Health and Nutrition Project Manager
Starting Date / Initial Contract Details
1st January 2025, Full Time, 24 months
Role Summary
The role manages humanitarian health and nutrition projects in the Central Highlands of Afghanistan. This includes implementation of project(s), providing technical support, managing and training health/nutrition staff to meet quality standards in service delivery, encouraging beneficiary participation, liaising with other stakeholders, reporting on progress. The role also includes identification of new needs, contributing to planning and development of proposals.
Project Overview
Medair provides multi-sector humanitarian support (health, nutrition, WASH and food assistance) in Daykundi, Kandahar and Uruzgan Provinces. Projects include primary health care level health and nutrition services in remote, hard to reach or underserved areas or occasional short-term health system strengthening of existing facilities. Medair maintains capacity to respond to emergencies such as disease outbreak or displacement.
Workplace & Conditions
Daykundi Province, Afghanistan, full term contract, female or male candidate
Responsibilities:
• Project Management: Manage the assigned health and nutrition project(s) to meet the project objectives within budget and time. Monitor and supervise health and nutrition activities.
• Staff Management: Line-manage the Health/ Nutrition Manager(s) of the assigned project(s), providing coaching and technical supervision to staff. Recruit health and nutrition staff for new projects (with HR).
• Financial Management: Manage the health & nutrition budget for the project. Responsible for development of health and nutrition budget for new projects.
• Logistics Responsibilities: Ensure timely procurement of project supplies according to budget and project design, including medicines, consumable supplies, nutrition commodities and equipment for project activities.
• Communicate and coordinate with local stakeholders, particularly affected communities, local authorities and other humanitarian actors. Ensure Medair is well represented at coordination forums.
Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:
• Higher level qualification or University degree in relevant subject such as Health, nutrition, or public health
• Language skills: Excellent English (spoken and written)
• 3 years post-qualification professional experience in a relevant field (e.g. nursing, midwifery, medicine, community health)
Management experience implementing health or nutrition projects.
• Desirable: 2 years of experience with a humanitarian NGO or other agency engaged in health and nutrition
Behavioural Skills
• Strong servant leadership skills with a consultative management style
• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, with good understanding of cross-cultural issues
• Capacity to work under pressure and manage personal stress levels
• Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritising and delegating as required
• Good communication skills
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
Medair organisational values.
Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.