Health Specialist

CARE Palestine (West Bank/Gaza) is looking for a committed professional to the values of Transformation, Integrity, Diversity, Equality, and Excellence to fill the following vacancy:

Health Specialist

The purpose of the Health Specialist position is to provide effective leadership and strategic oversight for the health and nutrition program for the West Bank and Gaza response. This includes:

- Lead Sector specific contextual analysis as input into the Response Strategy

- Lead the design of the health and nutrition section of needs assessment in coordination with other sectors

- Lead the design of new health and nutrition proposals

- Lead the Program managers to ensure a quality and timely implementation of projects

- Improve CARE Health response through Innovation and Learning

- Represent the organization on health and nutrition humanitarian fora and humanitarian donors in coordination with the other sectors and the Response Director

The Health Specialist is a key member of the Response Team of CARE Palestine. She / He will report directly to the Response Director.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

The Health Specialist will be responsible for:

Contextual Analysis and Response Strategy

• Contribute to the development of the CARE Palestine Response Strategy that is aligned with the CARE International Humanitarian Strategy and the Country Office Strategy.
•  Lead the implementation of the Health component of the Response Strategy in coordination with the other departments
• Report to the Response Director the progress, achievement and challenges of the implementation.

• Lead the design of the Health section of needs assessment in coordination with other sectors

• The Health Specialist will take the lead in Health and Nutrition needs assessments and provide input for multi-sectoral needs assessments.
• Provide regular contextual update on the needs in Gaza and West Bank related to the health sector.

3. Design of new Health proposals

• The Health Specialist with lead the design and the development of all health and nutrition proposals in coordination with:
• CARE International Members Partners
• Proposal writing and Reporting Officer
• Finance and Program Support Department
• Other sector leads and the Response Director
• The Health Specialist will be responsible for the technical quality of the proposal, the definition of the sectors and the geographical area. She / He will ensure that the design is based on a gender analysis and needs assessment.

4. Quality and timely implementation of projects

The Health Specialist will directly line manage all the Health Project Managers and will ensure:

- Timely implementation of each project according to the context and the agreed implementation plan

- In coordination with finance and Program Support Department, ensure the compliance with donors’ regulations

- Timely and quality reporting to the donors and CMPs

- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning framework is in place and provide quality information

- The Health staff are trained on the PSEA policy and the feedback and complaint mechanism is in place

- Manage donor requirements for data collection and reporting

 - Ensure proper budget follow up, projections and budget re-alignments where needed

- Mentor the project leads

- Lead the recruitment, management, and training of the health program staff in each field site who might be involved in emergency preparedness and response.

5. Improve CARE Health response through Innovation and Learning

In a fast-evolving environment, the Health Specialist will work with the MEAL department and the Response Director to:

- Conduct lessons learned exercises for each response to identify strength and weakness in CARE approaches

- Document best practices and technical guidance to support quality implementation of activities

- Pilot innovative approach that will be more adapted to the context and will increase the impact of CARE response especially on increasing the Gender Justice and reduce the Gender Based Violence.

6. Represent the organization on humanitarian fora and humanitarian donors

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Job Profile Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field (health), Master’s degree in related field (health, food security, social science) is preferable.
• Minimum of 5 years of recent and progressively-challenging experience working in humanitarian response.
• Prior management of USAID, ECHO funded-programs required.
• Proven leadership skills. Demonstrated experience recruiting, developing, and managing staff.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with donors, stakeholders, local organizations, and partners.
• Experience managing programmatic and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience in proposal development
• Fluency in Arabic and English
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills in a complex international setting
• Extensive conceptual skills including development of program strategy
• Demonstrated experience in program design (including proposal development), implementation and evaluation
• Experience in emergency related activities

Interested applicants are encouraged to send their CV and Cover letter by e- mail to [email protected], to the attention of the HR Department no later than Sunday 10/12/2023, indicating the job title the subject line and cover letter. Applications with no title, or that do not meet the qualifications above will not be considered. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Applications from female candidates are strongly encouraged.

CARE International promotes the principle of Equal Opportunity for all.