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Key Responsibilities:
Key Outputs/Responsibilities
Purpose of the position: Provide overall Health and Nutrition technical leadership for the national office as part of the National Office Strategy implementation. Leads NO health technical approach development, under the Hunger and Malnutrition Integrated Programme Framework, ensuring alignment with regional and global HN strategies, to include advocacy and M&E and integration with other sectors and functional areas. Provides guidance to field staff for quality HN programming implementation. Determines NO HN capacity gaps and develop capacity building plan with regional assistance. Seeks opportunities for HN implementation research and communicates learnings from programming. Maps donors, understands their technical expectations, pre-positions the NO for grants bids and leads the design and development of proposals. Strong and regular external engagement with health stakeholders in the country. Maintains situation awareness of potential public health emergencies and ensures readiness for sector response.
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Lead Health and Nutrition Programme Planning and Budgeting - 10%
Contribute to overall NO strategy; ensure health priorities reflected in national strategy.
Develop HHN technical approaches, ensuring alignment with NO strategy and regional and global health priorities and cross-sectoral considerations.
Develop HHN technical guidance aligned with technical approach.
Develop systems and processes to support programs to have common health approaches.
Ensure ongoing improvements to health programme design to ensure it remains relevant to context, incorporates innovation, by receiving and analyzing field-level information.
Remain up to date with public health and nutrition research, policy, guidance and initiatives and ensure dissemination to sub-national staff.
Ensure projects are aligned with NO and regional strategy, and HHN TA.
Develop and/or contextualize models, methodologies and tools for health programming implementation.
Provide leadership, support and technical guidance to field staff in implementation of health programming NO health technical approach aligned with regional and global HN strategy and represent the best possible address of national and regional contexts.
Quality assurance of HN programming in NO Field staff involved in HN programming adequately guided to understand HN technical approach and minimum standards and supported to meet these.
Conduct field visits to ensure health staff are adequately informed, trained and provided with necessary work tools. May divide this responsibility with sub-national staff.
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Capacity Development - 10%
Assessment of NO HHN staff capacities/competencies.
Communicate capacity building needs regional HHN staff, develop sector staff capacity building plans with P&C.
Participate in selection of SMEs to assist with capacity needs.
Facilitate capacity building of staff on health technical modules, public health topics, through trainings, workshops, technical backstopping etc.
May conduct trainings at ToF level in select HHN project models.
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Learning and Evidence Base Development, Dissemination and Knowledge Management - 10%
3.1 Identify and implement opportunities for research to enhance learning and build the evidence base/generate evidence, ideally with academic partners.
3.2 Spearhead research, documentation and reflection exercises for learning.
3.3 Collect, document and disseminate field best practices, case studies and success stories.
3.4 Develop conference abstracts and/or publications based on learnings and best practice.
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Resource Mobilization - 10%
4.1 Preposition the NO for grants in technical sector, working with national GAM team.
4.2 Mapping of donors; understand donor expectations, technical priorities, key strategic approaches.
4.3 Track multilateral, bilateral and local funding programs to access resources.
4.4 Map potential partners with strengths that would be complementary to WV in filling gaps in a grant opportunity.
4.5 Prepare detailed health or sub-sector capability statement at NO level.
4.6 Together with GAM, track specific opportunities and make appropriate partnering arrangements. Join in go/no-go decision.
4.7 Lead on grant proposals as coordinator of writing team, or grant design, design workshop, interview panels for key personnel.
4.8 Concept papers and proposals for fund raising, marketing with SO’s.
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Quality Assurance - 10%
5.1 Receive and review HHN reports, supporting field teams to write quality reports.
5.2 High quality monitoring, supervision and evaluation of health programs to ensure quality implementation. Includes technical backstopping, reflection, lessons learned events, etc., to ensure programming on track.
5.3 Ensure AP designs aligned to the Health technical sector and ensure implementation meets minimum standards.
5.4 Liaise with other organizations to collaborate in standard setting.
5.5 Participate with DMEAL team in designing, redesigning and elaborating logframes for HHN programming.
5.6 Ensure standardization of HHN indicators and project models across projects · Links with national HMIS (health management information systems).
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Networking, Partnering, Collaborations and External Representation - 10%
6.1 Represent WV at external workshops, technical forums, etc, engaging with MoH, donors and other health partners.
6.2 Ensure WV is a prominent actor at all levels; networking WV influence on the health agenda to external partners, donors, academia and civil society.
6.3 With MoH, contribute to national strategy or national plans (e.g. the CHW plan, the malaria strategy, the HIV strategy).
