Project Officer (Health)
Job Description
Title: Project Officer (Health)
Company Name: YPSA - Young Power in Social Action
Vacancy: 02
Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ramu)
Employment Status: Contractual
Educational Requirements:
∎ Masters preferably in Public Health, Community Development, Women' Studies, Social work, Social Sciences, Human Rights, Management, Humanities, or other relevant area or the equivalent in professional work.
Experience Requirements:
∎ 4 to 5 year(s)
Job Context:
∎ Job Duration: 6 Months (01 July`21 to 31 December`21)
∎ Job Location: Ramu upazilla
Job Responsibilities:
∎ Strong communication with Upazila Health Complex, Community Clinic and others Health Service Center to ensuring Health service of survivors
∎ Strong communication and coordination with Health Service Provider (Govt and NGOs) to ensuring Health service for survivors
∎ Technical Quality Reinforce adherence to the GBV guiding principles and women-, girl- and survivor centered support
∎ Ensure support for prevention of women and adolescent girls, including psychological first aid (PFA), safe referrals and information sharing, adheres to best-practice principles when working with women and girl survivors of GBV
∎ Align with internal and inter-agency Protection against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policies and procedures, reporting SEA through the specified mechanisms
∎ Provide continuous technical support to project staff on Health Management for vulnerable women and girls
∎ Extract, analyze, and manipulate data from the Health Management system for the purpose of presenting it to senior management.
∎ Staff Supervision and Development:
∎ Directly supervise, and provide ongoing mentoring and support to the community mobilizer (health) as they provide services to women and girls. This will include: survivor-centered PFA, referrals, information sharing on services and support, service mapping and service quality audits when not deployed to an emergency to ensure accurate information.
∎ Hold daily planning and debriefing sessions community mobilizer (health) in particular to gain learning and feedback from the health team.
∎ Mentor and support staff professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming
∎ Identify training needs for the health team and project staff and support the organization and facilitation of training to meet those needs, in collaboration with the Project Coordinator/Upazila Manager
∎ Implementation:
∎ Work closely with health staff to design activities that prevention to needs and priorities identified by women and adolescent girls
∎ Prepare and maintain/update detailed work plan(s) that support and achieve activities
∎ Develop and support the implementation of service mapping and service quality audits
∎ Conduct regular field visits to support the implementation of activities with health staff giving supportive feedback and guidance as part of the mentoring process
∎ Give guidance to the health staff in making safe, confidential and timely referrals to services in line with the health service center principles
∎ Ensure the whole team is adhering the formal health referral pathways and are providing feedback to you on the functioning of this for action and forwarding to the Project Coordinator/Upazila Manager
∎ Ensure quality referrals between the health team, Emergency Health Service confidential and safe support to women and girl survivors of health according to the internal referral procedures
∎ Monitoring, Reporting & Administrative Support:
∎ Ensure that all data collection (paper and electronic) reporting tools are used accurately on every day, and are then provided on schedule to relevant staff (i.e. MEAL Officer)
∎ Monitor daily/weekly data collection to ensure that the data is managed in safe and ethical ways
∎ Prepare and submit weekly and monthly work plans in a timely manner, and incorporate supervisor feedback as requested
∎ Compile weekly data and narrative activity report for submission
∎ Ensure that all relevant financial, supply chain, human resources and other administrative documentation is accurately completed and submitted
∎ Coordination & Representation:
∎ Identify concerns related to and support adherence to health referral protocols by all relevant organizations and agencies; report up to the Project Coordinator/ Upazila Manager
∎ Maintain effective working relationships with relevant partners including community-based protection mechanisms and other service providers (in particular the Emergency Health Response Units) to work collaboratively for a quality survivor-centered response
∎ Represent the YPSA Health team in host committee coordination forums, giving updates on Health activities, wider guidance on survivor-centered approaches and advocating for the safety and well-being needs of women and girls in the response
∎ Deliverables:
∎ Technical support to Health team and partner staff
∎ Implementation
∎ Monitoring and reporting
∎ Staff supervision and development
∎ Coordination and representation
∎ Sessions with adolescent group on ASRH
∎ Parents/Caregiver Meeting on ARHR
∎ Orientation to CSO members on SRH of adolescents
∎ Meeting with local government officials at Upazila and district level (upazila health and family planning officer (UH&FPO), upazila family planning officer, Civil surgeon and Deputy Director of Family Planning, FWV, SACMO, CHCP) on referrals
∎ Establish of Adolescent Friendly Health Service Corner
∎ Monthly meeting with CG and UH&FWC committee members
Additional Requirements:
∎ Only females are allowed to apply
∎ At least 4-5 years of experience needed in the field of public health Service.
∎ Professional experience in counselling and implementing health activities for women and girls or proven engagement in women's rights
∎ Competencies: Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
∎ 3-5 years' management experience in public health service
∎ Excellent command of spoken and Written in English
∎ Comfortable with different working and program needs in health service as well as development environments.
∎ Diplomacy skills is required given the need for a strong focus on meetings and relationship building with local government, multilateral organizations, donors, and other NGOs.
∎ Computer literacy, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point.
∎ Ability to work with a reasonable level of comfort in high tension and high security risk situations
∎ Strong knowledge on negotiation and persuasion skills in seeking funding commitments from donors, special arrangements and concessions from local governments
∎ Ability to adjust to harsh living conditions.
∎ Values Diversity and is committed to people capacity growth
∎ Positive and professional attitude, including ability to lead and work well in a team setting and be a good manager
∎ Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and respect for clients all times is essential
∎ Experience facilitating trainings and workshops and mentoring others
∎ Language Preference: People who are familiar with local culture and local dialects will get preference
Salary: Tk. 49116 (Monthly)
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 26 Jun 2021
Company Information:
∎ 19 Jun 2021
∎ YPSA - Young Power in Social Action
∎ Address : House # F 10 (P), Road # 13, Block # B Chandgaon R/A, Chittagong - 4212
∎ Web : www.ypsa.org
∎ Business : YPSA (Young Power in Social Action) www.ypsa.org is an organization for sustainable development working in greater Chattogram division since 1985 with a vision to build a society without poverty where everyone’s basic needs and rights are ensured. YPSA is implementing with the support from Democracy International (DI) a project title “Promoting Peace and Justice (PPJ)” in Kutubdia, Cox’s Bazar Sadar, Chakoria, Pekua, Moheshkhali, Ramu, Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilla and its 71 Union under the Cox’s Bazar district and Sandwip, Patiya, Satkania, Rangunia, Fatikchari Upazilla and its 88 Union under the Chattogram district
Category: NGO/Development
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Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 26th Jun 2021
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