Location: Internationally Mobile
Closing date: 22 Jul 2018
Closing date: 22 Jul 2018
Contract Type:Fixed Term Contract
Full / Part Time:Full-time
Contract Duration:12 Months
Closing Date:22 July 2018
Salary:£37,435 (plus £2,500 hardship allowance currently offered)
Hours Per Week:35 Hours
We are looking for an individual to join our Humanitarian Surge Team as Senior Humanitarian Health Adviser and work closely with country office teams and technical staff to design and deliver high quality programmes for children. You will work to build capacity and capability of frontline health staff to ensure that context and approaches are well understood and that interventions are appropriate and deliver impact for children.
Our Humanitarian department integrates emergency and development work, through our country programmes. It increases our capacity to meet the assistance and protection needs of children and their families affected by crises. Together, we save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential.
As Senior Humanitarian Health Adviser you will be deployed to the field as the lead Health Adviser in medium or large-scale emergencies. You will be expected to lead on multi-sectoral/health assessments, programme design, master budgeting and coordination and you will support fundraising, recruitment and procurement. You will play a leadership role within a response team, supporting colleagues and ensuring that broader sector coordination mechanisms are function effectively. In addition you will:
Lead on developing health response plans and master budgets and contribute to Save the Children’s overall response strategy
Prepare and oversee programme implementation to ensure timely delivery of programme activities and prepare programme and donor reports on project activities in compliance with internal SC requirements
Lead on fundraising for health, including development of high quality concept notes and proposals, and engagement with donors’ health advisers
Work closely with the HR team, identifying health staffing needs for emergency programmes, ensuring rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff
Develop learning needs assessment and capacity building plans for both SC and partner staff, linking capacity building initiatives to wider opportunities identified via coordination and networks.
To be successful you will have prior experience of working within a senior management role within a complex country programme in an emergency response or fragile state. As well as being a Health professional with a Masters in public health or with equivalent field experience, you should have a high level of written and spoken English. In addition you will have:
· Previous experience of programme management across multiple locations
· A demonstrated ability to set up monitoring and evaluation systems in large complex programmes
· Experience of developing and negotiating successful partnerships with institutional donors, particularly experience working with ECHO and DFID
· Previous experience of managing a large team of international and national staff
· The ability to write clear and well-argued assessment and project reports.
Fluency in French or Arabic is desirable.
At Save the Children we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work with children are recruited to work for us. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a criminal records disclosure.
Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. If you share our mission, are passionate about making it happen and strongly believe you can contribute then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We look forward to hearing from you.
Closing date: 22nd July 2018
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply Link below:
https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/vacancy/senior-humanitarian-health-a...
