Jobs by FHI360

1.MEAL Officer

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW  

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research, and technology– creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today’s interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries, all 50 U.S. states, and all U.S. territories. FHI 360’s Crisis Response team has been responding to the humanitarian emergency in Northern Ethiopia through an integrated health, nutrition, WASH, and Protection program to improve the health of the conflict-affected population. Now will expand their reach to Eastern Ethiopia, the Somali Region working with Pastoralist Concern (PC) Organization an Ethiopia-based national organization.

POSITION OVERVIEW  

Under the supervision of the Senior MEAL officer, the MEAL officer is responsible to providing technical support on design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities for integrated health, nutrition, WASH and protection activities in Filitu Field offices. They will work on collecting and putting information into the integrated project MEAL system, ensuring accountability and implementation of core humanitarian standards, engaging with program staff to ensure monitoring reports are completed in an accurate and timely fashion and provide assistance to all FHI 360 technical teams in completing MEAL documentation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES

MEAL System Development and Implementation

  • Ensure that MEAL systems and tools are in place and being implemented at the field level and communicate any issues or inefficiencies that arise to the MEAL coordinator/Senior MEAL Officer in a timely and proactive manner.
  • Assist the MEAL team to coordinate and oversee the development and maintenance of appropriate databases to accurately track data collected from various interventions across program activities.
  • Participate in the development of project/periodic MEAL plan, consistent with the work plan.
  • Support program field staff in the collection of activity- and output-level monitoring data during activity implementation.
  • Undertake regular field visits to monitor and supervise project implementation, identify bottlenecks and success stories.
  • Conduct data quality assessments in the field, check the quality of the beneficiary data (completeness, reliability, consistency, double counting, etc.) coming from the field and initiate corrective actions through routine monitoring.
  • Participate in baseline and endline survey studies and any other regular needs assessment which will continually provide information and latest developments.
  • Compile and share monthly narrative updates on the Response Program.
  • Collect different reports regularly (monthly, quarterly, and annually) from operational/field locations, check for consistency between the narrative and quantitative parts, compile the quantitative part and make data entry in the Program database.

Accountability and Learning

  • Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation during planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
  • Work with program teams to ensure that appropriate community feedback mechanisms are functional and accessible, and that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed.
  • Ensure communities and target beneficiaries know their rights and entitlements, have access to project information, and participate in decisions that affect them.
  • Regularly assess the effectiveness of existing complaint outlets and conduct periodic consultation with the community and other partners to decide the appropriate channel together with them.
  • Ensure complaints and feedback are collected, recorded in a database, reviewed timely, tracked, and shared with MEAL/Program teams for a timely response; and update the monthly accountability dashboard.
  • Assist the MEAL/program team to ensure accountability and learning through planning and facilitating periodic progress reviews (at the activity and output levels) and results-based reviews (at the outcome level);
  • Support the effort of documentation and sharing of program results, ensuring sharing of lessons learnt and good practices.
  • Strengthen the MEAL documentation system of FHI 360’s program centrally by documenting all MEAL documents.

Technical Support and Capacity Building

  • Provide technical guidance to project teams and partners on the development and use of monitoring tools and instruments as well as reporting of program progress; provide technical leadership for all MEAL activities of the project.
  • Assist staff members on MEAL issues for better implementation and sharing of good practices.
  • Work closely with WASH, health, nutrition and protection teams.
  • Assist the MEAL team to conduct trainings as needed for programs and partner staff on the use of MEAL tools, mobile based data collection tools and feedback and complaints mechanisms.

Others

  • Required to adhere to FHI 360’s principles and values;
  • Support to ensure protection and gender sensitivity in all program activities.
  • Undertake additional tasks assigned by their supervisor.

