Health and Nutrition Advisor

Date Posted: Jun 25, 2024

Job Detail

Location:

kabul
Company:

MEDAIR
Type:

Contract
Shift:

Rotating Days
Career Level:

Entry Level Staff
Positions:

1
Vacancy number:
Experience:

5 Year
Gender:

Any
Salary:

As per company salary scale Af
Degree:

MD Degree
Apply Before:

Jul 06, 2024

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About MEDAIR

About MEDAIR:

Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction

Medair Afghanistan has been operating since 1996 and currently works in three provinces: Daykundi, Uruzgan, and Kandahar. The country's main office is in Kabul, with multiple field offices. Medair implements WASH, Food Security, Health and Nutrition programming.

Job Description

The main role of the Deputy Health and Nutrition Advisor Are follows:

Provide technical advice and support to field management and the health/nutrition staff.
Contribute to the Health & Nutrition country strategy and inform on the adoption of the proper technical design, based on needs, context, and Medair capacity.
Develop, lead, monitor, and evaluate the health and nutrition aspects of the country program.
Coordinate and network at a senior level with national and regional health/nutrition authorities and other NGOs.
Contribute to all health and nutrition elements of donor proposals and reports
Provide capacity building for national and international staff.
Ensure health and nutrition projects are implemented in line with donor proposals and requirements and by Medair, donor, country, and international standards.
Promote best practices in health and nutrition programs.

Contribute to the overall management of the country program.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES

Health and Nutrition Project Technical Oversight

Maintain a good overview of Afghanistan's health and nutrition programme, donor commitments, and regional context.
Understand the technical support needs of PMs and field teams and provide the necessary technical advice, training for field teams, and input. Advise PMs, field managers, and GSO on potential involvement in new health and/or nutrition interventions and internal capacity for implementation.
Stay abreast of appropriate policies, guidelines, and protocols related to HN aspects of Medair’s work in Afghanistan.
Under the direction of the HN Advisor, provide support to HN teams in all project sites, including carrying out regular monitoring visits in conjunction with other field managers, ensuring that project objectives are met with recognized international standards.
Under the direction of the HN Advisor, supervise and monitor the reporting systems for data collection (qualitative and quantitative), analysis, and follow-up. Alongside the HN Advisor, work with M&E and programme staff to ensure data collection tools are appropriate to project needs.
Maintain an oversight of medicines and nutrition supplies. Advise and link with logistics team and PMs to ensure medical supply chain management meets minimum requirements and reduces risk of stock outage through monitoring consumption, timely procurement
Support completion of country-level agreements with UNICEF (SSR) and WFP (FLA) to secure the uninterrupted delivery of essential nutrition commodities (GIKs) for all nutrition projects
Contribute to and provide input for AFG Medair HN strategy
Contribute to and provide input for new donor (SWS, ECHO, BHA) proposals, becoming familiar with donor sector requirements. In the last part of the 12-month contract, under the direction and support of the HN Advisor, the Deputy HA will be responsible for the preparation and writing of the health and nutrition component of a major donor proposal
Support completion of timely donor reporting, and liaise with Consortium partners, if needed, for accuracy and consistency in reporting.

Representation

Develop and maintain relationships with MoPH, DoPH, PND, UN, NGOs, donors, partners and other stakeholders, to raise public awareness of Medair and ensure good co-operation and partnerships.
Accompany donor ‘Third Party Monitoring’ on field trips.
Represent Medair at health and nutrition cluster coordination, sector, TWGs, and bilateral meetings and with national and/or local government departments and any other relevant meetings or events.
Support the health and nutrition cluster in identifying priority areas for nutrition response.

Staff Management

Support the recruitment of health and nutrition staff for the country programme and in the preparation/onboarding/briefing new HN and other Medair staff as needed
Support Medair HR in Afghanistan team to review and advise on policies related to staff health and COVID-19, in consultation with GSO as needed.

Financial Management

Learning to support HN PMs to plan construct and manage HN budgets.

Job Requirements

Education:

University degree in a relevant field such as medicine or medical doctor Master of Public Health (MPH) is prefered

Relevant experience:

At least 5 years of experience managing and implementing an emergency health and nutrition intervention with PHC, CMAM, and IYCF components

Relevant post-qualification professional experience in a management position

Experience and willingness in training/mentoring staff to deliver standard guideline packages, such as IMAM, IMNCI, MIYCN, mh-GAP-IG

Experience in the design, monitoring of implementation, and evaluation of CMAM and PHC programmes.

Languages:

Fluent Dari and Pashto oral and written skills

Excellent English oral and written skills

Computer:

Proficiency with MS Excel and MS Word

Experience archiving on the cloud system

Organizational capacity:

Advanced planning, assessment, analytical, leadership, and project management skills

Team building:

Leadership skills and team player

Ability to assist his teams when needed

Adaptability:

Experienced professional in a relevant field; international intercultural experience

Able to work in a multicultural team under difficult conditions

Strong character traits, including emotional stability, adaptability, ability to handle stress, cultural and gender sensitivity, honesty

Confident decision maker. Committed to consultative working culture

Problem solving & initiative:

Able to handle multiple tasks and to prioritize clearly. Pro-active approach

Character:

Honest and conscientious

Dedicated with strong attention to detail

Accountable, high work-ethic

Communication skills:

Excellent communication skills. Problem solver, dynamic, mature

Skills Required

having experience in the mentioned field

Submission Guideline:

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.

Note:

Medair will provide the following benefits for the selected candidate:

Competitive salary
Employment benefits such as (medical, transportation, economic hardship, food, Mahram, and accommodation for non-residents)
Annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and other types of leave as per Medair policy

Submission Email:

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