Humanitarian Health Advisor at Save the Children UK in Kenya
Closing date: 12 Oct 2012
Introduction
Between now and 2015, we have dedicated our organisation to supporting the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4, a two-thirds reduction in the rate of under five mortality. Our health programmes are key to this goal and we are seeking to dramatically expand the scale and impact of our work, both direct interventions with communities, support to health systems at district and national level and policy, advocacy and campaigns.
In line with Save the Children’s Ambition 2015 Humanitarian Strategy, we are significantly scaling up our frontline health & nutrition capacity so that many more children’s lives can be saved in new emergencies and in chronic emergency contexts. We are also scaling up our humanitarian health capacity-building activities under the Humanitarian Academy to produce the next generation of Frontline Health Workers.
In all the major emergencies of the last few years, including the Horn of Africa drought, the Haiti earthquake, the Pakistan floods and the Zimbabwe cholera outbreak there have been significant gaps in frontline health capacity. Between 2009 and 2011 SC reached approximately 750 000 children and their families per year with its emergency health & nutrition programmes. However, by 2014, we aim to have put in place the necessary capacity (people, equipment and training) to reach 1.5 million people per annum with emergency health & nutrition support. We are seeking experienced and committed humanitarian health professionals to help deliver this ambitious strategy.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to support country programmes to design and deliver high quality humanitarian health programmes, including supporting emergency preparedness and capacity building and providing surge and desk support for new emergency health programmes.
Key Accountabilities
The Regional Humanitarian Health Advisor will work collaboratively with regional and head office health advisors from SCUK, and/or other Save the Children members, ensuring that our emergency response work, preparedness and capacity building links closely with our longer-term development and chronic humanitarian health programming. They will also ensure that communication and support to country programmes and external representation is closely coordinated.
Support to Humanitarian contexts (New Emergencies and Fragile States) (50%):
- Provide thematic support to the design and implementation of humanitarian health programmes, ensuring they are based upon high-quality needs assessments and robust baselines, Save the Children’s theory of change, strategies and principles of child rights programming, national policies and international best practice.
- In coordination with the Regional Humanitarian Director and Technical Line Manager, deploy to the field at short notice to help set up new emergency health programmes within the region, including leading technical assessments, developing health programme plans, strategies and masterbudgets, and carrying out coordination and representation.
- To work with SC member focal points to secure funding for humanitarian health programmes, coordinating with donor technical experts and developing high quality proposals.
- In coordination with the Regional Humanitarian Director and the Health Humanitarian Technical Working Group, provide technical backstopping (guidance and tools) to new emergency responses within the region, ensuring that emergency health programmes achieve organisational quality standards.
- To maintain an overview of all new emergency health programmes in technical area of expertise within the region, and carry out monitoring and evaluation visits as required.
Technical Capacity Building and HR (30%):
- In coordination with the Regional Humanitarian Director, Regional Health Advisors, the Health Humanitarian Technical Working Group and other counterparts help carry out a humanitarian health learning needs assessment across the region.
- Working with the global Health Humanitarian Technical Working Group and Regional Health Advisors, plan and deliver technical training programmes and events within the region, in line with priority learning needs.
- Provide specific mentoring support to country level health staff in order to support their development onto the Save the Children emergencies roster.
- Support fundraising efforts for humanitarian health capacity building programmes in the region.
- Support country programmes in the recruitment of senior humanitarian health staff.
- Take on line management of Health Emergency Response Personnel as required.
Emergency Preparedness (10%):
- Working closely with the Regional Humanitarian Director and Country Humanitarian Focal Points provide technical support to emergency preparedness planning, ensuring they are prepared for emergency health scale-up in response to epidemics, conflict or natural disasters.
Advocacy & Representation (10%):
- Coordinate closely with key SC stakeholders including Regional Health Advisors and Humanitarian Advocacy teams to ensure advocacy & representation is aligned.
- Liaise with the relevant external regional stakeholders including donors, learning institutes, UN and NGO representatives identifying opportunities, synergies and partnerships for SC’s emergency health work.
- Represent Save the Children at regional/sub-regional emergency health forums, including with OCHA, WHO, Unicef, donors and other NGOs.
Other
- Advise the Regional Director, Country Directors and other relevant colleagues (SC UK PPQ, SCUK/SCI Humanitarian colleagues) on health-related developments at country, regional and global levels.
- Participate as a full member of the Health & HIV team and Humanitarian Technical Unit in London, joining team meetings, coordinating work with other advisers and using shared knowledge.
- Be available for global deployment as a core member of the SC Emergency Roster and when requested be a member of SC’s duty team system.
- Work to ensure that that 50% of own post costs are recovered through grant funding.
How to apply:
To apply : http://www7.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_savethechildren01.asp?s=oxZwCHeRpGSxUuGpm&jobid=35423,4715146548&key=37339360&c=540254764072&pagestamp=seobvddiewuwjbjkjn
