Job Purpose
The Health Technical Project Manager is responsible for providing technical leadership, quality assurance, and day-to-day management of Organization of Human Welfare (OHW)’s Health and Nutrition projects, with a strong focus on Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) implementation.
The position ensures that health and nutrition interventions are technically sound, compliant with national and donor requirements, evidence-based, and effectively implemented across targeted provinces. The role supports project design, monitoring, reporting, coordination, and capacity strengthening to ensure high-quality primary health care and nutrition services aligned with MoPH policies, humanitarian standards, and OHW strategic objectives.
Key Responsibilities;
1. Technical Leadership, Project Implementation & Quality Assurance
- Provide technical oversight and guidance for Health and Nutrition projects, particularly BPHS-related interventions, in line with MoPH policies, national strategies, and international standards (WHO, SPHERE, UNICEF).
- Ensure high-quality implementation of primary health care, nutrition, RMNCH, disease prevention, and health system strengthening activities.
- Support the development, rollout, and enforcement of standard operating procedures (SOPs), clinical guidelines, and supervision tools.
- Conduct regular technical field supervision, supportive monitoring, and mentoring visits to assess service quality, identify gaps, and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure consistent use of national monitoring tools, including National Monitoring Checklists, IP monitoring tools, HMIS/DHIS2, and relevant cluster guidance.
- Strengthen the technical capacity of health staff through trainings, coaching, and on-the-job mentorship.
- Promote effective integration of nutrition, gender, protection, safeguarding, and Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) within health programming.
- Coordinate with logistics, finance, and operations teams to ensure compliance with procurement, financial, and operational standards.
- Contribute to the design of health and nutrition projects, including needs assessments, baseline studies, and feasibility assessments.
3. Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)
- Ensure all health and nutrition projects have strong MEAL frameworks aligned with donor and cluster standards.
- Work closely with the MEAL team to ensure accurate data collection, validation, analysis, and use for program improvement.
- Monitor project indicators, outputs, and outcomes, ensuring timely corrective actions where performance gaps are identified.
- Lead or support monthly and quarterly project review meetings with field teams.
- Oversee documentation of lessons learned, best practices, PDMs, assessments, and evaluations.
- Ensure timely submission of program updates, donor reports, and cluster reporting.
- Support field teams in developing Success Stories / Significant Change Stories on a quarterly basis.
- Ensure monitoring and evaluation findings are systematically incorporated into program adaptation and future project design.
4. Coordination, Representation & Stakeholder Engagement
- Represent OHW at national, provincial, and district-level health and nutrition cluster meetings, technical working groups, and coordination forums.
- Maintain strong working relationships with MoPH, provincial health authorities, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, and community stakeholders.
- Support Project Coordinators and field teams in sharing achievements, challenges, and lessons learned during coordination meetings.
- Participate in project inception, review, and close-out meetings.
- Represent OHW during donor visits, government missions, and external monitoring visits to project sites.
5. Accountability, Safeguarding & Compliance
- Ensure full compliance with OHW policies, safeguarding standards, Code of Conduct, AAP frameworks, and donor regulations.
- Promote safe, inclusive, and ethical programming practices across all health interventions.
- Support community engagement and awareness, including dissemination of Complaints and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) information.
Ensure community feedback and complaints are documented, reviewed, and integrated into project improvements.
