Lead, Technical, Health and Nutrition (Contractual); Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme

Job Description

Title: Lead, Technical, Health and Nutrition (Contractual); Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ MBBS with MPH from any recognised university with all second class/ division or equivalent GPA/ CGPA in academic examinations

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 7 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Purpose: This position will provide leadership and support in problem solving, key decision making, quality control, technical input and advice as well as planning, executing, monitoring and evaluation of the health and nutrition sector activities (training, research, mobilization, policy advocacy, documentation, development & mainstreaming activities), facilitating fundraising and project proposal development, maintaining liaison among different government and local bodies for sector purpose under the supervision of Head of Programme.
∎ The role of Health and Nutrition Sector Lead is to ensure the effective management of the health and nutrition projects funded by various donors including UN agencies, ensuring timely achievement of annual plan of activities in a manner that conforms to professional business process for implementation of health programmes, organisational and donor standards.
∎ Safeguarding:
∎ Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme`s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment
∎ Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
∎ Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Work closely with HCMP Higher Management in strategy formulation & guidance in relation with Sector/ Programme Design & Development.
∎ Support in the development and design of new Health & Nutrition sector strategy of BRAC and ensure quality standards of project delivery on time.
∎ Technical support provide to health and nutrition team as and when require.
∎ Work closely with Programme Design, Development, and Review (PDDR) and Grants Team in concept notes, project proposal of Health and Nutrition sector etc.
∎ Facilitate and guide Sector M&E/MIS team to design, develop, and modify monitoring and evaluation tools & techniques as required.
∎ Facilitate compliance-related issues of the respective Sector and work closely with programme support functions e.g. PDDR, Grants, Internal Audit, M&E, Communications, PSU etc. to ensure effective preparation of facing any external/ donor auditor if and when necessary.
∎ Facilitate and assist HCMP PDDR team to accelerate and analyze the performance of projects, find out the gaps and solutions accordingly with a standard performance tracking.
∎ Find out the quality gaps through close monitoring & auditing and ensure technical supervision to ensure quality of the projects' activities of the respective Sector.
∎ Coordinate Programme Development and MEAL activities of all projects of the Sector and maintain cordial relationship with the respective team of the donor agencies, HCMP Higher Management, Sector Lead, HP Management with effectiveness and efficiency.
∎ Coordinate with PRL and HCMP PDDR team for tracking new and pipeline proposals, completed projects and reporting of the Sector and provide timely updates to Sector Lead, HCMP Senior Management and Humanitarian Programme as applicable.
∎ Keep track of all proposals, donor and other reporting. Also, provide inputs to finalize reports and timely submissions.
∎ Track action plans in HCMP PDDR, Grants to minimize gaps and overlaps, ensure consistency, and provide feedback to Sector Lead and HCMP Higher Management for timely action and follow-up.
∎ Develop Training programme for staff including materials development and course facilitation.
∎ Lead the process for report writing.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Minimum 7 years of experience in public health along with minimum 2 years of work experience in emergency field is required.
∎ Have sound knowledge on public health sector in emergency, community-based approaches, SPHERE Standards and Humanitarian Principles
∎ Strong understanding on project design and budget formulation guidelines/ requirements, planning and prioritising
∎ Able to conceptualise new interventions of health sectors in the CXB context
∎ Excellent skills in project management, financial management and report writing
∎ Excellent written and verbal communication, and presentation skills in English
∎ Have computer skills with all Microsoft Office programs (MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

Salary: Negotiable

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 16 Sep 2022

Company Information:
∎ 6 Sep 2022
∎ BRAC
∎ Business : BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Category: NGO/Development

: Other Way to Apply : You may apply through bdjobs.com or send your updated CV to [email protected] mentioning the name of the position "Lead, Technical, Health and Nutrition (Contractual); HCMP" in the subject line.