Job Description
The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Save the Children International seeks to always be a child safe organization through fulfilling its obligations to the community and through program implementation carried out by the organization for safeguarding children and to improve the living standards of the child.
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Position: Health and Nutrition Program Coordinator
Location: Taiz
Grade: 3b
Contract Length: till December (with possibility to renewal)
The Opportunity:
The Health and Nutrition Coordinator will work to contribute and improve the overall Health & Nutrition of the targeted Beneficiaries in Lahj/Taiz through provision of quality Comprehensive primary health care. The Health & Nutrition Coordinator will work collaboratively with the Ministry of Health and their staff and partners to meet the needs of patients, promote healthy behaviors, strengthen health systems and improve access to basic health services. She/ He will work under the direct line management of area manager and is also expected to work closely/coordinate with Health & nutrition Technical Advisors (Backstop) Country office on technical matters/inputs.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Program Development and Management:
- Conduct needs assessments and assessments to identify priority areas for intervention and inform program design.
- Develop and implement comprehensive health and nutrition programs, including maternal and child health, nutrition, disease prevention, and health systems strengthening.
- Ensure that programs are culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive, and responsive to the specific needs of vulnerable populations, such as children, women, and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
- Monitor program implementation, track progress against key indicators, and make necessary adjustments to ensure effective outcomes.
Partnership Building and Coordination:
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with the Ministry of Health, other government agencies, NGOs, and local communities.
- Collaborate with partners to develop joint work plans, share resources, and leverage synergies to achieve shared goals.
- Facilitate knowledge exchange and learning between partners to enhance program effectiveness.
Technical Guidance and Capacity Building:
- Provide technical guidance and support to health and nutrition staff at all levels, ensuring adherence to best practices and quality standards.
- Conduct training of trainers (ToT) programs to build the capacity of local health workers and strengthen the health system.
- Develop and implement mentorship programs to support the professional development of staff.
- Promote the use of evidence-based approaches and innovative strategies to improve health and nutrition outcomes.
- Experience in supervisory technical tools development and conducting joint supervision along with multisectoral disciplines.
Data Management and Analysis:
- Oversee the collection, analysis, and reporting of health and nutrition data, ensuring data quality and integrity.
- Utilize data to inform program decision-making, identify trends, and measure progress toward program objectives.
- Develop and implement data visualization tools and dashboards to communicate program findings effectively.
Resource Management:
- Develop budgets for health and nutrition programs, ensuring efficient use of resources.
- Monitor financial performance and ensure compliance with financial regulations.
Emergency Response:
- Lead the organization's response to health and nutrition emergencies, such as outbreaks, conflicts, or natural disasters.
- Ensure that emergency interventions are timely, effective, and aligned with humanitarian standards.
CORE BEHAVIOURS
Understanding humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
- Able to assess and analyse key issues in the humanitarian situation and formulate actions around them
- Actively engages in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation
- Leads on the development of an organisational response based on an understanding of the contexts
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
- Creates a managerial environment across the Area to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Integrity: honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
- displays consistent excellent judgement
Qualifications and Experience:
- Advanced degree in public health, nutrition, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience working in health and nutrition programs, with at least 5 years in humanitarian or development contexts.
- Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing large-scale health and nutrition programs.
- Strong understanding of the health and nutrition needs of vulnerable populations in Yemen, particularly in the southern region.
- Experience working with government agencies, NGOs, and local communities in complex and challenging environments.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
- Fluency in English and Arabic.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills and commitment to capacity building of staff with proven skills as a trainer/facilitator and mentor.
- Demonstrate skills in resource and staff management/development and the implementation of appropriate policies, procedures, and systems.
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
- Ability to be self-sufficient and resourceful.
- Ability and willingness to travel to projects and stay in basic conditions.
- Computer skills e.g. MS-Office, Word, Power Point and Excel.
- Language skills: Excellent English writing and speaking communication
Desirable
- An area of particular expertise within humanitarian health & Nutrition.
- Experience of working on Health/nutrition programs in emergencies and epidemic outbreaks.
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Cultural sensitivity and adaptability.
- Knowledge of health information systems and tools.
- Experience in health and nutrition need assessments, SMART surveys, HF assessments etc.
About Us
The Organization
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard. We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
· No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
· All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
· Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.