South Sudan: 2 County Health Coordinators

CCM (Comitato Collaborazione Medica) is an Italian NGO operating in South Sudan since 1983. In Warrap State and Lakes State, CCM has combined support to primary health care services with Nutrition preventive and curative services. CCM intervention mainly focuses on 31 target facilities and targets MARPs in remote or isolated areas.

Location:Tonj East and Awerial Counties

Contract duration:12/15 months with 3 months probation period.

Start date:October 2014

Job description

Requirements: The county health coordinator is the NGO technical representative in the County and ensures the timely planning, monitoring and supervision of all health activities implemented in the County in close coordination with the State Coordinator, M&E Officer and the Health Advisor in order to ensure the achievement of county goals and targets;

Areas of responsibility are:

Project management

• S(he) prepares the work plan of health related activities and ensures its regular updating. • S(he) is responsible of the collection of health data and ensures the data entry in the software as per official rules and protocols. • S(he) elaborates the technical reports and/or other relevant documentation following donor templates and CCM internal procedures (M&E tools). S(he) ensures the respect of the deadline established and the consistency of health data as approved by the M&E and CCM Health Advisor. • S(he) defines the trainings plan of local staff and ensures its implementation (including the evaluation of knowledge) according to the work plan established. • S(he) provides continuous capacity building, monitoring and supervision of local staff ensuring the quality management of patients and delivery of care according to MoH protocols. • Supported by the State Administrative Assistant, s(he) is responsible for the management of the funds and cash book related to the activities under (her)his direct supervision. • S(he) supports the administration in the finalization of the financial report ensuring the collection of all documents required by the administration department as required by the State Coordinator or State Administrative Assistant. • S(he) participates to the analysis of health needs in the health facilities supported by CCM, for the identification of new action or the revision of the approved ones, following the indication of the State Coordinator and the CR.

Logistics

• S(he) is responsible of overall management of CCM field office, including CCM equipments and tools, CCM stores, in close coordination with the State Coordinator, the State Administrative Assistant and the Field Logistician. • S(he) assists the State Coordinator in the definition of the procurement plan and ensures the procurement of goods, services and construction according to the CCM and Donors’ procedures. • She supervises and coordinates the correct management of HFs stores (drugs, equipments, spare parts…) and their relative inventories. • S(he) assists the State Coordinator in the county implementation of the security plans and actions.

Human resources

• S(he) supports the State Coordination in the elaboration of regional and local staff individual work plan and, when delegated, supervises their implementation. • S(he) takes part in the recruitment and evaluation of the local project staff (including consultant) and of the HFs staff. • Under the supervision of the state administrative assistant, s(he) prepares the HFs staff contracts and payroll and assures the correct and timely payment of the staff salaries.

Requirement:

• Minimum Education: Diploma in Public Health, Community Nursing, Clinical Medicine and related field; • Minimum 3 years of experience in running and supervising PHC programs in humanitarian contexts (with NGOs/CBOs or public health institutions); • Sound knowledge and working experience on PHC service delivery guidelines (knowledge of the National Health System of South Sudan is an asset); • Experience in PHC training roll-out; • Languages: fluency in English (knowledge of local language is an asset); • Excellent communication skills (oral & written); • Proficiency in computer (Word Processing and Excel); • High sense of responsibility, good organizational, coordination and time management skills; • Team player, flexibility and willingness to work in a remote, hardship and diverse environment.

Qualified nationals (South Sudanese) candidates are encouraged to apply.

Please send motivation letter (max 1 page) and CV (max 3 pages) with references to recruitment.ssd@ccm-italia.org. Please indicate the vacancy reference in the email subject: County Health Coordinators – SOUTH SUDAN. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.