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Senior Public Health Coordinator

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GOAL currently implements an integrated primary health care programme supporting the Ministry of Health based out of 47 health facilities across three locations (Twic County, Abyei and Ulang and Baliet Counties of Upper Nile State). The programme has a focus on supporting capacity of the South Sudanese Ministry of Health (MoH) in these locations to provide health services as well as an emergency response function to asses and respond to population displacement and outbreaks of disease as required. GOALs overall approach is to reduce child and maternal mortality and improve population health across its programmes areas of South Sudan. In the health programme GOAL works to increase MoH capacity to deliver services through technical, and management support to the County Health Departments (CHDs) across these four counties. GOAL currently supports a comprehensive primary health care programme which includes; curative care, community health with a focus on behaviour change, reproductive health and immunisation. GOAL also integrates curative nutrition services within the health facilities via an outpatient therapeutic programme (OTPs) as well as a community nutrition programme that aims to address the underlying causes of malnutrition in these communities.
All of GOALs programme locations have been affected by the on-going conflict in South Sudan and as a result GOAL is also working to ensure that the specific health needs of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) are being addressed in the programme. This component of the programme is still developing as the situation evolves however a key element involves being responsive to changing needs of the population with a particular focus on disease surveillance and provision of mobile health and nutrition services to affected populations.
GOAL integrates awareness of HIV and gender across all its health activities and recognises that women and girls are more likely to be vulnerable to HIV and that they also face specific health problems which relate to their gender which need to be specifically addressed in the programme. GOAL builds community acceptance through local structures of Community Health Committees that are formed and trained on their roles in health service provisions through CHDs of the counties GOAL operates in. GOAL implements a complementary WASH programme of borehole drilling, rehabilitation of existing water points, training community members in hand pump repair, support to Rural Water Departments and sanitation. Health and hygiene promotion is also a major part of GOAL WASH and Community Health programmes to address. Additionally, GOAL implements livelihoods programmes, primarily support to agricultural activities along with adult informal education.
Overview of the Role
The Health Advisor is a member of the GOAL South Sudan Senior Management Team (SMT) with overall responsibility for the strategic development of GOAL’s Health Programme currently operational in four underserved locations in South Sudan. The role focuses on Health and Nutrition programme planning and development, capacity building, coordination with MOH, UN agencies, NGOs, Donors, cluster system (Health, Nutrition and WASH) and other relevant stakeholders in addition to Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting. The Health Advisor will have a responsibility for managing and supporting senior health staff including; the Country Health Coordinator, Nutrition Coordinator and Community Health Coordinator as well as advising the Assistant Country Director in relation to the strategic direction of the Health. The Health Advisor will also advise on an effective and efficient and effective response to the on-going emergency and lead the Country team in terms of GOALs response in this area. The Health Advisor will also support in the management of the Emergency Health Team (currently being formed) within the country programme in order to ensure that there is sufficient surge capacity to deal with a possible deterioration in the health status of the population.
The Health Advisor will ensure close coordination and integration of all elements of health within the overall programme including Curative Care, Nutrition, and Reproductive Health, WASH and Community Health and give clear strategic direction for continued closer integration of the programme. The Health Advisor also will support the Technical Coordinators in preparing their sector work plans and budgets, advise on proposal development on the key areas where GOAL could seek donor funding, as well as on any expansion/exit plans related to the health programme.
Key Responsibilities
  • Provide technical support for the health programme to ensure that the programme is evidence-based and responsive to population health needs.
  • Develop a GOAL South Sudan Strategic Health Plan and ensure that this is developed in coordination with relevant stakeholders and disseminated after it is finalised.
  • Link in with the GOAL global technical team members are required with a particular focus on the technical advisor for Health and Nutrition to ensure appropriate technical development of the programme.
  • Build capacity of key staff (Health Coordinator, Nutrition Coordinator and Community Health Coordinators) who will be the people ultimately responsible for delivering the GOAL Health programme (mentoring, technical trainings, feedback regarding site visits, data analysis, budget monitoring and human resources management).
  • Periodically visit field sites to conduct a review of programme quality and implementation, based on an agreed TOR with the ACD Programmes.
  • In coordination with the relevant Technical and Area Coordinators, support field based staff to maintain an accurate, consistent monitoring and evaluation system for health.
