Overview
Provides strategic and technical leadership for health programming, focusing on Child Health, Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH/ASRH), Maternal Newborn Health (MNH), and Health Systems Strengthening (HSS). Ensures high technical quality, donor funding attraction, and contribution to national/global learning, advocacy, and program development.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development, review, and implementation of the country health strategy, thematic plans, and emergency preparedness plans.
- Provide strategic leadership on the health component of the Country Strategic Plan.
- Apply systems-for-health thinking to inform strategic priorities, programme adaptation, and advocacy.
- Monitor changes in national and humanitarian contexts and guide strategic adjustments.
- Provide technical leadership and advisory support for health programming quality, integration, and effectiveness.
- Lead or support health and multi-sectoral assessments.
- Guide the design and integration of evidence-based interventions.
- Provide technical review and quality assurance of programme designs, proposals, monitoring reports, evaluations, and learning products.
- Ensure integration across the continuum of care and across sectors.
- Ensure health programmes adhere to international, national, and organisational standards.
- Lead learning, innovation, and lesson-learning processes.
- Provide technical oversight to PMs and field teams for program implementation.
- Coordinate with HR and procurement for staffing and supply availability.
- Put in place a health sector MEAL plan and sector accountability mechanisms.
- Conduct regular field visits to monitor programme quality and compliance.
- Lead on health or multi-sectoral technical assessments.
- Promote high quality health technical approaches.
- Play a leadership role in shaping health communications, advocacy, and external representation.
- Lead on program design and proposal development and fundraising.
- Drive the health innovation, learning and evidence agenda.
- Identify health sector staffing needs and contribute to workforce planning.
- Coach, mentor, and provide technical supervision to Project Managers, technical staff, and partners.
- Lead learning needs assessments and develop capacity strengthening plans.
- Oversee the development and delivery of technical guidance and training materials.
- Represent Save the Children in inter-agency coordination mechanisms, technical working groups, and sector forums.
- Provide technical leadership within coordination platforms.
- Ensure Save the Children’s programme results, learning, and evidence are effectively shared.
- Support the development of external communications and media products.
- Actively participate in inter-agency meetings and forums.
- Help shape broader sector strategies through influence and leadership.
- Take the initiative in documenting lessons learnt, best practice and case studies.
- Pro-actively identify advocacy opportunities, case studies and research opportunities.
- Identify health sector priorities and funding gaps and support fundraising and proposal development.
- Ensure advocacy initiatives are informed by programme evidence, learning, and assessments.
- Proactively identify advocacy opportunities, case studies, and research themes.
- Contribute to country office risk management.
- Ensure safeguarding, accountability, inclusion, and meaningful participation principles are embedded across all health programming.
- Collaborate with programme operations teams to ensure programmes are safe, inclusive, and compliant.
- Comply with all Save the Children policies, values, and standards.
- Contribute to the CO risk management process and matrix development.
- Contribute to the development of communications products.
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, safety and security, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
- Support in the mainstreaming of Save the Children’s safeguarding policy.
- Collaborate with the Program Operations teams to ensure that activities are safe for children and adults.
Required Experience
- Minimum 10 years’ experience of working in health programmes in a development and /or Humanitarian context.
- At least 3-5 years providing technical support to reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition programs.
- Previous experience of managing a large health team in both development and humanitarian contexts.
- Proven capacity for mentoring, coaching, and training on health-related topics.
- Experience in senior level representation.
- Ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports.
- Proven ability to influence change at an operational and strategic level.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of (MBBCH) specialized in medicine, public health or a related subject.
- MA in Public Health is a strong asset.
