Health & Nutrition Coordinator

DEPARTMENT/ TEAM /PROGRAM:

 Health & Nutrition  

AREA OFFICE/ LOCATION: Amhara region North Wollo Zone Habru woreda

GRADE: . 3B

CONTRACT LENGTH:  12 Month (From October 1st 2026-September 30/2027

Reports to Health, Nutrition & WASH Program Manager

Matrix Manager: Health, Nutrition & WASH Program Manager

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

Risk and Compliance: The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption policy and code of conduct. The key responsibilities include understanding and complying with the SCI policies and procedures, not committing any act of fraud, bribery, or corruption, understanding risks in their area/role, and implementing mitigation measures, report any suspected fraud, bribery, or corruption immediately, declare conflicts of interest in accordance with internal procedures and complete mandatory training related to ethics and anti-fraud measures

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Health and Nutrition Coordinator leads field-level coordination and technical delivery of the Japan Platform-funded project, “Restoring Life-Saving Health and Nutrition Services and Strengthening Health System Resilience and Outbreak Response in Conflict-Affected Habru Woreda, North Wollo Zone, Ethiopia.” The role is accountable for advancing two outcomes: improved access to essential health and nutrition services for conflict-affected and underserved communities and strengthened resilience of local health systems and communities to sustain services during humanitarian crises.

Based in Woldia, the post holder coordinates implementation through supported health facilities, one Mobile Health and Nutrition Team (MHNT), 14 outreach sites, OTP and Stabilization Centre services, and community platforms. The Coordinator ensures integrated delivery of primary health care, RMNCH, emergency nutrition, MHPSS, first-line GBV support and referral, disease surveillance and outbreak response, health-system strengthening, community engagement and accountability. The role works closely with government health authorities, supported facilities, communities, SCI teams, Save the Children Japan and relevant humanitarian coordination mechanisms.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

• Provides day-to-day technical and operational oversight for four interconnected components: restoration of PHC services, emergency nutrition, health-system strengthening, and community-based systems and engagement.
• Supervises and coaches project Health and Nutrition staff and provides functional oversight to the four-person MHNT, maintaining clear movement, supervision and performance plans.
• Coordinates closely with MEAL, supply chain, finance, awards, safeguarding, construction/WASH, security and
• technical teams to deliver the approved workplan, procurement plan, rehabilitation package and donor commitments.
• Represents the project in Habru Woreda and North Wollo coordination platforms, including relevant PHEM, Health and Nutrition forums.

Work with budget holder to ensure  activity lines and ensures compliant, timely and value-for-money use of project resources

 Staff reporting to this post:  

Staff directly reporting to HN& WASH Program Manager.

Key Responsibility for this role:

Project leadership, planning and delivery

• Lead the detailed 12-month implementation plan for, maintaining alignment with the approved JPF proposal, logframe, monthly schedule, budget and donor requirements.
• Coordinate implementation across supported facilities, outreach sites,  MHNT, OTP/SC sites and community platforms, with clear catchment mapping, workplans, referral pathways and supervision schedules.
• Ensure monthly and quarterly deliverables are completed on time; identify bottlenecks, assign corrective actions and follow up to closure.
• Maintain continuity plans for insecurity, access restrictions, disease outbreaks and supply disruption, using mobile, outreach, facility and community modalities as appropriate.
• Promote operational integration with WASH, protection, GBV, MHPSS, MEAL and community accountability interventions.

Restoration of integrated PHC services

• Coordinate support to health centres and monthly outreach sites for integrated PHC and RMNCH services, including OPD, ANC, PNC, immunization, child health, nutrition screening, health education and referral.
• Oversee one MHNT composed of a physician or health officer, two nurses and one midwife, supported by locally assigned HEWs, and ensure six-day operations or approved context-adapted schedules.
• Ensure the MHNT delivers integrated adult and under-five consultations, RMNCH, nutrition, MHPSS, first aid and safe first-line support or referral for GBV survivors in accordance with national guidance.
• Strengthen two-way referral between communities, PHCUs and the referral hospital, including confidential GBV, child protection, disability-inclusive and mental health pathways.
• Coordinate approved ambulance gap-filling support, referral communication, feedback and documentation:

1.  Emergency nutrition services

• Ensure monthly MUAC screening and referral for children under five and pregnant and lactating women through static, outreach, MHNT and community platforms, including two active case-finding rounds.
• Coordinate Family MUAC in  priority areas, including training and follow-up support for  HEWs and  caregivers.
• Coordinate support to OTPs and Stabilization Centres through supplies, equipment, reporting tools, referral and continuous capacity strengthening.
• Monitor SAM admission and treatment outcomes, including cure, death, default and non-response rates, and lead corrective action when performance falls below national or Sphere standards.
• Oversee integration of IYCF counselling within RMNCH services, strengthening of  Mother-to-Mother Support Groups, and establishment or strengthening of breastfeeding corners in priority health centres.
• Responsible for  to delivery of OTP , SC and IYCF service with expected coverage and quality

