Head of Health and Nutrition

Country/Region: Uganda Country Office

Location: Kampala

Organization: Save the Children International

Join us to lead sustainable change for children:

• Be part of a GLOBAL and DIVERSE technical community
• Get EXPOSURE in many different contexts
• Test and scale up INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
• Influence policies that affect MILLIONS OF CHILDREN

OVERVIEW

Are you passionate about being an advocate for children? Do you want to use your expertise to bring about lasting change for children and be a part of an inspiring, dynamic global movement?

The Head of Health and Nutrition (HoH&N) leads Save the Children Uganda’s Health and Nutrition (H&N) portfolio. The HoH&N ensures the execution of functions pertaining the work of the Uganda Country Office and Programme Development and Quality team. These include: thematic and strategic leadership, Innovation, quality and relevant technical support to ongoing and developing projects and programmes, monitoring evaluation accountability and learning, strategy development and alignment, supporting advocacy and communications.

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THE ROLE

Key areas of accountability include:

• Thematic and Technical Leadership
• Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation)
• Health and Nutrition Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
• Networking & External Engagement

To be a strong supporter and advocate for children in this role you will need to have:

• Master’s degree in Health, Nutrition, Public Health or related field or equivalent experience.
• Nutrition, Health, Medical or Public Health undergraduate or related qualification.
• At least 5 years’ experience of working in x country in Health & Nutrition in emergency or development settings.
• Understanding of the Health and Nutrition Thematic area in x country, and an understanding of the health priorities impacted on by the regional or neighbouring situation.
• Familiar with health systems, and health service provision including community health and the engagement of civil society organisations.
• Good experience in training, and capacity building of workforce and health and nutrition staff
• Experience of the national context, strategies and policies to enable advocacy at national / regional level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights, including the right to health services and food.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children.
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality and inclusion, adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement.
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response and recovery.