Health & WASH Sector Lead
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Employer: Save the Children |
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Job location: Yangon Myanmar |
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Apply before: 05 Oct 2021 |
Summary
the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
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TEAM/PROGRAMME: Health & WASH Programme team
LOCATION: Myanmar Country Office, Yangon. May be remote for a period based on in-country situation.
GRADE: TBC
POST TYPE & Duration: 2 years
Child Safeguarding: Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Health & WASH (HW) Sector Lead provides strategic leadership to Myanmar Country HW Programmes. The Sector Lead plays a lead role in setting strategic direction for the sector, designing new programs and projects, and identifying and pursing strategic partnerships. S/he is responsible for ensuring program quality and donor accountability for a range of projects, and directly supervises the heads of Health and WASH, Technical Advisors and implementation teams. S/he plays a senior representational and advocacy role with key national and international stakeholders, and works on a regular basis with SC members and internal stakeholders to maximize program delivery. The Sector Lead ensures that program learning, research and evaluation findings are channelled towards advocacy, continuous improvements, innovation and new program design.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Program Director.
Technical report: Strategy, Evidence and Impact Director (SEID)
Dimensions: The position will be responsible for strategic direction and oversight for Myanmar Country Office.
Staff directly reporting to this post: Heads and Advisors of Health and WASH programs.
Staff indirectly reporting to this post: None
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Strategic Direction, Program Design and Development
Take lead role in formulating CO’s vision for long-term programming in Health & WASH in Myanmar aligning with country strategic plans for 2022-2025.
Introduce innovative ideas and approaches to support children HW issues in Myanmar; Identify needs and opportunities for potential programs, through situation analyses/feasibility studies, networking, and leveraging research and evaluation findings from both internal and external sources.
Encourage and facilitate implementation of a Strategic Learning Agenda for HW in Myanmar for systematic and a coordinated approach to evidence generation and learning.
Work with Save the Children staff to develop funding strategies and proposals to expand the HW portfolio in line with strategic priorities and technical best practice from a range of sources. This will involve continuously developing concepts and innovations and packaging them for a range of donors, both for proactive and reactive fundraising efforts.
Continuously assess staffing patterns and competencies to ensure that right staff are in place to support sector needs and development.
Identify and pursue opportunities for synergistic, inter-sectoral programs to address the holistic needs of children, especially the most deprived.
Programme Quality:
Identify internal and external capacity building opportunities and resources to provide high quality technical assistance to HW projects, supporting technical staff, partner agencies and others to build knowledge and technical competence.
Integrate programme learning across the sectors, ensuring coherence of technical approaches across programmes, identifying best practice, and ensuring inter-sectoral complementarity.
Ensure that regular field based project review meetings take place and are attended by the relevant staff; Ensure that monitoring systems provide information in the appropriate form and at the right time (in different levels) to allow for effective decision making
Develop and implement strategies to ensure gender equity, child participation and beneficiary accountability in all programmes.
Complete the Silver Common Approaches Learning Program course and hold advance knowledge and skills of the Health and WASH Common Approaches and be able to provide training, mentoring and support to others.
Ensure that sectoral and internal technical best practice, including SC’s Common Approaches, is applied in collaboration with relevant regional office technical colleagues.
Proactively support the continued country uptake of Common Approaches, ensuring that they are adapted to the Myanmar context and implemented as planned, with fidelity and quality and using quality benchmarks.
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