Health Program Manager - will be responsible for supporting all Health and nutrition activities for ECHO supported Health facilities in terms of clinical supervision and mentorship
He/ She is responsibly to ensure responsibilities will ensure quality of primary health care being delivered in
Concern supported health facilities through continued technical supervision, mentoring and coaching of health staffs in health facilities and provide basic and refresher training for the staffs.
 

Main duties & Responsibilities: Key Role and Responsibilities
Program Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring
        • Improving the quality of the PHC and nutrition programs through continuous monitoring using supervisory checklist.
        • Ensure diagnosis and treatment of patients is based on standard procedures (national and international guidelines)
        • Actively participate in the management and referral of patients based on the national protocol
        • Ensure the community-based activities such as EPI, nutrition screening, health education and defaulter tracing are done properly
        • Actively participate in the identification and management of any disaster or epidemics.
        • Build the capacity of national staffs through proper coaching and training
        • Ensure integration of the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) and optimal Infant and Child Feeding (IYCF) component of the nutrition program into the Primary Healthcare in Concern.
       • Ensure adherence to the current SAM management protocols in OTP/TSFP sites
       • Help with activity verification and monitoring (stock and program quality) at supported facilities to ensure smooth, high-quality program implementation
       • Support to strengthen planning, review and coordination activities in all targeted HFs and LHA
       • Strengthen Health Management Information Systems for data management and data analysis (HMIS,DHIS2)
       • Strengthening health facility capacity and readiness to provide primary health care services during disease surge and increased demand for displaced population due to conflict and plan support based on gaps.
       • Support mobile service delivery to expand services in health emergences
       • Support to establish process of quality monitoring and continuous quality improvement process.

       • Facilitate training on quality of care and supportive supervision
       • Facilitate basic and refresher training to further strengthen technical capacity of health facility staff

Coordination and Representation
        • Do active networking with nutrition stakeholders such as SMoH, WHO, WFP and UNICEF.
        • Participate in the nutrition coordination meetings at state level and represent Concern in technical meetings as needed.
         • Represent Concern in technical nutrition missions conducted by stakeholders and UN agencies.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
        • Responsible for collection, collation and dissemination of data from the Concern supported facilities to get the data from OPD, RH, OTP,TSFPs and SCs program
        • Facilitate learning, documentation and sharing of experience/learning of Health service planning, management and government within the operation areas.
         • Contribute to the development of programme database and maintain statistical database of programme figures for all the program sites.
          • Prepare weekly and monthly reports highlighting programme achievement, challenges and plans and submit them to the his/her line managers on regular and timely manner.
          • Compile information collected from various programme areas to produce monthly narrative reports.
Other Duties:
         • Engage in emergency response as and when required by the organization
         • Support implementation of other activities of ECHO SAFE project as soon as the manager and team identify the gap.
         • Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned, including administrative and planning functions.
         • Any other tasks agreed with the Line Manager.
 

Person specification: Qualification skills and Experience
        • Should have degree in Medicine, Nursing or related subject with 4 years’ experience.
        • Experience in conducting BEMONC, IMNCI and EPI training for health workers
        • Experience in Health service planning and management in supporting HF and LHA
        • Experience in needs assessments, surveillance, surveys, and information management
        • Experience in training, supervision and management of staff
        • Excellent computer skills especially word, excel, and power point.
        • Ability to communicate and write reports in English is required.
        • Knowledge and experience of humanitarian work is an added advantage
        • Knowledge of policies and guidelines pertaining to the health and nutrition sectors in Sudan is required.
        • Ability to travel to field locations with rough roads and extreme weather conditions.

 

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants

Concern Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies.

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s

Core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies

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