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ABOUT THE JOB

Role

The Health Specialist contributes to the implementation and adaptation of the LEARN sector strategy and the wider LEARN strategy, including facilitating integration of Health with other LEARN sectors and activities (WASH, Shelter, Protection, maternal, infant and young child nutrition in emergencies (MIYCN-E) etc.). As such:

• He/she will ensure that effective partnership and collaboration are maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, program coordination and harmonization, information sharing and knowledge networking.
• He/she will provide technical input and advice to the implementing health and program teams at RI, UPP, PIN and SI.

Reporting to THE DCoP LEARN, the Health Specialist will ensure robust health sector interventions, update the Consortium on day-to-day health sector progress, issues and challenges, and support the health partners in implementing a harmonized system for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the health sector interventions.

Additionally, the Health Specialist will work with LEARN partners to identify opportunities to include the nutrition as an additional sector based on the needs in NES and available resources.  

Main responsibilities

1. Coordination,
2. Support with donor relations/communications,
3. Medical expertise (especially the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) and working closely with the MEAL Specialist (around quality),
4. Monitoring (field visits and project activity against workplan),
5. Institutional strengthening (including harmonization where feasible and appropriate),
6. Compliance/risk management.

The Health Specialist works with all partners, and has strong intersections with support services, especially logistics. The Health Specialist drives the lessons learnt agenda in health.

Further, the Health Specialist will lead on the integrated programming agenda.

The role requires a strong and up-to-date contextual understanding to bring to the table an understanding of gaps, needs and contextual impact.

The main challenges

1. Deployment of a multi-partner, multi-million dollars project in a complex area of intervention
2. Coordinates and supports consortium partners, both technically and also in communication, harmonization and integration to achieve the aims of the project
3. Develop a positive work relationship internally to the consortium, as well as externally towards health actors present in the area
4. Support the health partners and DCOP the revision of the health component of the LEARN Rapid Response Mechanism (triggers, core activities, handovers)
5. The position requires a high mobility inside and outside the intervention area

Priorities for the 2/3 first months

1. Lead on the health coordination agenda, focusing on a set of keys areas already identified by LEARN partners.
2. Ensure smooth information sharing across the sectors where relevant to health.
3. Support the joint learning exercises and revision of joint priorities for the health program and identify priority referrals and integration pathways with other sectors

Support Phase III implementation including learning from the closing Phase II (and development of community-based programming in the health sector), including timely and quality donor submissions