Health Officer

The Health Officer leads the health component activities of the EKN2 project aimed at providing safe, equitable, and timely access to quality SGBV prevention and response services for displaced Sudanese people in Egypt. The role involves planning, coordinating, implementing, and reporting primary and secondary healthcare services in Aswan, ensuring compliance with SCI and donor requirements, and managing internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the capacity building of PNGO on SGBV.
• Oversee the implementation of referral pathway and cost coverage to contracted secondary and tertiary hospitals in Aswan.
• Ensure SGBV Secondary health cases are identified, highlighted, and properly referred to appropriate services.
• Supervise all health activities implemented directly or through partner NGO.
• Capacity building for health staff, community workers, partner NGO teams and other stakeholders.
• Plan, implement, and supervise primary healthcare activities including community health awareness sessions, capacity building for public entities, and other activities.
• Identify and continuously update health awareness sessions and events messages based on needs and evolved situations.
• Participate in healthcare facilities assessments and plans for support based on assessment.
• Ensure data collection design, gathering, and analysis that support data-based advocacy messages for universal health coverage.
• Support and directly supervise all cash for health-related activities.
• Actively participate in project management cycle activities including needs assessment, project design, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Design and implement community outreach work plans and track all related expenditures; prepare financial forecasts/plans directly linked to community work plans.
• Support the project manager in leading and overseeing the high-quality implementation of SC’s Health activities for refugees and host communities.
• Coach and build the capacity of the community mobilization team as needed.
• Utilize the Performance Management System, define expectations of staff members, and develop work plans and improvement plans as needed.
• Assure and revise comprehensive, accurate, and on time data registration process.
• Assure that the action taken are documented and cases are followed up, and the feedback recorded.
• Support for preparing all reports needed for Health activities.
• Support in quality budget phasing, monitoring, and utilization, participate in cost/benefit assessment for Health activities guided by donor SOPs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in medicine/nursing/pharmacy.
• Minimum of 3 years of successful experience in project implementation with a reputed organization or NGO.
• Experience managing primary healthcare activities, especially on a community level.
• Experience managing nutrition services is desirable.
• 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.

Skills

• Project Implementation
• Primary Healthcare Management
• Community Health Management
• Nutrition Services Management
• Refugee Health Support
• Interpersonal Communication
• Negotiation Skills
• Results Orientation
• Computer Skills
• Report Writing
• Child Safeguarding
• Health Program Planning
• Health Program Coordination
• Health Program Reporting
• Stakeholder Management

Languages

English