Health Manager

Medical & Health

Overview

Lead health response project in Kachin State for quality primary healthcare.

You have:

• Registered medical doctor (M.B., B.S degree) with minimum 3 years’ experience on primary health care settings and clinic management.
• Experience in managing comprehensive primary health care projects in post disaster or conflict area.
• Favorable to person with experience on medical response to disaster area, surveillance and control of communicable diseases.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Job Description

Scope of Work

This position is responsible of both managerial and functional processes of the emergency health response project in Myitkyina and targeted townships from Kachin State. The position will lead the IRC emergency health response program to ensure that there is quality primary health care and health promotion for targeted internally displaced people in targeted camps of Kachin State. The position will be focal for coordinating with State/Township Health Departments and partnership organization.

Main Responsibilities

- Responsible in the development of detailed program log frames, work plans, monitoring tools to ensure high quality program implementation throughout the project cycle and ensure the program is achieving expected outputs. - Develop a work plan for the Program, manage regular activities and planning of the project activities and ensure staff participation to the decision process in close coordination with Senior Health Manager (RH/ER) and Senior Health Coordinator (Eastern) - 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 services. - Ensure adequate and timely reporting on program activities to Senior Health Manager/ Senior Health Coordinator - Supervise and provide technical oversight of IRC and partner(s) emergency health program staffs using standard Performance Management System - Supervise the IRC health emergency team and partner(s) PHC mobile clinic teams and Community Health Team for emergency response in conflict affected area to establish primary health care for general population, women and under 5 children in reference to MOH and IRC/ partner(s)- clinical protocol. - Supervise M&E Officer for project M&E and Database management. - Participate and implement Reproductive Health activities which integrated with WPE program activities. - Provide technical support to Community Health Officer from partner organization(s) for iCCM activities in IDP camps. - Provide technical support for PHC, RH, Nutrition to PHC mobile clinic team. - Lead monthly project review meetings and participate in field coordination meeting organized by operation department. - Recruit, monitor and evaluate staff performance, assess technical quality of activities and provide regular feedback and guidance through regular supervisory sessions and interaction to support. - Conduct regular quality control visit to IRC and partner organization together with IRC Capacity Building Team - Ensure the utilization of drugs and medical supplies are in line with protocols. - Manage day-to-day logistics, administration, and personnel activities of field-based ER program staffs in accordance with IRC and national laws. - Represent and coordinate with relevant MoH authority at state, township and to establish weekly and monthly diseases surveillance system and outbreak response as needed. - Coordinate and collaborate with administration, finance, and operation teams to organize the quality project implementation. - Coordinate with M & E manager/Senior M & E officer for Monitoring and Evaluation activities - Coordinate and collaborate with project manager of Partnership Organization to organize the quality project implementation. - In collaborating with project manager of partnership organization to ensure quality PHC and iCCM activities in targeted communities/camps. - Responsible for drafting donor reporting and ensure high quality reports in timely manner. - Assist to Sr. Health Manager/Sr Health Coordinator – Reproductive Health, Emergency Response for collaboration and coordination with MoH at state / township level, partner NGOs and local authorities. - Assist the Senior Health Manager/Sr. Health Coordinator in the development of program budgets, procurement and spending plans and conduct a monthly review of expenditures to ensure efficient budget management and donor/ IRC compliance. - Perform other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualifications

What should you have?

Education

- Registered medical doctor (M.B., B.S degree) with minimum 3 years’ experience on primary health care settings and clinic management.

Experiences

- Experience in managing comprehensive primary health care projects in post disaster or conflict area with particular expertise in Primary Health Care, Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Health, nutrition promotion, malaria control, Water-Sanitation and Hygiene promotion IDP health. - Experience on budget management skills - Favorable to person with experience on medical response to disaster area, surveillance and control of communicable diseases in disaster area.

Competencies

- Excellent skill in project management and team management - Excellent skill in coordination with partners and stakeholders - Sensitivity to the needs and priorities of conflict-affected populations. - Understanding of medical ethic and patient education. - Ability to work under pressure and stressful circumference

Languages

- Strong written and spoken English.

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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Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org