Job Description

Title: Health Coordinator

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: --

Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Minimum Salary: Negotiable

Published: 19 Nov 2024

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Ensuring the quality of all the health services given and the maintenance of the PHCs, Health posts by maintaining clinical standards throughout.
∎ Assist the Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager to meet contractual performance.
∎ Strengthen, support and capacitate the staff.
∎ Provide oversight and guidance for all projects and tasks ensuring that they are adequately staffed planned, and performance is within scope, time, and available budget.
∎ Ensure capacity building of the team members, special focus on clients care issue, community engagement, and technical services.
∎ Facilitate the procurement and delivery of emergency medical supplies and equipment and provide capacity building to relevant stakeholders. S/he will also assist in establishing relevant partnerships with other humanitarian stakeholders, NGOs, donors and government counterparts.
∎ Oversees project implementation, establishing collaborative partnerships with executing agencies, experts, government counterparts, and other UN agencies to facilitate timely and efficient delivery of project inputs, and address the training needs of project personnel.
∎ Manages team dynamics; ensures synergy and harmony with the team. Provides role clarity to all staff within the team by providing supportive supervision and ensuring accountability.
∎ Ensures creation and documentation of knowledge about current and emerging health and rights issues by the programme team through the analysis of program, projects, strategies, approaches and ongoing experience for lessons learned, best practices, and uses this knowledge for information sharing and planning future strategies.
∎ Participates in advocacy and resource mobilization efforts of the Country Office by ensuring preparation of relevant documentation, i.e. project summaries, conference papers, speeches, donor profiles, and participating in related donor meetings and public information events.
∎ Support the DPM’s and PM’s efforts to maintain a positive organizational climate with the highest professional and ethical standards.
∎ Support the Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager in collaborating with camp level govt. functionary, Ministry of Health, DGHS, Civil surgeon, Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer, physicians, nurses, and other hospital professional staff to establish standards for running a medical/health facility and ensure operational support for smooth implementation of health interventions.
∎ Oversee all technical, financial, and contractual, and performance requirements to bring about the successful completion of the project.
∎ Work with the Deputy Program Manager in people management, development goals, efficiency, and quality improvement, financial management, financial planning, Health services development, compliance, public relations, and internal communications.
∎ Provides positive response when team members report problems.
∎ Promote a spirit of collegiality and gender diversity amongst team members and in the organization.
∎ Encourage team members to collaborate across areas; Address and resolve any diversity related issues.
∎ Set goals and conduct appraisals for the team; Set high standards and confront poor performance where needed9.      Take appropriate actions to manage poor performance (such as creating Performance Improvement Plans, coaching, job rotations, and planning separations) in order to build and develop an engaged and high-performing team.
∎ Lead project/support staff teams independently throughout efforts.
∎ Implement, monitor and coordinate/supervise program planning evaluating quality assurance in community setting project.
∎ Create a work plan (allocation of locations and duties) for the implementation of the intervention project;
∎ Monitor and ensure quality in health interventions at the field level;
∎ Any other task as and when required by the Program Manager.
∎ MBBS (with valid BMDC Registration) along with Masters of Public Health from any recognized University.
∎ Minimum experience of 3-5 years with NGOs, UN agency or international development organization and out of at least 2 years' experience in experience in health project or Programme.
∎ Current national and global development trends related to women empowerment, gender and justice, legal aid, rights-based approach, access to information; SDGs.
∎ Sound knowledge and understanding Project cycle management, results-based management and rights-based approach.
∎ Responsible for:
∎ Ensuring the quality of all the health services given and the maintenance of the PHCs, Health posts by maintaining clinical standards throughout.
∎ Assist the Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager to meet contractual performance.
∎ Strengthen, support and capacitate the staff.
∎ Provide oversight and guidance for all projects and tasks ensuring that they are adequately staffed planned, and performance is within scope, time, and available budget.
∎ Ensure capacity building of the team members, special focus on clients care issue, community engagement, and technical services.
∎ Facilitate the procurement and delivery of emergency medical supplies and equipment and provide capacity building to relevant stakeholders. S/he will also assist in establishing relevant partnerships with other humanitarian stakeholders, NGOs, donors and government counterparts.
∎ Oversees project implementation, establishing collaborative partnerships with executing agencies, experts, government counterparts, and other UN agencies to facilitate timely and efficient delivery of project inputs, and address the training needs of project personnel.
∎ Manages team dynamics; ensures synergy and harmony with the team. Provides role clarity to all staff within the team by providing supportive supervision and ensuring accountability.
∎ Ensures creation and documentation of knowledge about current and emerging health and rights issues by the programme team through the analysis of program, projects, strategies, approaches and ongoing experience for lessons learned, best practices, and uses this knowledge for information sharing and planning future strategies.
∎ Participates in advocacy and resource mobilization efforts of the Country Office by ensuring preparation of relevant documentation, i.e. project summaries, conference papers, speeches, donor profiles, and participating in related donor meetings and public information events.
∎ Activities:
∎ Support the DPM’s and PM’s efforts to maintain a positive organizational climate with the highest professional and ethical standards.
∎ Support the Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager in collaborating with camp level govt. functionary, Ministry of Health, DGHS, Civil surgeon, Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer, physicians, nurses, and other hospital professional staff to establish standards for running a medical/health facility and ensure operational support for smooth implementation of health interventions.
∎ Oversee all technical, financial, and contractual, and performance requirements to bring about the successful completion of the project.
∎ Work with the Deputy Program Manager in people management, development goals, efficiency, and quality improvement, financial management, financial planning, Health services development, compliance, public relations, and internal communications.
∎ Provides positive response when team members report problems.
∎ Promote a spirit of collegiality and gender diversity amongst team members and in the organization.
∎ Encourage team members to collaborate across areas; Address and resolve any diversity related issues.
∎ Set goals and conduct appraisals for the team; Set high standards and confront poor performance where needed9.      Take appropriate actions to manage poor performance (such as creating Performance Improvement Plans, coaching, job rotations, and planning separations) in order to build and develop an engaged and high-performing team.
∎ Lead project/support staff teams independently throughout efforts.
∎ Implement, monitor and coordinate/supervise program planning evaluating quality assurance in community setting project.
∎ Create a work plan (allocation of locations and duties) for the implementation of the intervention project;
∎ Monitor and ensure quality in health interventions at the field level;
∎ Any other task as and when required by the Program Manager.
∎ Skill and Competencies:
∎ Educational Requirements:
∎ MBBS (with valid BMDC Registration) along with Masters of Public Health from any recognized University.
∎ Experience Requirements:
∎ Minimum experience of 3-5 years with NGOs, UN agency or international development organization and out of at least 2 years' experience in experience in health project or Programme.
∎ Additional Requirements:
∎ Current national and global development trends related to women empowerment, gender and justice, legal aid, rights-based approach, access to information; SDGs.
∎ Sound knowledge and understanding Project cycle management, results-based management and rights-based approach.
∎ Read Before Apply
∎ “FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding.  FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.
∎ Photograph must be enclosed with the resume.

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Company Information:
∎ Friendship
∎ K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ https://friendship.ngo/

Address::
∎ K-14/2A, Baridhara North Road (Kalachadpur), Dhaka - 1212, Bangladesh
∎ https://friendship.ngo/

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Application Deadline: 25 Nov 2024

Category: NGO/Development