Health and Nutrition Coordinator

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!

Key Responsibilities:

Partner Coordination and Communication

• Primary contact for consortium partners during the life of the grant period in relation to health and nutrition interventions.
• Be responsible for maintaining and strengthening relationships with key partners, especially health and nutrition focal points.
• Responsible for handling reporting of partners and WVI health and nutrition component of the DAWAM project, ensuring overall quality of the consortium is being upheld.
• Flag issues to Project Director and consortium steering committee as required.
• Enable information sharing and partner communication in a spirit of collaboration.
• Build and foster healthy working relationships with consortium partner staff
• Providing health sector reports from all DAWAM partner and share with the project director and WVI Health sector lead.

Grant Management and finance management of the health and nutrition component of the DAWAM project:

• Monitor progress of health and nutrition activities consortium towards achieving project targets, flagging any concerns to the consortium steering committee.
• Monitor consortium expenditure and forecasting, liaising with partners on under/overspending of the health and nutrition component of the WV DAWAM project as well as all consortium members as required.
• Compile and synthesize reports from all consortium partners to produce timely and accurate donor reporting and share with the project director as well as to the health and nutrition sector lead for recording.
• Maintain link between partner finance departments and WVI finance in areas of the health and nutrition activities and way-forward.
• Ensure smooth, timely cash flow to consortium partners, ensuring partners understand cash request requirements.
• Ensure compliance requirements maintained within consortium, including audit notification and coordination.

Quality Assurance

• Flag issues where quality might not be maintained and seek solutions for challenging issues.

• Support partners with advice in challenging liaison with authorities and help share lessons learned.

• Form working groups where lessons learned can be shared and experience learned from between partners.

Donor Relations, reporting and Representation.

• Act as primary contact for DAWAM project for health component of the consortium-related matters.
• Maintain a very good relationship with all DAWAM partners members and properly follow the health and nutrition component of the project with all members and with donor as directed by project director.

Other

• Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards
• Adhere to WV accountability standards
• To be aware and prepared to implement WV Afghanistan Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs plan under the context of Badghis/Ghor urban and rural interventions
• Required Professional Experience
• At least 5 years of Relevant experiences working with national and international NGOs.
• Experience of leading the consortium is preferred.

Required Education,

training, license,

registration, and

certification

Public health background (MD, Midwife, nurse or equivalent)

Preferred Knowledge

and Qualifications

Humanitarian context knowledge and experience. Experience in developing action plans, preparing curriculum and training/orientation materials Experience in documentation and reporting Experience working with community leaders (Community Based Structures) Experience in adult learning methodology and monitoring of training activities Ability to work with minimal supervision. Ability to work as part of a field team. Very good communication with communities and local authorities. Excellent presentation and communication skills. Ability to exhibit exemplary lifestyle as interpreted in specific local cultural context Able to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural context, stressful environments and with limited resources Cross cultural sensitivity, flexible views, emotional maturity and physical stamina. Demonstrable experience in child protection, child rights, PSEA, AAP Interpersonal, management and conflict resolution skills. Results oriented and good team-player Good computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), internet use and Lotus Notes.

Travel and/or

Work Environment

Requirement

The position is based in Kabul with frequent travel to the DAWAM project targeted districts.

Physical

Requirements

Being in good health and physical conditions.

Language

Requirements

Applicant Types Accepted: