Switzerland: Health and Nutrition Team Leader

Lead, manage and coordinate a team of qualified Advisors in delivering high quality technical programs for the organisation’s core sectors of Health and Nutrition. This will include direct line management of currently 2 other advisors.

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Project Overview

Medair Headquarters (HQ) provides operational guidance for country programmes and activities, along with both technical and compassionate support for our relief workers. Within our headquarters, we are also responsible for promoting the work of Medair to the world, to raise and manage the funds needed to run our life-saving and sustaining programmes. Our headquarters teams are also responsible for recruiting international and HQ staff, and like our field teams, we are committed to serve the world’s most vulnerable with practical and compassionate care.

Medair

Medair is a humanitarian organisation inspired and motivated by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places. We bring relief and recovery to people in crisis, regardless of race, creed or nationality. As signatories of the Red Cross Code of Conduct, we believe that aid should be given to everyone who is in need, regardless of political, social or religious viewpoint. We save lives in emergencies and then stay to help people recover from crisis with dignity—working side by side with communities to leave a lasting impact. We provide a range of emergency relief and recovery services: health care and nutrition; safe water, sanitation, and hygiene; shelter and infrastructure. Internationally recruited field and headquarters staff lead the organisation, supported by nationally recruited staff to implement programmes locally.

Workplace

Medair HQ, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Starting Date

As soon as possible

Initial Contract Details

Full time, open-ended contract

Key Activity Areas

Planning & Implementation

• Review, implement, and monitor the health support strategy for Medair field programmes.
• Assist country programmes in the development of their health strategies.

Quality Management, Technical Assistance & Research

• Provide timely and evidence based advice to field teams in the case of disease outbreaks and other medical problems.
• Provide technical health advice to Head of Country Programmes and field advisors at all key stages of the project management cycle including needs assessment, technical strategy and design, implementation as well as sector specific monitoring and evaluation.
• Improve coherence between health and nutrition projects across Medair country programmes.

Training

• Assist in developing internal training materials and resources and providing training to staff at appropriate venues, including but not limited to the ROC, HQ Briefing, HQ Inductions and online sessions.

Humanitarian Aid Networking

• Develop and maintain public health and relief oriented networks in order to share ideas, best practices, lessons learned, and stay informed on current health, nutrition, and humanitarian aid trends including CORE group, global sector clusters and academic institutions.

Marketing

• Build our institutional profile by writing, reviewing, and supporting the development of technical articles for publication, speaking at professional conferences and events.
• Support the Communications and Fundraising Department in attracting interested major donors.

Financial & Institutional Donor Management

• Assist in developing new institutional funding sources for health and nutrition related activities.
• Assist in drafting and managing the annual health sector portion of the advisory section of the International department budget.

Team Leadership

• Enable, facilitate, and coordinate the development and maintenance of high technical quality service delivery to beneficiaries across field programmes, including oversight of the finalisation and implementation of the quality performance dashboard, and provide ongoing review and leadership on new tools and innovations for technical quality and monitoring and evaluation.
• Lead, support, enable and line manage a team of technical advisors, potentially including regionally-based staff; lead technically on recruitment of new technical advisors.
• Coordinate intra- and interdepartmentally – linking relevant advisors to appropriate organisational initiatives and reviews.

International Headquarters - Team Spiritual Life

• Reflect the values of Medair with team members, international team members, and external contacts.
• Fully contribute to the rich spiritual life of your team, including team devotions, prayers, and words of encouragement.
• Work and pray together in our Christian faith-based team settings.
• Instigate and contribute to prayer times within internationally recruited staff and HQ teams.
• Encouraged to join and contribute to Medair’s international programmes and HQ prayer network.

This job description covers the main tasks and conveys the spirit of the sort of tasks that are anticipated proactively from staff. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary according to organisational needs.

Qualifications

• Medical Doctor and Masters in Public Health (preferred), or Nurse with Masters in Public Health and extensive relief programming experience, or Masters in Public Health and extensive relief programming experience.

Languages

• Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written).

Experience / Competencies

• At least 3 years’ experience managing PHC programs in developing countries, with at least 2 years’ experience managing and coordinating acute and chronic complex emergency responses; such as: outbreaks, displaced populations, nutritional emergencies and/or natural disasters.
• Strong ability to think strategically along with analytical skills.
• Committed to consultative and servant leadership.
• Demonstrated training skills.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Very flexible and resistant to stress.

Profiles sought for InternationalHeadquarters staff

Relief experience

• Experienced Relief Workers and those without field experience.

Professional

• Experienced professionals in a relevant Medair sector of expertise.
• Overseas intercultural work experience desirable.

Values

• Fully committed to the Medair values; to reflect the vision and values of Medair with team members, international team members, and external contacts.

Personal qualities

• Able to work in a multicultural team.
• Strong character traits, including emotional stability, adaptability, ability to handle stress, cultural and gender sensitivity, and honesty.

Benefits Package provided to International Headquarters Staff

• Salary commensurate with the pay-grade of the position.
• Annual leave; Accident insurance and pension.
• Death and disability insurance; Health insurance for loss of earnings.
• A motivating work environment.
• The opportunity to work in a Christian organisation where your contributions make a difference for the world’s most vulnerable.

Working Conditions

• Swiss or eligible EU citizens, or those with a valid work permit for Switzerland, can apply.
• For more senior / technical roles, some other nationalities may be eligible to apply.
• Based at HQ with travel 4 -6 weeks per year to Medair project locations and for networking purposes.

Application Process

Before you apply, please ensure you are fully aware of the:

1. Medair organisational values.

2. Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).

Then to apply, go to http://relief.medair.org/en/jobs/positions/health-and-nutri . . . then:

1. apply for this vacancy (or another position that matches your profile), or

2. apply for a Medair ROC (where we can try and match your competencies to our vacancy needs).

Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed. Medair does not set closing / deadline dates for applications; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.