Country Programme Officer- Norwegian Red Cross

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• Higher university degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Global Health, Medicine, or a closely related field.
  

Strategic responsibilities

• Support the Country Manager/DRR to ensure projects are aligned with the Operational Framework, country operational strategy, and relevant technical standards.
  
• Promote quality programming and consistent ways of working with the HNS for all NoRC supported projects.
  
• Contribute to evidence-based planning by supporting needs assessments, analysis, and learning from implementation.
  

Operational Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day follow-up of programme implementation, ensuring activities and deliverables follow agreed plans and project documentation.
  
• Act as a key focal point for HNS project staff on programme design, implementation, and quality processes as agreed with the Country Operational Framework.
  
• Support project formulation, including logical frameworks, results frameworks, and activity planning in line with NoRC standards and agreed ways of working with the HNS.
  
• Support development and follow-up of MEAL plans for the portfolio, including indicator definitions, data collection approaches, and documentation of evidence.
  
• Support and/or conduct monitoring visits (including joint visits with HNS) and document findings, actions and follow-up.
  
• Support data quality processes: verification, consolidation, analysis, and safe storage of data and evidence.
  
• Support learning activities such as after-action reviews, lessons learned sessions, and documentation of good practices.
  
• Contribute to timely, accurate narrative reporting (periodic and ad hoc), including results, narratives, indicator updates, and evidence packages.
  
• Support follow-up with partner teams on reporting deadlines and quality and flag risks early to NORC Country Management.
  
• Support maintenance of programme documentation and filing in line with NoRC requirements.
  
• Provide practical day-to-day support to HNS project staff on planning, monitoring tools, reporting templates, and results documentation as agreed within the Country Operational Framework.
  
• Support training, coaching and on-the-job mentoring on programme cycle management and MEAL processes.
  
• Support coordination with the HNS or other Movement partners and relevant stakeholders in the field when delegated by the Country Management.
  
• Ensure regular updates to Country Management on progress, challenges, risks, and proposed mitigation actions.
  
• Promote and uphold NoRC and Movement commitments to safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) in all programme activities.
  
• Support integration of safeguarding and PSEA into project planning, implementation, monitoring and partner follow-up, including safe referral and reporting pathways where relevant.
  
• Contribute to safe programming by raising concerns promptly through agreed channels and supporting a culture of respectful conduct and accountability.
  
• Contribute to emergency preparedness and response tasks as requested, within competence and assigned role in the country response set-up.
  
• Carry out other relevant tasks assigned by the Country Management/DRR based on operational priorities.
  

Collaboration

• Support integration of safeguarding and PSEA into project planning, implementation, monitoring and partner follow-up, including safe referral and reporting pathways where relevant.
  
• Works closely with the Country Management/DRR for programme coordination and day-to-day supervision and for overall priorities and performance management.
  
• Works in close partnership with HNS programme and MEAL counterparts to support joint follow-up, monitoring and reporting.
  

Mission responsibilities

The CPO will have a specific focus on health preparedness, including epidemic surveillance, and digital health–enabled response, with the following key responsibilities:

Follow-up of health preparedness & response portfolio of NoRC with KRCS

Lead day-to-day technical and programmatic follow-up of NoRC-supported projects implemented with KRCS, including:

• Digitalization of community health services (eCHIS)
  
• AI-enabled public health surveillance and early warning and response
  
• Support capacity strengthening of KRCS staff and volunteers on digital health tools, public health surveillance and health emergency response, and data use for action.
  
• Contribute to discussions on AI-supported surveillance, early warning thresholds, triggers, and response pathways, ensuring public health relevance, feasibility, and ethical use.
  

Support KRCS and NoRC in strengthening health emergency preparedness and response readiness, including:

• Preparedness planning and contingency arrangements (incl. development and rollout of early action protocols)
  
• Early warning-early action (EWEA) approaches
  
• Supported cash assistance
  
• After-action reviews and lessons learned from outbreaks and simulations
  
• Support the development and implementation of project plans.
  
• Monitor implementation progress against project results frameworks, plan of actions/milestones, and indicators, flagging risks and proposing corrective actions to Country Management.
  
• Contribute to capturing and documenting operational learning, best practices, and evidence from Kenya to inform NoRC and Movement-wide learning on epidemic preparedness and digital health.
  
• Support coordination with KRCS technical departments, the International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA), and relevant Movement partners.
  
• Ensure integration of PGI and PSEA, data protection, and accountability to affected populations across all health and digital interventions.
  
• Contribute to quality donor reporting, technical inputs, and resource mobilization discussions related to health preparedness and response.
  

Regional support (as required)

When requested, provide short-term technical support to NoRC operations in other countries in the Africa region on:

• Health preparedness and response
  
• Epidemic surveillance and CBS
  
• DHIS2, digital health, and data use for emergencies and programming
  
• Contribute to regional knowledge sharing, mentoring, and surge preparedness initiatives in coordination with NoRC and Movement partners.