Scope
Under the supervision of Assosa based Health Manager, the Health Officer is a junior management position that involves planning, management, monitoring & evaluation of immunization, Family planning (FP) and surveillance activities under health programs in Sherkole and Kurmuk woredas. The Health Officer will be based at Sherkole and Kurmuk town and will have frequent travel to health posts and health centers of both woredas. He/she will be responsible in planning and implementing, monitoring and evaluation of the immunization and FP activities. The position requires working with a government health workers; Woreda health office team, Health centers, Health Extension workers (HEWs) and Health post nurses.
The Health Officer is responsible to oversee Health activities for the projects of integration on immunization and family planning and Core Group Polio- CGPP- that IRC agreed up on to conduct, budget Monitoring, sector reporting and for cordial and constructive coordination with the other actors in the sector, especially with health facility staffs, woreda Health office, and other stakeholders working in assigned woredas.
Detailed responsibilities:
Technical
- Health officer will manage local Health programs in her/his assigned woreda by monitoring and coaching of immunization, family planning and diseases surveillance activities at health posts and community levels, implementation of BCC strategy, overseeing workshops & trainings.
- Support woreda based government officers on community engagements activities.
- Make sure Health program falling in line with protocols, policies & guidelines and donor requirements.
- Provide technical assistance for government staff (HEWs, HP based nurses, and WoHOs program officers) to have quality program implementation.
- Draft monthly, quarterly and final reports of Health programs for review for submission to Addis TU by the health Mangers.
- Analyze monthly and quarterly report submitted by woreda health officers for data quality and presentation of data for use and she/he will be responsible to submit quality report to health manager.
Program Management
- She/he is responsible in managing Health projects in her/ his assigned woredas.
- She/he is responsible to ensure all activities are implemented according to the work plan and that targets are met.
Budget Monitoring
- She/he is responsible to Monitor and appropriately spend the project budget.
- She/he is responsible for developing spending plan and procurement plans for the assigned project in his/ her assigned woreda and needs to monitor budget spending.
- She/he is responsible for quarter procurement and budget tracking follow ups.
Monitoring & Evaluation
- Oversee data collection and management by IRC staff and Maintenance of HMIS data.
- Prepare and submit monthly activity progress reports.
- Monitor and evaluate activities of Health within local communities for operations.
- Develop donor reports in collaboration with health Manager.
- Responsible to track monthly indicators report
- Participate in project evaluation
- Assure data quality and data audit
Key Working Relationships
Internal
Work with other IRC health officers based in woredas, Senior Health Officer and Health Manager for proper implementation of the project.
External
Work with Assosa ZHD, woreda health offices, Health centers staff, HEWs, HP based nurses and communities.