About Us

Action Against Hunger-Horn and Eastern Africa is part of the Action Against Hunger International network, which provides humanitarian relief in over 40 countries worldwide in the sectors of nutrition, health, water/sanitation, and food security. Action Against Hunger Horn and Eastern Africa is an independent NGO, currently managing operations in Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Uganda. Action Against Hunger-USA has over $60 million in programs, and approximately 2000 staff based in New York City, Washington D.C, Nairobi, and country offices. Additional growth is anticipated. YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE TO ENDING WORLD HUNGER BY . . . Supporting the implementation of health interventions, and be part of the broader nutrition and health initiatives at the regional level KEY ACTIVITIES IN YOUR ROLE WILL INCLUDE: • Provide operational support to Action Against Hunger health programs in the Horn and East Africa for improved nutrition outcomes. • Work alongside and capacity build health actors to generate, analyze, and use data for ongoing health systems improvement. • Identify the on-going learning and development needs of the technical country coordinators and assists in providing or supporting their professional development. • Provide health technical support to country teams to ensure application of project cycle management from conception to evaluation. • Provide technical advice to country teams on existing or proposed programmes to ensure relevance, impact, sustainability and quality of the intervention. • Ensure adherence and appropriate management of medical products and supplies in country to include quality control, quantification guidance, and procurement. • Provide technical support on priority health systems strengthening and/or health financing needs around UHC implementation. • With the country program teams, identify innovation and research opportunities. • Technical supervisory line to health focal in country; and as needed to the nutrition focal. DOES

THIS DESCRIPTION FIT YOU?

• Degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing or related field with at least three years’ experience in Public Health with a focus on Health system strengthening in developing countries.

• Experience working in humanitarian contexts, emergency, post-crisis as well as with governments.

• Excellent knowledge of technical fields related to Health that includes excellent working knowledge of Health System Strengthening.

• Applied knowledge of malnutrition causal framework, epidemiology, research preferred.

• Strong organizational skills and technical review/writing of detailed technical documents.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work both independently and as a member of a team

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills are essential

• Capacity to represent the organization in various forums.

• Genuine interest in and commitment to the humanitarian principles of Action Against Hunger