*Please submit your CV in English.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Technical Manager for Health and Nutrition is responsible to provide technical leadership during the design, implementation and close-out of these projects. He/she will support the Director of Projects and Partnerships (DPP) in managing the projects under these three sectors. He/she will also be responsible to lead a team of coordinators and program officers working under these sectors. He/she will provide a supervision role to health and nutrition projects leads. He/she will provide regular supportive supervision to project locations, provide technical support and produce supervision report. He/she will also support during the proposal
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Grant Implementation:
- In collaboration with DPP, technically manage Health and Nutrition projects, collect, review and submit periodic to donors/SOs.
- In consultation with DPP , develop standard supervision checklist, conduct field visits on quarterly basis to ensure compliance with donor requirements and ministry standards.
- Coach, train and technically supervise project managers and other health, and nutrition team.
- Undertake other responsibilities assigned to him/her by DPP.
Program Design:
- In consultation with the program development team, provide technical leadership and support during the project design/proposal development under health, and nutrition projects.
- Conduct assessments and identify gaps that are used during the proposal development in collaboration with field project team.
Budget Management:
- Support project leads to manage grant budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and key management staff at World Vision.
- Ensure supply and equipment procurement, acquisition, disposition, and management follows WV internal and donor requirements.
- Ensure cash needs and monthly budget forecast is done accurately
Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management:
- Review TORs for baselines, evaluations and other research related to Health and Nutrition sectors and review these reports.
- Participate in the annual Child Well Being report development.
- Support QA to develop assessment, monitoring & evaluation tools to measure health, and nutrition issues, risks, KAPs.
- Provide technical leadership to health, and nutrition related research, case studies, learning reviews and publications for WV South Sudan, and as part of WV Region / Global initiative.
- Provide leadership and technical supervision to the technical team of Health, and Nutrition project managers.
- Ensure supportive partnering for performance is in place, with performance plans set, regular conversations and feedback provided and appraisals.
External Relations and Engagement:
- In collaboration with the DPP, engage with inter-agency technical working groups to ensure WVSS health, and nutrition Programming follows international / South Sudan minimum standards, best practices, and utilizes tools or resources in a coordinated and collaborative manner.
- In consultation with DPP, represent WVSS in health, and nutrition cluster meetings.
- Accompany DPP to represent WVSS in sector various forums deemed necessary for quality programming and profiling WVSS with donors.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Seven years professional experience in health, and nutrition projects management. At least five years in managerial/supervision level.
- Solid background in health, and nutrition in emergency particularly in emergency curriculum packages and deliverables.
- Demonstrated knowledge in health and nutrition planning.
- Experience in health, and nutrition project management, monitoring and supervision.
- Excellent leadership, analytical, negotiating, communication and advocacy skill.
- Excellent capacity in facilitating training and preparing user friendly manuals and toolkits.
- Strong networking, team spirit, partnership, coordination and harmony skills.
- Willing to adapt with new working environment, new challenges, colleagues and new culture.
- MD, MPH or MSc in any health discipline.
- Excellent English communication skills (both oral and written).
Preferred:
- Master Degree with MPH
- Excellent training skills in defined health, and nutrition components.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organizations, under stressful situations.
- Understanding of humanitarian relief, recovery and development work i.e. triple nexus in fragile contexts.
- Excellent networking, relationship building and people management skills.
- Ability to work in difficult, insecure and stressful conditions.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically, manage to plan and meet deadlines.
- Prior experience with World Vision is a distinct advantage.
Work Environment/Travel:
The position requires ability and willingness to travel up to 30% domestically to project sites; requires occasional international travel.
More Information
- Job City Juba