 Health-system strengthening and resilience

• Lead the first-month facility gap analysis and coordinate the approved support package for 34 facilities: 7 health centres, 26 health posts and 1 referral hospital.
• Coordinate quantification, procurement and distribution of essential medicines, consumables, equipment, OTP/SC supplies, nutrition commodities, PPE, IPC materials, registers and job aids.
• Work with supply chain teams to strengthen IPLS, last-mile delivery, stock monitoring, pipeline analysis and timely redistribution to minimise stock-outs, expiry and loss.
• Provide technical coordination to minor rehabilitation of  facilities, including service rooms and priority WASH/IPC infrastructure, working with construction/WASH teams and government authorities.
• Coordinate planned training, mentorship and follow-up across PHEM, MHPSS, SAM, IMNCI/iCCM, CMR/GBV, IPC, IPLS, RMNCH, IYCF and related priorities.
• Strengthen HMIS/DHIS2 functionality through standard tools, coaching, data quality checks, reconciliation and use of data for management decisions.

Disease surveillance, preparedness and outbreak response

• Monitor cholera, measles, malaria, scabies and other priority epidemic alerts and ensure application of standard case definitions, alert verification, reporting and investigation procedures.
• Coordinate PHEM training, facility preparedness planning, simulation exercises, Rapid Response Team readiness, sample transportation and community risk communication.
• Ensure availability and appropriate use of PPE, case-definition posters, surveillance tools and priority outbreak-response supplies.
• Support coordinated response actions within 72 hours of a verified outbreak trigger, subject to government activation and safe humanitarian access.
• Maintain current outbreak, security and access risk analysis and escalate critical concerns promptly.

 Community systems, SBCC and accountability

• Coordinate training and supportive supervision of HEWs and community volunteers on iCCM, SAM, Family MUAC, PHEM and agreed priority topics.
• Lead context-appropriate SBCC using local languages and accessible channels to address misinformation, harmful norms, low risk perception and barriers to timely care-seeking.
• Ensuring inclusive community engagement through women’s groups, youth, IDP and host-community representatives, persons with disabilities, religious leaders, schools and market-day platforms.
• Coordinate quarterly community-facility dialogue and monitor agreed service-improvement actions.
• Ensure accessible and confidential feedback channels, including hotline, suggestion boxes and community structures, and timely response or referral of concern
• Ensure inclusive community engagement through women’s groups, youth, IDP and host-community representatives, persons with disabilities, religious leaders, schools and market-day platforms.
• Coordinate quarterly community-facility dialogue and monitor agreed service-improvement actions.
• Ensure accessible and confidential feedback channels, including hotline, suggestion boxes and community structures, and timely response or referral of concerns.

Monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning

• Operationalize the approved logframe and indicator plan, maintaining disaggregation by sex, age, disability and IDP/host status.
• Ensure complete and consistent reporting from facilities, MHNT, outreach, OTP/SC, training and community activities; reconcile project records with HMIS/DHIS2.
• Review performance weekly and monthly and submit timely data for the Output Tracker, PRIME/IPTT, quarterly quality benchmarks and donor reports.
• Support the light-touch baseline, internal outcome survey, mid-term review, quarterly case stories, final after-action review and learning note.
• Apply SCI medical quality tools, incident-reporting procedures and action tracking; immediately escalate serious clinical, safeguarding or data-quality concerns.

Team leadership and capacity strengthening

• Set clear objectives and workplans for direct reports; provide regular supervision, coaching, fair performance feedback and support to staff wellbeing.
• Use pre/post assessments, observation, mentorship and post-training follow-up to verify competency and application of new skills.
• Promote gender-balanced, inclusive and culturally appropriate staffing and respectful team behaviour.
• Ensure all project staff understand technical protocols, SCI medical standards, safeguarding, PSEA, conflict sensitivity, accountability and security procedures.

