HEALTH ADVISOR

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

The Health Advisor is primarily responsible for technical vision, strategy, design, implementation and management of the health programs at senior management level. The Health Advisor will work in collaboration with the senior management team and health teams in the field to deliver high-quality health services to the targeted beneficiaries. The Health Advisor will make frequent visits to the field sites to ensure the highest standards of service delivery. S/he will ensure high-quality clinical services in all CARE-supported health facilities. S/he will monitor service quality, ensure that all staff are trained and well-supported, pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies are properly managed, and ensure quality clinical-level data is shared to national-level Cluster and MoPHP. The Health Advisor will represent CARE in the national Health Cluster, and other technical coordination groups and provide health-strategic inputs during proposal development periods.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning & Program Design
• Program Quality and Technical Oversight
• Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
• Capacity building and Staff Management
• Coordination & Representation
• Other responsibilities assigned
• The incumbent shall be capable of technically working independently but coordinating closely with technical advisors, deputy area managers and overall program team

Qualifications:

• Medical degree required with Master in Public Health. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
• 7+ years of relevant and progressive experience in international programs (preferably developing country or low-resource setting with an NGO)
• 2+ years at management level relating to primary healthcare, maternal and child health, reproductive health, emergency response, and infectious diseases
• Experience living and working in difficult, protracted-conflict settings;
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Partnership building, influencing, and negotiation with a range of actors; Strong analytical skills, and ability to design and write health based proposals;
• Strong understanding of health in humanitarian contexts, international standards for health in emergencies programs and the varying needs of populations in crisis;
• Experience working with a diverse set of health donors including BHA