Health and Nutrition Project Manager
Starting Date / Initial Contract Details
April 2026, Full time, 12 months
Role Summary
The Health and Nutrition Project Manager oversees the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health and nutrition projects, ensuring alignment with objectives, timelines, and budgets. They provide technical leadership, support system strengthening, and coordinates with stakeholders. The role includes managing and training staff to uphold quality standards in program delivery. They also contribute to proposal development and reporting for future health and nutrition initiatives.
Project Overview
The Emergency Response Team (ERT) works across South Sudan in response to acute emergencies: displacement due to conflict or disasters, returnee/refugee influxes, disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and emergency level malnutrition. The ERT has teams across three sectors- Health, Nutrition, and WASH, with teams often working together in field sites. Multiple emergency response sites may be active at any given time.
Workplace & Conditions
Field based position in Juba, South Sudan with travel to field locations as needed. Working and living conditions may be very basic and require great resilience especially in field locations.
Responsibilities:
• Health and Nutrition Project Management
- Oversee the full cycle of health and nutrition project management- from strategic planning and goal setting to execution, monitoring, and reporting, while ensuring alignment with budget, timelines, beneficiary engagement, donor and Medair requirements.
- Provide strong leadership by collaborating with other sectors, health and nutrition advisors, managers, field teams, and communities to design responsive project proposals based on assessed needs and gaps.
• Staff Management
- Line-manage the assigned project staff, including day-to-day management, coaching and technical supervision, development and training, appraisals, etc. in order to develop ownership and full responsibility.
- Facilitate regular meetings to assist information sharing between project staff, to ensure all staff members are aware of project objectives and current work plans and to provide the opportunity for feedback
• Coordination and Communication
- Develop and maintain appropriate, regular, transparent and supportive communication structures with the field/base teams, Medair in-country and HQ advisors and other relevant stakeholders.
- Participate in health and nutrition coordination meetings, Medair internal trainings and other working groups or meetings, representing Medair and providing feedback to the field and coordination teams.
• Logistics
- Support the logistics activities of the program e.g. purchasing of medicines, supplies and equipment for the assigned activities and ensuring that there is enough buffer stock to prevent stock outages.
- Ensure that items procured or released from the core pipeline supplies are transported, stored, managed and accounted for correctly.
• Financial and Quality Management
- Manage the budget for the assigned project(s) and ensure all expenses align with the budget and meet the Medair and donor standards.
- Ensure health and nutrition projects are implemented in line with donor proposals and requirements and in accordance with Medair, donor, country and international standards i.e. Sphere and HAP standards.
Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:
- Clinical degree (nurse or doctor), and/or Public Health degree.
- Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written).
- At least 3 years’ experience in managing programmes in international public health work, with at least 1 year in humanitarian emergency context
- At least 2 years’ experience working in a nutrition programme in a developing country preferably within an emergency context
- Computer literate with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of humanitarian principles, Sphere and CHS Standards.
Behavioural Skills
- Strong servant leadership skills with a consultative management style.
- Excellent problem-solving ability and attention to detail.
- Team-player with good communication and inter-personal skills.
- Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritising and delegating as required.
- Able to develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed. Advertised on Jobupfree.