With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

% Time

Major Activities

50 %

Technical Leadership

• Actively participate in the national Interagency Coordination Committees (ICC) and other national forums and working groups, Support the existing provincial ICC and district task force.
• Conduct regular CGPP partners' meetings and organize review and planning forums involving the provincial, territorial health zone offices and partners' field offices.
• Organize regular meetings with health zone offices, church synods, community leaders and members, and other stakeholders to take project ownership.
• Build effective partnerships between CGPP NGOs and international, national, and provincial agencies involved in polio at respective levels to share information and experiences and avoid duplication of efforts.
• Strengthen national, provincial, and health zone immunization systems to achieve polio eradication by reducing zero-dose children and improving immunization coverage.
• Support national, provincial, and district planning and implementation of supplemental polio immunizations and outbreak response campaigns.
• Support community-based surveillance for AFP/VPD case detection, reporting, and response (and case detection of other infectious diseases)
• Support timely documentation and use of information to improve the quality of polio eradication continuously (and other related health) activities.
• Share good practices among health zone within the same provinces and among different provinces

10%

Capacity Development

• Provide capacity building of Health Officer staff, including provision of technical resources and linkage to partners and stakeholders
• Ensure quality monitoring of all health capacity building events

10%

Learning and Evidence Base Development, Dissemination and Knowledge Management

• Assist research in the field as part of research team, field preparation, field supervision
• Assist ME (Monitoring and Evaluation) team in data interpretation and writing reports that show evidence of results and impacts
• Identify best/promising practices and success stories for documentation and dissemination

5%

Resource Mobilization

• Contribute to the development of project (grants and Responses) proposals that have Health component
• Provide key ground data and information to the GAM (Grant Acquisition and Management) team

10%

Quality Assurance

• Assist field staff to write, and ensure timely submission from the project of monthly/quarterly/ annual HN activity reports and any grant-specific reports
• Assist NO Health Advisor in monitoring, supervision and evaluation of the health project
• Ensure project alignment with TA/TP and meets minimum standards

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:

• University degree in Medical Sciences; Master in Public Health preferred
• Computer literate in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Lotus note, etc.

List additional work experience required as a minimum qualification for this position.

• At least Five years experiences working in international NGOs
• At least three years experiences in health program management, in immunization program is preferred.
• Proven experience in managing community projects
• Project management and design experience
• Project implementation and monitoring and evaluation
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, time management, demonstrated leadership and good management ability.
• Excellent French communication skills (oral and written).
• A working knowledge of English 
• A working knowledge of the local language

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

1.Experience in Immunization and Disease surveillance

2.Experience in health Zone management

3.Theory of change and logical framework development

4.Database management, statistical skills and ability to critically evaluate health data

List additional work experience preferred for this position.

1. Professional experience in training/capacity

2. building Multi-sectoral/integrated program design and implementation

Work Environment

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 70% of the time. 

CORE CAPABILITIES

☒ Achieving quality results & service.

☒ Communicating information effectively.

☒ Demonstrating Christ-centred life & work.

☒ Building collaborative relationships.

☒ Understanding World Vision’s mission & operations.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Contact (within WV or outside WV)

Base Manager

National Health Advisor

Sub-national external technical partners

GAM

Finance Team

Communications Team

FREEDOM TO ACT

Need to be proactive and open to innovations

Challenge - Approach/Solutions

Assure that partners appropriately implement project activities -Select appropriate implementing partners. Focus on training of partners and a close monitoring

Interpersonal Skills

1. Proactivity

2. Sense of creativity

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

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