About You

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Sociology, Social Work , Public Health, Nutrition, Project Management, M&E or relevant discipline;
  • At least 3-5 years of proven experience in the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Accountability of humanitarian or development programs.
  • Masters in an added advantage
  • Hands on experience on Microsoft applications, particularly Excel and Word and digital data collection tools and the use of smart devices for data collection.
  • Experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection and data management system.
  • Previous experience with health, nutrition, protection and WASH programming.
  • Good understanding of the UN Cluster System; international and national minimum standards of services in humanitarian settings.
  • Driven and able to balance multiple tasks, commitments, and to work flexibly in a team.
  • Passionate about humanitarian work and assistance.
  • Strong oral and written communication in English and local language is required.

Required Skills

  • Analytical skills

How To Apply

 

  • Interested applicants can send their resume, cover letter, and work experience testimonials Via:

https://fhi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/FHI_360_External_Career_Portal/job/Filtu-Ethiopia/MEAL-Officer—Filtu_Requisition-2024200761

2.Health & Nutrition Team Leader

Job Summary:

Under supervision of the Deputy Response Coordinator, the Health and Nutrition Team leader will lead the health and nutrition program activities implementation in Amhara, Ethiopia. The Health Nutrition Team leader is responsible for the overall leadership in planning, executing, and coordinating the efforts of team members and stakeholders in order to deliver the health and nutrition activities in line with the ISHI-NE project proposal and plan. The Health and Nutrition Team leader will manage and define the project’s objectives and oversee quality control throughout the completion of the project’s life cycle. They will also create work plans based on the goals of the project, implement evidence-based interventions in multi-sector areas and collaborate with other sectors to create integrated work plans and budgets that are essential for the success of the project. Additionally, the Health and Nutrition Team leader will take lead on ensuring the Health and Nutrition activities are in line with the fhi360 guideline and RHB protocols and cluster coordination.

In this particular context, the Crisis Response Team requires the services of a highly skilled Health and Nutrition Staff to support the coordination of Health and Nutrition activities in Amhara region, Ethiopia. The staff will engage with cluster leads, government of Ethiopia officials, health facility-based personnel and other NGO partners to discuss the pressing needs and challenges of the impacted area. The staff will participate in start-up, continuations where applicable and overall implementation of the health and nutrition activities in Amhara and Mekelle project sites. The following are the specific tasks and responsibilities

Accountabilities:

  • The Health and Nutrition team leader will be responsible for the overall implementation of the health and nutrition component of a humanitarian program with the goal of improving the well-being of affected communities through access to primary health, community health and reproductive health care, nutritional status of the most vulnerable groups, including pregnant and lactating women and children under 59 months and strengthen health systems in the areas of implementation.
  • Organize and oversee the overall implementation of the medical outreach activities
  • Lead in assessments and defining FHI360 operation locations in the sector in liaison with cluster coordination and RHB
  • Monitor progress on the delivery of all health and nutrition-related activities and ensure that objectives are being met on time and on scope per annual workplans.
  • Conduct all health and nutrition-related assessments, provide technical guidance on appropriate emergency activities, and devise sector-specific response strategies for the acute, transitional phases of emergency operations in crisis-affected communities and transitional phases of emergency operations in crisis-affected communities.
  • Provide technical guidance on appropriate emergency activities, and devise sector-specific response strategies for the acute and transitional phases of emergency operations.
  • Develop partnerships and ensure effective coordination with local service providers and international organizations operating in the sector and attend health and nutrition cluster meetings.
  • Work with operations staff and partners to ensure pharmaceutical and medical commodities and services are procured, handled, and managed properly, in accordance with the organization’s supply-chain management protocols.
  • Work closely with other sectors in cross cutting activities in WASH and Protection to ensure smooth implementation of the health components and the ISHI_NE integrated project
  • Manage health and Nutrition program budget, including routine expense forecasting and pipeline analysis.
  • Determine staffing needs for health and nutrition programming, conduct recruitment in collaboration with management and home office technical staff, as necessary.
  • Manage health and nutrition sector field personnel supporting the program and build their capacity to effectively respond to the health component of the project.
  • Assist with resource mobilization by designing, drafting, and reviewing concept notes and technical proposals for emergency operations and related programming, as required.
  • Develop partnerships and ensure effective coordination with local service providers and international organizations operating in the sector and attend regional cluster meetings.
  • Work with operations staff and partners to ensure commodities are procured, handled, and managed properly, in accordance with the organization’s pharmaceutical supply-chain management protocol

