Medical Coordinator (National position)
Job Description
Title: Medical Coordinator (National position)
Company Name: Relief International
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Medical doctor, MBBS preferably with MPH or equivalent preferred.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: Based in Ukhiya, Bangladesh (With frequent travel to different Camp Locations)
∎ Report To: Health & Nutrition Program Manager
∎ Expected Start Date: At Earliest
∎ Contract length: Up to December 31, 2021 (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Implementation of Clinical Services:
∎ Oversee daily implementation and monitoring of medical services at all RI supported mobile and static health clinics.
∎ Put in place quality control measures to regularly assess the quality of medical services being provided to patients.
∎ Establish pathway for referral of complicated cases to higher level care.
∎ Assist clinical supervisors in ensuring supply chain of needed medications and consumables. Raise purchase requests for needed items.
∎ Ensure all clinics are prepared for disease prevention, detection and response.
∎ Quickly address problems with implementation that arise on a day-to-day basis, liaising with the Health Program Manager as needed for additional support.
∎ Ensure quality health data is being captured by the medical staff and DSO.
∎ Staff Management:
∎ Provide line management of clinic supervisors.
∎ Provide site-level technical support through regular field visits, mentorship, coaching and supervision of clinical staff at the facilities.
∎ Build capacity of clinical staff, and ensure that implementation quality is in line with RI and MOH standards.
∎ Regular meeting and communication with field based medical staff.
∎ Ensure adequate scheduling of clinical staff and management of leave.
∎ Program Management:
∎ Support the program manager in management of the project cycle, including donor reporting, work plans and meeting budget requirements.
∎ Monitor implementation of health and nutrition programs to ensure progress according to project plans and grants. Identify any bottlenecks and take action to address gaps.
∎ Seek opportunities to adjust programming based on the needs of the field and explore new ideas to better deliver services.
∎ Participate in the planning of new programming.
∎ Coordination and Technical Representation:
∎ Regularly liaise and coordinate with technical counterparts from partners, UN agencies, the district health management team, and the Ministry of Health.
∎ Represent RI in coordination and technical meetings both in the field and Cox's Bazar.
Additional Requirements:
∎ This position demands a dynamic individual with a demonstrated ability to achieve results in a demanding and fast paced environment.
∎ Minimum 5 years of experience practicing medicine; at least 2 years of experience working with an international health NGO. Experience working in similar refugee contexts is desirable.
∎ A dynamic individual with a demonstrated ability to perform in a demanding, fast paced environment.
∎ Experience and ability to implement full project management cycle (proposal and logical framework, work plans, budget management, reporting)
∎ Substantive experience managing, supervising, and mentoring clinical staff.
∎ Ability to creatively solve complex and sudden clinical and medical logistics challenges with limited support.
∎ Takes initiative and ability to multi-task.
∎ Ability and willingness to travel to and work in difficult environments.
∎ Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
∎ Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy.
∎ Safeguarding and Gender Sensitiveness:
∎ Be part of embedding an organizational culture that is committed to protecting clients from harm.
∎ Ensure that the team understands and abide by the organization culture of safeguarding
∎ Design and implement gender sensitive approach in finance functions (if/where applicable).
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 3 Jul 2021
Company Information:
∎ 22 Jun 2021
∎ Relief International
∎ Business : Relief International, headquartered in USA, is a leading international non-government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.
Relief International (RI) has been working in Bangladesh since 2004, implementing programs covering emergency response, health, economic opportunity, trafficking in persons, gender equality and youth empowerment. RI has been present in Cox’s Bazar since 2014 where it was implementing a trafficking in persons project in Ukhiya and Teknaf supporting old caseload refugees as well as host communities prior to the large-scale influx. Since 2017, RI has scaled up its operations in Cox’s Bazar to support the emergency response by providing integrated, multi-sectoral programming for refugee and host communities, covering health services, including a 144- bed COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Center in Ukhiya, child protection, SGBV, complimentary food and livelihoods opportunities to support social cohesion. Relief International is currently implementing a large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, WFP, USAID.RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar.
Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 3rd Jul 2021
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