Samaritan's Purse Health and Nutrition Technical Lead Jobs in South Sudan

Samaritan's Purse Health and Nutrition Technical Lead Jobs in South Sudan; We are seeking to hire a Health and Nutrition Technical Lead in Juba, South Sudan. For this strategic leadership role, you need to have a strong clinical background, program design skills, and be an experienced implementer. Come use your expertise and technical skills of health and nutrition, grant writing, emergency response, and implementation through community-based programming with the goal to share the Good News of the Gospel. Is God calling you to serve Him in using your talent, passions and skills to make an eternal impact in South Sudan?

A day in the life of a Health and Nutrition Technical Lead:

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe.

In the role of Health and Nutrition Technical Lead, you will have the opportunity to:

Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.

Lead health and nutrition multi-sectorial technical assessments in coordination with other Samaritans Purse technical leads, as well as external agencies, ensuring that assessment findings are documented and used for designing and implementing programs.

Lead the development of health and nutrition sector response plans and budgets, including fundraising efforts, producing high quality concept notes, proposals, and donor reports, and contributing to Samaritans Purse South Sudan's overall strategy.

Develop technical standards, training materials, terms of reference, and standard operating procedures for the health and nutrition sector, including emergency response plans, adhering to internationally-recognized humanitarian standards.

Support program managers to develop detailed implementation, budget, procurement, and MEAL plans.

Oversee implementation and ensure high quality and timely delivery of program activities within budget per internal and external requirements and standards. Also supports in the procurement process ensuring technical specifications, quality, and value for money.

Maintain oversight of medicines and health and nutrition supplies ordered for relevant health and nutrition projects, supporting the health and logistics staff in coordination, following guidelines, and quality control of health supplies. Also supervises the safe and efficient management of nutrition and health supplies and equipment.

Develop health and nutrition learning

needs assessment and capacity building plans for the health and nutrition team, coaches and mentors them, linking capacity building initiatives to wider opportunities identified via coordination and networks.

Take initiative in documenting lessons learned, best practices, innovations, and case studies to shape in-country strategies and program approaches and contribute to broader sector learning through influence and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, such as the health and nutrition clusters.

Establish accountability mechanisms for Samaritans Purse health and nutrition interventions, ensuring that feedback is incorporated into program design and learning.

Other duties may be assigned that are not specifically identified within the content of the job description.

Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse.

Qualifications & Experience:

Education Requirements: Bachelors degree in public health, health science, nutrition, or a related field and five (5) years of international work experience in East/Central Africa; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

A masters degree in Public Health with a medicine background and at least three (3) years of experience as a technical advisor is preferred. Management and capacity building experience of national staff in non-governmental organizational programming is strongly preferred.

Written and oral communication skills. Analytical and leadership skills.

Thorough knowledge of development of health and nutrition programming.

Political and cultural sensitivity with patience, tact, and diplomacy qualities.

Ability to work with flexibility and be accommodating in difficult and sometimes in secure working circumstances.

In-depth knowledge of program development, management, monitoring and evaluation, community development/mobilization, and grant writing.

12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete requirement is available upon hire.


How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Samaritan's Purse Health and Nutrition Technical Lead Jobs in South Sudan

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