Technical Advisor II – Inclusive Development, Gaza Health Activity At Catholic Relief Services

Job Title: Technical Advisor II – Inclusive Development, Gaza Health Activity

Job Location: Gaza

Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party

Salary Grade: 11

**The position is contingent upon successful bidding and donor agreement**

About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

Project Summary:

The Gaza Health Activity, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is a 5-year project that aims to address the critical healthcare needs resulting from the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The project’s primary objective is to restore and enhance essential health services. This may include restoration of activities in the following health sectors: basic and emergency curative health services, primary health care (obstetric services; mother and child health, communicable disease control; immunizations; supplementary feeding programs, non-communicable and chronic diseases, etc.), secondary health care, physical trauma and tertiary care, mental health, psycho-social support, and rehabilitation.

Job Summary:

As a technical advisor for inclusive development to the Gaza Health Activity you will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to ensure the design and implementation of project activities in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your technical knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to the effectiveness, adaptiveness and innovativeness of the project’s inclusive health activities and ensure that project approaches and strategies are aligned with an equitable development approach.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and implementation of inclusive strategies, standards, tools, and best practices for the Gaza Health Activity that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating inclusive development, community involvement, gender, disability, youth, and protection mainstreaming.
• Provide technical solutions to the Gaza Health Activity for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation.
• Lead regular assessments and analysis to inform the project’s inclusive development activities to ensure the project and its health activities are serving underrepresented groups and make programming recommendations accordingly.
• Provide ongoing technical support to project teams to ensure inclusive development in the implementation of interventions to specifically address health services needs of marginalized and underrepresented groups, including mental health, disability inclusion, and rehabilitation services.
• Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in inclusive development programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching project staff.
• Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing project data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports.
• Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research, and other institutions. Participate in forums in the area of inclusive development, health, and protection to collect and share best practices and promote the work of the Gaza Health Activity.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public heath, international development, international relations, or a field related to inclusion in development required.
• Minimum of five years relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of three years working for programming interventions in inclusive health programming.
• Demonstrated application of technical principles and concepts in inclusive health programming. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Experience in project design and proposal development in inclusion, integrated programming, protection, or health, including technical writing.
• Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation and training applying adult learning principles and practices.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

Required Languages – Fluency in written and spoken English required; language skills in Arabic a plus.

Travel – the position will be based in Gaza, when possible. Frequent travel into Gaza on regular rotation will be required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Experience designing and delivering trainings to external stakeholders in inclusive practices such as the social model of disability, gender sensitivity, youth engagement and principles of resilience and inclusive development.
• Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented.

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

Agency competencies clarify expected behaviors and attitudes for all staff. When demonstrated, they create an engaging workplace, help staff achieve their best, and help CRS achieve agency goals. These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity – Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust – Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

Supervisory Responsibilities: To Be Determined

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: Deputy Chief of Party**,** Head of Programs, Head of Office, Program Managers, Field Teams, Head of Operations.

External: Consorcia partners, USAID, coordinating bodies, clusters, and other local health, inclusion, and protection actors.