Health Advisor

About the role

World Vision Malawi's Health Advisor leads the organisation's health and nutrition programming, supporting integrated health, nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in coordination with the WASH Manager. The role sits within the Business Development and Impact technical team and works with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning, Finance, Communications, sector advisors, local partners and Operations. It is a fixed-term local position based in Lilongwe.

Key responsibilities

• Resource mobilisation: track opportunities, develop fundable health, nutrition and WASH concepts, map donors and government priorities, and lead technical contributions to proposals
• Engage bilateral and multilateral donors, development banks, UN agencies and World Vision Support Offices, including the Global Fund and Gavi, and maintain a funding pipeline and engagement tracker
• Prepare and run donor and government meetings, document minutes and follow up actions
• Provide technical guidance, standards and tools across 28 Area Development Programmes and grant-funded and emergency programmes, and support M&E colleagues in developing assessment and monitoring tools
• Contribute to programme design, including needs assessments, theories of change, results frameworks and costed budgets
• Represent World Vision Malawi in national and district health and nutrition coordination mechanisms, including the Health Cluster, and maintain the coordination tracker
• Develop partnerships with local organisations, ministries and institutions, including drafting and following up memoranda of understanding

Required profile

• Master's degree in Public Health, Health Systems, Nutrition, Nursing, Medicine or a related field; a relevant bachelor's degree with substantial additional experience may be considered
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in health, nutrition or WASH programme design, technical advisory, programme quality or partnership development
• Demonstrated donor and government engagement, proposal design and sector coordination experience
• Experience working with local partners and government health structures in multi-sector, grant-funded, sponsorship-funded and/or humanitarian programmes
• Knowledge of Malawi's health system and policies, and of integrated community and facility-based programming, safeguarding, gender and disability inclusion, and results-based M&E

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Standard programme design and reporting tools
• Strong facilitation, analytical, writing and relationship-building skills