Job Description

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We are hiring Health and Nutrition Program Managers to join our teams in South Sudan. This role is responsible for Health and Nutrition interventions and projects in a specific area. You would lead our Mobile Medical Unit (MMU), manage our health resources, and work to improve the overall health and nutrition of our beneficiaries. Do you have experience working with grants, NGO's, monitoring and evaluation, and local government entities? Bring your public health experience into a role that will make an eternal impact

A day in the life of a Health and Nutrition Program Manager: 

At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do!  We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe. 

In the role of Health and Nutrition Program Manager, you will have the opportunity to: 

• Ensure quality programming through standardized use of guidelines and industry recognized protocols and supervise a day-to-day activities of the program staff and contractors
• Build capacity of MMU staff through on-the-job trainings, supportive supervisions.
• Write and submit reports on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis as needed. 
• Work closely with the Health and Nutrition Technical Lead and Area Coordinator to enhance the quality of health and nutrition projects, improve assessments, monitoring, evaluation, and ensure the implementation of Core Humanitarian Standards and protection mainstreaming.
• Contribute to resource mobilization for health and nutrition program by leading needs assessments, drafting concept notes, and developing proposals for grant awards.
• Liaise and coordinate with government representatives, State Ministry of Health, other NGO staff, donors and partners regarding the advancement of the Samaritans Purse Health and Nutrition program

Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse. 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Registered nurse or Health Professional with a Masters in Public Health or Health Program Management with three (3) years experience in program management in health and nutrition in developing countries. One year of college-level Biblical studies strongly preferred. Experience in coordination with other international humanitarian organizations and UN agencies operating in complex emergencies. Experience in conducting assessments, program development, and proposal writing, Monitoring and Evaluation and health reporting; or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Thorough ability to be flexible, adaptable, patient, and learn quickly
• Ability to use training and coaching skills to build local national staff capacity
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity to cultural differences
• Working knowledge and adherence to Ministry of Health or WHO guidelines for health care management in South Sudan
• Excellent management and personnel skills to enable the motivation, encouragement and participation of the medical team
• Awareness of and familiarity with Gender Issues and best practices
• Ability to work in climatic extremes and in areas of conflict
• Strong communication skills
• Confident and proficient in the use of MS Office
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, opportunity to meet and complete requirement is available upon hire. 

Job Location: Unity State or Upper Nile State, South Sudan 

Type: Full-Time 

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

Accompaniment: Unaccompanied 

Travel Expectations: Approximately 30 days/year. Maintaining required travel documents and vaccinations for entry into foreign countries will be necessary.

Benefits:

• International medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave 
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days
• When at IHQ, on-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents) 

Samaritan's Purse Mission Statement:

Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Samaritan's Purse Statement of Faith:

• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons:  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; Ephesians 4:4-6.
• We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-4 and 1:29; Acts 1:11 and 2:22-24; Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 15:3-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 1:1-4 and 4:15.
• We believe that all men everywhere are lost and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit.  Luke 24:46-47; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 3:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11; Ephesians 1:7 and 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling enables the Christian to live a godly life.  John 3:5-8; Acts 1:8 and 4:31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:16-18; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:6-10.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment.  1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:11-15.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the church.  1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23.
• We believe that the ministry of evangelism and discipleship a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ.  Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15; 1 Peter 3:15.
• We believe Gods plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted monogamous marriage between male and female as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female. Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5-6; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9.
• We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of evangelism.  Matthew 9:35-38; 22:37-39, 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Romans 10:9-15 and 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10; Colossians 2:6-10; 1 Peter 3:15.
• We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen. Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5; Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 12:20-21; Galatians 6:10.
• We believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person biological male or female. These two distinct but complementary sexes together reflect the image and likeness of God. Rejection of ones biological sex is a rejection of Gods merciful design and creative order.  Genesis 1:26-27;1 Corinthians 6:9; Deuteronomy 22:5