The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances childrenโs rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And itโs girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support childrenโs rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for โ and respond to โ crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.
ROLE PURPOSE
The health and Nutrition Technical Advisor is a senior technical post to ensure high-quality programming, policy engagement, and advocacy outcomes of PIEโs work in the Tigray, Afar, and Amhara Regions Ethiopia. The post holder will provide design and support of technical elements of health and Nutrition projects, with relevant project managers, to ensure the projects contribute to the achievement of the thematic program plan; be responsible for ensuring that key organizational principles and approaches such as child participation and sound M&E systems are well integrated throughout the project cycle; be responsible for ensuring that lessons derived through the implementation of projects are well articulated, documented and disseminated both internally and externally; engage with policymakers and work to achieve advocacy objectives to realize greater change for children.
ACCOUNTABILITIES AND MAIN WORK ACTIVITIES
Accountable for overall quality of program and influence work in Tigray Region in relation to health and Nutrition in emergencies responses.
Planning, strategy, and policy (10%)
- Support the development of health technical strategies and support roll-out of strategy and updates to all relevant Plan International staff.
- Conduct periodic visits to implementation sites to understand the reality, provide on-site advice/support and come up with recommendations for program quality improvement
- Support and guide the health team to capture /document program lessons at different levels
- Provide technical advice /guidance to the health and team while conducting surveys, evaluations, and other assessments, including in the design, conduct, and analysis and write up of the reports; oversee possible consultancy work in the same.
- Support the development of annual operational plans and the regular internal program planning and review meetings in the health section as well as related inputs to quarterly and annual PIE reports
- Identify new potential partners for strategic engagement and negotiate strategic priorities, thru external contact with relevant counterparts across agencies
- In collaboration with the HR department, ensure support to recruitment and selection of staff and for all matters concerning human resources for the health unit.
- Ensure that relevant cross-cutting issues are strategically mainstreamed in new projects; also ensuring relevant staffs understand and are capacitated to take the issues forward.
- Lead and/or contribute to regular health, Nutrition, and sector updates, capacity statements, and sector representative meetings/training.
Programme and project design, implementation and influence (60%)
- Ensure that project managers are meeting both internal and donor technical standards and requirements. This includes oversight of implementation quality, reviewing, editing and signing-off donor reports to ensure they are of an acceptable technical and presentational quality.
- Participate in field-based project monitoring and review meetings.
- Liaise with Programme Operations staff to identify technical support needs of projects and staff, and jointly agree on specific and time-bound support needs of projects and staff in relevant technical areas.
- Provide technical training to ensure that the project staff has the necessary skills to technically implement the project.
- Assist project staff in the use of health and cross-cutting tools and guidelines to ensure the quality of work. These include, among others, child participation, child rights programming, and mainstreaming of gender, diversity, and HIV/AIDS.
- Prepare annual work plans, in consultation with the line manager.
- Undertake regular field visits to project sites to ensure technical quality and timeliness of ongoing work.
- Support the Hubs to organize, coordinate and implement surveys, reviews, and terminal evaluations of programs/projects; provide technical oversight as necessary.
- Support the Hubs to ensure appropriate and timely staffing of emergency health programs; including developing a mechanism to quickly deploy key staff to enable timely response.
- Develop a mechanism to ensure rapid and appropriate responses to health and Nutrition emergencies are available at the Hubs and sub-office level.
Partnership and resource mobilization (5%)
- Closely monitor events and maintain an overview of health and nutrition-related issues affecting children in humanitarian contexts (a humanitarian situation, politics, security, etc.), in program areas, to identify potential program areas and partners. This includes active participation in discussion and decision-making forums related to proposing emergency health responses.
- Build on technical knowledge, research, and current/previous programming to lead the design of new projects and development of proposals in close coordination with the relevant field, business development, and management staff. This includes all aspects of proposal development, such as concept notes and grant amendments. Ensure that proposals are developed in line with internal and member protocols and technical standards.