Senior Project Officer(SRH Team Leader)

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Job Overview

The Senior Project Officer will be responsible for the overall management of sexual and reproductive health services delivered to direct implemented township of Women Protection and Empowerment (WPE)/Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) integrated centers and integrated Primary Health Care(PHC) clinic sites. The Senior Project Officer will be the focal person of the whole SRH team in your project township. The Senior Project Officer needs to build the capacity of SRH team member, Community SRH team members and participate in project monitoring and evaluation. The Senior Project Officer is under direct supervision and management of SRH Technical Manager but works together with Community Health Officer, PHC mobile team and WPE Senior team members and this position is based in the project covered township in Rakhine State with travel to identified IDP( Internal displaced person )camps and/ or isolated villages from the implemented Township.

Major Responsibilities:

Implementation of SRH care in targeted camps and villages

• Provide SRH clinical care to the patients according to IRC,WHO and standard protocols.
• Respect and follow 5 clinic opening hours and 8 working hours a day.
• Acting as focal person for communication and coordination between mobile clinic and WPE for provision of Gender Based Violence (GBV) related services.
• Ensure adherence to a survivor centered approach when providing GBV services.
• Set up “Client Friendly GBV and SRH services at the SRH clinics and safe spaces (Pilot).
• Supervise the team members in providing SRH related with SRH Clinic Flow, IPC(Infection, Prevention and Control).

Technical Oversight on the implementation of SRH services at WGWC center and targeted PHC sites

• Play an essential role on technical oversight of WPE/SRH integrated center and clinic sites driven by SRH team and Community SRH team members for establishment, maintenance and ensuring proper function of the building, medical supplies, medical equipment and other materials of the center and outreach clinics.
• Ensure SRH clinic staffs can deliver quality care of sexual and reproductive health services including clinical care of sexually assaulted survivors, long term, and short-term family planning service provision, STI and part of primary health care and malnutrition services. Strict support to ensure that those services are provided according to standard protocols and guidelines of IRC, WHO and MSF guidelines.
• Jointly conducted sexual and reproductive health services with PHC mobile team and, WPE team as needed, Senior Project Officer will be the responsible as a focal medical doctor to provide services in integrated center and outreach sites.   
• Oversight organizing of referral of life-threatening emergency cases to secondary and tertiary referral health facilities in area.
• Monthly cooperation and collaboration with PHC and WPE team regarding with activities work plan, sharing achievements, discussing ways to solve facing challenges, and coordinate for the effective referral of CCSAS cases. Act as focal person for GBV working group in Project Township.
• Develop proper health care waste management system in SRH integrated center and clinic sites as needed.
• Support to check drug consumption and nearly expired drugs data, sharing between SRH team and others in need for effective consumption of nearly expired drugs.
• Support to refer MHPSS counselling and c-IYCF counselling as needed.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the government health department for  SRH activities as needed.

Capacity building of the SRH clinical and community team members

• Provide technical support on nurses for quality SRH clinical services and technical support to community health team (community mobilizers) for effective community mobilization activities.
• Facilitates in planning and arrangement of technical capacity building training and assists capacity building team, SRH technical manager and program manager to organize capacity building training for SRH team and community health team. Assist SRH technical manager in developing technical SOPs and guidelines.
• Support and provide training on the job to the nurses under the guidance of SRH technical manager and CBQC team and timely reporting.
• Coordinate and collaborate with community health team, provide technical support to community mobilizers about Clinical Management of Rape(CMR) kits distribution and referral mapping services for effective community mobilization of GBV case management.

Coordination

• Represent as a focal person in coordination with different stakeholders, partner organizations, and township health department of Project township.
• Coordinate with WPE program and partner organizations for integrated SRH services at Women and Girls Wellness Center(WGWC) centers and supported IDPs and villages.
• Lead or assist SRH technical manager, Program managers in coordination and relationship with health stakeholders, health cluster members at the Project township.
• Coordinate and collaborate with stakeholders to establish weekly and monthly disease surveillance systems and outbreak response as needed.

Monitoring and evaluation

• Organize data entry and analysis of monthly SRH activities and achievements in the standard IRC Humanitarian Health Response database.
• Prepare IRC Global Minimum Health Indicators Report, Monthly Data Reports, etc.
• Monitor the progress of services to ensure quality care and verify that program indicators and targets are met in order to ensure the quality of service aligned with IRC standards.
• Conduct supportive supervision of implementation sites and participate in quarterly monitoring visits of capacity building and quality control team in Rakhine. Ensure adequate and timely reporting of supervision outputs and action plans to SRH manager/program managers and coordinator.

Reporting

• Provide regular, on time and quality monthly narrative report to SRH Technical Manager and Program Manager and organize to prepare monthly reports of partner organizations.
• Assist SRH Technical Manager and Program Manager in preparation of donor, IRC in-country and Headquarter(HQ) report as needed.
• Provide regular and on time monthly report of SRH activities to the township health department and respective stakeholders as needed.

Financial and logistics management

• Requesting cash advance and liquidation for the program activities in Project township.
• Oversight partner organization’s medical store management, drug and supply transportation, medical supply chain management and supervise transportation for daily SRH clinic activities.

Other

• Lead the clinical management quality control team of ERT SRH project in coordination with SRH Technical Manager, Program Manager, teams and colleagues.
• Coordinate with program support teams to implement project activities in time.
• Provide procurement documents in advance as needed.
• In collaboration with other members of the health project team, participate in the design and implementation of formative assessments and baseline studies in order to identify health priorities and practices among the IDP and community.
• Remain flexible to perform other duties as required or requested.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: SRH Technical Manager

Position directly supervises: SRH Nurses

What should you have?  

Education:

• Registered female medical doctor (M.B., B.S.).

Work Experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience in reproductive care settings and clinic management.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to work well in a team
• Ability to work in difficult situations with flexibility
• Ability to travel and work long continuous days in remote IDP camps and villages
• Favorable to people with experience on medical response to disaster and conflict affected areas.
• Sensitivity, leadership skills and team management skills
• Strong mentorship in capacity building of team members and local partner staff
• Adaptable, flexible, and mature in judgment
• Good communication skills and experience in community facilitation
• Skilled facilitator, educator and trainer
• Advance knowledge and skill to use Microsoft package

Language Skills:

• Good in read, write and communicate in English language
• Good in speaking and understanding local dialects.

Remark:

The application will be considered on a rolling basis throughout the vacancy opening period and IRC take the right to finalize the application process before the closing date of the announcement. 

Standard of Professional Conduct: The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.

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