Vacancy title:
Health Specialist

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Professional Services, Category: Health Professionals]

Jobs at:
National Child Development Agency ( NCD)

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, August 21 2025

Duty Station:
Rwanda | Kigali | Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 15 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Job Responsibilities

1. Monitoring and Evaluation

• Raising awareness of good health, diet and exercise through training and workshops
• Giving advice to members of Nutrition and WASH technical working group related to health
• Promotes intensive focus and innovative in all districts to bring about evidence for decision-making, improvements in coverage and quality of maternal and child health.
• Monitoring of the efficiency and effectiveness of response program to malnutrition for children under 6 years;
• Provide support to the Maternal and child feeding specialist in production of data base on health and nutrition,
• Provide support to the M&E specialist in Collection of data related to health
• Provide support to the M&E specialist in analysis of data related to Health and Nutrition
• Provide support to the M&E specialist in production of reports on results of analyzed data
• collaborate with the staff of the district, sector, cell, village having Health in its responsibilities.

2. Program Implementation

• Contribute in elaboration of guidelines/protocols of the Baby Friendly Hospitals Initiatives (BFHI); Baby‐Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) child scorecard, Nutrition for adolescent, Maternal, infant and young child nutrition
• Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles

3. Designing, managing and promoting health improvement program

• Capacity Building of health care providers at all levels on prevention and management of all forms of malnutrition
• Contribute and Support the production of training materials (training modules) of health care providers at all levels on prevention and management of all forms of malnutrition,
• Conduct trainings of health care providers at all levels on prevention and management of all forms of malnutrition
• Production of training reports;
• Contribute and support the development of supervision tools on Health and Nutrition
• Conduct supervision in Health and nutrition area
• Monitoring and evaluation in Health and Nutrition programs at all level,
• Periodic recycling on Health and Nutrition program,
• Organize quarterly and annual evaluation meetings of all activities related to Health and Nutrition interventions,
• Liaise with and provide technical support to government counterparts and non-governmental organizations implementing Health and Nutrition interventions

4. Work closely with other stakeholders in the area of the Health and Nutrition Interventions

• Collaborate with NTWG in preparation of trainings, workshops and meetings.
• Work in close collaboration with all stakeholders working in the area of health and nutrition through attending their meetings, workshops and trainings

5. Produce quarterly and ad-hoc reports on status of Health and Nutrition Interventions

• Produce reporting tools on Health and Nutrition interventions.
• Produce weekly report
• Produce any report requested in the area of Health and Nutrition Interventions.
• Perform any other duties assigned by his/her supervisor
• Compilation of monthly report for production, of quarterly and annual reports on Health and nutrition Interventions,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Health
  • 3 Years of relevant experience
• Master's Degree in Public Health
  • 1 Years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Global Health
  • 3 Years of relevant experience
• Master's Degree in Global Health
  • 1 Years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
  • 3 Years of relevant experience
• Master's degree of Nursing
  • 1 Years of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Decision making skills
• Time management skills
• Risk management skills
• Results oriented
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage.
• Risk Resource management skills
• Analytical skills;
• Problem solving techniques

Psychometric Languages

• English
• Français

Psychometric Domains

• Critical thinking
  • Competence / Skills
• Problem solving
  • Competence / Skills
• Decision making
  • Competence / Skills
• Analytical skills
  • Competence / Skills
• Time management
  • Competence / Skills

Knowledge/Awareness

• Behavior and attitude
• Processing speed
  • Behavior and attitude
• Empathy
  • Behavior and attitude
• Awareness of their own abilities
  • Aptitude
• Assertiveness
  • Communication skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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