Country: United States of America
Closing date: 24 Dec 2017
Job Title: ERT Health Coordinator
Sector: Health
Employment Category: Regular
Location: IRC Global
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC works with people forced to flee from war, conflict and disaster and the host communities which support them, as well as those who remain within their homes and communities. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC's Emergency Unit
The IRC's Emergency Unit (EU) leads or oversees IRCs global emergency preparedness and response activities. The mission of the EU is to help meet the immediate survival needs and reduce suffering in conflict or disaster affected populations during the acute phase of an emergency. The EU also works in protracted emergencies, where the risk to life may be reduced but the population is still subjected to rights abuses and a lack of basic services.
The EU is also charged with enhancing the IRC's global and country-level emergency preparedness capacity. This is accomplished supporting the development and training of Country Emergency Teams (CETs), assisting in the development of emergency-focused partnerships with local civil society organizations, maintaining regional and global capacity to rapidly identify and deploy qualified emergency response personnel and supporting country-level contingency planning.
The IRC's Health Unit
The Health Unit promotes the health of IRC's beneficiaries from relief through post-conflict. The Health Unit contributes to the effectiveness of health programs through technical support, staff development, and institutional learning. Health Programs conform to standards of humanitarian assistance and promote self-reliance, participation, sustainability, equity, and human dignity. The Health Unit is committed to advancing the practice of humanitarian assistance through documentation of lessons learned, collaborative research, and advocacy.
SCOPE OF WORK
The IRC ERT staff is expected to be deployed in the field, either in an emergency or roving capacity, for up to 65% of the time and must be able to deploy to the site of an emergency within 72 hours of notification.
Members of the Emergency Response Team are deployed to either support existing country programs in their emergency response, or to initiate a new program in the crisis zone. The overall responsibility of the team is to rapidly and effectively design, develop and manage the IRC's on-site humanitarian response to meet the immediate needs of the affected population. The ERT is also responsible for supporting the transfer of responsibilities and knowledge to the long-term staff to ensure the continuity of IRC programming and operations.
The IRC ERT Health Coordinator is expected to provide leadership and direction in strengthening an effective, high quality and timely emergency health response, as well as coordinating different components of the Emergency Health Package (primary health, reproductive health, nutrition, and environmental health). The Health Coordinator holds an important role as an advocate for the Emergency Health Strategic Plan and will be expected to make and advocate for programmatic decisions consistent with its interventions and approach
S/he is a member of both the Health Unit and the Emergency Unit (EU). The ERT Health Coordinator's main reporting line is to the Director of Emergency Health, on an ongoing basis and during periods of non-deployment. During emergency deployments ERT staff will work under the direction of IRC's Emergency Field Director or designated country emergency lead. Both during deployment and while working on projects during undeployed time, the Health Coordinator also maintains strong ties with his/her technical team within the Health Unit, referring to these colleagues for specialized technical input.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Emergency Response
- Provide leadership in strengthening an effective, coordinated, integrated high quality and timely emergency primary health, reproductive and emergency nutrition responses, per the Emergency Health Package/Strategic Plan;
- In coordination with EU and HR, identify health-staffing needs (both national and international) for emergency programs, and ensure rapid recruitment, induction and training of new staff;
- Be prepared to be deployed within 72 hours; emergency deployments take precedence over other duties;
- Ensure high quality and timely integrated health assessments of the humanitarian needs and provide prioritized recommendations for program interventions to the ERT Field Director/emergency lead;
- Design program response plans, including geographic areas of intervention, in coordination with internal and external actors;
- Draft technical proposals and budgets for international donors, work in close collaboration with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and respond to any requests for additional information;
- Oversee Coordinators managing grant/program implementation including staff recruitment and training, workplan development, procurement and inventory planning, and budget management;
- Prepare high quality and timely donor and management reports on grants and sector activities;
- Select and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems; ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to enhance program effectiveness and quality;
- Participate in regular response check-ins with Emergency Health Officer to ensure systematic and efficient communication of implementation data;
- Ensure compliance with IRC policy and procedures throughout the program team and activities;
- Represent and coordinate with other agencies, local government, donors and other stakeholders to promote deliver of best practice humanitarian assistance;
- Support media and communications activities as requested by the ERT Field Director/CD/in-county emergency lead;
- Assess and provide input on post emergency strategies and transition plans for IRC programming;
- Provide a comprehensive handover to successor, including ensuring transfer of all related documentation, program monitoring data and staff performance information
Emergency Preparedness
- Work with EU and HQ program technical staffs, lead the ongoing development of emergency preparedness and response tools, including but not limited tothe Sector Toolkits for Emergency Programming (STEP) Initiative;
- Support health-focused capacity building projects, in collaboration with the Emergency Health, Emergency Preparedness, and Country Program teams;
- Provide input for the continual strengthening of appropriate and cost-effective contingency stocks, revising the stock list and related medical logistics procedures/mechanisms in accordance with lessons learned in the field and monitoring replenishment
Non-Emergency
- Provide technical support to existing country programs remotely and through in-country visits or short-term deployments;
- Contribute to ongoing projects related to the rollout of new Emergency Health Strategic Plan initiatives;
- Actively contribute to Emergency and Health Unit projects that require emergency or health input
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Position reports directly to: Director, Emergency Health
Position directly supervises: deployment-dependent
Position works closely with: Emergency Health team staff, other ERT members, Health Unit technical and country support teams, country program counterparts and health support staff. Position has a secondary reporting line to: Emergency Team Leader (while deployed)
Minimum Qualifications
REQUIREMENTS
- University degree, and technical accreditation or equivalent
- 3-5 years experience developing and managing technical projects including 3 years in emergency/conflict areas
- Demonstrated ability in resource mobilization for health emergencies
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with international institutions and agencies, local governments and community leaders and develop multi-stakeholder support for humanitarian priorities and advocacy initiatives
- Superior internal and external communication and coordination capabilities and excellent team management skills
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical standards and best practice approaches to ensure rapid, consistent, high quality emergency response strategies and programs
- Strong understanding of outcomes-based programming, the importance of integrated health response and demonstrated commitment to fostering collaboration amongst health sub-sectors
- Experience managing donor funded programs and grants; including resource mobilization, staff management, budget oversight, monitoring and evaluation systems, and technical input to proposal-budget development and donor reports.
- Excellent language skills in both English and French
How to apply:
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