Health and Nutrition Advisor

The Health and Nutrition Advisor will play a critical role in ensuring the technical quality and effectiveness of Save the Children’s health and nutrition programs in Pakistan. Reporting to the Director Influencing & Impact, this position involves providing expert guidance to project teams and partners across implementation provinces to achieve program objectives in both curative and preventive health interventions. The advisor will lead thematic project implementation, support capacity building, and contribute to donor mapping and fundraising efforts aligned with organizational targets. Frequent field visits and collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders, including government and advocacy groups, are essential to promote program coherence and innovation. The role also includes representing Save the Children in national forums and ensuring adherence to child safeguarding and accountability standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Support the country office’s strategic direction on health, nutrition, and population by analyzing local contexts and integrating Save the Children’s theory of change and best practices.
- Lead the development of high-quality proposals, including technical write-ups, log frames, and budgets, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and sector standards.
- Provide technical oversight and backstopping for project implementation, including developing project scopes, standard operating procedures, beneficiary assessment criteria, and terms of reference for evaluations.
- Ensure program quality by establishing thematic benchmarks, conducting spot checks, and leading improvement plans with partners.
- Build capacity of field teams and partners through training, mentoring, and development of relevant tools and materials.
- Collaborate closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) team to maintain robust systems for tracking project outcomes and quality assurance.
- Lead assessments, mid-term and final evaluations, and prepare donor progress and completion reports.
- Engage with stakeholders including donors, government ministries, working groups, and task forces to foster strategic partnerships and ensure program alignment.
- Represent Save the Children in national and provincial health and nutrition technical working groups and other relevant forums.
- Develop risk mitigation strategies and provide solutions to technical challenges during project implementation.
- Uphold child safeguarding, health and safety, and anti-harassment policies in all aspects of work.

Required Qualifications

- MBBS degree and a Master’s degree in Public Health.
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in health and nutrition technical advisory roles or managing related programs.
- Strong knowledge of globally accepted standards and practices in health and nutrition, including iCCM, CMAM, IYCF-E, and SBCC.
- Proven ability to develop high-quality concept papers and project proposals.
- Excellent communication skills with diverse stakeholders, from decision-makers to field practitioners.
- Demonstrated expertise in program development, training design and delivery, community facilitation, networking, and influencing.

Preferred Qualifications and Additional Information

- Experience with cash programming, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) is highly desirable.
- Experience promoting children’s participation in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
- Commitment to Save the Children’s values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity.
- The role requires adherence to strict child safeguarding policies and rigorous background checks.
- Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer encouraging applications from minorities, indigenous groups, women, and persons with disabilities.

Candidates meeting the qualifications will be considered for interview. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.