Project Officers
Save the Children in Vietnam (SC) works to promote every child’s rights to survival, protection, participation and development as set forth in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The current programme focuses on the following core sectors: Health and Nutrition; HIV/AIDS prevention; Care and support; Education; Child protection; Child-focused emergency preparedness and response; Child rights agenda, including Civil society development, Economic opportunities, Child poverty Research, and Advocacy for child-friendly development policy and practice.
Save the Children has secured funds from PACT to support Dien Bien, Yen Bai, Bac Giang and Nam Dinh provinces to implement a project on Prevention Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) for a year (March 2010 – June 2011), with focus on reducing prevalence of transmission of HIV from mother to child.
They are now seeking for qualified Vietnamese nationals to fill in the 4 project officers positions based in Hanoi with frequent travel to Dien Bien, Yen Bai, Bac Giang and Nam Dinh
Job summary
These positions are responsible to ensure effective implementation and high impact of the PMTCT project in Dien Bien, Yen Bai, Bac Giang and Nam Dinh. Each post is in charge of one province respectively.
Key accountabilities
The post holders are responsible to contribute to the overall program planning, budget management, monitoring/reviewing, evaluation and reporting as well as to support to the other component project to ensure a program interrelated coherence and synergies in selected provinces.
Person specifications
- Education: BA degree in health, public health or relevant fields
- At least three years of experience of working in public health, preferably in maternal and child health care program
- Skilful in facilitation, training, planning, monitoring and supervising
- Sound knowledge and experience in budget monitoring
- Experience in working with government counterparts and community
- Solid understanding of Vietnamese government system at provincial, district and commune levels
- Good communication and team work skills
- Good skills in English speaking, listening and writing
- Good computer skills; MS Office. Statistics analytical skill is preferable.
A full job description and application form is available at the website: http://www.savethechildren.net/vietnam/vacancies/Vacancies_2009.html
Please send CV and a completed application form, details of three references and a covering letter, indicating the choice of provincial area, which addressing the list of competencies in to:
HR section, Save the Children - E3, Ngoai Giao Doan Trung Tu, 6 Dang Van Ngu –
Dong Da, Hanoi or by Email: [email protected].
The closing date for application is 5 pm on 17th March 2010. Applications will be treated in confidence. Save the Children is an equal opportunities employer. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted and CVs will not be returned.
Their selection processes reflect their commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Their people are as diverse as the challenge we face. CVs will only be accepted with a completed application form.