SSBH is recruiting new team members to plan, manage and deliver technical and material support for the Government of Nepal’s (GoN) response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

No of Positions: 1

Location: Surkhet, Karnali Province

Project: Strengthening Systems for Better Health Activity

Supervisor: Health Emergency Response Manager  

The Program Support Officer reports to the Health Emergency Response Manager, and will perform regular support in correspondence to the team and government counterparts, record keeping, organizing events and training, documentation and managing the cross-learning visits. Specific tasks include:

• Provide technical, logistical and, when required, administrative backstopping to the SSBH’s province team to support project implementation.  
• Provide assistance to the province team in compilation of project reports, province-wise data generation and preparing deliverables on routine basis.  
• Support district team to produce success stories, case studies, document them and include the selected story in routine report.
• Maintain hard copies and electronic versions of project archives, guidelines generated by project and GoN, including orientation, training and workshop reports, consultant’s documents, project deliverables, minutes of meetings, and project progress reports.
• Support Health Emergency Response Manager in preparing district/province-wise major project progress and upcoming plan to share within or outside the project. 
• Support drafting of letters and maintain records of official correspondence between project and government of Nepal offices, and other key stakeholders.  
• Support in preparing logistic distribution plan to the district in close coordination with district team and administrative team of province and center. 
• Support Monitoring and Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team in collecting and synthesizing the data from the districts and province. 
• Support admin and finance team to follow up with program teams to collect any missing documents that is urgent for advance release, settlement and reimbursement.
  

Position requires up to 20% travel to SSBH operational areas in the districts of Karnali and Lumbini Provinces.

Skills Prerequisites:

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or related field.
• Minimum four years of relevant experience 
• Ability and willingness to work/travel in remote areas within short notice in the context of COVID-19 and working on tight deadlines with multiple priorities. 
• Strong organizational and computer proficiency skills including Nepali typing, preparing PowerPoint slides, and proficiency in Database management using Excel and/or other database management platforms 
• Demonstrated knowledge of the public health system in Nepal, along with a solid understanding of the federal system of government.
• Excellent writing and editing skills in English.

SSBH is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender and culture. Individuals from minority groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further selection process. Canvassing at any stage of the processes shall lead to automatic disqualification.