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Job Title: Health Program Manager (F/M)
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Fixed-term contract: 6 months
Starting date: as soon as possible
Job Description
- Under the supervision of the deputy general coordinator, you are in charge of the implementation, follow-up and overall supervision of the health program in Maiduguri.
- You ensure a close collaboration with the logistics and administrative departments and a good team spirit.
Main Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities are:
Program management:
- Ensure the development, implementation and quality of activities
- Make sure that activities are implemented in a holistic and integrated way
- Contribute to needs assessments and context analysis
- Supervise the facilities in regards of their different needs
- Analyze monthly budget monitoring
- Participate in the development of the health strategy
- Support the creation of specific tools
- Ensure the establishment of the appropriate documentation and an effective archiving system
- Work in close collaboration with the technical program unit and local partners
- Work closely with local partners to ensure capacity building
- Actively participate in the sector meetings
Team management:
- Directly manage the medical supervisors and provide technical support to all medical teams
- Recruit, integrate and brief the new team members
- Carry out appraisals
- Ensure that all staff under your responsibility know and follow MdM policies and procedures
- Organize regular team meetings, briefings and debriefings
- Maintain good inter-team communication and team dynamic
- Monitor and support stress management
- Carry out performance reviews
- Plan and implement thematic specific trainings/capacity building/refreshers
- Make sure that the midwives are trained to manage cases of gender based violence
Management of medical stock and logistics chain for medical purchase:
- Contribute to establish an agenda regarding procurement processes and delivery of drugs
- Define in advance the drugs and consumables needs
- Ensure the supervision of the clinics pharmacists
- Ensure that supported health facilities receive drugs and consumables on time
- Validate and cross check the consumption reports
- Ensure proper documentation and analysis of all pharmacy and medical stock reports
Representation, coordination and communication:
- Participate in the writing of donor’s activity reports and proposals
- Represent MdM in all relevant forums and medical meetings
- Participate in the writing of reports, factsheets and program reviews
- Maintain relations with the administrative authorities and other stakeholders
- Maintain close and beneficial working relationships with all relevant stakeholders
- Respect and apply internal reporting requirements
- Ensure constant, transparent and proactive communication
Requirements
- Medical Doctor, Nurse, Midwife with experience in public health and project management
- Significant experience in similar positions
- Experience in supervising health facilities
- Experience in program cycle management and budget follow-up
- Experience in outbreak management and emergency response
- Experience/knowledge of the region is an asset
- Ability to have a global overview of a program
- Ability to analyze an epidemiological context and propose relevant interventions
- Ability to make quick decisions according to the context in coordination with the team
- Proven ability to problem solving and lead teams through very challenging situations
- Excellent knowledge of Windows (word, excel)
- Languages: English is mandatory (oral and written).
- Knowledge of French or country languages such as Hausa would be an asset.
- You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde.
Monthly Salary
- 3119 Euros (Gross)
Other Benefits:
- Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
- Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
- Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
- Guesthouse housing
- 22.5 recovery days per year
- 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
- Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
- Insurance (repatriation…)
- Teleworking agreement for positions eligible to telework: 110 days/year (2.5 days teleworking on average per week) with a minimum of 1 day per week onsite
- Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
- As part of our measures to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, any selected candidate may be subject to a background check on international sanctions lists (UN, the EU, France, the United States…). This information is handled confidentially and stored on a secure server. For more information on the processing of personal data throughout this process: http://bit.ly/3CSTDYO
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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