Health Coordinator

The Health Coordinator will lead the implementation of community health activities in Aswan aimed at improving the health and well-being of refugees, asylum seekers, and vulnerable migrant communities. This role involves hiring, training, and supervising Community Health Workers, building capacity of local NGO community health activities, planning and implementing health awareness and screening sessions, and coordinating with health authorities and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the generation of referral maps and orient CHWs about service mapping and referral pathways, including identifying SGBV cases and referring them to relevant Case Worker.
• Support in the implementation of referral pathway and cost coverage to contracted secondary and tertiary hospitals in Aswan.
• Work with PNGO to ensure that the SGBV Secondary health cases are identified, highlighted, and properly referred to appropriate services.
• Co-train the community health workers and other stakeholders on health promotion methodologies and topics especially SGBV, NCDs, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH).
• Support local partners in establishing and maintaining community health services and teams.
• Implement health promotion sessions for refugees, migrants, and host communities.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all training sessions, CHW activities, and community health interventions.
• Prepare regular reports on project progress, challenges, and outcomes for internal and external stakeholders.
• Regular reporting to the project manager.
• Enter monthly data for service utilization in the project database.
• Record CHWs supervision visit reports and update the database.
• Draft concise, useful, analytical reports, case studies, and other documents as needed.
• Participate in planning and developing future programming initiatives.
• Ensure that partner NGO is implementing the activities as planned promptly with high quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in medicine/pharmacy or related medical fields.
• Minimum of 2-3 years experience in implementing and supervising community health services.
• Experience managing Community Health Workers (CHWs).
• Experience with refugee/marginalized communities.
• Previous experience in health promotion and raising awareness with similar projects and initiatives.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluency in Arabic (spoken and written) and good knowledge of English.
• Good report writing skills.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s values and Child Safeguarding.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and work ethic.
• Desirable: Master’s degree in public health/family medicine.

Skills

• Community Health Services
• Supervising Community Health Workers
• Health Promotion
• Health Awareness Campaigns
• Refugee Health Support
• Marginalized Communities Health
• Report Writing
• Interpersonal Communication
• Child Safeguarding
• Training and Capacity Building
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Community Health Planning
• Medical Knowledge
• Public Health
• Family Medicine
• Team Collaboration

Languages

Arabic, English