About
Global Health Corps
Global Health Corps (GHC) is a leadership
development organization focused on building the next generation of diverse,
disruptive global health leaders. Founded in 2009, we competitively recruit
talented professionals (ages 21-30) from a range of sectors and backgrounds and
place them in high-impact roles within partner organizations — including
Clinton
Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, Planned Parenthood
Global, and Government Ministries in Zambia, Rwanda, and Uganda — working on
the front lines of health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the US, and Zambia.
GHC is seeking
fellows from a wide range of backgrounds, geographies, and expertise. Through a
one-year paid fellowship program, fellows provide the expertise and leadership
potential needed to fill capacity gaps in global health.
About
Placement Organization
A global network of
30 member agencies working together to deliver programs in over 120 countries
around the world, Save the Children is the world’s leading independent
organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains
the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission
is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to
achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children
understands a breakthrough as a remarkable shift from the current trend and a
sustainable change in the way the world treats children, as experienced by the
majority of affected children in the world.
We have a clear
Theory of Change on how to make this happen, which is to be an innovator and
develop evidence-based, breakthrough solutions to problems facing children; be
a voice for and with children by advocating for best practices and policies to
fulfill children’s rights and to ensure that children’s voices are heard
(particularly those children that are marginalized or live in poverty); to
achieve results at scale by supporting effective implementation of best
practices, programs and policies for children, leveraging our knowledge to
ensure sustainable impact at scale; and to build partnerships by collaborating
with children, civil society organizations (CSOs), communities, governments,
and the private sector to share knowledge, influence others and build capacity
to ensure children’s rights are met.
Position
Overview
The Program Officer
will be based in Lilongwe and will work closely with Save the Children
colleagues in the Health & Nutrition Department, both those based in
Lilongwe and in the districts in which we work. S/he will work on a range of
health and nutrition-related initiatives aimed at improving the organization’s
ability to identify, share and apply program-based learning. These will include
a leading coordination role on Save the Children’s external reporting
commitments, with a particular focus on timeliness and quality, as well as the
use of report data and information for program learning; supporting the
identification of key areas of technical and programmatic learning within the
health and nutrition portfolio, and subsequent initiatives to describe and
disseminate that learning for internal and external audiences; coordination of
several Save the Children Malawi technical working groups (e.g., nutrition
technical working group; community mobilization technical working group);
coordination of internal monthly project reports; and support to the design and
implementation of the Health & Nutrition Meetings, a key internal learning
forum. The position will also have the scope to identify and pursue other means
by which Save the Children might improve program learning and, ultimately,
program quality.
Responsibilities
- Contribute
significantly to the development of a department-wide culture of health
and nutrition program learning - Ensure
that Save the Children’s project reports are developed and submitted on
time and are of good quality, and that the evidence they contain is
captured and disseminated internally and externally - Assist
Save the Children Malawi to more effectively identify and use health and nutrition
program-based evidence, both in its programming and advocacy work
Required
Skills and Experience
- Demonstrated
experience of working in a public health role within a national or
international organization - Demonstrated
ability to work as an effective and collegiate team member
Preferred
Skills and Experience
- A
tertiary (MSc or equivalent) qualification in public health or a related
discipline - Demonstrated
experience of donor reporting, including responsibility for report writing - Demonstrated
experience of working on external health-specific publications (e.g.,
policy briefs, project descriptions, operations research summaries)
Fellowship
Logistics
During the
fellowship year, all fellows are provided with:
- A
living stipend of $650/month - Housing
and utilities - Health
insurance - A
professional development grant of $600 - An
award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year - Travel
costs covered to and from placement site, training and retreats
*Note: The living
stipend and the completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as
determined by the placement organization.
Living and
Working in Malawi:
Fellows are provided with housing and utilities during the fellowship year.
Housing arrangements vary based on the placement organization and location
within the country. Fellows placed at Save the Children will be provided with
housing in Lilongwe, an urban center.
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Applications will
close February 2nd, 2016.
If you have any
questions about the application process and the fellowship, refer to our FAQs
page at http:ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/faqs/
For specific
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