Asesor(a) Programático(a) En Salud

The Asesor(a) Programático(a) En Salud ensures technical and programmatic quality in the design, implementation, monitoring, and learning of health interventions aligned with the country strategy and Save the Children's global priorities. The role promotes evidence-based approaches, strengthens key actors' capacities, leads health advocacy agendas, and supports sustainable health systems for children and adolescents.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical guidance in health focusing on the wellbeing of children and adolescents integrating child rights and life course differentiated needs.
• Lead technical design of health proposals, portfolios and interventions based on evidence, integrating epidemiology, health systems strengthening, vector-borne diseases, maternal-child health and climate change adaptation aligned with country strategy and donor requirements.
• Provide technical quality assistance during design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning phases of health programs and projects.
• Contribute to developing new financing opportunities and competitive technical proposals.
• Promote integration of health approaches with other programmatic areas including education, protection, nutrition and humanitarian action.
• Strengthen technical capacities of staff, implementing partners and key health sector actors.
• Lead and support technical studies, research, evaluations and knowledge products related to health.
• Promote generation, analysis and use of evidence to strengthen programmatic decision-making and advocacy for child and adolescent health policies.
• Translate findings and learning into technical recommendations to support development, improvement or implementation of health policies, norms, guidelines and programs.
• Facilitate knowledge management processes to position evidence and good practices with Ministry of Health, subnational governments and other relevant actors.
• Promote knowledge exchange between country office and regional and global Save the Children offices.
• Position Save the Children as a technical reference in public health, strengthening collaboration with government entities, international organizations, academia and other strategic actors to promote health system strengthening agendas.
• Promote adoption and strengthening of public policies, norms, guidelines and health services using evidence and technical recommendations produced by Save the Children.
• Promote actions contributing to health system strengthening at national, regional and local levels.
• Develop and strengthen technical alliances with key health sector actors including Ministry of Health, subnational governments, civil society organizations, cooperation agencies and international organizations for coordinated and sustainable actions.
• Represent Save the Children in technical, sectoral and multisectoral health spaces.
• Position Save the Children as a technical reference in child health, maternal health, adolescent health and health system strengthening.
• Ensure integration of humanitarian, development and resilience approaches in health interventions for children and adolescents.
• Provide technical leadership in health emergency preparedness and response.
• Contribute to design and implementation of health interventions in humanitarian contexts.
• Promote actions to reduce vulnerabilities and gaps in access to health services for the most affected populations.
• Perform other related duties assigned by immediate supervisor.
• Comply with Save the Children policies on Child Safeguarding, Code of Conduct, Security, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and other applicable institutional policies.

Requirements

• Professional degree in Medicine, Public Health or related fields.
• Specialization, diploma or proven experience in tropical diseases medicine.
• Specialization, diploma or proven experience in health management, prevention and control of metaxenic and/or epidemiological diseases and other priority communicable diseases.
• Specialization, diploma or proven experience in maternal, neonatal, child or adolescent health, and/or related areas.
• Knowledge of humanitarian standards applicable to the health sector, including the Sphere Handbook and other relevant frameworks.
• Minimum five (5) years of professional experience in public health or related areas, including technical proposal development for resource mobilization, technical assistance and/or health advocacy.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in design, planning, management, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of evidence-based health programs or projects.
• Minimum two (2) years of technical liaison experience with the Ministry of Health, subnational governments or other relevant health sector actors.
• Technical experience in prevention, surveillance, control or response programs for vector-borne diseases including dengue, malaria, leishmaniasis or other national priorities.
• Advanced written English proficiency and ability to participate in technical meetings and present information to international audiences.
• Desirable: Experience in NGOs, international cooperation or UN agencies.
• Desirable: Experience in developing, reviewing or using technical evidence for advocacy in health guidelines, programs and/or public policies.
• Desirable: Experience in humanitarian contexts and/or emergency response.

Skills

• Medicine
• Public Health
• Tropical Diseases Medicine
• Health Management
• Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases
• Maternal Health Care
• Neonatal Health Care
• Child Health
• Adolescent Health
• Humanitarian Quality Standards
• Technical Proposal Development
• Resource Mobilization
• Health Policy Advocacy
• Health Program Development
• Health Program Planning
• Health Programme Management
• Health Program Implementation
• Health Program Monitoring and Evaluation
• Technical Liaison with Health Authorities
• Vector-borne Disease Control
• Surveillance and Response Programs
• English Language Proficiency
• Evidence-based Health Programs

Languages

Spanish, English