Health Officer (NO-2), FT, #133659, Maradi - Niger, WCAR

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For every child, the right to Health

How can you make a difference?

As the Health Officer, you will report to the Health/CSD/Nutrition Specialist/Manager or Chief for supervision. You provide professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities: 

1.    Support to programme development and planning
2.    Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results
3.    Technical and operational support to programme implementation
4.    Networking and partnership building
5.    Innovation, kn...