Job Description
Regional Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor
Job Family
OOC Programs
Job Function
Health and Nutrition Programming
Career Track
Technical Specialist
Job Level
Senior Technical Advisor Level
Job Title
Regional Health and Nutrition Technical Advisor
Reporting Line
Dual: Rwanda Enterprise Director and Sudan Enterprise Director
Supervises
Rwanda Health Technical Advisor, all medical doctors
Career Path
Senior Technical Leadership
Status
Full time
Duty Station/Location
Kigali, Rwanda
On-site, hybrid, remote
On-site
Travel expectations
50%+/ Position based in Rwanda with frequent visits to sites throughout Rwanda and to Sudan
About Alight
Our mission and purpose
Alight’s purpose is to inspire and unleash abundance in every person, and our mission is to build a meaningful life for and with the displaced. This means not simply addressing basic needs, but building lives filled with joy, dignity, and connection.
Our approach: co-creation
Alight takes a collaborative, human-centered approach. Unlike traditional humanitarian aid, we co-create solutions hand in hand with displaced communities, who know best what they need.
Role Purpose
This position will provide technical leadership across both Rwanda and Sudan, adapting its focus to country-specific priorities and operational contexts while ensuring health and nutrition programs are implemented in line with national policies, humanitarian standards, and global best practices.
In Rwanda, as GoR plans to transition into the Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) system, the role will support both high-quality health and nutrition service delivery and strategic health systems integration. This is critical in positioning Alight as a trusted partner in supporting refugee inclusion, strengthening health system performance, and ensuring services meet national technical and quality-of-care standards.
In Sudan, the role will focus on strengthening the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of health and nutrition service delivery in a complex humanitarian context. The position will provide technical oversight of program design and implementation, strengthen staff capacity, and support timely, evidence-based responses to public health and emergency needs. Working closely with program teams, health partners, and relevant authorities, the role will ensure interventions align with national guidelines and humanitarian standards while improving program quality, coordination, and measurable impact for vulnerable populations.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership in Health and Nutrition Service Delivery
- Provide overall technical guidance and oversight of health and nutrition programs across Alight-supported locations.
- Ensure health and nutrition services comply with national guidelines, protocols, and quality standards.
- Support the design, implementation, and monitoring of evidence-based health and nutrition interventions.
- Strengthen the quality of maternal, child health, nutrition, and community health services.
- Support supportive supervision, clinical mentorship, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
- Monitor program performance and recommend technical improvements to enhance service delivery outcomes.
- Ensure effective coordination of health and nutrition activities at facility and community levels.
2. Strengthening Coordination Between Health Stakeholders
- Build and maintain strong relationships with ministries, hospitals, district health offices, and implementing partners.
- Coordinate collaboration between Alight, the Government of Rwanda, MINEMA, UNHCR, and community health actors.
- Represent Alight in national and district health and nutrition coordination forums and technical working groups.
- Facilitate joint planning, coordination, and information sharing among stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment of program activities with national health and nutrition strategies and sector priorities.
3. Supporting Integration of Refugees into the National Health System (CBHI)
- Support the onboarding of refugees into the Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) system when it happens.
- Contributes to the development and implementation of health system integration strategies and transition plans.
- Strengthening referral pathways between refugee health services and national health facilities
- Support coordination with government and partners to ensure smooth integration of services into national systems.
- Monitor progress of integration activities and provide technical recommendations for improvement.
4. Leading Health Systems Strengthening Initiatives
- Identify gaps in service delivery, system performance, and workforce capacity.
- Support the development and implementation of health system strengthening and quality improvement plans.
- Strengthening health workforce capacity through targeted training, mentorship, and supportive supervision
- Improve supply chain coordination and service delivery processes.
- Support health facility readiness and performance improvement initiatives.
5. Managing Cross-Sector Integration
- Promote integration of health and nutrition services to ensure holistic and patient-centered service delivery.
- Strengthening referral systems across sectors, including nutrition, protection, and community services
- Support coordination of multi-sector interventions within Alight to address comprehensive community health needs.
- Ensure vulnerable populations receive integrated and continuous care.
6. Capacity Building and Technical Leadership
- Develop and implement capacity-building plans for health and nutrition staff in Alight.
- Provide ongoing technical coaching and mentorship to Alight health workers and program teams.
- Develop technical guidelines, training materials, and job aids.
- Facilitate technical learning sessions and knowledge-sharing platforms.
- Strengthening technical competencies of staff to improve service delivery quality
7. Risk Management, Preparedness, and System Resilience
- Identify operational and public health risks that may affect service delivery.
- Support development and implementation of contingency and emergency preparedness plans.
- Coordinate response activities during disease outbreaks and public health emergencies.
- Ensure continuity of essential health and nutrition services during crises.
- Strengthening resilience of health and nutrition systems at facility and community levels
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Nutrition, Global Health, Health Systems Management, Medicine, Nursing, or a related field
- Professional training or certification in health systems strengthening, humanitarian health, or nutrition programming.
- Strong knowledge of national health systems, public health policy, and health financing mechanisms such as insurance or social protection schemes
- Technical understanding of humanitarian standards and frameworks including Sphere Standards, WHO guidelines, and donor compliance requirements
- Knowledge of refugee health programming and integration approaches within national systems
Skills and Competencies
- Strong coordination and leadership skills with proven ability to work across multiple technical areas simultaneously, supporting multiple staff members, and effectively managing multiple priorities.
- Strong technical leadership in health and nutrition programming and health systems strengthening.
- Strategic stakeholder management and ability to influence government, UN agencies, donors, and implementing partners.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into practical program improvements.
- Capacity building, coaching, and team development across diverse and multi-country teams
- Excellent coordination and project management skills in complex humanitarian and development settings
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical reporting and donor engagement.
Experience
- 5-7 years of experience in managing and implementing health programs in humanitarian or emergency settings. Five (5) or more years of staff management experience is preferred.
- Experience in analyzing and interpreting health data and writing reports to a high technical standard.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in health and nutrition programming within humanitarian, development, or refugee response settings
- Proven experience working with government health systems, ministries of health, and health system integration initiatives.
- Experience supporting refugee or displacement-focused programming, particularly within UNHCR or INGO environments.
- Demonstrated experience in health financing or systems integration initiatives such as insurance schemes, primary healthcare strengthening, or national service alignment.
- Experience leading technical program quality, monitoring standards, and evidence-based service improvement.
- Experience working across multiple countries or complex emergency settings, preferably in East Africa and fragile contexts such as Sudan.
Values Alignment
You are curious and truly listen. You appreciate the complexities of human beings. You ask questions, seek information, and dig deeper into understanding a problem holistically before working to solve it. You enter a space with humility and an eagerness to learn.
You believe shared ownership creates better outcomes. You trust displaced customers to guide the way forward. You’re open to new and different possibilities, are motivated in what an abundant future could hold, and you generate ideas sparked from insight – and foster spaces that are safe for others to generate their ideas too. You bring others in, build ecosystems, and share power with those who care about this more than you do. You adapt your work to make space for others.
You embrace transformation. You recognize and honor that our work centers people – a constantly changing and complex customer within a constantly changing and complex world. And so too, we must constantly change. You believe in the abundance of human beings and you understand that to unleash that abundance, we must bravely enter a bold new chapter capable of transforming the future.
You value beauty. You believe a meaningful life includes joy, dignity, and connection. You place weight on the experience people have – of a place, a space, a person, a service. You strive to create things that are human-worthy and you believe quality should be determined by those experiencing it.
Alight is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, or protected veteran status. Alight complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
