Save the Children
Vacancy: Health Officer
Position Code: SCI TUR 01
3 Posts
Location: Turkana
Grade: Grade 3
Grade: Grade 3
Post Type: National
(1 year contract with possibility of renewal)
Duration: 1 Year
Duration: 1 Year
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: The Health Officer will plan, guide and support implementation of Save the Children’s UNICEF supported health project in Turkana County.
Role Purpose: The Health Officer will plan, guide and support implementation of Save the Children’s UNICEF supported health project in Turkana County.
Scope of Role: This positon is mostly field based; the holder will
provide technical expertise in implementation of MNCH activities with clear
focus on integrated /holistic approach at community level.
The position holder will be incharge of supporting the SCHMTs in capacity building CHEWs and CHWs through regular on the job training.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH...
Save the Children has an operational
presence in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Meru and Wajir – Bungoma and
Turkana being the new entrants in 2014. We work through partners in many other
parts of the country.
This project will use a range of
complementary and mutually reinforcing methods to achieve the expected results
and objectives, namely innovative methods for raising awareness of health
issues, a combination of capacity building at community level, health system
strengthening and sharing learning to allow replication of successes, and
undertaking advocacy to increase prioritisation of MNCH and iCCM initiatives
for the benefit of the vulnerable by the county government.
Reports to: Senior Health Officer
Staff directly reporting to this Post: None
Budget responsibility: Yes – as per sub county and delegation scheme.
Key Areas of Accountability:
Programme
Reports to: Senior Health Officer
Staff directly reporting to this Post: None
Budget responsibility: Yes – as per sub county and delegation scheme.
Key Areas of Accountability:
Programme
- Plan and supervise implementation of project
activities together with MNCH team at Save the Children Lodwar office, and
MOH counterparts at the Sub-County level.
- Represent SC in the respective subcounties
health county forums in conjunction with senior health officer.
- Consolidate activity reports and ensure timely
submission to supervisor for onward submission to project health
coordinator, area program manager and country office.
- Organise and coordinate health worker trainings
in consultation with the sub counties health authorities.
- Ensure good working relationships maintained
with the sub counties Health Management teams (SCHMTs) and community
health structures.
- Monitors and ensures that the technical
protocols, manuals, guidelines and forms used in the field are in line
with validated national MNCH and RH/FP technical tools and guidelines.
- Participates and represents SC in various
health coordination forums and at working meetings with partners at field
level when necessary.
Staff Management and Development
- Support SC staff working on this project.
(Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Communication for Development officer
and Community Liaison Officer)
Monitoring and evaluation
- Follow up of project routine monitoring and supervision
plan in liaison with the respective SCHMTs; including joint monitoring and
supervision plans.
- Take lead in guidance and documentation of
best practices in their respective sub county project; including case
studies.
- Ensure the compilation of timely reports of
the project.
- Monitor project expenditure against budgets in
their respective sub counties.
Coordination and representation
- Within delegated authority represent SC and
maintain working relationship with relevant host sub county health
management teams, UN agencies, International and local non-governmental
health organizations with a mandate to promote the MNCH agenda
and influence policies of Government, UN agencies and other
humanitarian actors with regards to MNCH.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in
Practice)
Accountability:
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions,
managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling SCI’s values.
- Holds the partners accountable to deliver on
their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best
way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve
performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not
achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for
themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development and
encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for SCI,
engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships,
with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
- Values diversity sees it as a source of
competitive strength.
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative
solutions.
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency.
- Commitment to Save the Children Values.
Qualifications and Experience.
Essential
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in public health or
nursing with community health experience.
- Minimum two (2) years’ experience in community
maternal and newborn health and Integrated Community case management of
Case Management programming.
- Experience working with Community Health Units
in community health strategy.
- Excellent spoken and written English and Swahili.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, and
communication skills.
- Experience of living and traveling in remote
and insecure places. Familiarity with the counties in Northern Kenya
especially Turkana, will be an added advantage..
- Sensitive to issues affecting children and
committed to Save the Children’s Child Safe Guarding policy.
