Senior Health Officer - Akkar

Job Overview:  

The Senior Health Officer is responsible for the technical support of partners, health facilities and community health teams. The Senior Health Officer will provide support to program daily activities, training, and follow up processes. The Senior Health Officer will be responsible in collecting the information from the field and providing updates to the program and will be coordinating with other IRC programs to optimize the integration of health with other sectors.

The senior health officer will be directly reporting to the health manager.

Major Responsibilities:

• Support the overall coordination, monitoring and reporting of health partners’ and health facilities’ activities.
• Conduct regular field visits to the supported Primary Healthcare centers (PHCCs) to monitor implementation, identify gaps and challenges, and provide technical support to partners.
• Develop quality improvement plans for the health partners, and ensure proper follow-up of its implementation.
• Monitor the partners’ activities, data collection, reporting, center management, staffing structure and attendance of health professionals.
• Monitor the implementation of referral systems at the level of health facilities and the community.
• Conduct technical assessments using specific tools.
• Follow up on preset key performance indicators, measuring the progress of the partners’ work, while providing technical support.
• Ensure adherence of partners to technical standards, best practices, quality improvement plans, MoPH and donor’s guidelines.
• Support the development of Information, Education and Communication materials.
• Oversee and provide technical support to the community health team in the field.
• Contribute to the capacity building of health partners, by identifying training needs and working on training plans.
• Deliver training session to health partners in specific topics and areas.
• Create and adapt monitoring tools that assist in tracking health activities.
• Responsible for ensuring that supported health facilities are properly equipped and receive the appropriate equipment and supplies.
• Conduct regular meetings and follow with other IRC programs, to ensure health is integrated with other sectors such as livelihood, education and protection.
• Work closely with the logistics and procurement team to identify procurement and supply issues and support the identification of corrective actions.
• Work closely with MEAL unit to review, identify, and put corrective action measures for the health activities to ensure data-driven decisions are taken and implemented for a consistent quality of data.
• Work closely with the field officers and coordinator, and ensure smooth implementation of the health activities.
• In coordination with the health manager, represent the IRC in different working groups and sectors meetings.
• Undertake other tasks as assigned by the health manager to enable and contribute to IRC’s programming.

Job Requirements:

Work Experience:

• Three years experience in coordinating and implementing health programs.
• NGO experience in health field, preferably in primary healthcare settings and community-based interventions.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal and intercultural communication with success working both within a team and independently.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, effective in representation and liaison with external parties
• Previous experience with information management, health data analysis and use of data for program improvement.
• Strong time management skills with ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable, creative, and innovative in a challenging and fast-moving multicultural environment and promote teamwork.

Education:  Health university degree and background with (preferably) a master in public health or other health related management degree.

Language Skills:  Excellent command of written and spoken English and Arabic are required.

Preferred experience & skills:

• Strong analytic problem solving skills.
• Ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional global team structure.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.

Working Environment:  

Standard office working environment with frequent trips to the field.