Job
Profile - Humanitarian Health Advisor (Unilever)
Job
Title: Humanitarian
Health Advisor
Place
of Work: East Africa (SC Office or
Home-Based) (TBC)
Grade: 3
Department:
Programme
Policy & Quality
Reports
to:
Regional Health Advisor
Line
management responsibility: Yes (Emergency
Response Personnel)
Budget
Responsibility: No
Child
Protection Level: 3
Length
of contract: Fixed
term 3-years; August 2012 – May 2015
Introduction
Between now and 2015,
we have dedicated our organisation to supporting the achievement of
Millennium
Development Goal 4, a two-thirds reduction in the rate of under five mortality.
Our health programmes
are key to this goal and we are seeking to dramatically expand the
scale and impact of
our work, both direct interventions with communities, support to health
systems at district
and national level and policy, advocacy and campaigns.
In line with Save the
Children’s Ambition 2015 Humanitarian Strategy, we are significantly
scaling up our
frontline health & nutrition capacity so that many more children’s lives
can be
saved in new
emergencies and in chronic emergency contexts. We are also scaling up our
humanitarian health
capacity-building activities under the Humanitarian Academy to produce
the next generation
of Frontline Health Workers.
In all the major
emergencies of the last few years, including the Horn of Africa drought, the
Haiti earthquake, the
Pakistan floods and the Zimbabwe cholera outbreak there have been
significant gaps in
frontline health capacity. Between 2009 and 2011 SC reached
approximately 750 000
children and their families per year with its emergency health &
nutrition programmes.
However, by 2014, we aim to have put in place the necessary capacity
(people, equipment
and training) to reach 1.5 million people per annum with emergency
health &
nutrition support. We are seeking experienced and committed humanitarian health
professionals to help
deliver this ambitious strategy.
Job
Purpose
The purpose of this
role is to support country programmes to design and deliver high quality
humanitarian health
programmes, including supporting emergency preparedness and capacity
building and
providing surge and desk support for new emergency health programmes.
Key
accountabilities:
The Regional
Humanitarian Health Advisor will work collaboratively with regional and head
office health
advisors from SCUK, and/or other Save the Children members, ensuring that our
emergency response
work, preparedness and capacity building links closely with our longerterm
development and
chronic humanitarian health programming. They will also ensure that
communication and
support to country programmes and external representation is closely
coordinated.
Support
to Humanitarian contexts (New Emergencies and Fragile States) (50%):
·
Provide thematic support to the design and implementation of
humanitarian health programmes, ensuring they are based upon high-quality needs
assessments and robust baselines, Save the Children’s theory of change,
strategies and principles of child rights programming, national policies and
international best practice.
·
In coordination with the Regional Humanitarian Director and
Technical Line Manager, deploy to the field at short notice to help set up new
emergency health programmes within the region, including leading technical
assessments, developing health programme plans, strategies and masterbudgets,
and carrying out coordination and representation.
·
To work with SC member focal points to secure funding for
humanitarian health programmes, coordinating with donor technical experts and
developing high quality proposals.
·
In coordination with the Regional Humanitarian Director and the
Health Humanitarian Technical Working Group, provide technical backstopping
(guidance and tools) to new emergency responses within the region, ensuring
that emergency health programmes achieve organisational quality standards.
·
To maintain an overview of all new emergency health programmes in
technical area of expertise within the region, and carry out monitoring and
evaluation visits as required.
Technical
Capacity Building and HR (30%):
·
In coordination with the Regional Humanitarian Director, Regional
Health Advisors, the Health Humanitarian Technical Working Group and other
counterparts help carry out a humanitarian health learning needs assessment
across the region.
·
Working with the global Health Humanitarian Technical Working
Group and Regional Health Advisors, plan and deliver technical training
programmes and events within the region, in line with priority learning needs.
·
Provide specific mentoring support to country level health staff
in order to support their development onto the Save the Children emergencies
roster.
·
Support fundraising efforts for humanitarian health capacity
building programmes in the region.
·
Support country programmes in the recruitment of senior
humanitarian health staff.
·
Take on line management of Health Emergency Response Personnel as
required.
Emergency
Preparedness (10%):
12. Working closely
with the Regional Humanitarian Director and Country Humanitarian
Focal Points provide
technical support to emergency preparedness planning, ensuring
they are prepared for
emergency health scale-up in response to epidemics, conflict or
natural disasters.
Advocacy
& Representation (10%):
·
13. Coordinate closely with key SC stakeholders including Regional
Health Advisors and Humanitarian Advocacy teams to ensure advocacy &
representation is aligned.
·
Liaise with the relevant
external regional stakeholders including donors, learning institutes, UN and
NGO representatives identifying opportunities, synergies and partnerships for
SC’s emergency health work.
·
Represent Save the Children
at regional/sub-regional emergency health forums, including with OCHA, WHO,
Unicef, donors and other NGOs.
·
Other
·
Advise the Regional
Director, Country Directors and other relevant colleagues (SC UK PPQ, SCUK/SCI
Humanitarian colleagues) on health-related developments at country, regional
and global levels.
·
Participate as a full member of the Health & HIV team and
Humanitarian Technical Unit in London, joining team meetings, coordinating work
with other advisers and using shared knowledge.
·
Be available for global
deployment as a core member of the SC Emergency Roster
·
and when requested be a member of SC’s duty team system.
·
Work to ensure that that 50% of own post costs are recovered
through grant funding.
·
PERSON
SPECIFICATION
Essential
·
Significant experience and
a track record of success in delivering high quality
·
humanitarian health response programmes (both new emergencies and
fragile states).
·
Health professional with
post graduate qualification in global health.
·
Sound understanding of and
commitment to SC generic programme approaches and
·
core standards in humanitarian response.
·
Experience and
understanding of technical approaches for maternal, newborn and
·
child survival as well as health systems strengthening (in
emergencies).
·
Proven track record of
humanitarian programme development and fundraising from
·
institutional donors.
·
Ability to travel at short
notice, occasionally to remote and insecure locations for up
·
to 50% of work time
·
Experience of team
leadership & management.
·
Experience of capacity
building and mentoring.
·
Experience of contingency
planning/emergency preparedness planning.
·
Highly developed writing
skills (e.g. at level for producing an assessment report or
·
proposal during a short time period)
·
Strong communications
skills (both written and verbal) at a level appropriate for high
·
level external representation (lobbying, presentations) and
ability to tailor
·
communications to different audiences
·
Understanding and practical
experience of the cluster approach at country and global
·
level.
·
Ability to work effectively
across teams and departments
·
Commitment to SC’s mission,
values and approach (includes child protection, equal
·
opportunities and health and safety).
·
Computer literate.
·
Desirable
·
Broad understanding of
rights and development issues, international relations and the international
humanitarian systems.
·
Experience of humanitarian
programming in nutrition, HIV, WASH or other relevant sectors.
·
Existing networks and
contacts within the region.
·
Working knowledge of a
relevant language.
·
Application
Process
To apply for the
position, visit our website http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/jobs and
select
position 7512 by 12th October 2012.
No comments:
Post a Comment