- Strong documentation and report writing
skills.
- Experience of and commitment to working
through systems of community participation and accountability.
- Culturally sensitive with qualities of
mentorship and patience.
- Commitment to Save the Children Values.
Vacancy:Programme Officer – Health and Nutrition (Kibera)
Position Code: SCI KP F1
Team / Programme:Programme Operations
Position Code: SCI KP F1
Team / Programme:Programme Operations
Location: Nairobi
Grade: 4
Grade: 4
Duration: 1 year
Post Type: National (1 year contract with possibility of
renewal)
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role Purpose: Save the Children has received a grant from the EC for the implementation of MNCH, nutrition and family planning programme in Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi County in collaboration with Carolina for Kibera and Family Health Options Kenya.
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role Purpose: Save the Children has received a grant from the EC for the implementation of MNCH, nutrition and family planning programme in Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi County in collaboration with Carolina for Kibera and Family Health Options Kenya.
The programme seeks
to contribute to a reduction in maternal, newborn and child mortality by
increasing utilization of quality Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH)
services among communities in informal settlements in Kenya, and bolstering the
government’s commitment to MNCH.
The Programme Officer – Health and
Nutrition will be expected to take responsibility for working together with
implementing partners for the day to day implementation of this programme by
working closely with Langata sub-county health management teams, public and
private health facility staff and community health units (CHVs, CHEWs,
CHCs).
S/He will work in collaboration with
existing county department of Health (especially the Reproductive Health and
community health strategy focal persons) and the S/CHMTs as well as in close
collaboration with partners to ensure that Langata sub-county benefits from all
result areas of the programme.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Programme Manager – Health and Nutrition technically and operationally. Works closely with partners and country office operations and support teams to ensure effective integration and smooth work processes.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Programme Manager – Health and Nutrition technically and operationally. Works closely with partners and country office operations and support teams to ensure effective integration and smooth work processes.
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global reorganization
process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC Canada and SC
Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge their
health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
With support from the European Union,
Save the Children will shortly begin urban programming in Nairobi working with
local partners.
We employ more than 300 staff and
have an operating annual budget in 2014 of approximately US$25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Contribute to the planning, implementation and
monitoring of all aspects of the EC MNCH, Nutrition and Family
Planning programme in Kibera to meet programme objectives
- Ensure good working relationships is maintained
with the government authorities (including the County Health Management
Team and the various SCHMTs) and community health structures.
- Monitors and ensures that the technical
protocols, manuals, guidelines and forms used in the field are in line
with validated national MNCH, Nutrition and RH/FP technical tools and
guidelines.
- Participates and represents SC in various
health coordination forums and at working meetings with partners at field
level when necessary.
- Supports in the development of program donor
and activity reports with respect to technical formats and deadlines.
- Support close support to partners in program
implementation, monitoring, reporting and documentation.
- Work closely with relevant support departments
within SCI (finance, logistics, administration) to ensure program
purchases and activities are implemented smoothly.
- Documents lessons learnt and evidence to
support development of other MNCH/FP/NUTRITION projects.
- Responsible for the day to day implementation
of the community and health facility component of the programme
- Provide regular field visits to the supported
facilities, communities, community health volunteers and
outreach sites and provides formal visit feedback via Field Visit Reports.
- Organizes regular supportive supervision visits
with the sub-county health management team to project area
- Provides direct facilitative supervision to FP
service providers and peer to peer groups including mother/women support
groups, religious leaders, teachers and youth groups
- Responsible for all community level reporting
(distribution of reporting tools to CHVs and facilities, regular
collection of reports from communities/CHVs
- Responsible for ensuring effective and
continuously updated data bases for health facilities data, and where
possible collation of all community health activities and IEC/BCC/Health
Education data from supported communities and partners, plus appropriate
data management and analysis.
