Senior Health Promotion Project Officer – Tonga Health

1.      the evidence based design of program interventions

2.      quality control of stakeholders implementation of NCD Strategy interventions

3.      on-time collection and reporting of monitoring data

4.      continuous improvement of program implementation through a process of review and revision

5.      maintenance of healthy relationships between TongaHealth and their implementing partners (and other stakeholders as required)

6.      advocacy for TongaHealth functions and activities

Qualifications:

·          A minimum qualification of a Bachelor’s Degree in public health, health promotion or related fields.

Essential skills:

·         At least 3 years’ experience working in public health or health promotion or related fields.

·         A sound understanding of national and international policy frameworks for health promotion and public health.

·         Proven project management skills and experience in a relevant area.

·         Knowledge of social marketing and strategic health communications.

·         Demonstrated ability to maintain program focus, attain specified targets, work within budgets.

·         Excellent relationship building and communication skills.

·         Proven administrative and organizational skills.

·         establish/use existing TongaHealth design templates and processes as required

·         conduct research and policy analysis to support problem identification and situational analysis

·         contribute to the generation of ideas and participate in the setting of targets and priorities

·         contribute to program design and evaluation processes

·         ensure key due diligence measures are built into partnership agreements, designs and work-plan (e.g. child protection, finance, GESI)

·         ensure partners have the skills and understanding to comply with partnership agreement requirements

·         assess the capacity of implementing partners to ensure that work-plans are realistic and achievable

·         ensure work-plans and budget have sufficient details for transparent, effective delivery

·         find cost effective solutions to identify and fill implementing partners capacity needs

·         ensure all implementing partners have a nominated contact point

·         monitor and track progress and manage any implementation delays or problems

·         helping to facilitate quarterly stakeholder meetings to collate and compile quarterly reports

·         advising the M&E team of any problems or concerns that are picked up during regular communication with partners

·         liaising with the M&E team and partners to identify the training, mentoring and support needs of partners

·         managing workshop logistics

·         working with the M&E team to collate and and share relevant monitoring and evaluation documentation

·         developing workshop agenda and presentation content

·         documenting and sharing workshop outcomes

·         assisting to (in collaboration with implementing partners) finalise annual work-plans and budgets

·         acting as the communication focal point for implementing partners in their dealings with TongaHealth

·         ensuring that TongaHealth communicates, meets, mentors and supports partners regularly

·         using tools such as Health in All Policy Reviews to liaise with key stakeholders, particularly government departments, to ensure investments value add to existing work, avoid duplication and contribute to overarching objectives of both organisations

·         working with stakeholder to develop and document a process for managing and reporting non-performance of implementing partners against agreed work-plans, budgets and M&E frameworks and imbed the process in partnership agreements

·         ensuring regular sharing of relevant information and learning

·         working with partners to promote their role in implementing the National NCD Strategy

·         contributing to the development of TongaHealth’s advocacy strategy

·         identifying monitoring data that can be translated into communication pieces for government, donors and the community

·         liaising and supporting stakeholders and partners in relation to advocacy activities

·         contributing to the development of advocacy strategies preparing material for workshops, conferences, the media and for publication

·         consistent delivery of TongaHealth ‘key messages’

·         ensure the on time advertising of grants

·         ensure the equitable selection of recipients and partners

·         build the skills of implementing partners to manage the grant process relevant to their sector, including through the development of agreed policy and procedures for community grant management