Position Start Date : January 1st, 2025
Duration : 12 months with possible extension
Location : Dakar, Senegal
Status : Unaccompanied
Terre des hommes does not set closing dates for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled. Interested candidates are nevertheless advised to apply asap.
Tdh
The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), with headquarters in Lausanne and an office in Zurich, is the leading Swiss child rights organisation with more than 2000 employees worldwide. We stand together with children to uphold their rights, protect their lives and improve their well-being. We achieve this through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have a positive and sustainable impact.
Tdh is currently engaged in a decentralization process under which the Regional Office for Africa will be created in Senegal mid-2025. This will generate managerial changes at both HQ and regional levels. The Health Coordinator for Africa will be a key actor contributing to the establishment of the regional office.
General Context
The Health Program at Tdh works to contribute to the sustainable reduction of morbidity and mortality of pregnant women, newborns, and children under five, and to the reduction of child malnutrition. Tdh’s Health Program looks for existing accurate life-saving interventions, adapts and implements them in all circumstances including in fragile contexts, and pilots innovative tools, conceived and implemented with renowned partners at local and international level. Tdh leverages and exploits the technological advancements for more cost-effective, impact relevant and efficient country-driven interventions, making them suitable and sustainable for scaling up.
Each action of Tdh’s Health Program is embedded in the local health systems, with a strong focus on developing local partnerships (including with the local private sector, academia, and others), pursue sustainability and economic viability, and aim at scaling it up for systemic changes. Tdh strives to support health systems to maintain their capacity to effectively respond to existing and arising needs in various contexts (emergency, chronic crisis, development) without the disruption of existing services. In exceptional cases and in coordination with local authorities and other actors, Tdh temporarily delivers health services directly to affected populations. The voice of communities, families, local authorities, and partners are heard and integrated in Tdh actions. A user-centric approach guides the conception and development of Tdh activities. Tdh’s Health Program is focused on improving access to primary healthcare services for vulnerable children and mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and MENA regions.
Responsibilities
The Health Coordinator for Africa ensures the regional impact of Tdh’s health projects and the quality of its interventions. S/he takes care of program management on a regional scale, ensures contextualization and coordinates integration into the region’s matrix organization. S/he reports directly to the Head of Health Program, works in coordination with the Deputies Operations Managers for Africa and country program coordinators, and leads and coordinates the development and implementation of the health strategy, in line with institutional directions, geographical contextualization, complementarity, collegiality, transparency and efficiency at regional level. S/he is responsible for managing, carrying out and steering closely a set of activities within the operational, thematic, administrative, financial, and logistical domains, as well as for the corresponding technical support. Countries to oversee are Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Kenya. Potentially other countries depending on the expansion of Tdh’s health activities in the region.
Under the supervision of the Head of Health Program, s/he will be responsible to:
The full job description will be shared with the candidates selected to start the recruitment process.
Profile
Education
Experience & Competencies
Languages
Proficiency in French and English. Other languages are an asset.
IT :
High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
Conditions
Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies :
Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff
Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in.
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?
Procedure
Please applying directly online: https://hiring.tdh.org/regional-health-coordinator-for-africa/
Application files sent through our official website will be processed only if complete (CV + cover letter). Additional documents (diplomas, work certificates, etc.) will be requested at a later stage.
We will be in touch with the shortlisted candidates only in the selection process – with the large number of applications received, we unfortunately cannot provide personal follow-up to the larger candidate pool. Thanks for your understanding.
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