Well being Advisor

Position & Obligations
Working as an vital member of a various crew who’re dedicated to serve the world’s most susceptible with sensible and compassionate care, the Well being Advisor gives technical recommendation and assist to discipline administration and the well being workers. Develop, lead, monitor, and consider the well being elements of nation programme. Coordinate and community at a senior degree with nationwide and regional well being authorities. Actively take part in well being sector coordination supporting the event of high quality requirements and protocols to enhance the general response. Lead on all well being parts of proposals and stories, growth of technique, offering capability constructing for nationwide and worldwide workers, selling finest observe within the well being programmes, and contributing to total administration of nation programme.

Challenge Overview

Medair began a multisector response to the Ukrainian disaster in March of 2022. The well being response has targeted on re-establishing entry to major well being take care of affected populations and has included re-equipping well being services with important provides and gear, well being facility repairs, coaching for well being care staff and minor infrastructure repairs. Medair has additionally been offering assist to susceptible individuals residing locally by the supply of consumable provides and mobility gadgets. Psychological well being and psychosocial assist is built-in into the response. The function will contain journey to assist our varied bases in Ukraine and mentoring Medair workers.

Office & Working circumstances

The place is distant with visits to the Nation Program.

Beginning Date / Preliminary Contract Particulars

ASAP. 6 months with attainable extension. 50%

Key Exercise Areas

Well being Challenge Technical Oversight

• Preserve an outline of nation well being programmes and of regional context, with a view to strategically creating new tasks in present websites and/or surrounding areas, and proactively plan for accountable exit when acceptable
• Outline acceptable insurance policies, pointers and protocols for medical elements of Medair’s work in nation, in session with GSO advisors, discipline managers, and consistent with related authorities, Sphere and WHO pointers
• Present technical assist to the well being groups in all challenge websites, together with the analysis and affect evaluation of present tasks, and the writing of donor proposals and stories inside the required timeframes
• Perform common monitoring visits along with different discipline managers, guaranteeing that challenge targets are met inside the said timeframes and in accordance with recognised worldwide requirements
• Supervise and monitor the event of reporting methods for well being knowledge assortment (qualitative and quantitative), evaluation and follow-up and suggestions to related workers, donors, companions and different businesses
• Develop the nation sector technique in collaboration with the Senior Well being and Vitamin Advisor
• Work carefully with Shelter and MHPSS/safety technical workers and different sectors as wanted

Illustration

• Develop and keep relationships with Ministry of Well being, UN, NGOs, donors, companions and different stakeholders, with the target of elevating public consciousness of Medair and guaranteeing good co-operation and partnerships
• Accompany donors on discipline journeys, as requested, and guarantee programme particulars are transmitted in a well timed {and professional} method
• Symbolize Medair, as acceptable, at nationwide well being cluster/sector, coordination, sector and bilateral conferences, working teams, with nationwide and/or native authorities departments and some other related conferences or occasions, facilitating supportive synergies and total progress within the well being sector and avoiding duplication with the work of different businesses (e.g. NGOs, UN, and many others)

Workers administration

• Be concerned within the recruitment of well being workers for the nation programme, offering recommendation on technical expertise and expertise as requested
• Make sure that all well being workers are adequately educated and, if essential, create potentialities for capability constructing, mentoring and training, inside price range constraints.
• Help line managers in inductions and value determinations of well being workers, significantly relating to technical expertise

Monetary Administration

• Make sure the well being challenge expenditures are consistent with accredited budgets, advising on potential underneath/overspending and recommending acceptable corrective motion.

High quality Administration

• Guarantee well being tasks are applied consistent with donor proposals/necessities and in accordance with Medair, donor, nation and worldwide requirements e.g. Sphere and HAP requirements, WHO suggestions, and many others. Comply with route of Senior Well being and Vitamin Advisor at GSO relating to high quality, technique and technical pointers
• Attend Medair’s annual well being and diet workshop, in addition to periodic on-line conferences, with GSO advisors to maintain updated on suggestions and pointers for Medair well being and diet programming

Workers Well being

• Usually, the well being advisor has total duty for employees well being/occupational well being procedures and compliance, and the event of procedures in-country, nevertheless with this place being distant it’s anticipated that a part of this duty could be delegated to a well being workers in nation.

Delegated Obligations

• Improvement of and adherence to the in-country well being coverage, technique and pointers in session with different related discipline managers and GSO workers
• Oversight of the technical elements of the well being tasks, together with suggestions for well being workers targets, coaching, promotion and disciplinary motion
• Take the lead in well being elements of exterior relations within the nation with authorities and authorities ministries, UN businesses, associate NGOs and donors, in session with the Nation Director

Group Religious Life

• Replicate the values of Medair with crew members, native workers, beneficiaries, and exterior contacts.
• Work, stay, and pray collectively in our Christian faith-based crew settings. Absolutely contribute to the wealthy religious lifetime of your crew, together with crew devotions, prayers, and phrases of encouragement.
• Inspired to affix and contribute to Medair’s worldwide prayer community.

{Qualifications}

• Medical diploma (nurse or physician), or Public Well being diploma
• Robust working information of English (spoken and written).

Expertise

• At the least 3 years’ expertise in managing programmes in worldwide public well being work, with not less than 1 12 months in humanitarian emergency context
• Dedicated to team-building and capable of develop and assist different crew members
• In a position to deal with primary residing circumstances within the discipline and through discipline journeys
• Data of humanitarian ideas, Sphere and HAP Requirements, in addition to different worldwide humanitarian pointers and protocols
• Expertise within the design, monitoring of implementation and analysis of public well being programmes

All new deploying worldwide workers to Medair’s nation programmes (and different roles which require discipline journey) ought to be totally vaccinated with a WHO-approved COVID vaccine, supported with a COVID vaccination certificates as proof.