National Health Cluster Co-Coordinator-Afghanistan

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Phrases of reference

Job Title: Nationwide Well being Cluster Co-Coordinator

Code: SR-28-9324

Obligation station: Kabul, with frequent visits inside the Nation

Beginning date: 01/06/2024

Contract period: 12 months

Reporting to: Nation Director

Supervision of: n/a

Practical supervision: n/a

Sort of Obligation Station: Non-family obligation station

Normal context of the undertaking

According to the IASC World clusters guiding ideas and in step with the World Well being Cluster recognition of the significance and usefulness to create alternatives for co-coordination collaborations inside nationwide and sub-national well being clusters, INTERSOS is providing, with assist from ECHO, the chance to arrange a co-coordination workplace for the Nationwide Well being Cluster in Afghanistan.

The general function of co-coordination is to reinforce the timeliness and affect of acceptable humanitarian well being help for crisis-impacted communities and to strengthen the collective well being outcomes of the response.

The Well being Cluster Co-Coordinator shall be anticipated to work with the Well being Cluster Coordinator to assist the implementation of, monitor and consider efficiency towards the six core cluster features and accountability to affected populations. The Well being Cluster Co-Coordinator will make sure that companions take part in and assume their minimal commitments to the Well being Cluster (in step with the IASC Minimal Commitments for participation in clusters) by inserting Affected Populations on the centre of decision-making and motion.

The Well being Cluster, led by the WHO, has been lively in AFG since 2007 supporting well being sector coordination and repair supply focusing on 10.3 million of the 14.5 million folks in want of well being help in 2021. The Well being Cluster has 54 companions delivering well being help in 34 provinces, coordinated by 7 sub-national hubs.

The AFG Well being Cluster collectively prepares for and responds to humanitarian and public well being emergencies to enhance the well being outcomes of populations affected by the continued disaster by well timed, predictable, acceptable, and efficient coordinated well being motion. Working with nationwide and worldwide counterparts, the Well being Cluster is accountable for facilitating and coordinating the engagement of companions to ship high quality programmes and companies, responding to the affected populations based mostly on recognized wants.

Normal function of the place

The engagement of a nationwide co-coordinator by INTERSOS is aimed toward bettering possession of the operational response by companions and native authorities and have a significant involvement in co-leading an efficient humanitarian response which is tailored to the native context and carried out in robust collaboration with native communities and different stakeholders.

As already talked about, as for the co-coordination workplace function, the general function of co-coordinator is to reinforce the timeliness and affect of acceptable humanitarian well being help for crisis-impacted communities and to strengthen the collective well being outcomes of the response, in step with the six core cluster features:

1. To assist service supply.
2. To tell Well being Cluster/HCT’s strategic determination making.
3. To develop sectoral methods.
4. To watch and consider efficiency.
5. To construct nationwide capability in preparedness/ contingency planning.
6. To assist advocacy.

Foremost obligations and duties

The Well being Cluster Co-Coordinator will work in partnership along with his/her counterpart from the CLA (WHO) because the Well being Co-lead to supply management and facilitate the processes that may guarantee a well-coordinated, strategic, sufficient, coherent, and efficient response in AFG. The co-coordinator can even be accountable for guaranteeing that the NGO membership is contributing to and sharing cluster obligations and can play a lead position in growing lively engagement and technical capability of members of the Well being Cluster.

The next core features, beside different priorities set-up in the course of the interval of co-coordination, shall be carried out:

