Job Description

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We are seeking to hire a Health and Nutrition Technical Lead in Juba, South Sudan. For this strategic leadership role, you need to have a strong clinical background, program design skills, and be an experienced implementer. Come use your expertise and technical skills of health and nutrition, grant writing, emergency response, and implementation through community-based programming with the goal to share the Good News of the Gospel. Is God calling you to serve Him in using your talent, passions and skills to make an eternal impact in South Sudan?

A day in the life of a Health and Nutrition Technical Lead:

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 Technical Lead, you will have the opportunity to:

• Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.
• Lead health and nutrition multi-sectorial technical assessments in coordination with other Samaritans Purse technical leads, as well as external agencies, ensuring that assessment findings are documented and used for designing and implementing programs.
• Lead the development of health and nutrition sector response plans and budgets, including fundraising efforts, producing high quality concept notes, proposals, and donor reports, and contributing to Samaritans Purse South Sudan's overall strategy.
• Develop technical standards, training materials, terms of reference, and standard operating procedures for the health and nutrition sector, including emergency response plans, adhering to internationally-recognized humanitarian standards.
• Support program managers to develop detailed implementation, budget, procurement, and MEAL plans.
• Oversee implementation and ensure high quality and timely delivery of program activities within budget per internal and external requirements and standards. Also supports in the procurement process ensuring technical specifications, quality, and value for money.
• Maintain oversight of medicines and health and nutrition supplies ordered for relevant health and nutrition projects, supporting the health and logistics staff in coordination, following guidelines, and quality control of health supplies. Also supervises the safe and efficient management of nutrition and health supplies and equipment.
• Develop health and nutrition learning needs assessment and capacity building plans for the health and nutrition team, coaches and mentors them, linking capacity building initiatives to wider opportunities identified via coordination and networks.
• Take initiative in documenting lessons learned, best practices, innovations, and case studies to shape in-country strategies and program approaches and contribute to broader sector learning through influence and leadership within inter-agency coordination forums, such as the health and nutrition clusters.
• Establish accountability mechanisms for Samaritans Purse health and nutrition interventions, ensuring that feedback is incorporated into program design and learning.
• Other duties may be assigned that are not specifically identified within the content of the job description.

Learn more about serving with Samaritans Purse.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Education Requirements: Bachelors degree in public health, health science, nutrition, or a related field and five (5) years of international work experience in East/Central Africa; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A masters degree in Public Health with a medicine background and at least three (3) years of experience as a technical advisor is preferred. Management and capacity building experience of national staff in non-governmental organizational programming is strongly preferred.
• Written and oral communication skills. Analytical and leadership skills.
• Thorough knowledge of development of health and nutrition programming.
• Political and cultural sensitivity with patience, tact, and diplomacy qualities.
• Ability to work with flexibility and be accommodating in difficult and sometimes in secure working circumstances.
• In-depth knowledge of program development, management, monitoring and evaluation, community development/mobilization, and grant writing.
• 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: Juba, South Sudan

Type: Full-Time

Language Requirement: Fluency in English (required)

Accompaniment: Unaccompanied

Travel Expectations: Travel Expectation: 50 days per year; 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