- Provides technical support to the health
staffs from supported facilities
- Leads public consultation exercises and
facilitate community participation, using a variety of techniques to
ensure the involvement of the community and organizes regular meetings
with community leaders for feedback
- Resolve conflicts of interest, build consensus
and keep communities informed of project progress
- Works closely with the MEAL team to document
and disseminate innovative best practices
- To undertake other duties as required by the
line manager
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in
Practice)
Accountability:
- Accountable to the Programme Manager and to
self for managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save
the Children values
- Free to deliver in the best way they see fit,
requesting the necessary development to improve performance and achieving
results
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for
themselves, and drives self for their own personal development
- Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships,
with partners, colleagues, members and external partners and stakeholders
- Values diversity, respects local customs
consistent with Save the Children vision, mission and values and exploits
competitive strength
- Fosters strong relationship with stakeholders
including government, community groups, partners,
Creativity:
- Seeks new and innovative solutions to
work/organizational challenges
Integrity:
- Transparent, open minded and Honest
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in public health or nursing
- Minimum two (3) years’ experience in community
maternal and newborn health programming including RH/FP and nutrition
- Experience working with Community Health Units
in community health strategy and in particular implementation of
performance-based incentives for CHVs
- Excellent spoken and written English and
Swahili
- Experience working with partners.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, and
communication skills
- Understanding of rights based approaches and
participatory concepts and practical experience in similar context.
- Sensitive to issues affecting children and
committed to Save the Children’s Child Safe Guarding policy.
- Strong documentation and report writing skills
- Understanding of operations/ action research
desirable
- Experience of and commitment to working
through systems of community participation and accountability
- Commitment to Save the Children Values
Vacancy:Programme Manager - Health & Nutrition (Kibera)
Position Code: SCI KP M2
Team / Programme: Health & Nutrition
Location: Nairobi
Grade: 2
Post Type: National
(1 year contract with possibility of renewal)
Duration: 1 Year
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may
require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or
young people
Role Purpose: The Programme Manager – Health and Nutrition will
take on the role of setting up and managing of Save the Children’s Nairobi
office the European Union (EU) funded Kibera Informal Settlement MNCH,
Nutrition and Family Planning Programme.
The programme will be implemented by
Save the Children in close collaboration with two local NGO partners: Carolina
for Kibera (CFK) and Family Health Options Kenya (FHOK).
The programme will aim to improve
access to maternal, neonatal, and child health care services and nutrition
services, enable women of child bearing age to benefit from improved modern
family planning method uptake and to strengthen the Langata sub-county
health-care delivery system.
The Program Manager’s role will be to
ensure that the programme is successfully implemented in line with approved
donor agreements, budget and Save the Children’s strategic objectives, as well
as ensuring that the programme is of a consistently high quality and
appropriate monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are in place to monitor the
impact of our work for children.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Programme Operations Manager
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Scope of Role:
Reports to: Programme Operations Manager
Dimensions: Save the Children has been operational in Kenya since the 1950s, providing support to children through developmental and humanitarian relief programmes delivered both directly and through local partners.
Current programming focuses on child
protection, child rights governance, education, health, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods,
nutrition and WASH.
In 2012, as part of a global
reorganization process, Save the Children combined the programmes of SC UK, SC
Canada and SC Finland to create a single operation in Kenya.
In Feb 2014, we completed a second
transition, which saw us join forces with the British INGO, Merlin, and merge
their health and nutrition programmes with our own.
Save the Children now has an
operational presence in Bungoma, Dadaab Refugee Camp, Garissa, Mandera, Turkana
and Wajir and we work through partners in many other parts of the
country.
With support from the European Union,
Save the Children will shortly begin urban programming in Nairobi working with
local partners.
We employ more than 300 staff and
have an operating annual budget in 2014 of approximately US$25 million.
Staff directly reporting to this post: Programme Officer – Health and Nutrition
Key Areas of Accountability:
Staff directly reporting to this post: Programme Officer – Health and Nutrition
Key Areas of Accountability:
- To ensure the MNCH, nutrition and family
planning programme in Kibera informal settlement is implemented according
to the approved donor (EC) agreements and implementations
plans.
- Develop and regularly update a detailed
implementation plan guiding programme implementation and ensure this is
used by the whole project team including partners to monitor project
progress towards completion.
