Health Advisor
Starting Date / Initial Contract Details
September 2026, Full-time, 12 months
Role Summary
The advisor is the technical lead for Medair’s health sector in Ukraine. The advisor contributes to the country strategic direction, considering evolving needs, and provides advice and technical support to the management and the health team. The advisor oversees the technical quality of programming and is responsible for the national-level sectoral co-ordination with relevant authorities, clusters, and partners.
Project Overview
Since March of 2022, Medair has undertaken a multisector response to the conflict in Ukraine. In health, the focus has been on re-establishing access to primary health care, including repairing and re-equipping health facilities, training health workers. Since 2025 the Programme has evolved by, to ensure financial access to health care for very vulnerable people in the border and frontline region in East Ukraine by providing and expanding direct cash and voucher assistance, working with the MOH-clinics and pharmacy network. Medair also supports vulnerable people in the community to access health services, integrating closely alongside Medair’s MHPSS response and its Shelter and WASH responses.
Workplace & Conditions
The role is based in Kharkiv and will involve frequent travels to support Medair's various bases in Ukraine.
Responsibilities:
• Health & nutrition technical oversight: Design and continuously improve Medair’s programme health strategy and develop strong Health technical solutions and proposals for targeted needs based health programming. Provide strategic oversight and overall quality supervision of health & nutrition sector, ensuring implementation is in line with national, international & donor guidelines & standards.
• Capacity building: maintain current awareness of relevant guidelines & standards, identify & address training needs, support development & implementation of guidelines, job aids, and supervision tools.
• Representation: national-level sectoral co-ordination with relevant authorities, clusters, and partners. Support sectoral elements of donor and other proposals & reports. Participate in Medair H&N workshops.
• Implementation: visit project sites to oversee sectoral quality, develop systems for data collection & analysis, ensuring quality monitoring & evaluation. Ensure quality procurement & management of supplies. Advise on budget.
• Staff: support technical elements of recruitment, ‘matrix manage’ relevant sectoral staff, oversee country ‘staff health’ system & supplies.
Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:
• Clinical degree (Nurse or Doctor), preferably with postgraduate degree in Public Health
• Excellent English (spoken and written)
• Strong experience in international public health management, including in a humanitarian setting. Previous Medair experience desirable.
• Experience in supervisory management roles, including strategic direction, quality oversight, recruitment, training, and mentoring.
• Excellent IT knowledge, especially Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint.
Behavioural Skills:
• Strong servant leadership skills with a consultative management style
• Creative, open-minded, flexible, self-learner, with good understanding of cross-cultural issues
• Capacity to work under pressure, in areas under daily alerts of air attacks and manage personal stress levels, self-motivated, proactive
• Able to oversee multiple tasks, prioritising, delegating, and seeking advice as required
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, team player
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with,Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed. Advertised on JobUpfree.