6.4 Partnership agreements with government institutions, NGOs and international bodies.
6.5 Develop strategic partnerships with private sector with guidance of partnership and innovation team in GC. More intentional engagements with private sector/corporates
6.6 Compile updated fact sheets on health programming to support the partnering specialists.
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HN Advocacy, Networking and influencing - 10%
7.1 Incorporate local-to-national HN advocacy and campaigning in Hunger and Malnutrition IPF and HN programming approach, with assistance of advocacy specialist staff.
7.3 Accompany advocacy and SLT members to meetings with health departments.
7.4 Provide technical input into policy briefings/ensure quality of advocacy product content.
7.5 Understand and include advocacy staff in health capacity building and training.
7.6 Obtain evidence from health programs and data from CVA to inform policy at sub-national and national level and to be used in government relations.
7.7 Engage where appropriate in advocacy-related coalitions.
7.8Ensure CVA for health is scaled up to critical.
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HEA - 5%
8.1 Maintain situational awareness of actual and potential hazards before, during and after a disaster or public health emergency.
8.2 Understand the early warning and response mechanisms at regional/national level and local government engagement.
8.3 Collaborate cross-sectorally in emergency preparedness and disaster response.
8.4 Provide technical input into emergency response work, if necessary.
8.5 Guide community hazard vulnerability analysis in area of health and nutrition.
8.6 Solve problems under emergency conditions.
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Leadership and supervision of teams and individual staff - 10%
Foster integrated programme delivery at AP level by working together with other programme leads and AP teams.
Manage, supervise and build the capacity of Health programme staff (APs and grant projects) in quality programme development, management and implementation.
Management and coordination of Health programmes and staffing.
Capacity building of staff (trainings and coaching sessions of teams and individual staff in organization programming, performance management and implementation.
Team and individual staff performance management (including matrix staff).
Coaching, mentoring and counselling sessions for all Health staff.
Guidance to program staff in planning and monitoring detailed implementation plans and activities.
Setting and managing staffing targets and priorities.
Plan and effect reflection and learning events.
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Faith and Development - 5%
Promote Kingdom values and spiritual growth.
Support the integration of Faith and Development into Health and Nutrition programme and project interventions.
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Compliance monitoring and risk mitigation - 5%
Create an environment for Health staff compliance with key policies including Safeguarding, Vehicle Policy etc.
Working with relevant offices, facilitate staff capacity building on key organizational policies and processes and develop monitoring framework for the Health and Nutrition Sector.
Ensure updated risk registers are in place with effective mitigation plans for the Health and Nutrition programme and projects.
Hold staff accountable for non-compliance with organizational policies and processes.
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Other roles - 5%
Attend and participate in daily devotions, retreats and weekly Chapel services.
Perform other related duties assigned to enhance World Vision Eswatini Ministry
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Knowledge, Skills and Attributes
The specific requirements for this role include:
1. Integrity in personal and public life, bearing a track record that is befitting of the role.
2. Bachelor’s degree in public health, nutrition or related field.
3. Master’s degree in Public Health or other related field is an added advantage.
4. A deep knowledge of the health and nutrition issues that affect the country, with significant HN experience in the country.
5. Knowledge and skills in health data management/monitoring & evaluation.
6. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time management, demonstrated leadership and good management ability.
5+ years experience in public health programs.
Proven experience in managing community health and nutrition projects.
Experience leading and managing a professional technical team.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing and formal communication.
11. Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office.
12. Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to work with a wide range of people from different backgrounds.
13. High integrity, reliability and dependability.
14. Experience in NGO programming is added advantage.
15. Demonstrated ability to work with various stakeholders including national level.
Technical Skills & Abilities:
Must have good analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken.
Knowledge of financial and human resource management.
Must be able to communicate in a cross-cultural environment.
Consistently demonstrates high-level influence and strategic engagement skills and adaptability to WV’s constantly changing development tactics.
Knowledge of the World Vision Health, HIV and Nutrition programming approaches, WV project models and operational framework.
Demonstrated expertise in partnerships especially health, HIV and nutrition partnerships at national, regional and community levels.
Comfortable and confident working in a culturally diverse and inclusive team environment.
Proven ability to collaborate with all levels of staff and to motivate and mobilize individuals outside their reporting line to achieve agreed strategic plans.
Basic knowledgeable and abilities in program design, documentation, and monitoring and evaluation.
Excellent technical/impact report writing skills.
Excellent technical/impact report writing skills.
Work Environment
The position requires ability and willingness to travel nationwide providing support to Area Programmes and related projects, and occasional international visits for learning and other purposes
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only