Technical Advisor (Health, Nutrition, Immunization & WASH)

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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Technical Advisor (Health, Nutrition, Immunization & WASH)

 

About the Role

Technical Advisor – (Health, Nutrition, Immunization & WASH) provides strategic technical leadership and operational oversight for World Vision Somalia’s Health, Nutrition, Immunization and WASH portfolio. The role oversees the implementation of the GiveWell, Gates FARID, Core Group Polio, UNICEF Health and Nutrition and future Health & Nutrition grants while providing strategic oversight of the WASH technical portfolio through supervision of the WASH Technical Specialist. The position ensures technical excellence, programme quality, donor compliance, and integrated delivery across the portfolio while serving as World Vision Somalia’s technical representative with the Federal and State Ministries of Health, donors, UN agencies and technical coordination platforms.

 

For the portfolio of grants listed above, this position will maintain communication with the project sub –grantees and oversee coordination of their technical activities within the project framework, work plan and budget. S/He will be responsible to ensure integration of across consortium partners and other partners through proper coordination’s (Area based coordination and cluster coordination)

Main Roles and Responsibilities

Grant/Consortium Management.

• Head the implementation of all components of the Give Well, Gates FARID, CGPP, and UNICEF projects at the field level, ensuring that the programme’s ultimate, intermediate and immediate outcomes are achieved.

• Ensure project activities meet the donor rules and regulations. Coordinate and manage all project implementation (activities, budget and project documentation) in line with proposals, strategies and donor requirements.

• Lead project sub-grantee (Consortium partner) agencies and stakeholders in participatory planning of project activity implementation, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines

Staff Supervision and Management

• Recruit, train and supervise a team of all project implementation staff (Government/MoH, WV and other consortium staffs)

• Ensure competent and motivated staff are hired in time and retained.

• Conduct quarterly reviews of staff performance in line with WV Somalia performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback.

• Ensure proper technical capacity of staff through training and performance management to project staff.

• Direct and motivate the project team(s) to achieve the desired results, often using matrix management, and ensure effective communication is maintained throughout the project.

Budget Management

• Manage project budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors

• In conjunction with Finance and Support services Manager, ensure grant/project compliance whereby project expenditures are reasonable, allocable, and prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure compliance with external audit.

• Supports in overseeing adherence to contractual agreements, recommend amendments and contract extensions, advise concerned parties with respect to contractual rights/obligations (be on top of what is happening in the sector, following up on the quality, escalate well in advance if things aren’t going well with the suppliers/contractor.

• Work with regional finance team to ensure timely submission of variance explanation upon receipt of monthly project/sector financial report preparation and submission of accurate financial reports for the project;

Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Maintain effective project quality assurance mechanisms, including monitoring system for tracking of project progress against indicators, activities and key project milestones, reporting, evaluation, and communication systems.

• Develop Standard Operating Procedures for monitoring, reporting, documentation and knowledge management, including establishment of standard tools and systems for documentation and information sharing of project progress, best practices, lessons learnt and success stories.

• Track project deliverables using appropriate project management tools

• Conduct routine visits to project / implementing partner project sites for purposes of monitoring and operational support.

• Submit timely accurate and quality reports that meet donor requirements.

• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to all stakeholders

Donor Relations and Engagements

• In coordination with PDU represent the Project and World Vision in engagement opportunities with the donors, Government, UN agencies, clusters, implementing and technical partners and other relevant stakeholders.

• Represent World Vision at field meetings with the Government and project counterparts to provide updates on program implementation.

• Maintain open communication with sub-grantees, other INGO’s, UN agencies, Cluster and ABC and other relevant external partners regarding project initiatives for enhanced coordination

Qualifications and competencies.

• MSc in Public health, Health informatics, Epidemiology or Public health Nutrition is preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in any field of Social development (Medicine, Public health, Nutrition, Project Management, Health Education, Community Medicine, Nursing or Sociology)

• At least five years of experience in project management and administration, consortium management, agreement compliance, sub award management, and tracking project performance and costs.

• Proven ability to manage partnership relationships/consortiums including effective coordination with host country government

• Experience in partnership building and coordination with the donors, private sector, NGO and local community organizations.

• Experience and familiarity with a number of donor requirements, e.g. Gates, ECHO, UNICEF, etc. 

• Fluency in English.

• Demonstrated strong analytical, managerial, leadership, communications, and interpersonal skills.

• Positive collaboration and facilitation skills; Leadership of large and diverse teams; Diplomacy

• Proven experience in proposal writing and project reporting.

• Proficient in WASH, CASH, Disaster Risk Reduction. A Post-graduate qualification in any of these sectors is an added advantage.

• Prior experience in Somalia or a similar fragile, climate-vulnerable context is an advantage.

Working Environment

Position is to be office based in Nairobi, Kenya with 50% travel within Somalia required.

World Vision adheres to strict child and adult safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks which will include criminal background checks. They will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Position advert will close on 20th November 2026 at 00:00am (EAT)

 

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only