Job Purpose
The Project Manager (National), based in the field Offices (Nangarhar & Herat), is responsible for providing strategic leadership, technical oversight, and overall management of integrated Health and Nutrition project, ensuring effective planning, implementation, monitoring, coordination, and reporting in compliance with donor requirements, national policies, organizational standards, and international humanitarian principles. The position oversees the delivery of project activities within approved work plans, budgets, and timelines, while ensuring quality, accountability, and achievement of project objectives. Serving as the primary focal point for coordination and representation, the Project Manager maintains strong partnerships with government line departments, public health authorities, Health and Nutrition Clusters, humanitarian actors, and other key stakeholders, and leads field-level engagement, technical presentations, MoU development and presentation, and coordination mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
· Technical Leadership, Project Implementation & Quality Assurance
· Provide overall technical leadership for Health and Nutrition projects, including BPHS-related interventions, ensuring alignment with MoPH policies, national strategies, and international standards (WHO, UNICEF).
· Prepare, compile, and regularly update monthly and quarterly project reports in accordance with AHF and OCHA reporting templates, guidelines, and quality standards, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely submission.
· Ensure high-quality implementation of primary health care, nutrition, RMNCH, disease prevention, and health system strengthening activities across all target provinces.
· Lead the development and application of quality assurance systems, supervision tools, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
· Ensure effective coordination and representation with relevant health sectors, clusters, and stakeholders through active participation in PHCC, EPI, and coordination meetings, while facilitating the timely provision of vaccines, nutrition supplies, and other essential program resources to support uninterrupted project implementation and service delivery.
· Conduct regular technical field supervision and supportive monitoring visits to assess service quality, identify gaps, and implement corrective actions.
· Ensure the use of approved national monitoring tools, including National Monitoring Checklists, IP monitoring tools, and relevant cluster guidance.
· Strengthen the technical capacity of health staff through structured trainings, on-the-job coaching, and mentorship.
· Ensure effective integration of nutrition, protection, AAP, safeguarding, and gender considerations within health programming.
· Monitor compliance with procurement, financial, and operational standards in coordination with support departments.
Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL)
· Ensure that all health and nutrition planned activities have robust MEAL frameworks, aligned with cluster and donor standards.
· Collaborate with the project team to ensure high-quality data collection, analysis, and utilization for decision-making.
· Ensure health assessment tools and indicators remain current, standardized, and contextually relevant.
· Lead monthly and quarterly project review and reflection meetings with project teams.
· Oversee the documentation of lessons learned, best practices, and evidence, including Post service monitorings, evaluations, and assessments as per means of verification in project requirement.
· Ensure regular submission of project progress updates to clusters, technical working groups, internal reporting platforms, and donor reporting hubs.
· Ensure findings from monitoring and evaluations are systematically integrated into project improvement and proposal design.
Coordination, Networking & External Representation
· Represent OHW in national, regional, and provincial health and nutrition cluster meetings, technical working groups including DIWG & PSEA, and coordination forums.
· Establish and maintain strong working relationships with MoPH, provincial health departments, UN agencies, NGOs, donors, and community leaders.
· Ensure OHW is recognized as a credible and reliable health actor at provincial and national levels.
· Capacitate Project staff in showcasing good practices and lessons learned during coordination meetings.
· Participate in project inception, review, and close-out meetings.
· Represent OHW during donor visits, government missions, and external delegations to project sites.
Accountability, Safeguarding & Compliance
· Ensure full compliance with OHW Accountability Frameworks, Safeguarding Policies, Code of Conduct, and donor regulations.
· Promote and integrate Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) across all health and nutrition interventions.
· Conduct community engagement and sensitization during field visits, including dissemination of Complaints and Feedback Mechanism (CFM) information & PSEA.
· Ensure community feedback is systematically reviewed and incorporated into program adjustments.
