Health & Nutrition Program Manager / Syria Mission

Job Title: Health & Nutrition Program Manager / Syria Mission

Employment Type: Full -Time

Location: Gaziantep -Turkey

Vacancy: 1

Listing Expiry Date: 03/09/2023

About Us:

AL-AMEEN for Humanitarian Support is a non -governmental organization established by a group of volunteers in Syria during the crisis in 2012 and registered in the USA, Sweden, and turkey.

AL-AMEEN is implementing projects through regional offices in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, and Somalia.

Our work sectors are Health, Nutrition, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Protection, Shelter &Non-food items, Wash and Sanitation.

AL-AMEEN also manages development projects, advocates to empower civil societies and local governance.

Job Description:

The program Health & Nutrition Manager will oversee the health program in North-West Syria. This position is based in Gaziantep. They will provide technical guidance to both direct and partner-led activities. they will supervise the daily activities of the health Officers and assistants to ensure high-quality service delivery and program implementation. they will provide training and mentoring to Health staff. they is expected to conduct regular assessments of the program, prepare and, submit detailed technical monthly reports. They will also be expected to promote collaboration between the health facilities other sectors working at the community level.

Implementation of Program:

Major responsibilities:

• Provide strategic direction, leadership, and overall management of health program in North-west Syria in line with the health strategic plan.
• Integrate projects health activities within other health sectors, primary healthcare, reproductive health, communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, infection control, environmental health, and nutrition.
• providing context-specific training, ongoing mentorship, and supportive supervision.
• Coordinate with field staff to set up a system to keep track of the day-to-day field activities.
• Work jointly with the AL-AMEEN partners to develop procurement and spending plans that ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement process.
• Supervise the content of Health training and the quality of Health activities based on identified needs.
• Ensure the teams under your responsibility follow logistic and administrative procedures and keep the logistic and administrative departments informed of any relevant developments.
• Sets individual objectives, evaluates individual performance, contributes towards the professional & career development of their team members, monitors competences.
• Manages relationships with technical authorities, local partners, or other stakeholders.
• Drafts new project proposals for the continuity or expansion of the project.
• Provide technical support to the project teams and to the health teams.
• Leads development and operationalization of AL-AMEEN Health Strategy.
• Builds the capacity of the AL-AMEEN health team, ensuring regular training for staff and health personnel in such areas as clinical training, health service management, and data collection and reporting.
• Develop a health training plan, in coordination with technical experts and design appropriate training materials and job aids and IEC materials.
• Coordinate with the Health Coordinator, to develop project quality assurance documents including monitoring plans, supervision checklists, program work plans, risk management and mitigation plan, program spending plans and procurement plans.
• Coordinate with supply chain and logistics, to ensure timely supply of materials and tools for Health facilities and vaccination programs.

Program Quality and Development:

• Lead program quality review meeting and ensure that new or adapted programming focused on improving efficiencies, and impact is adopted.
• Contribute to the health & nutrition department’s business development through preparing proposal narratives and financial budgets.
• Develop standard operating procedures that ensure that the health activities adhere to international and national standards.
• Introduce innovative Information and Communication Technologies to improve the quality of data collection, analysis, and presentation.
• Coordinate with key health & nutrition program staff to ensure effective planning and implementation of the program’s activity. Identify, strengthen, and promote partnerships, dialogue.

Supervision:

• Mentor the team and partner organizations to implement high-quality evidence-based Primary health care, routine vaccination programs.
• Coach, train, supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including communicating clear expectations, setting annual performance objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented semi-annual performance reviews.
• As required identify staff performance issues and work with Human Resources to document and address these guided by the National Staff Employment Policies.

Monitoring and reporting:

• Coordinate with the health & nutrition coordinator, and Health Information System team, develop and or revise data collection, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting tools according to needs and observations and timely analysis of the data to guide program actions.
• Use and adapt AL-AMEEN quality tools, including gender equality tools, to improve the impact and outcomes of the relevant Health programs.
• Provide monthly reports on the program activities directly implemented or through implementing partners.
• Ensure that all internal and external reporting requirements are met and that reports are of high quality and submitted on time.
• Collaborated with the MEAL team, to implement the program Monitoring and Evaluation systems with attention to improving the effectiveness of systems; ensuring comprehensive output and impact data is collected and disseminated to optimize program quality.

Coordination:

• Develop and maintain effective relationships, communications, and partnerships with community leaders, local actors operating in AL-AMEEN’s implementation areas; where possible support strategic partnerships in the field that improve the best use of resources and complement health service delivery to shared catchment areas.
• Conduct regular program progress review meetings with the vaccination team program staff as well as other relevant programs and operations focal points.
• Effectively represent AL-AMEEN in the technical cluster meetings and that the program is represented in the relevant sub-sector working group meetings.
• Coordinate with Field Management teams to ensure field concerns and challenges are brought to relevant partners for the development of improved standards and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Health professional or qualification relevant to the job with public health background preferred.
• Minimum four years work experience at community level preferably in public health and in coordinating, implementing, running community health programs.
• Proven experience in community mobilization and awareness-raising activities.
• Ability to validate and interpret health data.
• Experience in mentoring and training; experience of supervising staff desirable
• Knowledge of social organization at the village level, and community health issues
• Good analytical and reporting skills
• Good understanding of budget management
• Excellent diplomatic and interpersonal skills
• Proficient spoken and written Arabic and English
• Excellent digital literacy including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Be able to work in a stressful setting and adapt quickly to changing.

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS:

AL-AMEEN and AL-AMEEN Staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the AL-AMEEN Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. By these values, AL-AMEEN enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

Compliance & Ethics :

Promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout AL-AMEEN. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of AL-AMEEN and donor compliance and ethics standards and adhere to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicate these values to staff and partners and require them to adhere to them.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse :

Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within AL-AMEEN and amongst beneficiaries served by AL-AMEEN

NB: considering the purpose and values of the organization, AL-AMEEN requests its complete employee flexibility in terms of duties and commitment, as their job description and title can be adjusted throughout the year according to needs and priorities.