PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:
Mercy Corps is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization operating in the sectors of Emergency Response, Sustainable Peace and Development, and Economic and Markets Development. Mercy Corps currently has programs in the Regions of Afar, Somali, Oromiya, Addis Ababa and SNNP, and works through the principles of Accountability, Participation and Peaceful Change. Mercy Corps employs a community-led, market-driven approach as it works with partners at the community, government, private, and research institution levels. Mercy Corps Ethiopia invites motivated and qualified candidates to apply for the following vacant position.
POSITION: Health Coordinator
OPEN POSITION: 1 (One)
DUTY STATION: Negelle/ Guji zone of Oromiya Regional State
POSITION SUMMARY:
The health coordinator is responsible for overall coordination, plan and implementation of all emergency mobile health services related activities at local level using participatory and community based approaches. S/he is also responsible to provide technical support and guidance at local level to Woreda experts and other staffs working in the area of primary health care services at facility and outreach service delivery point. S/he is also responsible for compiling monthly mobile health and nutrition service reports, weekly progress updates and documentation and sharing of best practices and lessons learnt at Zonal level. The Health coordinator will directly report to Emergency Program Manager. In addition, the position holder is expected to cooperate and support the CMAM coordinator to provide integrated emergency health and nutrition services for the affected community.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
· Be directly responsible for the technical guidance, leading, managing and coordinating of the team to provide standardized mobile health and nutrition service.
· Ensure the implementation of mobile health and nutrition activities in the field as defined on the work plan in coordination with field level technical staff
· Liaise with concerned government authorities and ensure the programme strategy, objectives and activities are understood, agreed and appropriate communication channel is in place
· Participating in the Zonal/ Regional health and Nutrition Technical Working Group meetings, develop meeting agendas, documentation and dissemination of the technical working group meetings action point and recommendations.
· Providing technical support for MC mobile and zonal/ woreda government health staffs on the provision of comprehensive primary health care services and support the coordination between the mobile health and nutrition team with the static services providers through strong communication and referral linkage and follow up.
· Ensure quality of the mobile health and nutrition service at outreach mobile clinics through strengthening the capacity of the staffs and ensuring the availability of supplies in collaboration with local government, MC Head office team and other stakeholders.
· Come up with a comprehensive capacity development plan for partners based on the identified skill gaps, arrange and facilitate IMNCI training at zonal or woreda level in collaboration with other team and zonal health bureau
· Evaluate the effectiveness of capacity building trainings and design continues follow-up plan to fill the skill gaps
· Organize regular evaluation meetings for the team members to evaluate their progress and design a method to improve the identified gaps
· Ensure the monthly health and nutrition progress report delivered on time to the program manager, zonal health offices and other stakeholder.
· Developing effective quality improvement plan and approaches for improved quality of mobile health and nutrition services in collaboration with government and other partners.
· Ensure that lessons and best practices derived from project implementation are well articulated, documented and shared for others to improve the future response
· Closely work with the on-going PRIME project intervention to ensure the sustainability and ensure program integration.
· Ensure proper nutrition and medical management provided to the beneficiaries according to the National protocols.
· Closely work with the field senior staff in the planning the implementation of the local capacity building activities
· Effectively manage the planned project activities to ensure the expected services are delivered on-time, on-budget and to the expected quality.
· Ensure that minimum standards of technical quality are met and services are delivered in all mobile clinics as per the expected standard.
· Provided formal and on job training and supportive supervision for Mercy corps woreda level staffs and government health workers.
· Monitor program activities to ensure that treatment centers achieve acceptable performance indicators
· Preparing and deliver monthly and quarterly reports on overall health and nutrition activities.
· Ensure adequate supplies for each sites are delivered and follow up on other logistics requirements and job-aid materials for all health and nutrition activities
· Liaise and coordinate with local stakeholders and MoH personnel regularly, reporting to them and giving them updates on activities.
· Collaborate with the potential partners on the field (health centres, health posts, committee leaders) to improve the coverage and the efficiency of the programs.
· Collaborate with partners where possible (e.g. UNICEF, WHO, WFP etc in nutrition/health assessments in the area that may have an impact on our programs).
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
· BSC, MPH/ MSC degree in public Health or Nursing and over 8 years of practical experience in emergency health and nutrition of which more than 4 years of NGO experience preferably on mobile health and nutrition intervention for pastoralist community.
· Knowledge and practical experience of IMNCI/ICCM, maternal health, child health and CMAM intervention during emergency situation
· Skill in coordinating similar project in pastoralist community or people living in dispersed geography locations
· Knowledge and practical experience in implementation and coordination of community based emergency health and nutrition response
· Ability to plan and organize work independently with less follow up able to give attention all details and show initiative in completing tasks and projects in a timely manner
· Supervisory skills with proven ability to manage a demanding workload
· Experience on facilitating training particularly IMNCI and CMAM trainings.
· Demonstrated Computer skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
· Excellent spoken and written English languages and local languages of the project area is is a plus.
· Ability and willingness to frequently travel to villages and willingness to reside in rural areas
· Willingness and capacity to be flexible and accommodating when faced with difficult and frustrating working conditions like long distance
· Good interpersonal and communication skills
· Experience in closely working with regional, Zonal and Woreda Health
· Ability to prepare program reports Knowledge in local language;
· Communication skill, good human relations
· Firm belief in teamwork, gender equality