Health & Nutrition Officer (Wadi Halfa) – MedGlobal

By Osama Elsheikh Last updated Jul 10, 2023

Job Description

Country	Sudan
City	Wadi Halfa
Type	Job
Career category	Monitoring and Evaluation
Closing date	14 Jul 2023

ABOUT MEDGLOBAL

MedGlobal is a global humanitarian non-profit organization providing medical and health education services to people in need, including refugees and displaced persons, in disaster and underserved regions. The organization is composed of medical and public health professionals of diverse backgrounds.

CODE OF CONDUCT

MedGlobal Code of Conduct reflects the profession’s core set of beliefs and values of care, respect, trust, and integrity. These beliefs and values are fundamental to MedGlobal employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, officers’ coordinators, and directors to guide their practice and conduct.

The Code is organized into categories, as follows:

Always act with fairness, honesty, integrity, and openness; respect the opinions of others and treat all with equality and dignity without regard to gender, race, color, creed, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
Provide a positive and valued experience for those receiving service within and outside MedGlobal.

CHILD PROTECTION POLICY

Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to MedGlobal, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work.

MedGlobal is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.

DISCRIMINATION, ABUSE AND HARASSMENT POLICY

MedGlobal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. MedGlobal employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside the organization.

POSITION OVERVIEW

We are looking for Health & Nutrition Officer to provides professional technical assistance and support for program/project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of program/project activities, including data analysis, progress reporting, knowledge networking and capacity building, in support of the achievement of planned objectives of the work plan, aligned with Health & Nutrition program goals.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Accurate information, data analysis, and documentation are timely made available to support situation analysis, sectoral input, and reporting.
Technical assistance is provided to the development and implementation of integrated health, nutrition, and WASH strategies and approaches through participation and collaboration with internal and external partners.
Work plan and objectives are effectively established and planned results are timely delivered through technical support and coordination in consultation with all relevant partners.
Project efficiency and effectiveness are enhanced through effective implementation follow-up.
Project implementation progress is monitored for adjustment and improvement of program delivery and sustainability. Gender/sex-disaggregated data and inputs provided relevant to the Health & Nutrition program.
Transparency is ensured for supply and non-supply assistance and disbursement of program funds for health and nutrition.
Effective partnerships and working relationships are maintained for advocacy, technical coordination, information sharing, and knowledge networking.
Up-to-date program information is kept available and reports are prepared and shared with relevant stakeholders as required to support the Health & Nutrition program by the effective implementation of an integrated monitoring system.
Emergency preparedness is maintained, and in emergencies, emergency responses with effective coordination are provided, partnerships with the Health and Nutritional humanitarian actors are strengthened within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC).
Other assigned duties and responsibilities are effectively accomplished.
Key Accountabilities, Duties, and Tasks * Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primary, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.
Assists in the preparation and periodic update of the Situation Analysis by compiling health and nutrition data, analyzing and evaluating relevant information and providing the technical input in a timely and accurate manner.
Drafts chapters, prepares statistical data reports and assists with the preparation of sectoral input to the program documents as required. Contributes to the consultation and coordination with key partners at all levels.
Provides technical assistance in the integration of the Health & Nutrition program with other sectors in collaboration with other sectors, particularly Health, Nutrition, WASH, and program communication.
Contributes to building on intersectoral experience and establishing partnerships to promote innovative approaches to address immediate and underlying determinants of maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition, recognizing that health and nutrition outcomes are not the results of action in the health and nutrition sectors alone.
Assists in the design, planning, monitoring and evaluation of the Health & Nutrition program to be implemented in the locality.
Supports the improvement of program delivery with emphasis on sustainability of the intervention and community participation based on the Human Rights framework and cross-sector approach to programming and Community Capacity Development.
Assists in the development of the sectoral work plan and technical decisions as well as in administration, implementation and monitoring of sectoral project activities.

Qualifications and Experience

A Bachelor university degree in public health and/or nutrition, or other relevant disciplines.
2-4 years of professional work experience in planning, programming, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health programmers.
professional work experience in a programmed management function or a technical expert capacity in child survival & health care. Developing country work experience (for IP) or field work experience (for NO) Background/familiarity with emergencies.
Experience in coordinating, and managing various programmed units and ability to establish and maintain working relations with government counterparts, Donor agencies
Experience in training facilitation and strong interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels.
An individual with frequent traveling experience is necessary.
Field experience in the Emergency or Development fields Experience in working in an NGO providing health care services will have additional value.
Experience in Project design and government and donor liaison.
In-depth knowledge of the broad range of Medical-related projects Monitoring and evaluation.
And Knowledge of bilateral donor programming.
Fluency in Arabic and English with effective communication skill (verbal/nonverbal)
Effective presentation of relevant information (oral & written)
Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages and Google suite.
Must be Sudanese Nationality.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please send a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with the subject line: Health & Nutrition Officer. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and applicants are encouraged to apply early.