Action against Hunger is an international non-governmental, private, apolitical, non-religious and non-profit organization created in 1979. Its goal is to combat hunger and dangerous situations that threaten men, women and children. Currently 500 expats and more than 5,000 employees are working for Action against Hunger in more than forty-six countries working in projects concerning four areas of focus: nutrition, health, food security and water and sanitation.

In Lebanon, the Syrian crisis continues to generate political, social, and economic pressure due to the war in Lebanon and keeps more than 1.5 million refugees in a situation of increasing vulnerability. In this environment of political, economic, and social uncertainty, our teams have maintained their high levels of humanitarian response and aid to Lebanon. Likewise, our interventions have been maintained in the Bekaa and northern areas, as well as in the south of the country, with a special focus on working in partnership or in consortium with other organizations and on institutional strengthening of the relationship with both donors. institutional, such as with local authorities and entities.

Position Title: Health Delegate - Tyre

Background: Nutrition, Public Health, or other related field.

Under the supervision of the Health and Nutrition Head of Project (HoP), the Health Delegate will serve as the main AAH focal point with hospitals, leading health activities related emergency services, pediatric acute lifesaving care, wasting, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) overseeing nutrition activities at the community level, supervising CHOWs to build their counselling capacities, and following up on their daily activities.
The Health Delegate will ensure that all activities and approaches are consistent and relevant to achieving the program objectives.

Objective 1: Ensure timely and quality implementation of health activities (40%)

Lead the implementation process of the tracking system for referrals between community, PHCCs, PSUs, and hospitals
Monitor AAH activities in the supported hospitals through daily field visits for data collection, feedback, assessments, and follow up on health services.
Monitor the implementation of Health program according to the program workplan and logical frameworks that meet the contractual agreements and the quality standards of Action Against Hunger
Participate in lessons learnt sessions to address challenges, capitalize good practices and highlight success stories taking into account the expectations of the community and the primary health care workers;
Participate in establishing/improving the referral system for secondary and specialized services to ensure timely referrals for emergency care.

Objective 2: Capacity Building for Community Health Outreach Workers - CHOWs (15%)

Lead the recruitment for CHOWs in close coordination with HoP and HR department
Train the CHOWs on Nutrition- Health curriculum and improve their capacity
Train the CHOWs on the vulnerability assessment to prioritize the high risk and vulnerable pregnant women
Supervise the CHOWs while conducting the nutrition activities to ensure proper implementation
Evaluate the CHOWs work and prepare an improvement plan once needed.

Objective 3: Support the nutrition activities targeting pregnant women, children under 5 years, and their caregivers (10%)

Support the IYCF-ECD counselling for pregnant women and caregivers of children aged 0–23 months
Develop the capacity-building plan for CHOWs to enable them to provide IYCF counselling
Support in the distribution of BMS kits and nutrition supplements
Develop IEC materials related to the nutrition activities

Objective 4: Quality monitoring of the activities, needs analysis and adapting approaches, accountability (15%)

Ensure that the activities and approaches are consistent and relevant to reach programme objectives, and report to the line manager any deviation
Maintain a beneficiary database/data collection with the line manager
Ensure proper quality monitoring of the interventions, including collaboration with MEAL Department

Objective 5: Reporting and archiving (20%)

Using Activity info, or other chosen tool, compile beneficiary information and other appropriate data collected for reporting purposes. Store hard and soft copies, follow Action Against Hunger internal archiving guidance and following donor requirements.
Provide verbal and written reports, on a daily and weekly basis, on conducted activities, including type of support provided, targets reached, progress at work, follow-ups conducted, referrals made, challenges faced, lessons learned and needs
Ensure proper, accurate and timely archiving of all the means of verification of the project and other technical project documentation (soft and hard copies)
Ensure proper documentation of challenges, lessons learned and best practices

Objective 6: Security

Respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan and comply with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols.
Communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or noncompliance with the security plan
Objective 7: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger
Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities
Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities
Promote gender equality within the humanitarian and/or development work
Attend meetings and trainings as needed

Objective 8: Gender & Safeguarding (cross-cutting)

Promote safe and equitable environments, through knowledge and application of the protocol against harassment and gender policy.
Knowledge and compliance with safeguarding policy.
Promote gender equality within the humanitarian and/or development work

Training/ Education: BS/MSc. in nursing, midwifery, or related medical/health background

Technical specific knowledge:

Knowledge of pediatric emergency care,
NICU/PICU services,
pediatric acute admissions,
SRH services,
referral pathways,
and relevant national clinical guidelines.

Previous experience: Experience at hospital-based healthcare services, nutrition, CHOWs management

Humanitarian sector knowledge: NGO experience is a plus, experience in working with Syrian refugees, vulnerable Lebanese and other refugees is desirable

Action Against the Hunger Knowledge: Previous knowledge of Action Against Hunger policies, strategy, and previous interventions in the country is an asset.

Languages:Native Arabic speaker and fluency in English are a must

IT and specific systems: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

Mobility (national/ international): National

Duty Station: The duty station is officially in Tyre office, from Monday to Friday.

Action against Hunger is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work such as but not limited to sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and/or financial misconduct; We expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through endorsing our code of conduct and other related policies and only those who share our values and code of conduct will be recruited to work for us.