1. Project leadership, planning and delivery - Lead the detailed 12-month implementation plan for, maintaining alignment with the approved JPF proposal, logframe, monthly schedule, budget and donor requirements.
- Coordinate implementation across supported facilities, outreach sites, MHNT, OTP/SC sites and community platforms, with clear catchment mapping, workplans, referral pathways and supervision schedules.
- Ensure monthly and quarterly deliverables are completed on time; identify bottlenecks, assign corrective actions and follow up to closure.
- Maintain continuity plans for insecurity, access restrictions, disease outbreaks and supply disruption, using mobile, outreach, facility and community modalities as appropriate.
- Promote operational integration with WASH, protection, GBV, MHPSS, MEAL and community accountability interventions.
2. Restoration of integrated PHC services - Coordinate support to health centres and monthly outreach sites for integrated PHC and RMNCH services, including OPD, ANC, PNC, immunization, child health, nutrition screening, health education and referral.
- Oversee one MHNT composed of a physician or health officer, two nurses and one midwife, supported by locally assigned HEWs, and ensure six-day operations or approved context-adapted schedules.
- Ensure the MHNT delivers integrated adult and under-five consultations, RMNCH, nutrition, MHPSS, first aid and safe first-line support or referral for GBV survivors in accordance with national guidance.
- Strengthen two-way referral between communities, PHCUs and the referral hospital, including confidential GBV, child protection, disability-inclusive and mental health pathways.
- Coordinate approved ambulance gap-filling support, referral communication, feedback and documentation:
3. Emergency nutrition services - Ensure monthly MUAC screening and referral for children under five and pregnant and lactating women through static, outreach, MHNT and community platforms, including two active case-finding rounds.
- Coordinate Family MUAC in priority areas, including training and follow-up support for HEWs and caregivers.
- Coordinate support to OTPs and Stabilization Centres through supplies, equipment, reporting tools, referral and continuous capacity strengthening.
- Monitor SAM admission and treatment outcomes, including cure, death, default and non-response rates, and lead corrective action when performance falls below national or Sphere standards.
- Oversee integration of IYCF counselling within RMNCH services, strengthening of Mother-to-Mother Support Groups, and establishment or strengthening of breastfeeding corners in priority health centres.
- Responsible for to delivery of OTP , SC and IYCF service with expected coverage and quality
4. Health-system strengthening and resilience - Lead the first-month facility gap analysis and coordinate the approved support package for 34 facilities: 7 health centres, 26 health posts and 1 referral hospital.
- Coordinate quantification, procurement and distribution of essential medicines, consumables, equipment, OTP/SC supplies, nutrition commodities, PPE, IPC materials, registers and job aids.
- Work with supply chain teams to strengthen IPLS, last-mile delivery, stock monitoring, pipeline analysis and timely redistribution to minimise stock-outs, expiry and loss.
- Provide technical coordination to minor rehabilitation of facilities, including service rooms and priority WASH/IPC infrastructure, working with construction/WASH teams and government authorities.
- Coordinate planned training, mentorship and follow-up across PHEM, MHPSS, SAM, IMNCI/iCCM, CMR/GBV, IPC, IPLS, RMNCH, IYCF and related priorities.
- Strengthen HMIS/DHIS2 functionality through standard tools, coaching, data quality checks, reconciliation and use of data for management decisions.
5. Disease surveillance, preparedness and outbreak response - Monitor cholera, measles, malaria, scabies and other priority epidemic alerts and ensure application of standard case definitions, alert verification, reporting and investigation procedures.
- Coordinate PHEM training, facility preparedness planning, simulation exercises, Rapid Response Team readiness, sample transportation and community risk communication.
- Ensure availability and appropriate use of PPE, case-definition posters, surveillance tools and priority outbreak-response supplies.
- Support coordinated response actions within 72 hours of a verified outbreak trigger, subject to government activation and safe humanitarian access.
- Maintain current outbreak, security and access risk analysis and escalate critical concerns promptly.
6. Community systems, SBCC and accountability - Coordinate training and supportive supervision of HEWs and community volunteers on iCCM, SAM, Family MUAC, PHEM and agreed priority topics.
- Lead context-appropriate SBCC using local languages and accessible channels to address misinformation, harmful norms, low risk perception and barriers to timely care-seeking.
- Ensuring inclusive community engagement through women’s groups, youth, IDP and host-community representatives, persons with disabilities, religious leaders, schools and market-day platforms.
- Coordinate quarterly community-facility dialogue and monitor agreed service-improvement actions.
- Ensure accessible and confidential feedback channels, including hotline, suggestion boxes and community structures, and timely response or referral of concerns
- Ensure inclusive community engagement through women’s groups, youth, IDP and host-community representatives, persons with disabilities, religious leaders, schools and market-day platforms.
- Coordinate quarterly community-facility dialogue and monitor agreed service-improvement actions.
