Employer: Terre des hommes Foundation Child Relief
Location: Switzerland, Lausanne
Closing date: 23 Feb 2018
In the context of the 2016-2020 strategic plan, we are looking for a
Global Health Coordinator
Position Start Date: 1st of March 2018
Duration: CDI
Rate: 100%
Travel rate: 20-30% with global field missions
No closing date is set for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled
Context:
Terre des hommes focuses on developing and strengthening health activities to improve the conditions of the most vulnerable children around the world and make a sustainable systemic change.
Main responsibilities:
The objective of this post is to support the Health Programme to reinforce Tdh's position as a reknown international actor in Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH). Under the supervision of the Head of Programme, this post will have a central role in the coordination of the Health Programme activities, to build new innovative high added-value interventions, mobilize technical and financial resources, develop and manage partnerships, and ensure knowledge management. The coordinator will bring strong field programme management background, global health expertise and extensive operational experience to the members of the programme, while having specific responsabilities for projects to put in place.
Function details:
Programme coordination and development
Supports the Head of Programme to manage and develop the portfolio of projects
Supports the Head of Programme to build and manage strategic partnerships and collaborations, and proactively mobilise technical and financial resources
Contributes to prospect, identify, initiate, and develop new opportunities
Develops in-depth understanding of the needs and objectives of all stakeholders (including beneficiaries, partners, and donors), to develop tailored solutions which maximize impact as well as cost efficiency
Ensures that projects, especially new ones, are designed and delivered based on best practices, available evidence, context specificities, and feasibility analysis and that they are focused on quality, efficiency, impact and integrated approaches with other programmes
Integrates and synthesizes findings from multiple sources to enable strategic decision making
Develops quality relationships with internal and external partners.
Monitoring, reporting and grant writing
Ensures the production of internal documents and high quality reports to donors in a timely and quality manner, in line with donor commitments in conjunction with Regional Coordinators
Leads the development of new proposals and initiatives
Assists in the development of detailed log frames, work plans, and monitoring tools and support their implementation
Synthesizes and documents results and lessons from grants and contracts, including preparation of briefings and portfolio reviews for presentation.
Contribute to writing background documents, briefs, and presentations, including carrying out relevant literature reviews, landscape analyses, and data analysis.
Knowledge management and research
Identifies trends and relevant information, maintains a deep knowledge of global health
interventions in MNCH
Leads knowledge management and sharing between Headquarters, Regional Offices and
Country Offices, on relevant thematic areas
Supports research activities for the programme and leads the team efforts to produce scientific
articles
Other responsabilities
Ensures the coaching of collaborators as needed, from the recruiting to the final collaboration
reports
Prepares the budget of the Programme, ensures its validation and make a precise follow-up of
expenses.
Under her/his perimeter of responsibility, the coordinator represents the Programme within the
Foundation, and the Foundation when in contact with external actors or networks
Profile:
Experiences and professional skills
Advanced university degree (Masters level or above) in business administration, development or medical studies, or equivalent professional experience. A university degree in public health would be an asset.
Excellent oral and written skills in English and French (C1)
At least 7 years of experience in coordinating and implementing health programs, preferably in NGO or international development settings
Experience in grantwriting / grant management and the search for institutional financing, with good knowledge of financial partners
Established large network of collaborators, partners, alliances in the field of MNCH
Experience with ICD4Dev and community based projects
Soft skills
Entrepreneurship, autonomy, proactivity and ability to decide
Great communication skills
Ability to work in a matrix structure
Collaborative attitude both inside and outside the department
Ability to identify key issues, anticipate risks and alert management with proposed recommendations, solution-oriented
Excellent interpersonal skills, including integrity, good judgment and diplomacy
Team player who supports others when needed
Ability to work in multicultural and multidisciplinary environment
Child Safeguarding Policy
Raising awareness within the Foundation on violence against children.
Providing guidance to employees and others and defining expectations when it comes to preventing, raising, denouncing and responding to issues of child abuse.
Reducing the risk of child abuse by selectively recruiting employees and others.
Reducing the risk of child abuse by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children.
We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.
Are you interested? Do you want to face this challenge?
APPLY
We will only consider complete online applications corresponding to the required profile.
Your application must include a complete CV and a covering letter. If you are not shortlisted, your file will be destroyed by us, according to the rules on data protection.
If you face difficulties in applying online, please contact our HR department: rh@tdh.ch
Terre des hommes provides equal working conditions for men and women. Furthermore, for candidates with equivalent qualifications and for positions with responsibilities, applications from women are strongly encouraged.
The recruitment and selection procedures of Terre des hommes reflect our commitment for child security and protection.
