, and make findings available for future programming and planning.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning

• Conduct in-depth analysis of health, nutrition and HSS practices and barriers in different target populations using methodology that includes Knowledge Attitude and Practice (KAP), Barrier Analysis (BA), Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs), Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Key Informant Interviews (KII).
• Collate and share findings from Concern or other agency learning on health and nutrition issues, health system barriers or bottlenecks.
• Prepare progress report and learning brief for external dissemination in liaison with programme managers and MEAL unit.

Representation & Networking

• Participate in Government workshops/working groups related to health, nutrition and HSS.
• Representation at relevant health and nutrition technical working groups, including health cluster when requested.
• Be aware of, understand and comply with all of Concern’s policies and procedures (P4, finance, logistics, HR, security management etc.).
• Ensure tools, strategies; approaches are in line with Concern global policies, Country Strategic Plan, country Health and Nutrition strategy, equality/gender strategies to improve impact and visibility.
• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy.
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with dignity and respect.
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Other

• Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the line manager, Nutrition Lead or Programme Director.

Emergency Response

Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and the Ethiopia Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization.

Gender Equity 

• Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy.
• Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women treated equally and with dignity and respect.
• Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities.

Accountability 

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS): 

• Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E); 
• Work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed; 
• Work with relevant colleagues  to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities. 

Safeguarding

• Able to seek appropriate advice and report concerns, and feel confident that they have been understood.
• Understands local safeguarding structures and arrangements.
• Practices in a manner that seeks to reduce the risk of abuse, harm or neglect.
• Identifies and refers to appropriate services any other associated persons including caretakers, family members and children at risk.
• Able to document safeguarding concerns, and maintain appropriate record-keeping, recording the wishes and views of the adult or child at risk, differentiating between fact and opinion.

Person Specification

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree/Master’s Degree in Public Health or equivalent in Public Health.
• 6/8 years of related experience with postgraduate or with first degree respectively in managing emergency and/or development health/nutrition projects.
• At least 4 years of management experience.
• Experience working in diversified team Skills required.
• Proven management skills.
• Project management experience.
• Donor standard proposal and report writing skills
• Excellent representational skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in health system strengthening and a good understanding of capacity building approaches an advantage
• Good understanding of capacity building approaches
• Strong verbal and written skills in English
• Experience in working with team and governments
• Strong verbal and written skills in English

Competencies

Desirable

• Experience of data analytical software including EpiInfo, SPSS highly desirable
• Strong leadership, teamwork, coordination, interpersonal and negotiating skills
•  Strong analytical skills, sound judgment and the capacity to think and plan strategically
• Representation, liaison and negotiation skills
• Familiarity with cross-cutting approaches such as HIV mainstreaming, rights-based, gender, equality
• Computer literacy and familiarity with Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets and budgeting

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefit package
• Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)
• 20 days annual leave
• 26 weeks (paid) maternity leave, 18 weeks (unpaid) parental leave

How to Apply

• Interested applicants should send non-returnable C.V., application letter outlining how their experience and education fit this vacancy,
• Apply only through https://forms.gle/38xzyFkyuVpQas8i6 ,                                          

Please note that no need to submit your supporting documents at this stage 

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Women and people with disability are highly encouraged to apply.