About Save the Children
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to its survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Between now and 2015, our organisation is dedicated to support the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4; which is, a two-thirds reduction in the rate of under five mortality. Our Health and HIV programme is key to this goal; and we are seeking to dramatically expand the scale, coverage and impact of our work, both direct interventions with communities, support to health systems at district and national level and policy, in close collaboration with advocacy and campaigns.
Save the Children is transforming itself into a new single international structure with management of country and regional offices transferred from Save the Children UK to Save the Children International (SCI). In the new structure, national members will continue to lead on developing programme strategies, designing and fundraising for programmes, building skills in country offices and providing surge capacity for large-scale emergency responses. This post-holder will remain part of Save the Children UK and work primarily in support of UK-funded programmes, but will play a crucial role in coordinating and working closely with other SC Member technical staff in Kenya and SCI Regional Office staff in East Africa.
About the Role
The purpose of this role is provide support to Save the Children country offices in the East Africa region for the design and delivery of high-quality health programmes, as part of our EVERY ONE newborn and child survival campaign. This post will play a critical role in raising new resources to support health programmes, based on our theory of change and the three pillars of child rights programming.
The post-holder will be a credible and authoritative voice on all aspects of health policy with emphasis on reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health as well as health system strengthening. The post holder will support and/or participate in all aspects of health situation analyses, programme planning, fundraising proposals, policy analysis, advocacy, recruitment, capacity-building, monitoring & evaluation, knowledge management and networking within both development and emergency contexts to ensure programme quality.
He/she will also support health-related HIV work. Support will be delivered both from a distance and through regular visits and the post-holder will be expected to work closely with colleagues in Save the Children International Regional Office, Advocacy and Global Programme teams in London head office. The post-holder will be a full member of the Health & HIV Team in London.
About you
You have an internationally-recognised qualification in health or health policy, ideally at higher degree level and benefits from a strong expertise and understanding of key issues in the field of health (Reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health) as well as other of health system strengthening such as health financing, the right to health and universal health service delivery. You have demonstrated commitment to health and development and to the right of the poorest to quality health and health services, with strong experience of health programming and advocacy activities in low-income countries.
Ideally you will also have experience working in East Africa whether at regional level or in more than one country and speak additional languages such as Swahili.
Kindly note, we won't be able to sponsor a visa for this position.
Regional Health Adviser, East Africa
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