Country Health and Nutrition Program Manager 11 views0 applications

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As Country Health and Nutrition Program Manager, you will provide strategic and technical leadership for World Vision Sudan’s health and nutrition portfolio, ensuring quality design, implementation, monitoring, and emergency response.

You will lead strategy development, establish programming standards, promote best practices, and strengthen the capacity of staff and partners to improve health and nutrition outcomes, child wellbeing, and community resilience. You will also strengthen partnerships, coordination, visibility, and technical representation with government, donors, UN agencies, clusters, and other key stakeholders at national and regional levels.

Requirements include:

• Master’s Degree in Public Health, Nutrition or related field. A deep knowledge of emergency health and nutrition issues that affect the region, with significant nutrition experience in the Response region.
• At least 5 -7 years of relevant experience in humanitarian emergency response, with a focus on nutrition and health in emergency settings.
• Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring nutrition and health programs in emergency settings.
• Strong technical expertise in emergency nutrition and health, including experience in conducting nutrition assessments, surveys, and evaluations.
• Proven experience in providing technical guidance and support to enhance emergency response capabilities, with a focus on improving health and nutrition outcomes for affected populations.
• Experience in resource mobilization, including developing capability statements and assisting in program design for funding proposals.
• Knowledge of and experience in establishing standards, sharing best practices, and building partnerships with relevant stakeholders and institutions.
• Familiarity with the health and nutrition working group and cluster coordination mechanisms in humanitarian settings.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills, particularly in a cross-cultural environment.
• Strong planning and organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple activities.
• Ability to represent World Vision, particularly with donors and partners.
• Experience managing field-level programs.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• The job requires regular travel to project sites
• Staff are required to be physically fit
• English proficiency, both written and spoken.