CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level XX:  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.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The overall purpose of co-coordination is to improve the timeliness and impact of appropriate humanitarian health assistance for crisis-impacted communities and to strengthen the collective health outcomes of the response in Kosti, Port Sudan, and Kassala. 

The Health Cluster Co-coordinator (Co-HCC) will be expected to work with the Health Cluster Coordinator to support the implementation of, monitor and evaluate performance against the six core cluster functions and accountability to affected populations (refer to Annex 1). The Co-HCC will ensure that partners participate in and assume their minimum commitments to the health cluster (Annex 2 IASC Minimum Commitments for participation in clusters) by placing Affected Populations at the center of decision-making and action

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

• Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination by maintaining appropriate links and dialogue with national and local authorities, local civil society and other relevant actors, respecting their respective mandates and programme priorities. Taking reasonable measures to proactively engage with and support local NGOs to participate in cluster coordination and at each phase of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle. Ensuring that the health cluster position is informed by the NGO perspective. 
• Lead and/or co-lead, coordinate and conduct health needs assessments with the health partners and other sectors in particular, but also with other sectors like WASH Nutrition, Food Security and Protection. 
• Contribute effectively to inter-cluster coordination forums and cooperate with other clusters, Government counterparts, and relevant authorities (as appropriate) in planning, coordination, and operational activities, ensuring that the NGO community is contributing to and sharing responsibilities. 
• Ensure protection and early recovery are mainstreamed and awareness of the different needs and capacities of women, girls, boys and men of all ages, people with disabilities, and other diversity characteristics such as ethnicity and religion are informing what we do, how we do it and with whom to Participate actively in gap analysis, priority setting reinforcing the complementarity of partner actions by avoiding duplication and gaps. 
• Ensuring adequate reporting and effective information sharing, reflecting the agreed minimum standards are in place and that all partners contribute on a regular basis to enable appropriate monitoring and evaluation and review the impact of the cluster activities and progress against the strategic Health Cluster objectives. 
• Participate in reviews of coordination mechanisms and their adaptation over time to reflect the evolving crisis and the capacities of local actors. 
• Convene and facilitate regular health cluster meetings, ensuring that discussions are participatory and results oriented. Ensure that the NGO members of the cluster are kept fully informed of the meetings and any decisions that may take place outside of regular health cluster meetings. 
• Promote the leadership roles of NGOs within the cluster and ensure that all health cluster working groups have active national and international NGO participation to help ensure that NGOs support and influence the clusters work. 
• Promote/support training and capacity building of health sector personnel, of partners and national authorities. 
• Represent the interests of the health cluster in discussions with stakeholders on priorities, resource mobilization and advocacy. Taking additional steps to ensure that the resource mobilization and advocacy efforts fairly represents and benefits NGOs as well as the UN agencies in support of the agreed health cluster strategy. 
• Co-lead the vetting groups or committee established for project review under the processes such as SHF and HRP and ensure that an inclusive, fair and transparent process is adopted. 
• Ensure adequate contingency planning and preparedness for new emergencies and seasonal adaptation of responses that reflect the actual and potential to scale-up capacities of all partners (local and international). 
• Ensure understanding of current risks including access constraints in hard-to-reach areas or areas with access controls, knowledge of the essential package of health services including multiple modalities for service delivery including adaptations where needed to cholera and other relevant outbreak response planning. 
• The NGO Co-coordinator should act as a focal point for receiving NGO concerns in order to raise these with the Health Cluster Coordinator and the Cluster Lead Agency to strengthen accountability and transparency of the cluster’s decisions and work. 
• Act as Health Cluster Coordinator OIC whenever needed. 

Competencies: Generic

1. Ensuring the effective use of resources

2. Producing results

3. Fostering integration and teamwork

4. Moving forward in a changing environment

5. Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences 

Functional Skills and Knowledge:

• Demonstrated knowledge in leading and coordinating international health response in emergencies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of public health response operations and their implementation in emergencies, complemented by demonstrated ability to identify and manage difficult situations, to lead and direct multidisciplinary and multinational staff. 
• Demonstrate ability to take independent initiatives and responsibility in proactively manner. Have sense of open-mindness, analytical skills and diplomacy 

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Essential: Advanced university degree in public health, medicine, disaster management, or related fields from a recognized university or academic institute or a relevant combination of professional and academic qualifications complemented by specialized training in assessment of public health relief efforts and activities.
• Desirable: Health Cluster Coordinator training and /or WHO surge training, or training in emergency response in the context of public health

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Essential: At least 7 years of experience in humanitarian response, at national and international levels, with emphasis on health cluster coordination, public health management and related strategy development in a managerial position, capacity building and implementation.  Experience in developing and promoting collaborative partnerships and/or experience in developing countries.
• Desirable: Experience of health cluster coordination with WHO or UN organizations/agencies, international or national NGOs in humanitarian response.

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.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Females are highly encouraged to apply.

Kindly apply through the link below. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the next steps. The closing date will be 05/05/2025. Any application after this date will not be considered. All interviews will be done in the Save the Children office or remotely.

Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents. SCI will be undertaking child safeguarding checks for all candidates. The selected candidate will be asked to provide a police check before signing the contract.