Senior Project Officer, Health and Nutrition

Job Title: Senior Project Officer, Health and Nutrition

Reports to:  Program Manager- Health& Nutrition

Department:  Health Department

Salary Grade: 8

Country Location: Mogadishu, Somalia

Length of Contract:    12 Months

About Catholic Relief Services

 Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is an international non-governmental organization supporting relief and development work in over 100 countries around the world. Through its programs CRS assists poor and vulnerable persons based on need, regardless of creed, ethnicity, or nationality. It works through partners to implement its programs, therefore, strengthening and building the capacity of these partner organizations is fundamental to programs in every country in which CRS operates.

CRS has a long history of supporting local civil-society organizations in Somalia and has implemented development and emergency programming in multiple sectors, primarily supported by the United States Agency for International Development. CRS’ work in Somalia supports populations across 5 regions of Somalia, with emergency presence concentrated in the South-Central area.

Job Summary

As Senior Project Officer, Health for the GiveWell-supported Vaccination Project, you will facilitate the achievement of project objectives through coordinating and reporting on all project activities and providing technical guidance and advice to staff and implementing partner(s) advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your coordination and relationship management skills will ensure that the project for which you are responsible applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

Roles and Key Responsibilities

·         Organize, coordinate, and support implementation of assigned health and immunization project activities in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, Ministry of Health policies, and project implementation plans.

·         Provide technical coordination and implementation support to implementing partners to ensure effective delivery of routine immunization, outreach, community engagement, and other project interventions that contribute to increased vaccination coverage among zero-dose and under-immunized children.

·         Support project quality assurance through routine monitoring, data review, field supervision, learning, and adaptive management processes to strengthen project performance and achievement of results.

·         Coordinate and maintain productive working relationships with implementing partners, Ministry of Health counterparts, health facilities, community structures, and other relevant stakeholders to support effective project implementation and local ownership.

·         Support partner capacity strengthening initiatives through technical assistance, mentorship, coaching, supportive supervision, and knowledge sharing to enhance the quality and sustainability of project interventions.

·         Support implementation of community-based approaches that strengthen identification, referral, follow-up, and access to immunization services for underserved, hard-to-reach, and vulnerable populations.

·         Contribute to strengthening immunization systems through improved planning, service quality, data utilization, performance monitoring, and collaboration with district and facility-level health structures.

·         Support accountability, monitoring, evaluation, and learning efforts by ensuring quality project documentation, facilitating review and reflection processes, supporting analysis of implementation challenges, and documenting lessons learned, promising practices, and success stories.

·         Coordinate with CRS program, MEAL, operations, procurement, logistics, and security teams to facilitate timely and compliant implementation of project activities.

·         Ensure assigned project activities comply with CRS policies and procedures, donor requirements, safeguarding standards, accountability commitments, security protocols, and applicable government regulations.

Basic Qualifications

·         Bachelor’s degree in public health, Nursing, Medicine, Health Sciences, Community Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems Management, or a related field. 

·         Minimum of 2-5 years of relevant professional experience in public health, immunization, primary health care, humanitarian health programming, or health systems strengthening. 

·         Experience supporting project implementation through national or local NGO partners. 

·         Experience coordinating activities with Ministry of Health structures, district health authorities, health facilities, and community health platforms. 

·         Experience managing field implementation, supportive supervision, reporting, monitoring, and activity documentation. 

Preferred Qualifications

·         Further educations in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Systems Management, or a related field. 

·         Experience working on immunization, maternal and child health, vaccine-preventable disease, or community health programs. 

·         Experience with community health systems, CHW programs, female community health platforms, and outreach service delivery. 

·         Experience working with partners, participatory action planning and community engagement.

·         Experience supporting consortium or partnership-based projects. 

·         Familiarity with DHIS2, EIR systems, digital health platforms, dashboards, and routine health information systems. 

·         Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

·         Experience working in Somalia or similar fragile, humanitarian, displacement-affected, and access-constrained settings. 

·         Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

·         Analysis and problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment

·         Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners

• Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented
• Attention to details, accuracy and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities

• Strong understanding of routine immunization systems, EPI programming, primary health care, community-based service delivery, and health system strengthening. 

• Strong partner management, coordination, mentoring, coaching, and capacity-strengthening skills. 

• Excellent planning, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills. 

• Ability to analyze routine data and use evidence to improve program performance. 

• Strong report writing, documentation, facilitation, and communication skills. 

• Ability to work independently and effectively within multidisciplinary and multicultural teams. 

If your qualifications and experience meet these job requirements, please submit a written application, quoting the job title and reference number, and updated CV including daytime contact phone numbers, as well as names and contact information of three references to reach the below mentioned by close of business August 24, 2026.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview.

Senior Human Resources Officer

Catholic Relief Services- Somalia program

Email: [email protected]

Note: CRS does not charge any fees from applicants for any recruitment. Further, CRS has a zero-tolerance approach to bribery and corruption and are committed to acting professionally, fairly and with integrity in all our Recruitment Process. Kindly note that any attempts to engage in bribery or canvassing during the recruitment process will result in automatic disqualification