Senior Project Associate (Health Coordination)

Job Description

Under the direct supervision of National Programme Officer (NPO) – Health Coordination, and further to the Migration Health Officer and under overall supervision of Emergency Health Programme Coordinator  and the Head of Sub Office (HoSo) in Cox’s Bazar, the successful candidates will be responsible for local level coordination of all the health interventions in the field and the IOM Medical Teams based in Ukhikya and Teknaf Upazilas. The SPA G7 Health Coordination based in Bhasan Char will be under the direct supervision of the National Programme Officer (NPO) -HSS, and further by the Migration Health Officer, Emergency Health Programme Coordinator and Head of Sub Office (HoSO) in Cox’s Bazar.

The Senior Project Assistants (Health Coordination) roles will ensure that project implementation and coordination is done in a timely fashion as per project plan, administrative roles, conducting facility supervision visits, and resolve any community issues or conflicts raised, with coordination with local stakeholders.  

Responsibilities

1. Clinical support and  monitoring of health facilities:  In close collaboration with health facility incharges, conduct monitoring visits  to health facility and use standardized checklist to verify compliance with established standards in the areas of consultations, laboratory, in-patient, infection prevention and control, medicines and supplies, and patient flows.  Support capacity building and trainings of health care workers (enroute third-party staff) as required

2. Coordination with local leaders and stakeholder: work closely with the Upazila health managers, Camp incharges, community leaders, and other NGO partners in the Upazilas to  identify, document and report emerging community and health concerns such as public health concerns, community complaints, emerging diseases in the community etc., and support the implementation of response actions.

3.  Provide overall coordination support to the maintenance of medical referrals programs and teams. Provide direct support to coordination of medical referrals done by the health facility staff, processing of administrative support and guidance of facility incharges. 

4.  Provide  day-to-day operational monitoring and guidance to the community health teams.  Coordinate the work of community health workers and supervisors to ensure primary health care standards are kept, and follow up for AAP/GRM.

5.  Provide support to the health facility in-charges for medicines supply chain management and support for system inventory requests and follow up on utilization of medicines, usage of program supplies, and support for forecasting of needs with support of the medical warehouse team.

6. Support health program monitoring through the health management information systems by compilling and analysing data for disease surveillance, technical reporting, and outbreak preparedness  in close coordination with the supervisor and the HMIS team.  Participate in data collection, surveys and evidence generation research areas as required.

7. Provide overall coordination support to IOM field teams such as administrative functions, performance management, rota management, infrastructure support and maintenance support

8. Any other responsibilities as provided for by the supervisors.

    

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• High school diploma with 7 years relevant experience or 

• University degree in either Medicine, Nursing, Clinical Medicine or Public Health with five years of relevant experience. 

   

EXPERIENCE

• Experience in public health programs in low resource settings, such as camps or refugee settings.

• Good in verbal communication; 

• Working knowledge with Rohingya, local languages of Chittagong/Cox’s Bazaar are an advantage 

• Ability to supervise staff, monitor and capacity building.

• Previous experience in NGOs and working with government stakeholders

• Previous work experience in Cox’s Bazar

   

SKILLS

• Computer skills in MS Word, Excel, Power point

• Strong interpersonal skills

   

Required Skills

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