Closing date: 23 Feb 2018
In the context of the 2016-2020 strategic plan, we are looking for a
Global Health Coordinator
Position Start Date: 1st of March 2018
Duration: CDI
Rate: 100%
Travel rate: 20-30% with global field missions
No closing date is set for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled
Context:
Terre des hommes focuses on developing and strengthening health activities to improve the conditions of the most vulnerable children around the world and make a sustainable systemic change.
Main responsibilities:
The objective of this post is to support the Health Programme to reinforce Tdh's position as a reknown international actor in Maternal Newborn Child Health (MNCH). Under the supervision of the Head of Programme, this post will have a central role in the coordination of the Health Programme activities, to build new innovative high added-value interventions, mobilize technical and financial resources, develop and manage partnerships, and ensure knowledge management. The coordinator will bring strong field programme management background, global health expertise and extensive operational experience to the members of the programme, while having specific responsabilities for projects to put in place.
Function details:
Programme coordination and development
Supports the Head of Programme to manage and develop the portfolio of projects
Supports the Head of Programme to build and manage strategic partnerships and collaborations, and proactively mobilise technical and financial resources
Contributes to prospect, identify, initiate, and develop new opportunities
Develops in-depth understanding of the needs and objectives of all stakeholders (including beneficiaries, partners, and donors), to develop tailored solutions which maximize impact as well as cost efficiency
Ensures that projects, especially new ones, are designed and delivered based on best practices, available evidence, context specificities, and feasibility analysis and that they are focused on quality, efficiency, impact and integrated approaches with other programmes
Integrates and synthesizes findings from multiple sources to enable strategic decision making
Develops quality relationships with internal and external partners.
Monitoring, reporting and grant writing
Ensures the production of internal documents and high quality reports to donors in a timely and quality manner, in line with donor commitments in conjunction with Regional Coordinators
Leads the development of new proposals and initiatives
Assists in the development of detailed log frames, work plans, and monitoring tools and support their implementation
Synthesizes and documents results and lessons from grants and contracts, including preparation of briefings and portfolio reviews for presentation.
Contribute to writing background documents, briefs, and presentations, including carrying out relevant literature reviews, landscape analyses, and data analysis.
Knowledge management and research
Identifies trends and relevant information, maintains a deep knowledge of global health
interventions in MNCH
Leads knowledge management and sharing between Headquarters, Regional Offices and
Country Offices, on relevant thematic areas
Supports research activities for the programme and leads the team efforts to produce scientific
articles
Other responsabilities
Ensures the coaching of collaborators as needed, from the recruiting to the final collaboration
reports
Prepares the budget of the Programme, ensures its validation and make a precise follow-up of
expenses.
Under her/his perimeter of responsibility, the coordinator represents the Programme within the
Foundation, and the Foundation when in contact with external actors or networks
Profile:
Experiences and professional skills
Advanced university degree (Masters level or above) in business administration, development or medical studies, or equivalent professional experience. A university degree in public health would be an asset.
Excellent oral and written skills in English and French (C1)
At least 7 years of experience in coordinating and implementing health programs, preferably in NGO or international development settings
Experience in grantwriting / grant management and the search for institutional financing, with good knowledge of financial partners
Established large network of collaborators, partners, alliances in the field of MNCH
Experience with ICD4Dev and community based projects
Soft skills
Entrepreneurship, autonomy, proactivity and ability to decide
Great communication skills
Ability to work in a matrix structure
Collaborative attitude both inside and outside the department
Ability to identify key issues, anticipate risks and alert management with proposed recommendations, solution-oriented
Excellent interpersonal skills, including integrity, good judgment and diplomacy
Team player who supports others when needed
Ability to work in multicultural and multidisciplinary environment
Child Safeguarding Policy
Raising awareness within the Foundation on violence against children.
Providing guidance to employees and others and defining expectations when it comes to preventing, raising, denouncing and responding to issues of child abuse.
Reducing the risk of child abuse by selectively recruiting employees and others.
Reducing the risk of child abuse by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children.
We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.
Are you interested? Do you want to face this challenge?
APPLY
We will only consider complete online applications corresponding to the required profile.
Your application must include a complete CV and a covering letter. If you are not shortlisted, your file will be destroyed by us, according to the rules on data protection.
If you face difficulties in applying online, please contact our HR department: rh@tdh.ch
Terre des hommes provides equal working conditions for men and women. Furthermore, for candidates with equivalent qualifications and for positions with responsibilities, applications from women are strongly encouraged.
The recruitment and selection procedures of Terre des hommes reflect our commitment for child security and protection.
