Roving Senior SRH Officer/Gambella – West Harerghe, International Medical Corps (IMC) Vacancy Announcement

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversight and Support for program development.
• Oversees the implementation and quality of services for three selected refugee camps namely, Terkidi, Ngnuyniel and Kule camps.
• This officer supervises a team of three SRH community-mobilizer officers, who collectively manage the outreach and facility-based SRH and HIV prevention, support, and treatment.
• Regularly assess new developments and needs in Gambella during field visits including new gaps and potential areas of SRH interventions.
• Assist the Gambella field office SRH manager in identifying potential areas for new projects and prepare concept notes and project proposals (in collaboration with the SRH Manager and Addis’s level technical focal points specialist, Health Manager, and Coordinator).
• Program implementation, logistics and budget management
• Ensures that SRH interventions and health care services are appropriately integrated in the refugee camps and surrounding local communities;
• Ensures that IMC SRH care standards and protocols are met, national health policies and strategies are respected and other relevant project management issues including donor requirements are properly addressed;
• Provide technical support and guidance during the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of SRH project activities in Gambella refugee camps from the inception to the close-out stages.
• As a technical person or focal point; mentors, coaches and supports the technical competence and capacity of SRH community mobilization Officers and (or case managers, if any) for PLHIV assigned in each of the refugee camps.
• Support health facilities in refugee camps, woreda health offices, zonal health departments, and RHBs, to strengthen targeted HIV testing, linkage to ART, access to optimal ART, ARV prophylaxis, adherence counseling, viral load monitoring, data capturing, and reporting.
• Assists the field office manager in addressing the logistic issues about programmatic supplies for SRH (collaborating with Gambella IMC logistics and finance department, government, and UN agencies).
• Reviews program budget and ensures there is regular alignment of budget versus expenditures.
• Ensures smooth project phase-out in each project area during project closure.
• Reporting and M/E
• Provide updates and regular reports on SRH to a field office, UNHCR, and refugees RSS at the Gambella coordination office.
• Assists Gambella field office manager in compiling the refugee-based reports and provide high-level regular reports and updates to the field SRH manager for review and eventual delivery to the based health technical unit;
• Supports camp-based team to establish reporting systems and data flow mechanisms and ensures proper systems functioning for regular assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of the projects against its objectives and expected results.
• Representation
• Represents the organization during SRH technical meetings at Gambella level with RRS, UNHCR, and other partners.
• Liaises and represents IMC in relations with RRS and UN agencies, donor agencies and other partner NGOs in SRH-related coordination meetings and provides minutes of such meetings.

Capacity building and coordination

• Capacitates community mobilization officers and (case managers for PLHIV, if any) at the refugee camp level to enable them to provide high-level performance in the whole cycle of SRH projects.
• Facilitates for the implementation of the adapted or developed IMC guidelines which are based on the national protocols manuals and guidelines.
• Identifies training needs through rapid assessments or M & E tools and makes a capacity development plan for the technical officers.
• Additional tasks:
• Collaborates with other actors working in the targeted community
• Be flexible and be able to assist when inquired by the supervisor

·         MPH or specialized in RH or BSc in Public Health, Nursing or Midwifery with SRH program experience.

·         Three years of SRH program management experience for MPH and five years of similar experience for BSc holders preferably in a humanitarian context.

·         At least two years of NGO experience in SRH programming in the areas of technical and managerial roles;

·         Experiences with SRH services and interventions including social and behavior change communication (SBCC), and other awareness-raising approaches are preferred;

·         Training on BEmONC, comprehensive long-acting -reversible contraceptives (LARC) and HIV health services and STIs would have added advantages.

·         Training on Clinical HIV/ART, providing HIV/ART training for health care workers.

·         Proven training facilitation experience and skills, including on job and formal training.

·         Excellent budget, logistics, and human resource management skills.

·         Ability to work with a broad spectrum of people from different cultural backgrounds.

·         Excellent communication skills.

·         Flexible with the ability to cope with stressful situations and challenging conditions with limited resources.

·         Good report writing skills in English and should meet reporting deadlines.