This role is open to the nationals of the Country where the role is based

About us

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

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About the role

The role sits in the International Development Programme role family and is based in the Burundi Country Office. The role is responsible for managing all health-related projects. It also involves appraising, monitoring, and reviewing partners’ projects and programmes and offering technical support while at the same time strengthening the relations between CA and its partners in the health area.

The position holder is responsible of managing the health portfolio and develop it according to the country strategy and global strategy.

The owner of the position has the role of all health-related projects and advocacy endeavours of the organization in the sector.

The post holder is responsible for supporting Christian Aid's portfolio of partnerships and projects related to health, nutrition within CA Burundi Program:

To support the development of Christian Aid health program policy and strategy by providing the programme team with partner feedback.

To contribute to the representation of Christian Aid at country/regional/divisional level.

To shoulder responsibility for the capacity-building of partners.

To help ensure that health projects resources and planned project activities are undertaken within budget and time frame which enable impact and direct benefit to target communities.

To work with the country /thematic programme management team to support delivery of projects to the highest standards possible and in line with the country, divisional and organisational strategy in health.

To act as the interface between participating partners and Christian Aid and/or donors including coordinating feedback, representation in key stakeholders’ meetings and contributing to strengthening of partner relationships

To participate in identification, documentation of advocacy needs in the health sector

About you

Relations

External:  Builds a network of internal and external contacts and/or maintain established relationships with representatives of external bodies on behalf of Christian Aid.

Internal: Will be involved in developing new relationships requiring skills in advising, guiding, discussing, and developing shared understanding of the health sector based on context evolution.

Decision making: Activities or decisions impact on the effectiveness of operations internally and/or quality of service within a department, or the department’s ability to meet specific departmental objectives

Analytical skills:  Tasks involve analysis and choosing between options, where the solution is not always obvious and where considerable initiative and judgement is required.

You must have the following attitude:

Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating CA’s mandate.

Formulate written information clearly and persuasively.

Contributes into results through primary research and analysis.

Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up to date.

Generates new ideas and approaches, research best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things.

Establishing effective client relationships.

Proactive, problem solving and result oriented attitude.

Shares information openly with co-workers and partners while using discretion to protect confidences.

High level of self-awareness and responsibility and initiative.

Sound judgment and ability to lead, develop and inspire others.

Flexible and adaptable.

Sensitivity to interpersonal and intercultural relationships.

Able to work under pressure and within strict deadlines.

Demonstrated ability in supervision.

Solid proposals writing skills

Experience in managing donor funds.

Good planning and organizational skills with attention to detail.

Competency questions 

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

1. Please tell us about a time when you had to coordinate work where there conflicting demands on both time and resources and where you had to negotiate and adapt resources requirements accordingly 

What was the context?  What were the conflicting demands? 

What was your role?  What was expected of you?

What action(s) did you take?  Why?  How?

What were the results?  In what way(s) were you successful?  How did you know?

2. Please give us an example of a time when you took a long-term strategic perspective while recognising that short term decisions might compromise future options. 

What was the context?  Why was it important to take a long-term strategic perspective?

What was your responsibility?

What actions did you take?  Why?

What was the impact?  Were you successful?  How did you know?

3. Tell us about a time when you had to apply a range of negotiating and influencing skills to secure an agreement with a diverse group of people or stakeholders where there was little common ground? 

What was the situation?  What was the challenge?  Why were advanced skills needed?

What was your specific role?

What strategies did you employ?  Why?  How effective were they?

What were the results?  Did you secure an agreement?  If so, what was the critical factor?

Further information

At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.

We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams.

We have a strong Christian ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths and none (with the exception of Director positions where there is a genuine occupational requirement to be a practicing Christian - Exempted under the Equality Act 2010).

All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Christian Aid is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment for every person connected to the work we do; and to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour including sexual harassment and exploitation, abuse, and financial misconduct. Any candidate offered a job with Christian Aid is expected to share and demonstrate our values and adhere to Christian Aid’s Safeguarding policy and sign Christian Aid’s Code of Conduct.

You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits, including a generous holiday allowance and flexibility that will ensure you enjoy a good work/life balanc