Job Title: Health Program Manager for Seqota Declaration Federal Program Delivery Unit Support
Reports to: Senior Program Manager of the Seqota Declaration, FPDU
Number of position: One (1)
Location: Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Starting Salary: Within the Band Salary range and Commensurate with education & Experience
Duration of Position One year, will be renewed annually
Project Summery
Alive & Thrive (A&T) is an initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth and development of infants and young children. Good nutrition in the first 1,000 days, from conception to two years of age, is critical to enable all children to lead healthier and more productive lives. A&T is scaling up improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and maternal nutrition through large-scale programs in several countries in Africa and Asia through strategic technical support and the dissemination of innovations, tools, and lessons worldwide.
Alive & Thrive Ethiopia 3.0 is a five-year investment funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to strengthen the institutional and human capacities required to achieve the Government of Ethiopia’s (GOE) ambitions for nutrition. Since 2009, A&T is working in Ethiopia within the context of the National Nutrition Program (NNP) and the National Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Strategy (NNSAS) to promote maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) across multiple sectors at the federal, regional, woreda, and community levels. The A&T Ethiopia 3.0 investment will build upon successes and lessons learned from previous IYCF efforts to significantly improve MIYCN practices. In this new grant, A&T will provide greater analytical, technical, and systems-building support to bolster the capacity of federal and regional authorities to develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate quality MIYCN services.
A&T Ethiopia 3.0 will work in partnership with the GOE and others to achieve the following three outcomes: 1) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional health bureaus to support woredas in planning, budgeting, implementing and using data to achieve MIYCN targets in the NNP II; 2) Sustained capacity at national level and among regional agriculture bureaus to improve women’s and children’s dietary diversity, and access to safe, affordable and nutritious foods; and 3) Knowledge and learning generated and tools and lessons learned disseminated in priority technical areas for improved MIYCN at scale.
BACKGROUND TO SEQOTA DECLARATION
In 2015, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Seqota Declaration (SD) as a commitment to end child malnutrition (with specific focus on stunting among children under two years) by the year 2030. The SD builds on and supports implementation of the NNP II (2016-2020), and is led by a 15 years multi-sectoral implementation plan (road map) where health, education, water, social protection, agriculture & livestock, women and children affairs will be addressed through a three-pronged pathway that contribute directly or indirectly to stunting reduction.
The SD roadmap will be executed in 3 phases over a 15-year period. The first five years innovation phase (2016 – 2020) focuses on prioritized innovative and proven high impact interventions that will be tested and evidence generated for the expansion phase (2021 – 2025) to more stunting prevalence woredas within the regions and scale up (2026 – 2030) phase throughout the country. The SD innovation phase multi-sectoral costed investment plan is currently being implemented in selected high stunting prevalent woredas: 26 woredas in Amhara Regional State and 6 woredas in Tigray Regional State.
The Government of Ethiopia established SD Federal and Regional Program Delivery Units (PDU) in 2017 to coordinate the implementation of SD Roadmap. The Federal PDU is in Addis Ababa and currently two regional PDUs are stationed in Bahir Dar and Mekele respectively. The current Federal PDU is staffed with multi-disciplinary technical leaders to coordinate and provide technical assistance to the sectors and partners during the investment plan development and implementation process, manage sectors and partners performance using performance management tool and engage with decision makers to secure support for resource mobilization and effective implementation of the SD innovation phase investment plan.
The FPDU has finalized its preparation to open new PDUs in other Regional States and City Administrations. In this regard, there is a need to strengthen the human resource capacity of the Federal PDU to deliver its coordination, quality technical support and performance management role. Seven sectors are involved in the delivery of SD Innovation Phase plan. Each of the sectors already have a technical counterpart in the PDU except the health sector. Hence, this position is envisaged to fill this gap.
Main purpose of the role
The Seqota Declaration (SD) Federal PDU Health Program Manager will be responsible for providing technical assistance to support successful implementation of the SD innovative phase as a member of the SD team seconded by Alive & Thrive. The SD Health Program Manager is expected to identify and address gaps in the implementation of the SD innovative phase, provide technical capacity building to FMOH to design and implement nutrition specific & nutrition smart health interventions. Moreover, s/he will equip the respective Regional PDU Health Managers to provide technical support to the RHBs, conduct on-site visits and ensure documentation, provide support and coordination to the health sector program delivery through the government and partners, backstop the regional PDU team, and work with the PDU team to ensure gender-sensitive health program implementation in the health sector.
S/he is envisioned to be a senior nutrition or public health expert who understands how public service in Ethiopia works, has ample program management experience with results-oriented mindset, and has expertise in multi-sectoral nutrition coordination and linkages. The role requires regular communication with goevermnet stakeholders in the implementation of priority nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific intervention through the Seqota Declaration Innovation Phase, in particular with the existing and new Regional PDUs. S/he will maintain strong working relationship with both SD PDU and multisectoral nutrition task forces. The position requires ability to provide strategic input and communicate effectively to effect positive change in implementation of the SD Innovation Phase in different regions.
Summary of key functions
The health Program Manager for Seqota Declaration Federal Program Delivery Unit Support is responsible for the day-to-day planning, implementation and monitoring of the SD activities and overall NNP Implementation Plan as approved by the National Nutrition Coordinating Body (NNCB) Work Plans. Specifically, s/he will
Functions / Key Results Expected
1. Provide technical support and coordination for FMOH and RHBs in planning & implementation
2. Advisory and capacity building for effective implementation of SD Innovative phase
3. Conduct on-site support, review performance monitoring, document promising practices and disseminate lessons for adoption
4. Reporting
PERSON SPECIFICATION
QualificationsReports to: Senior Program Manager of the Seqota Declaration, FPDU
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