Technical Advisor I – Health at Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Job Description

• Support the development and contribute to the implementation of strategies, standards, tools and best practices in health that effectively engage partners, donors, and Ghana Health Services (GHS). Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, beneficiary accountability and disaster risk reduction where relevant.
• Provide technical solutions to health programming teams for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Lead the development of the technical design and costing for health-related proposals.  Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.
• Oversee the Rural Emergency Health Service and Transport (REST II) project and provide focused attention to health innovation/learning activities within this project.
• Support the development, implementation, monitoring and documentation of a learning agenda for Ghana’s health portfolio and the dissemination/presentation of results; leverage results for new funding and incorporate in new project design.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in health programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.
• Support in the preparation of progress and final program reports for donors with attention to data presentation and analysis and in accordance with CRS and donor standards and requirements.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in the area of health to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
• Design/develop marketing and branding material for the health program portfolio for diverse audiences external to CRS.

Requirement/Skills

• Master’s Degree in Public Health or health related field required, doctorate degree preferred.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO.
• Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in public health. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Four or more years of experience in program implementation and program management.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
• Experience in project design and proposal development. Experience in writing content for proposals.
• Experience working with local partners; knowledge of capacity strengthening best practices.
• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.
• Strong inter-personal, relationship management skills with ability to influence and get support from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgments.
• Good technical writing skills.
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented.