Public Health Specialist (SRMNCAH)

Job Description

Scope of work: The Public Health Specialist will be responsible for technical oversight and support on IRC health development and humanitarian health response projects 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 Assistant Health Program Director, area health program leads and partner 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.

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.

Qualifications

- M.B., B. S or MD, with post graduate degree in Public Health or a related field. - At least 5-7 years of experience working with UN/INGO/LNGOs in setting up and managing complex health programs and demonstrated high level skills in SRMNCAH program and project coordination, management, mentoring and multi-tasking; and an excellent understanding of the contexts of Myanmar. - Strong SRMNCAH technical skills and experience of clinical management in perspective of SRMNCAH. - Experience in design, implementation and analysis of health program assessments and surveys. - Experience and skills in capacity building of multidisciplinary health program team and SRMNCAH service providers. - Excellent communication skills, fluent written and verbal Myanmar and English skills. - Good computer literacy and have experience of applying database and research soft-wares. - Professional demeanor, ability to work under stressful conditions while maintaining perspective and a sense of humor. - Patience, diplomacy, flexibility, critical thinking and analytical skills. - Have ability to travel extensively to program implementing hard to reach rural areas.

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.