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

  • Ensures appropriate and timely technical support for field projects.
  • Ensures the quality of implemented technical activities and systems at all levels.
  • Conducts routine coordination with employees and consultants, on-site and in the field.
  • Strong knowledge and skills in a specific technical area/function and general understanding of concepts and principles of related technical areas/functions.
  • Solid knowledge of standards for the technical area/field, operational processes and procedures, work, and task flow.
  • Has the ability to manage projects, set realistic priorities, and plan for the successful implementation of activities.
  • Proficient writing and verbal communication skills.
  • Relevant computer software skills (including, at a minimum, the standard applications in MS Office).
  • Ability to manage their own work to job and performance standards.
  • Must be able to read, write and speak fluent English fluent in host country language.

Problem Solving & Impact:

  • Demonstrates the ability to assess needs within agreed upon duties and considers course of action best to meet those needs.
  • Effectively applies knowledge of technical area to solve a range of problems.
  • Demonstrates the ability to develop solutions to problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches.
  • Faulty decisions/ recommendations /failures to complete assignments will normally result in serious delays to assigned projects resulting in considerable expenditure of additional time, resources, and funds.
  • Decisions and actions impact primarily workflow, project processes and timeframes.
  • Problems encountered are varied, requiring review of practices and precedents to resolve.
  • Problem solving involves evaluating and resolving discrepancies with data, analyses, processes, etc. within prescribed guidelines.
  • Policies or guidelines exist for most problems; others must be referred to by a supervisor or more senior professional.

Supervision Given/Received:

  • May supervise junior staff members.
  • Coordinates own workflow and sets individual priorities.
  • Works under general guidelines for completion and accuracy as determined by the supervisor.
  • Accomplishes results through lower-level staff managers or through experienced staff who exercise independence in their assignments.
  • May manage a centralized functional area of activity.
  • Serves as mentor to more inexperienced technical staff.

Typically reports to Health & Nutrition Coordinator

About You

Education:

  • Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Knowledge/Information Services, Communications, Education, Environment, Health, Behavioral, Life/Social Sciences International Development, Human Development or Related Field.
  • Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.

Experience:

  • Over 6+ years of relevant experience in technical implementation of large projects and/or programs may manage activities of lower-level staff, however, main function is individual contributor.
  • Documented experience providing technical assistance, capacity building and business development in the specific technical domain.
  • Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization. International or Domestic (US) Program Development or Program management preferred.
  • Experience establishing and leading successful startup operations/projects in complex emergencies situations
  • Significant background in managing public health initiatives is required
  • Experience leading technical assessments using methodologies such as SMART and SQUEAC; strong background in outcome monitoring and evaluation is preferred
  • Experience coordinating complex health programs with wide variety of stakeholders; experience as cluster co-lead is desirable
  • Knowledge and application of Office of US Foreign Disaster (OFDA), BHA and UN donors required.
  • Skilled in developing responsive, evidence-based program designs, including budget development.
  • Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private company of progressive program management experience in humanitarian assistance or related industry experience in a relevant technical area.
  • Familiar with and abide by Red Cross/Non-Government Organization (NGO) Code of Conduct.
  • Experience coordinating complex programs with wide variety of stakeholders; experience as cluster co-lead preferred.
  • Breadth of geographic location experience preferred.
  • Sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned area
  • Computer, Microsoft Office 365 (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail), office telephone, cell phone and printer/copier
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
  • Expertise in humanitarian health programming, specifically first-phase response operations

Typical Physical Demands:

  • Typical office environment.
  • Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
  • Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.
  • Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs.

Technology to be Used:

  • Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

Travel Requirements:

  • 10% – 25%

Required Skills

  • Project management

How To Apply

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