Title: Advisor Sr., Health
Div/Dept: Programs and Partnerships
Location: Washington, DC
Reporting Relationship: Senior Director, Program Delivery Support
summary
ChildFund works to ensure that children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe. We tailor our interventions to meet children’s evolving needs as they develop from infancy through young adulthood. Our life stage approach guides our programs, ensuring that children realize a series of core outcomes in each chapter of childhood (ages 0-5, 6-14 and 15-24). A theory of change for each life stage identifies the conditions that will enable children to reach these outcomes.
The Senior Advisor position provides technical support and leadership to strengthen ChildFund International’s global health program portfolio, enhance program quality on behalf of children in development and emergency contexts and helps ChildFund achieve its core outcomes. This team member works collaboratively with divisional and global colleagues in line with ChildFund’s theories of change across our life stage approach to develop, implement, and evaluate intervention strategies. The Health Senior Advisor will also work closely with the Business Development team to expand and diversify resources for ChildFund health programs.
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
ChildFund International is committed to a workplace culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms. Furthermore, ChildFund International is committed to ensuring a workplace that safeguards and protects all children, including preventing their sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as preventing the sexual exploitation and abuse of its staff, partners, and program participants.
Program Design
§ Provide health technical inputs as appropriate to strengthen organizational capacity to develop intervention strategies and grant opportunities with clear and consistent quality standards for child health, development and protection outcomes.
Resource Mobilization
§ In collaboration with the Business Development unit and country office staff, lead the technical design and writing for grant proposals with a health focus and/or area of intervention.
Strategic Support for Program Implementation
§ Build capacity on technical elements related to health.
§ Collaborate with other Sr. Advisors to support country office teams to plan and execute the roll-out of evidence-based intervention strategies with implementing and technical partners.
§ Ensure high quality implementation of research and evaluation activities on health interventions.
§ Contribute to cross-functional and global teams on specific tasks or projects, as assigned.
Visibility and Representation
§ Build/deepen partnerships with health actors based on organizational strategy.
§ Support the generation of health programming content for internal and external communications.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
Required
§ 8 to 10 years of health programming experience across multiple country/regional contexts relevant to international development, social work, or a similar field with a minimum of 3 years international field experience.
§ Demonstrated experience working with children experiencing deprivation, exclusion and vulnerability and their families.
§ Demonstrated technical competencies in program design, including M&E frameworks, implementation, and evaluation, for health programs.
§ Demonstrated experience with proposal development, including the technical strategy design and narrative writing with USAID, other USG and other donors.
§ Track record of successful fundraising for health programs.
§ Proven ability in participatory training and capacity building for program design, delivery and assessment.
§ Proven ability to provide face to face, and virtual high-quality technical assistance, guidance and coaching to implementing staff and partners.
§ Demonstrated representation and networking experience with technical partners, multilateral agencies, foundations, and other institutions focused on child development and protection programming.
§ Organized, detail-oriented, team player, self-starter and results-oriented individual.
§ Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
§ Excellent presentation, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.
§ Strong computer skills, with familiarity in using Microsoft Office suite applications (particularly Word and PowerPoint).
§ Ability to travel.
Preferred:
§ Bilingual (English with French, Spanish, and/or Portuguese).
§ Knowledge of operational research and program evaluation methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative methods.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree in specific discipline and/or equivalent relevant experience. Master’s degree preferred.
Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.
NOTE: All interested applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. (for Washington DC applicants) or in the specified country (for Global applicants) at the time of application.
EOE/M/F/D/V
Our Vision
A world in which children realize their rights and achieve their potential.
Our Mission
HELP deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to improve their lives and the opportunity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change in their communities.
PROMOTE societies whose individuals and institutions participate in valuing, protecting and advancing the worth and rights of children.
ENRICH supporters’ lives through their support of our cause.
Today, worldwide, 570 million children live in extreme poverty.
All children — including those 570 million — have rights to the support, protection and care they need to grow up healthy and strong. As a child-focused international development organization, ChildFund exists to change underlying factors that prevent children from fully experiencing these rights.