Budget, awards, supply and donor compliance

• Prepare activity forecasts, procurement requests, phased spending plans and monthly budget reviews in coordination with finance, awards and supply-chain teams.
• Monitor expenditure, burn rate and variance; recommend timely corrective action and ensure costs remain within approved budget and donor rules.
• Maintain complete and auditable programme, distribution, training, supervision and asset records.
• Prepare accurate technical inputs for JPF and Save the Children Japan progress and final reports, monitoring visits, case stories, visibility materials and close-out documents.
• Ensure approved donor and organisational branding is used appropriately and sensitive beneficiary information is protected.

d.     10. Coordination, safeguarding, inclusion and security

• Maintain working relationships with the Amhara Regional Health Bureau, North Wollo Zonal Health Department, Habru Woreda Health Office, facilities, communities, UN agencies and humanitarian partners.
• Participate in government and cluster coordination, 4W/5W reporting, joint assessments and response mapping to reduce duplication and address gaps.
• Embed safeguarding, PSEA, GESI, disability inclusion, conflict sensitivity and Do No Harm measures across service design, targeting, monitoring and referral.
• Ensure transparent, needs-based prioritisation includes IDPs and vulnerable host communities and does not increase tension between population groups.
• Follow security procedures, movement tracking and access guidance, and adapt operations when risk thresholds are reached.

e.      11. Sustainability, transition and close-out

• Integrate transition planning from start-up and progressively strengthen government leadership in supervision, reporting, coordination and service delivery.
• Ensure structured skill transfer from project and MHNT staff to facility teams and HEWs through routine joint work and mentoring.
• Coordinate formal handover of activities, assets, records and outstanding actions to responsible authorities in line with the MoU, donor rules and data-protection requirements.
• Support final verification, close-out meeting and communication of handover outcomes to relevant government and coordination bodies.Essential
• Bachelor’s degree in public health, nursing, nutrition, medicine or another relevant health science. A master’s degree in public health, nutrition, health systems or a related discipline is an advantage.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian health and nutrition programming, including at least two years coordinating integrated projects in conflict-affected settings.
• Demonstrated experience managing MHNT, outreach, static-facility and community-based service modalities.
• Strong technical experience in PHC/RMNCH, CMAM/IMAM, IYCF, outbreak preparedness and response, referral systems and service-quality improvement.
• Experience coordinating medical and nutrition commodities, forecasting, stock monitoring and last-mile distribution.
• Experience working with regional, zonal and woreda health authorities and participating in Health, Nutrition or PHEM coordination mechanisms. Experience in Amhara or North Wollo is an advantage.
• Proven ability in team supervision, coaching, work planning, budget monitoring, donor reporting and use of data for adaptive management.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, PSEA, CHS, Sphere standards, conflict sensitivity, GESI and accountability to affected populations.
• Strong written and spoken English and Amharic. Proficiency in the relevant local language and ability to prepare concise donor-quality reports are strongly preferred.
• Competence in Microsoft Office and digital data/reporting systems; familiarity with HMIS/DHIS2 is desirable.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to Habru Woreda and work flexibly during emergencies.

f.       Desirable

• Recognised training or certification in CMAM/IMAM, IYCF-E, PHEM, IMNCI/iCCM, RMNCH, IPC, clinical quality improvement, MHPSS or GBV/CMR.
• Experience with Japan Platform or another institutional humanitarian donor, including donor reporting and visibility compliance.
• Experience coordinating health-facility rehabilitation or WASH/IPC improvements and cross-functional technical teams.

Knowledge of SCI medical quality standards, PRIME/IPTT, quality benchmarks or similar programme-management systems.

 Competences & BEHAVIOURS: (Values in Practice)   . 

Accountability: Takes responsibility for results, resources and conduct; sets clear expectations and addresses gaps promptly and fairly.

Technical leadership: Applies sound health and nutrition judgement and escalates clinical, safeguarding and public-health risks immediately.

Delivery: Prioritizes effectively, manages multiple workstreams and turns plans and data into timely action.

Collaboration: Builds respectful relationships with government, communities, colleagues and partners and works across functions.

Integrity: Acts honestly, protects confidentiality and models safeguarding, PSEA and conflict-sensitive behavior.

Learning and adaptability: Uses evidence, feedback and contextual analysis to improve programme quality and adjust implementation.

• Degree in Public Health/B.Sc. Nurse and at least 5 years’ experience in NGO setup on Emergency Mobile Health and nutrition team intervention
• Master’s degree in public health or nutrition specific and at least 3 years’ experience in NGO setup particularly MHNT

Desirable

• Recognized training or certification in CMAM/IMAM, IYCF-E, PHEM, IMNCI/iCCM, RMNCH, IPC, clinical quality improvement, MHPSS or GBV/CMR.
• Experience with Japan Platform or another institutional humanitarian donor, including donor reporting and visibility compliance.
• Experience coordinating health-facility rehabilitation or WASH/IPC improvements and cross-functional technical teams.
• Knowledge of SCI medical quality standards, PRIME/IPTT, quality benchmarks or similar program-management systems

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and

Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

How To Apply

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

Use the below link to apply:  

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We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy. Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply