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The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home.
CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND
The Syria crisis is often described as the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the end of the Cold War. Inside Syria, 7.6 million people are internally displaced and 12.2 million are in need of humanitarian assistance, with 4.8 million in hard-to-reach areas. There are 4 million Syrian refugees in neighboring countries. This is no short-term humanitarian episode. The devastating human consequences to huge numbers of people will endure for decades. The destruction of relationships, communities, livelihoods, homes and infrastructure will take years to repair.
IRC is offering a robust humanitarian response to the Syria crisis. With an annual budget in excess of $140 million and a rapidly expanding portfolio, supported by more than 1,250 staff in the region, IRC is undertaking programs in Syria and the neighboring countries of Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan in the fields of health, child protection, education, women’s protection and empowerment, NFI and food distribution, cash assistance, water and sanitation, and livelihood programming. Our work in these challenging settings gives rise to some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary humanitarian action, including questions of access, security, funding and coordination.
Job Overview/Summary:
The Senior Cross Border Health Officer is responsible for the technical support of partners and health facilities inside Syria. 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. This post will report directly to the Cross Border Health Manager.
Major Responsibilities:
Supporting the overall coordination, monitoring and reporting of partners and health facilities activities. Supporting the production and dissemination of communication materials and program resources to partnerships; fostering the use of reporting and communications tools.
Communicate with partners and program stakeholders to provide support and detailed information for the program about facility updates daily. Regular use of traditional communication methods (phone, email, file sharing and paper based exchanges).
Make sure that all information are gathered for the weekly report of communicable diseases in cooperation with the doctors in the health facilities and submit it on Sunday of every week for the previous week’s data.
Collect, update, manage facilities information and present them to the program, play a major role in collecting information from HSWG to ensure the support for all INGO is not duplicated.
Liaise with key staff to ensure effective planning and implementation of the program’s activity. Identify, strengthen and promote partnerships, dialogue and exchanges;
Work closely with the Health Manager in Amman, and Health Manager in Syria to assist in the direct implementation of health activities inside Syria.
Provide technical support and supervision to local partners and health managers in the supported health facilities inside Syria.
Assist in training inside Syria to Health Officers, Health Assistants, data collectors, Report submitters and hospital administrators in areas of their scope of data management and analysis.
Set high quality performance indicators that ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices and donor guidelines.
Ensure partner staff and facility staff receive proper training and follow up on health protocols and guidelines.
Create and adapt monitoring tools that assist in tracking of patients and their treatment protocols, and advise medical staff accordingly.
Assist partners in the development of health and training proposals. Provide continuous assistance as needed.
Responsible for ensuring that supported health facilities are properly equipped and receive the appropriate amount of drugs and supply with the support of the Monitoring Officer and Medical Commodity Officer.
Assist in the initiation of mental health activities, and ensure consistent support is planned, including medications and supervision.
Undertake other tasks as assigned by the IRC supervisor to enable and contribute to IRC’s programming.
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2017-04-06 |
| Job Location: | Amman, Jordan |
| Job Role: | Medical, Healthcare, and Nursing |
| Company Industry: | Community/Social Services/and Nonprofit |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
| Degree: | Bachelor's degree |
