Health Coordinator – Manila (International and National Only)

Duration : 12 months Start date : 01-Dec-2022

You’ll contribute to ending world hunger by …

Being responsible for designing and ensuring quality of the delivery of health programs of Action Against Hunger Philippines mission, as well as liaising with various external partners. They shall serve as the focal person for Health technical issues for country/regional initiatives of Action Against Hunger.

Key activities in your role will include

Objective 1: Process: Strategy and Positioning of Action Against Hunger

• To support the Country Director and Coordination Team in the analysis of health and needs in humanitarian and development context, drafting of programmatic approaches and definition of strategies.
• To collect and update information on health and nutrition indicators, actors and activities nationwide for analysis and identification of potential areas, partners and priority interventions.
• Lead development of strategic technical guidance and designing of health projects/programs. This will include scoping for innovative approaches, emerging good practices, systems, and use of technologies as well as identifying institutional constraints that contribute to health-related risks
• To promote Action Against Hunger technical policies, position papers, technical labs, guidelines, and training resources among the members of the department.
• Contribute to the technical and operational advocacy related to Health at the mission and HQ level Initiate and design the health contingency plan and be responsible for its implementation and revision in coordination with relevant units within Action Against Hunger
• Contribute towards ensuring strategic integration of the mission’s health programs/projects with other sectoral interventions (e.g. FSL, DRR etc), where relevant, to maximize impact and efficiencies;
• Support the Mission in scoping for and building strategic partnerships (including institutional donors) at the national and/or global level to expand reach and deepen impact of health initiatives
• Represent Action Against Hunger and Engage in relevant national and global networks/fora

Objective 2: Process: Design and implementation of programs

• Lead in development of health-related funding proposals
• Ensure high quality implementation, monitoring and reviewing of health projects and programs. This includes among others, the validation of project/program impacts, coherence, coverage, efficiency, sustainability, relevance/feasibility, mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues (gender, environment, DRR) in emergency, development and nexus settings.
• Provide high quality advice to field teams to ensure that all Health program/projects are aligned with AAH, national government and donors’ policies, standards and quality criteria.
• Provide guidance and supervision, where necessary, in organizing and carrying out technical assessments, including emergency assessments.
• Provide regular technical and methodological support to project/program managers for the planning and implementation of the planned activities, in accordance with strategic plans, approved project design.
• Support field teams in identifying and addressing implementation bottlenecks
• Contribute to the running analysis of burn rates and provide advice to the field teams to optimize program spending within program design and donor parameters
• Work with other technical coordinators towards integration of health initiatives with other sectors and other cross-cutting themes such gender, inclusion, protection, environment, etc. at the implementation level.
• Directly manage projects and budgets, as may be directed by senior management, which may include, but are not limited to, projects that are technical in nature (e.g. research)
• Any other task required to achieve the project objective or fall within the mandate of Action Against Hunger.

Objective 3: Process: Monitoring, Evaluation, Analysis and Knowledge Management

• Work with the M&E team in designing the MEAL plans and strategies relevant to the sector, which will include developing and rolling out tools and processes related to data collection, analysis and archiving.
• Participate in regular project reviews and lead in the interrogation and analysis of reports from health-related components of projects
• Lead review, validation and consolidation of reports from project teams for submission to donors and stakeholders.
• Actively use findings from monitoring and evaluation activities to guide teams towards program adaptation and pivots
• Lead analyses, consolidation and institutionalization of program learning and innovative practices, including leading/participating in lesson learned workshops, exchange visits, learning fora
• Develop TORs for technical evaluations and studies and engage closely with consultants as necessary. This includes supervision and coordination of mission or regional research, surveys, assessments and ensure reports of findings are shared with relevant stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to teams to ensure relevant program evidence (e.g. SOVs) are compliant with quality standards set by Action Against Hunger and the donor.

Objective 4: Process: Partnerships and Representation

• Participate and contribute in activities of health consortium/partner initiatives, including providing strategic leadership where Action Against Hunger acts as a lead.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with key Health stakeholders at a technical level, including donors, government authorities, international and local organizations, partners, beneficiaries and other external actors in the field
• Participate in meetings with the relevant stakeholders and consortium partners as needed and requested by line manager
• Engage with other missions through activities organized by the HQ.
• Represent the organization and its health advocacies in relevant fora, workshops and conferences
• To liaise with other technical departments to ensure a nutrition-security logic of intervention in all Action Against Hunger actions.

Objective 5: Managing of project/program-specific Admin, HR, and Logistics matters

• Contribute to building and maintaining institutional and human resource technical capacities and competencies (e.g. coaching, mentoring, training)
• Provide inputs to manage staff performance including providing inputs to regular performance evaluation of the technical staff.
• Participate in recruitment of the required technical staff for Health/nutrition in coordination with sector coordinators, HR manager.
• Support relevant HR processes, e.g. development and review of job descriptions, recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Support in improving administrative and finance process that can facilitate effective and efficient program implementation
• Contribute to analyzing and addressing logistical needs and bottlenecks that affect program implementation

Objective 6: Security and Emergency

• Strictly comply with Action Against Hunger security guidelines and procedures, including timely reporting and of security incidents that may disrupt project activities.
• Incorporate security considerations in context analysis, program design, monitoring and implementation.
• Participate in reviewing and updating security plans

Do you meet the profile required criteria?

• Advanced university degree in medicine and, nursing, or other health-related disciplines. Advanced degree Public Health or equivalent is highly preferable.
• Technical Knowledge: Maternal health, child health, community health promotion, epidemiology, mental health and psychosocial support, nutrition, and health administration and management.
• At least two years’ experience in coordination and implementation of health projects, at program manager, coordinator or advisory level particularly with the public health sphere.
• At least 2 years of experience in the humanitarian/development sector with international or national NGOs. Acquainted with the Southeast Asia context
• Languages: Fluent in English and Filipino; Proficiency in other local dialects is desirable.
• IT systems: Windows, Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power Point). Desirable Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, OneDrive.
• Mobility: Based in Manila with frequent travels to Mindanao and other bases within the country.
• Valuable prior experience in issues related to the promotion of gender equality or personal commitment to gender equality.

Our remuneration package:

• Compensation: based on Action Against Hunger grid.
• Benefits: health insurance, accident, and life insurance, leave entitlement, government-mandated benefits.
• Fixed-term employment