1. Strengthen pre-existing sectoral coordination by sustaining acceptable hyperlinks and dialogue with nationwide and native authorities, native civil society, and different related actors, respecting their respective mandates and programme priorities. Taking affordable measures to proactively have interaction with and assist NGOs concerned in well being packages to take part in cluster coordination and at every section of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle. Making certain that the Well being Cluster place is knowledgeable by the NGO perspective.
2. Lead and/or co-lead, coordinate and conduct well being wants assessments with the well being companions and different sectors (joint/multisectoral), to establish humanitarian well being wants of the goal populations.
3. Contribute successfully to inter-cluster coordination boards and cooperate with different clusters, Authorities counterparts, and related authorities (as acceptable) in planning, coordination, and operational actions, guaranteeing that the NGO group is contributing to and sharing obligations.
4. Guarantee safety and early restoration are mainstreamed and consciousness of the totally different wants and capacities of ladies, women, boys and males of all ages, folks with disabilities, and different variety traits comparable to ethnicity and faith are informing what we do, how we do it and with whom to advertise significant entry, security, and dignity in all phases of the well being sector response.
5. Take part actively in hole evaluation, precedence setting reinforcing the complementarity of associate actions by avoiding duplication and gaps, whereas guaranteeing that the well being sector/cluster responds in a harmonized and coherent method to the well being wants of all Afghans, throughout the nation, and independently from their location of residence or socio-cultural background.
6. Making certain sufficient and coordinated information assortment (Help in main the harmonization of well being data administration instruments amongst the cluster members), reporting and efficient data sharing, reflecting the agreed minimal requirements are in place and that each one companions contribute frequently to allow acceptable monitoring and analysis and overview the affect of the cluster actions and progress towards the strategic Well being Cluster aims.
7. Take part in evaluations of coordination mechanisms and their adaptation over time to mirror the evolving disaster and the capacities of native actors.
8. Convene and facilitate common Well being Cluster conferences, guaranteeing that discussions are participatory and outcomes oriented. Make sure that the NGO members of the cluster are stored absolutely knowledgeable of the conferences and any choices that will happen exterior of normal Well being Cluster conferences.
9. Promote the management roles of NGOs inside the cluster and make sure that all Well being Cluster working teams have lively nationwide and worldwide NGO participation to assist make sure that NGOs assist and affect the cluster’s work.
10. Promote/assist coaching and capability constructing of well being sector personnel, of companions and nationwide authorities.
11. Symbolize the pursuits of the Well being Cluster in discussions with stakeholders on priorities, useful resource mobilization and advocacy. Taking extra steps to make sure that the useful resource mobilization and advocacy efforts pretty represents and advantages NGOs in addition to the UN companies in assist of the agreed Well being Cluster technique.
12. Guarantee sufficient contingency planning, preparedness, and surge coordination, for brand new emergencies and seasonal adaptation of responses that mirror the precise and potential to scale-up capacities of all companions (native and worldwide).
13. The NGO Co-Coordinator ought to act as a focus for receiving NGO considerations to lift these with the Well being Cluster Coordinator and the Cluster Lead Company to strengthen accountability and transparency of the cluster’s choices and work.
14. Act as Well being Cluster Coordinator Officer in Cost at any time when wanted.
15. Help in offering assist and strategic path to AFG Well being Cluster/sector within the growth of the well being sector parts of HNO (Humanitarian Wants Overview), PMR (Periodic Monitoring Report), FTS (Monetary Monitoring Service), HRP (Humanitarian Response Plan), and different interagency planning and funding paperwork which might be a part of the IASC Humanitarian Program Cycle.
16. Promote adherence to requirements and finest practices by all Well being Cluster/sector working group companions within the cluster contemplating the necessity for native adaption. Promote use of the World Well being Cluster Information to make sure the applying of frequent approaches, instruments and requirements.
17. Guarantee acceptable hyperlinks amongst humanitarian actions and longer-term well being sector plans, incorporating particular threat discount measures.
18. Capability Constructing: Establish pressing coaching wants in relation to technical requirements and protocols for the supply of key well being companies to make sure their adoption and uniform software by all Well being Sector/Cluster companions within the cluster and coordinate the dissemination of key technical supplies and the group of workshops or in-service coaching. Organize/conduct direct coaching in well being for key nationwide and native stakeholders as possible, in step with agreed upon sectoral priorities within the work plan; within the case that direct entry shouldn’t be attainable, prepare for different, hybrid or blended studying approaches to capability constructing.

Required profile and expertise

Training

• Superior college diploma (Grasp’s stage or above) in Public Well being, Drugs or Worldwide Well being or associated fields.
• Well being Cluster Coordinator coaching.

Skilled Expertise

• Minimal of 4 years confirmed expertise engaged on well being points in humanitarian environments, together with provision of technical recommendation to area groups.
• Confirmed collaboration document of taking part in and contributing to well being cluster/sector conferences.
• Demonstrable expertise in advocacy and high-level negotiation expertise.
• Sturdy expertise with data administration as associated to the well being sector, together with sustaining requirements of impartiality and confidentiality with information of a delicate nature.

Skilled Necessities

• Staff participant/chief.
• Sturdy report writing expertise.
• Sturdy planning and organizational expertise.
• Wonderful management, coordination, capability constructing and analytical expertise
• Wonderful illustration expertise together with the event of robust interpersonal relationships to facilitate communication inside the cluster.
• Wonderful understanding of well being points in emergency conditions and detailed data of humanitarian ideas, tips and legal guidelines and the cluster system.

Languages

• Fluency in English with glorious verbal and written communication expertise

Private Necessities

• Means to prioritize, manage, handle, and adapt administration type in response to wants.
• Respectful and non-discriminatory angle.
• Good interpersonal and communication expertise.
• Sturdy facilitation expertise and expertise of growing facilitation expertise in others.
• Diplomatic with stakeholders.
• In a position to work efficiently below strain and talent to make well timed choices.
• Adaptable to restricted residing circumstances.
• In a position to create, promote and keep a extremely optimistic and collaborative work relation and setting.

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