Senior Health and Nutrition Program Officer(Somali National) Full Time

CARE International is a humanitarian aid organization fighting global poverty, with a particular focus on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities. As a non-religious and non-political organization, CARE works with communities to help overcome poverty by supporting development projects and providing emergency relief. We believe supporting women and girls is one of the most effective ways to create sustainable outcomes in poor communities.

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Health and Nutrition Officer (SH&NO) will oversee the day to day implementation of all aspects of emergency Health and Nutrition activities including running of emergency Health and Nutrition sites (Mobile and fixed), community mobilization, needs assessments, cluster representation, program reporting and initiate new interventions as deemed necessary in Galmudug State. S/he will be required to provide Health and Nutrition technical back stopping to CARE and Ministry of health staff through mentorship, technical support, capacity building initiatives to staff and the community at large. The incumbent will also be required to create seamless integration between the Health and Nutrition component and other emergency sectors for proper integration and efficient utilization of resources. S/he will be required to make regular monitoring efforts and periodic visits to all emergency nutrition project field sites on regular basis. The Senior Health and Nutrition Officer will functionally report to the Humanitarian Program Manager, Galmudug State with technical backstopping from the Health and Nutrition specialist.**

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Program management and implementation

· Represent CARE International in all matters related to Health and Nutrition in the assigned program location while liaising with Partners, Donors, Governments and NGOs at field.**

· Provide technical and managment support to the implementation of integarted health and nutrition projects carried out in Galgadud.

· Identify needs and initiate strategies to address Health and Nutrition priority needs of communities in project area and work with CARE and partner staff to develop a sustainable community based programs for addressing direct, underlying and basic causes of malnutrition and diseases morbidity.

· Create a seamless integartion of Health and Nutrition projects and linkage with Water, Sanitation & Hygeine (WaSH), Protection and Food Secuirty & Livelihoods (FSL).

· Provide technical support and guidance to Staff and ensure Ministry of health and cluster guidelines are followed to provide critical Health and Nutrition services to the community.

· Participate in establishing funding requirements for Health and Nutrition interventions and contribute to the development of proposals and concept notes for emergency response.

· Enhance integration and mainstreaming of protection and Do No Harm (DNH) to the beneficiaries in all helath and nutrition interventions.

· Integrate MEAL systems to support beneficiaries accountability,donor reporting, performance metrics and organizational learning

1. Program Design

· Work in close collaboration with the Health and Nutrition Specialist ensure that emergency Health and nutrition interventions build upon long term programming.

· Provide up to date Health and Nutrition data and information necessary for development of high quality programs.

· Ensure close engagement with line instries and align the program to the priotties of the state government of Galmudug.

1. Program Monitoring and Reporting

· Develop routine joint supervision with Ministry of health to provide program support and quality control.

· Be responsible for quality reporting from CARE supported MCHs and project locations.

· Support in initiation and development of donor reports.

1. Representation and coordination

· Participate in all field level Health and Nutrition cluster and technical working group coordination meetings

· Represent CARE in all inter agency assessments and Coordination meeting in Galmudug State.

· Coordinate with partners to identify Health and Nutrition gaps and needs to inform CARE programming

1. Capacity building for CARE and Ministry of Health Staff

· Assess and identify CARE and Ministry of Health Staff capacity needs and develop training plan

· Provide in house capacity building to CARE program and Minstry of Health staff.

· Design and provide capacity building to Community Health Workers (CHWs), (Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs), Mother to Mother support group (MMtSG) and other community resource persons and key Health and Nutrition interventions

Key Internal Contacts; Emergency Director /Humanitarian Coordinator /Program Development Manager/Sector specialists/Humanitarian Program Manager/ MEAL Specialists**

Key External Contacts; Focal points in MOH Galmudug, Clusters and other humanitarian agencies (UN and NGO).

Required qualifications and experiences

· Degree in Nursing/clinical medicine from a recognised Institution.

· At least 3 years progressive experience in managing Health and Hutrition programs in conflict situations.

· Experience in setting up and running of Health and Nutrition programs

· Experience in carrying out needs assessment

· Experience in proposal development and donor reporting

· Experience and skills in managing teams

· Experience organizing and facilitating training

· Excellent communication skills-written and spoken

· Fluency in English and Somali

Strong interpretation skills, flexibility, adaptability and empathy