Health Officer, (NO-B), Accra, Ghana # 123371 - ONLY Ghanaian Nationals

About The Job Position Summary: The Health Officer reports to the Health Specialist for supervision. The Health Officer provides professional technical, operational and administrative assistance throughout the programming process for the Health Programme, including in areas of routine immunisation, COVID-19 vaccination, emergency response and health systems strengthening within the Country Programme, from development planning to delivery of results, by preparing, executing, managing, and implementing a variety of technical and administrative programme tasks to facilitate programme development, implementation, programme progress monitoring, and evaluating and reporting of results. Key Accountabilities Support to programme development and planning: Conduct and update the situation analysis for the development, design and management of health related programmes, including immunisation and emergency response. Research and report on development trends (e.g. political, social, economic, health) for higher management use to enhance programme management, efficiency and delivery of results. Contribute to the development and establishment of sectoral programme goals, objectives, strategies, and results-based planning through analysis of health system and immunisation needs and areas for intervention and submission of recommendations for priority and goal setting. Provide technical and operational support throughout all stages of programming processes by executing and administering a variety of technical programme transactions, preparing materials and documentations, and complying with organizational processes and management systems, to support programme planning, results based planning (RBM), and monitoring and evaluation of results. Prepare required documentations and materials to facilitate the programme review and approval process Programme management, monitoring and delivery of results: Work closely and collaboratively with internal and external colleagues and partners to discuss operational and implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations, and/or to alert appropriate officials and stakeholders for higher-level intervention and decisions. Keep record of reports and assessments for easy reference and to capture and institutionalize lessons learned. Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme reviews and annual sectoral reviews with government and other counterparts to assess health programmes and to report on required action/interventions at the higher level of programme management. Monitor and report on the use of sectoral programme resources (financial, administrative and other assets), and verify compliance with approved allocation and goals, organizational rules, regulations, procedures, as well as donor commitments, standards of accountability, and integrity. Report on issues identified to ensure timely resolution by management and stakeholders. Follow up on unresolved issues to ensure resolution. Prepare regular and