Country Health and Nutrition Program Manager

About the role

The Country Health and Nutrition Program Manager provides strategic and technical leadership for World Vision Sudan’s health and nutrition portfolio, ensuring high‑quality design, implementation, monitoring and emergency response. The role drives strategy, sets programming standards and builds capacity of staff and partners to improve health outcomes, child wellbeing and community resilience.

Key responsibilities

• Provide continuous supportive supervision and remote monitoring of project staff to strengthen performance and accountability.
• Deliver targeted training and orientation based on identified capacity needs.
• Strengthen procurement and supply systems to avoid delays and improve implementation efficiency.
• Support MEAL and evidence‑based decision‑making by reviewing health and nutrition assessments, research and findings.
• Develop and maintain quality‑assurance tools such as reporting templates, supervision checklists, quick reference guides and monitoring charts.
• Lead technical design, implementation and monitoring of emergency and development health and nutrition programmes, ensuring alignment with humanitarian standards.
• Provide technical support for health and nutrition research, documentation, publication and dissemination.
• Develop capacity statements and contribute to funding proposals; engage with Ministry of Health, donors, UN agencies and other stakeholders to expand funding opportunities.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading health and nutrition programmes in humanitarian or development settings.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and build capacity of multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong knowledge of MEAL processes and evidence‑based programme management.
• Experience designing and implementing emergency response and development interventions.
• Ability to develop quality‑assurance systems and tools.
• Experience in resource mobilisation, proposal development and stakeholder engagement at national and regional levels.

Required skills