- Prepare narrative and financial reports for
donor(s) and Save the Children as required, ensuring these are of a high
quality and submitted to the Technical Advisors as well as the Programme
Operations Manager for review in a timely manner. This will involve
compilation of information from a range of project staff and partners.
- Put systems in place to ensure information
required to monitor progress and impact indicators is collected, compiled
and analyzed appropriately. Ensure all Save the Children monthly and
donor monitoring requirements are complied with.
- As a budget holder be fully aware of the grant
compliance regulations of the donors relevant to your project. The post
holder will work with the Programme Operations Manager and her team to
review and revise budgets; authorizing and monitoring expenditure in line
with the budget and donor guidelines, as well as Save the Children member
grant management and financial guidelines.
- To directly line manage the Programme Officer
by ensuring that s/he has clear work plans and objectives and, at a
minimum, receive quarterly supervisions and annual reviews.
- To have overall responsibility for overseeing
the implementation of the programme by Save the Children and partners in
collaboration with Langata sub-county health authority and other private
health service providers in Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi County.
- With support from the Partnership and Capacity
building coordinator, ensure that clear partner agreements are signed,
partner capacity building is integrated into the program, regular review
meetings with partners are held, funds disbursement to partners is timely
and reporting from partners is of high quality to ensure effective project
implementation.
- To monitor and support the work of the
Programme Officer.
- Regularly undertake liaison and advocacy with
Government partners and officials in your county on project activities and
related health/nutrition issues.
- Facilitate visits to field sites for donor
representatives and other external visitors as required.
- Be able to clearly explain project activities
and objectives, related policy issues and the project’s contribution to
wider Save the Children goals and objectives.
- Work with the Programmes Operations Manager
and Save the Children Technical Advisors to identify the technical support
needs of the project and ensure this support is provided by the Nutrition
and Health Advisors and Director of Programme Quality and Development
based in Nairobi.
Work with Nutrition and Health Technical Advisors to develop concept notes and proposals to secure additional funding for the programme. - As a key member of the Nairobi-managed
programmes team, actively participate in monthly management meetings and
other team meetings held in the Nairobi office.
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in
Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions,
managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the
Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to
deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in
the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve
performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not
achieved
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for
themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal
development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save
the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships,
with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of
competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative
solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Qualifications and Experience
Person Specification
Essential
Person Specification
Essential
- Degree in Medicine or Nutrition or Public
Health. A masters degree in Public Health will be an added advantage
- At least 5 years relevant project management
experience in an international NGO or similar organization.
- Several years progressively responsible
project and personnel management experience
- Good technical knowledge of policy and
practice in the field of health and/or nutrition
- A good understanding of development issues and
the policy context in Kenya
- Proven team and personnel management
experience
- Proven analytical and strategic planning
skills
- Experience in partnership management.
- Experience in monitoring budgets.
- Strong written, presentation and interpersonal
communication skills.
- Computer literate in word processing and excel
packages
- An understanding of child rights and their
protection and fulfilment in the development context
Desirable
- Masters or higher level qualification in
relevant technical speciality
- Knowledge of the area and region where the
post is located
Working Contacts
External: The Programme Manager – Health & Nutrition will work closely with representatives from other agencies, NGOs, other line ministries and partners.
Internal: On a day to day basis, the Programme Manager will work closely with the Operations Director, Technical Advisors, Partnerships and Capacity building coordinator, project team and support team (Finance, logistics and HR/Admin).
How to Apply
Interested candidates are required to submit a CV and mandatory cover letter to Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org by 4th September 2014 indicating the Position Code on the subject line.
External: The Programme Manager – Health & Nutrition will work closely with representatives from other agencies, NGOs, other line ministries and partners.
Internal: On a day to day basis, the Programme Manager will work closely with the Operations Director, Technical Advisors, Partnerships and Capacity building coordinator, project team and support team (Finance, logistics and HR/Admin).
How to Apply
Interested candidates are required to submit a CV and mandatory cover letter to Kenya.jobapplications@savethechildren.org by 4th September 2014 indicating the Position Code on the subject line.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
