Main Streaming Project Health officer -Cairo office TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operation Program LOCATION: Greater Cairo GRADE: 4 CONTRACT LENGTH:

Till end of December 2024 renewable

Child Safeguarding:

Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.

ROLE PURPOSE: The Health officer will be crucial in Supervising all primary healthcare activities, coordinating, implementing, and reporting under the health program with Save the Children International (SCI), working closely with healthcare providers, the project team, PHC partners, UNHCR, The Health officer will be responsible for delivering timely results and coordinating with governmental, partner, and community stakeholders to establish a coherent project model on the ground. SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Senior health officer

Staff directly reporting to this post: Community health workers

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Project Implementation

• Participate and Supervise all PHC Activities including capacity building of service providers,

• Supportive supervision visits, health awareness promotion to communities through sessions and events.

• Actively participate in project management cycle activities including needs assessment, project design, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

• Designing and implementing community reach out work plan and tracking all related expenditures; prepare financial forecast/ plans directly linked to community work plans.

• Support the senior officer in leading and overseeing high quality implementation of SC’s Primary Health care activities for refugees and host communities to fulfil obligations to stakeholders at all levels.

• Coach and build the capacity of community mobilization team as needed.

• Lead on SCI community-based COVID-19 response activities, including community-based surveillance, hygiene kits’ distribution, etc.

• Utilize the Performance Management System, define expectations of staff members, develop workplans and improvement plans as needed.
Participates in healthcare facilities’ visits when required.

Reporting and documentation

• Assures and revises comprehensive, accurate, and on time data registration process.

• Assures that the action taken are documented and cases are followed up, and the feedback recorded.

• Support for preparing all reports needed for Health activities.

Budgeting

· Support in quality budget phasing, monitoring, and utilization, participates in cost/benefit assessment for Health activities guided by UNHCR SOPs

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

· holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.

· holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

· sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.

· widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.

· future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale. Collaboration:

· builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.

· values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.

· approachable, good listener, easy to talk to. Creativity:

· develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.

· willing to take disciplined risks. Integrity:

· honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree of medicine with a minimum of 3 years of successful experience in project implementation with a reputed organization or NGO, previous work with UNHCR is preferred.

• Previous work with refugees/asylum seekers is a plus.

• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing and negotiation.

• Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.

• Very good computer skills.

• Report writing skills in English required.

• Good knowledge of Child Safeguarding will be an added advantage.

• Commitment to Save the Children International values

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

JD written by: SCI Date: June 2024 JD agreed by: Date: Updated By: Date: