Internal Only-Public Health Specialist
Yangon
- Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
- Location: Yangon
- Grade: Mid level - Mid level
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Occupational Groups:
- Public Health and Health Service
- Closing Date: Closed
Background/IRC Summary: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a private, non-political, non-profit, and non-religious organization. For over 90 years, we have been providing humanitarian assistance to communities affected by conflict and natural disasters in more than 40 countries. Since 2008, the IRC has been active in Myanmar, delivering humanitarian assistance in areas such as health, protection, water, and sanitation, specifically targeting families impacted by conflict and natural disasters.
Job Overview/Summary :The Public Health Specialist will be responsible for technical oversight and support on IRC health development and humanitarian health response projects with particular focus on Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH). In addition, responsible as technical focal representing IRC for technical collaboration with partner organizations, donor, fund management offices and counterpart ministries of Myanmar at different levels. The Public Health Specialist in collaboration with M&E unit responsible for developing and administering IRC health program’s service quality assurance mechanism. The Public Health Specialist is additionally responsible for Cross cutting thematic of health, and partner organizational capacity building and SRMNCAH service quality control.
Responsibilities:
Lead service quality control of health programme through project quality assurance mechanism
- Leads developing and applying IRC programmes quality assurance tools and methods.
- Give technical oversight and support to health project regular filed site technical monitoring and evaluation visits, and ensure maximum project staffs technical capacity and quality.
- Prepares, Plans and Participates programme quality control actions organized by IRC-Myanmar or IRC- NY technical department.
- Coordinate and collaborated working with partners and counterpart ministries of Myanmar to ensure for quality control of IRC direct implemented or supported health care services.
- Assist for identifying and designing IRC Myanmar health programme strategies and strategic action plans.
- Work closely with Asst. Health Program Director, area health program leads andpartner organization Program leads to identify and organize programmes quality control action plans.
- Support and work together with MEAL unit for implementation of health programme’s monitoring and evaluation system.
Capacity building of IRC and partners organization staffs as need of programmes and projects
- Administer IRC health program staffs and partner staff capacity need assessments.
- Assist for identifying annual prioritized capacity building plans for IRC health programme staffs, and partner organizations staffs.
- Plan, prepare, organize and supervise capacity building trainings, workshops, meetings and on the job capacity building actions of IRC and partner organizations’ project staffs and service providers. and partner organization staffs or counterpart ministries staffs.
Technical Coordination and collaboration with partner organizations and counterpart ministries of Myanmar
- Initiate, organize and assist preparation and ensure quality project proposal, report to donor and counterpart ministries and local authorities as necessary,.
- SRMNCAH technical communication and coordination with respective partner organizations, donors and respective counterpart ministries at central, state, district and township level.
- Participating union and state level SRMNCAH technical collaboration activities organized by relevant counterpart ministries and donors.
- Lead cross cutting thematic (Conflict Sensitivity, Gender and Social inclusion, Disability Inclusive Health, Prevention of Sexual exploitation and Abuse, Emergency preparedness and disaster response planning, Good-Great Standard, Theory of Change., PEERS of IRC) mainstreaming action of health program in collaboration with relevant IRC Myanmar’s department, Technical Advisors, relevant focal from donors, partner organizations and counterpart ministries.
Earthquake Response Support
- Support the earthquake response as requested with service quality control, capacity building, and technical coordination and collaboration with partners as above
- Any other support as needed and directed by the IRC Head of Department for Health.
Other
- Support and work together with MEAL unit for designing and implementing health program’s survey, assessments and researches.
- Assist for identifying, planning and initiating appropriate humanitarian response in country as needed.
- Provide regular and reliable technical narrative reports.
- Participate in any other responsibilities as required by supervisor.
Minimum Qualifications:
Job Requirements
- Registered medical doctor (M.B., B.S degree) , B.Coom H , B.NSc or other medical / community health backgrounds.
- Preferable for Master degree or Post graduate diploma in relevant field.
- Minimum 5-7 years’ experience on primary health care settings and community health management.
- Experience in managing health humanitarian response projects in post disaster or conflict affected area with particular expertise in Primary Health Care, Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Health, nutrition, communicable disease control, and Health Information System.
- Experience on budget management, team management and change management.
- Experience on coordination with local partners, authorities and sub -national level stakeholders.
- Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of conflict‐affected populations
- Ability to work under pressure and stressful circumference
- Ability to travelling in project field sites as necessary and feasible of safety and security.
Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.
The IRC Core Values and Commitments
- The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
- IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff are suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.
- Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children.
- IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.
- IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.
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