Job Title: Health Advisor
Reports to: Head of Health Support
Terms: 2-year contact with possibility of extension
Job location: Dublin Ireland, UK, France and any of the Concern programme countries of operation (up to 30% travel)
Salary/Pay Band: Global Band 6 (Advisor)
Contract: Two-year, fixed term, with possibility for extension
About Concern:
Established in 1968, Concern is a non-profit, non-governmental humanitarian organisation, dedicated to the reduction of suffering and the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries. Concern’s vision, mission, and work are all defined by one goal – ending extreme poverty, whatever it takes. Concern strives for a world free from poverty, fear, and oppression. Concern works to develop and scale up effective, evidence-based interventions to promote optimum health, particularly among the most poor and vulnerable.
Role Purpose:
The Health Advisor will sit within the Strategy, Advocacy and Learning (SAL) team and closely liaise with the other Global Health Advisors (across the themes of WASH, Nutrition and Health) as well as the wider SAL team. The Advisor’s primary responsibility is to ensure that Concern countries of operation have the capacity to deliver high-quality sustainable health interventions. They will be expected to provide technical support to Concern’s health work across the range of countries in which Concern works—emergency, fragile/transitional and stable development contexts—with a particular focus on extremely poor and vulnerable populations.
Responsibilities:
* Work as part of the wider health team to provide technical support for country and regional Health Programmes with a focus on health integration across nutrition and health.
* Conduct country technical health visits (to include primary health care and nutrition) and work with the health team in country to develop a country specific health programme development plan.
* Support health capacity building initiatives with Concern and partner organisations including formal and informal training, and lessons learnt documentation within country programmes.
* Contribute to developing Concern’s approach to Outbreak Preparedness and Response as a key component of Concern's Health Programming in countries at risk of outbreaks.
* Participate in the identification of health funding opportunities and provide technical inputs as requested to proposals and donor reports.
* Work with other health SAL colleagues in particular nutrition to ensure that health and nutrition programming is fully integrated across all stages of the programme cycle.
* Support country programmes with Monitoring and Evaluation of health programmes in coordination with Concern’s Programme Learning Team.
* Support and maintain relationships with other health agencies and donors and represent Concern in national, regional and international forums as required.
* Participate in annual health work planning including Strategic Planning and Reviews for Health with the wider Health Team in Concern.
* Support with recruitment of health staff in country programmes as required by the country management team.
* Provide support to country health programmes in the management of pharmacy and medical supplies.
* All staff are responsible for upholding and promoting Concern’s values, including our workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, and safeguarding values.
* All staff are required to participate and contribute as necessary towards Concern’s emergency response as and when required.
Role Holder Requirements:
Essential:
* Master’s degree in public health/Infectious Diseases or similar.
* Undergraduate degree in Nursing, Medicine, Public Health or similar.
* Strong, current knowledge of primary health care programming and approaches to health system strengthening.
* 4-5 years’ experience in the management of health programmes in a variety of country contexts.
* Basic competence using quantitative, qualitative, and participatory methods for programme planning/design, monitoring, and evaluation.
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, and writing skills in English.
* Ability to work both as part of a team and independently.
* Ability to travel internationally up to 30% in fragile contexts, sometimes on short notice and for 2+ weeks.
* Fluent in French and experience of working in French speaking humanitarian health contexts.
Desirable:
* Experience in health system strengthening and a good understanding of capacity building approaches.
* Training and facilitation skills.
* Experience of behaviour change approaches.
* Previous experience of supporting country programmes with the management of pharmacy and medical supplies.
Competencies:
Communicating and Working with Others: The Health Advisor will be able to work within Concern’s wider Health Team exploring opportunities to develop good quality health programming.
Planning and Decision Making: The Health Advisor will be able to develop an annual workplan at an organizational level and in coordination with country health teams.
Individual Leadership: The Health Advisor will be able to manage their work and overall workplan and provide technical leadership and support to country health teams.
All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by the closing date and CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.
Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
We encourage all eligible candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity or origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations and is committed to promoting equality. If this role sounds right for you, please apply with your CV and cover letter.
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