Technical Advisor (Health, Nutrition, Immunization & WASH)

Technical Advisor (Health, Nutrition, Immunization & WASH)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Company/Organisation

World Vision Somalia

Location

Position is to be office based in Nairobi, Kenya with 50% travel within Somalia required.

Contract Type

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

About the Role

Technical Advisor – (Health, Nutrition, Immunization & WASH) provides strategic technical leadership and operational oversight for World Vision Somalia’s Health, Nutrition, Immunization and WASH portfolio. The role oversees the implementation of the GiveWell, Gates FARID, Core Group Polio, UNICEF Health and Nutrition and future Health & Nutrition grants while providing strategic oversight of the WASH technical portfolio through supervision of the WASH Technical Specialist. The position ensures technical excellence, programme quality, donor compliance, and integrated delivery across the portfolio while serving as World Vision Somalia’s technical representative with the Federal and State Ministries of Health, donors, UN agencies and technical coordination platforms.

Main Roles and Responsibilities

• Head the implementation of all components of the Give Well, Gates FARID, CGPP, and UNICEF projects at the field level, ensuring that the programme’s ultimate, intermediate and immediate outcomes are achieved.
• Ensure project activities meet the donor rules and regulations. Coordinate and manage all project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.
• Lead project sub-grantee (Consortium partner) agencies and stakeholders in participatory planning of project activity implementation, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines

Staff Supervision and Management

• Recruit, train and supervise a team of all project implementation staff (Government/MoH, WV and other consortium staffs)
• Ensure competent and motivated staff are hired in time and retained.
• Conduct quarterly reviews of staff performance in line with WV Somalia performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback.
• Ensure proper technical capacity of staff through training and performance management to project staff.
• Direct and motivate the project team(s) to achieve the desired results, often using matrix management, and ensure effective communication is maintained throughout the project.

Budget Management

• Manage project budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors
• In conjunction with Finance and Support services Manager, ensure grant/project compliance whereby project expenditures are reasonable, allocable, and prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure compliance with external audit.
• Supports in overseeing adherence to contractual agreements, recommend amendments and contract extensions, advise concerned parties with respect to contractual rights/obligations (be on top of what is happening in the sector, following up on the quality, escalate well in advance if things aren’t going well with the suppliers/contractor.
• Work with regional finance team to ensure timely submission of variance explanation upon receipt of monthly project/sector financial report preparation and submission of accurate financial reports for the project;

Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain effective project quality assurance mechanisms, including monitoring system for tracking of project progress against indicators, activities and key project milestones, reporting, evaluation, and communication systems.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures for monitoring, reporting, documentation and knowledge management, including establishment of standard tools and systems for documentation and information sharing of project progress, best practices, lessons learnt and success stories.
• Track project deliverables using appropriate project management tools
• Conduct routine visits to project / implementing partner project sites for purposes of monitoring and operational support.
• Submit timely accurate and quality reports that meet donor requirements.
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders

Donor Relations and Engagements

• In coordination with PDU represent the Project and World Vision in engagement opportunities with the donors, Government, UN agencies, clusters, implementing and