  • Advise on the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requirements for the health programme and liaise with the M&E Coordinator on the specific M&E requirements of the health programme to ensure an efficient and well managed M&E system is in place for health.
  • Work with Partnership department in identifying areas of health and nutrition partnership with local entities (CBOs and NNGOS).
  • Provide advice on the development of donor proposals, budgets and reports through pre and post development reviews.
Emergency Health
  • Actively participate and contribute within the Emergency Preparedness and Response Working Groups within MOH and Cluster systems.
  • Ensure that timely and appropriate Emergency Health Assessments are being implemented in order to ensure that GOAL health programming remains responsive to population needs.
  • Ensure that all emergency field sites have an adequate system in place for disease surveillance and that appropriate outbreak preparedness plans are in place.
  • Closely work with the Cluster system in responding to emergencies within South Sudan and advise GOAL Health Coordinators and ACDP on the donor and cluster priorities in relation to emergency health.
Reproductive Health
  • Actively participate in RH working group under the Health cluster and MOH system.
  • Advise and support Health Coordinator in operationalising MOH’s RH strategy within the context of the GOAL health programme.
  • Actively participate to contribute in revision and development of the MoH strategic direction for reproductive health.
  • Monitoring implementation of the RH services in GOAL Areas of Responsibility and as per the minimum standard of care.
  • Support the documentation of GOALs overall approach to reproductive health in south Sudan.
Health Programme Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Provide advice and supports M&E Coordinator on the planning and implementation of quality health and nutrition surveys.
  • Ensure that all relevant health data being collected (both from monitoring and surveys) is of a sufficient standard and that findings are being reviewed by the health team and used to inform programme development as required.
  • Review of monthly health monitoring data and ensure that relevant health staff are appropriately analysing and responding to health surveillance data coming from the field sites.
Human Resources
  • The Health Advisor will be responsible for ensuring the recruitment and retention of senior health programme staff for the programme.
  • Responsible for the periodic performance evaluation of the programme Health Coordinators and regularly review how the Coordinators are managing their staff with a specific focus on their capacity to perform staff appraisals.
  • Capacity building and provide support to the health and nutrition staff on general staff management issues as well as their own technical development.
Financial Oversight
  • Provide advice on strategic health and nutrition donor spending to the responsible Health Coordinators.
  • Contribute actively in budget reviews and planning for health at a senior management level
  • Give strategic direction on realignment of health and nutrition budgets depending on target achievements, under and overspends and the overall need of the programmes.
Health Programme Representation
  • Ensure GOAL is actively represented in the Health and Nutrition meetings within Juba and at the state levels. Such meetings include: cluster, NGO Health forum, technical working groups, technical and donor workshops.
  • Represent GOAL at relevant donor visits and external reviews of GOALs health programmes in the field as required.
  • Together with the ACD Programmes attend donor meetings in Juba to update current and prospective donors on the current GOAL Health and Nutrition Programmes.
Person Specifications
Essential Requirements
  • Experienced health professional with a strong public health background
  • Primary health related degree (such as public health, nursing, midwifery or similar) with MSc or similar in Public or community health.
  • At least 4 years of practical experience working in health programmes for an international NGO or equivalent experience for another organization internationally with management responsibilities.
  • Demonstrated analytical and conceptual skills to plan projects, timetable agreed activities and oversee staff activities.
  • Excellent communication and training skills with track record of building/developing cohesive teams.
  • Good team player, flexible and capable of working with a multi-national country team.
  • Ability and willingness to travel to locations outside Juba and live in basic conditions.
  • Experience working with donors such as ECHO, DFID, USAID, UN
Desirable experience
  • Postgraduate study or relevant work experience in Public Health, Reproductive Health / HIV / development studies programming.
  • Previous experience in a similar role in the region.
  • Specific experience in community health behaviour change approaches.
Confidentiality:
Ensuring the non disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of GOAL, acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organisation without authority, except in the normal execution of duty.
This position description is intended to be a guide and is not or cannot be construed as a full account of what an employee is expected to perform in their job now or in the future. An employee’s position may be changed, modified, or altered at any time and employees are expected to assume new assignments enthusiastically and perform to the best of their abilities.
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