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Job: Save the Children seeks Health, Newborn and Child Survival Programme Manager, Liberia
Closing date: 25 September 2009
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent child rights organisation. We seek to make immediate and lasting change for children through a portfolio of high impact activities aimed at reducing child mortality.
The Save the Children Alliance has adopted a new strategic priority to expand our work on Newborn and Child Survival to help achieve Millennium Development Goal 4 - a two thirds reduction in child mortality. We work to ensure that children no longer die needlessly for want of access to quality essential health services, food and nutrition.We work to ensure that children realize their right to health and freedom from hunger regardless of economic or social status.
Save the Children UK has been fully operational in Liberia since 1991 with an emergency programme focusing on the immediate needs of children affected by war. The programme is at an exciting and interesting stage – moving from humanitarian and emergency interventions to long-term rehabilitation and development approaches with the aim of fulfilling the rights of Liberia children to health, education, and protection. Our work in health focuses on strengthening systems and capacity of government at national, county and community levels to deliver high quality primary health care services with particular focus on child and maternal health, reproductive and adolescent health. In addition we directly support 22 health clinics and five county health teams and through our health work we are improving management of GBV.
This vital role will see you steering the development and implementation of all aspects of the country’s Health, Newborn and Child Survival programme. You will prepare operational plans, budgets, and human resource plans; fundraise, and network at various levels within the country and region especially with Ministry of Health, donors, partners etc to strengthen our advocacy position and build our influence and profile. You will provide inspirational leadership to the national team and develop staff capacity to drive forward our health thematic plans.
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