- Ensure accessible and confidential feedback channels, including hotline, suggestion boxes and community structures, and timely response or referral of concerns.
7. Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning - Operationalise the approved logframe and indicator plan, maintaining disaggregation by sex, age, disability and IDP/host status.
- Ensure complete and consistent reporting from facilities, MHNT, outreach, OTP/SC, training and community activities; reconcile project records with HMIS/DHIS2.
- Review performance weekly and monthly and submit timely data for the Output Tracker, PRIME/IPTT, quarterly quality benchmarks and donor reports.
- Support the light-touch baseline, internal outcome survey, mid-term review, quarterly case stories, final after-action review and learning note.
- Apply SCI medical quality tools, incident-reporting procedures and action tracking; immediately escalate serious clinical, safeguarding or data-quality concerns.
8. Team leadership and capacity strengthening - Set clear objectives and workplans for direct reports; provide regular supervision, coaching, fair performance feedback and support to staff wellbeing.
- Use pre/post assessments, observation, mentorship and post-training follow-up to verify competency and application of new skills.
- Promote gender-balanced, inclusive and culturally appropriate staffing and respectful team behaviour.
- Ensure all project staff understand technical protocols, SCI medical standards, safeguarding, PSEA, conflict sensitivity, accountability and security procedures.
9. Budget, awards, supply and donor compliance - Prepare activity forecasts, procurement requests, phased spending plans and monthly budget reviews in coordination with finance, awards and supply-chain teams.
- Monitor expenditure, burn rate and variance; recommend timely corrective action and ensure costs remain within approved budget and donor rules.
- Maintain complete and auditable programme, distribution, training, supervision and asset records.
- Prepare accurate technical inputs for JPF and Save the Children Japan progress and final reports, monitoring visits, case stories, visibility materials and close-out documents.
- Ensure approved donor and organisational branding is used appropriately and sensitive beneficiary information is protected.
10. Coordination, safeguarding, inclusion and security - Maintain working relationships with the Amhara Regional Health Bureau, North Wollo Zonal Health Department, Habru Woreda Health Office, facilities, communities, UN agencies and humanitarian partners.
- Participate in government and cluster coordination, 4W/5W reporting, joint assessments and response mapping to reduce duplication and address gaps.
- Embed safeguarding, PSEA, GESI, disability inclusion, conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm measures across service design, targeting, monitoring and referral.
- Ensure transparent, needs-based prioritisation includes IDPs and vulnerable host communities and does not increase tension between population groups.
- Follow security procedures, movement tracking and access guidance, and adapt operations when risk thresholds are reached.
11. Sustainability, transition and close-out - Integrate transition planning from start-up and progressively strengthen government leadership in supervision, reporting, coordination and service delivery.
- Ensure structured skill transfer from project and MHNT staff to facility teams and HEWs through routine joint work and mentoring.
- Coordinate formal handover of activities, assets, records and outstanding actions to responsible authorities in line with the MoU, donor rules and data-protection requirements.
- Support final verification, close-out meeting and communication of handover outcomes to relevant government and coordination bodies.
Essential - Bachelor’s degree in public health, nursing, nutrition, medicine or another relevant health science. A master’s degree in public health, nutrition, health systems or a related discipline is an advantage.
- At least five years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian health and nutrition programming, including at least two years coordinating integrated projects in conflict-affected settings.
- Demonstrated experience managing MHNT, outreach, static-facility and community-based service modalities.
- Strong technical experience in PHC/RMNCH, CMAM/IMAM, IYCF, outbreak preparedness and response, referral systems and service-quality improvement.
- Experience coordinating medical and nutrition commodities, forecasting, stock monitoring and last-mile distribution.
- Experience working with regional, zonal and woreda health authorities and participating in Health, Nutrition or PHEM coordination mechanisms. Experience in Amhara or North Wollo is an advantage.
- Proven ability in team supervision, coaching, work planning, budget monitoring, donor reporting and use of data for adaptive management.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, PSEA, CHS, Sphere standards, conflict sensitivity, GESI and accountability to affected populations.
- Strong written and spoken English and Amharic. Proficiency in the relevant local language and ability to prepare concise donor-quality reports are strongly preferred.
- Competence in Microsoft Office and digital data/reporting systems; familiarity with HMIS/DHIS2 is desirable.
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently to Habru Woreda and work flexibly during emergencies.
Desirable - Recognised training or certification in CMAM/IMAM, IYCF-E, PHEM, IMNCI/iCCM, RMNCH, IPC, clinical quality improvement, MHPSS or GBV/CMR.
- Experience with Japan Platform or another institutional humanitarian donor, including donor reporting and visibility compliance.
- Experience coordinating health-facility rehabilitation or WASH/IPC improvements and cross-functional technical teams.
Knowledge of SCI medical quality standards, PRIME/IPTT, quality benchmarks or similar programme-management systems. | |