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Save the Children UK Humanitarian Health Adviser East Africa

Between now and 2015, we have dedicated our organisation to supporting the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4, a two-thirds reduction in the rate of under five mortality. Our health programmes are key to this goal and we are seeking to dramatically expand the scale and impact of our work, both direct interventions with communities, support to health systems at district and national level and policy, advocacy and campaigns.

In line with Save the Children’s Ambition 2015 Humanitarian Strategy, we are significantly scaling up our frontline health & nutrition capacity so that many more children’s lives can be saved in new emergencies and in chronic emergency contexts. We are also scaling up our humanitarian health capacity-building activities under the Humanitarian Academy to produce the next generation of Frontline Health Workers.

In all the major emergencies of the last few years, including the Horn of Africa drought, the Haiti earthquake, the Pakistan floods and the Zimbabwe cholera outbreak there have been significant gaps in frontline health capacity. Between 2009 and 2011 SC reached approximately 750 000 children and their families per year with its emergency health & nutrition programmes. However, by 2014, we aim to have put in place the necessary capacity (people, equipment and training) to reach 1.5 million people per annum with emergency health & nutrition support. We are seeking experienced and committed humanitarian health professionals to help deliver this ambitious strategy.


Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to support country programmes to design and deliver high quality humanitarian health programmes, including supporting emergency preparedness and capacity building and providing surge and desk support for new emergency health programmes.

Please visit our website www.savethechildren.org.uk/jobs and click international vacancies for more information and to apply.