Health officer/HEALTH OFFICER in Premiere Urgence Internationale

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• Collect and ensure compliance of data for internal and external reporting in accordance with the recommendations of the Senior Health Professional and accordingly to the requirements of donors. 

• Report any delays, issues or other activity-related information to the Senior Security Officer of health and the multi-sectoral project manager.  

• Weekly report on the progress of implementation of healthcare measures to the senior healthcare specialist. 

• Attend and participate in weekly team meetings. 

• Provide data for proposals and reports, as determined by the Senior Health and administration 

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• Inform about PUI policy at the local level as needed; 

• Report complaints received from beneficiaries and be upfront with them; 

• Ensure, in coordination with the logistics department, proper storage of means, consumables, and equipment. 

6.External representation

Act as a contact person for medical institutions and ensure regular communication and control. 

• Participate in external meetings as requested by the senior healthcare professional and provide meeting minutes. 

TERMS OF WORK:

Start date: As soon as possible

Working days: Monday to Friday

We will only contact shortlisted candidates. 

Interested candidates should submit their resume in English and at least 2 reference contacts. 

PUI reserves the right to interview candidates on a rolling basis, so a candidate may be selected before the closing date.

Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI) is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious humanitarian NGO. PUI started humanitarian intervention in Ukraine in February 2015. The mission's objectives are to improve or restore equitable access to primary health care for the local and displaced population affected by the military conflict and to improve theirliving conditions by covering their fundamental needs.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Project Manager Health and Multi-Sectoral Project Manager, the Health Officer is in charge of ensuring and implementing the health programming. She/He will be in charge of the implementation of the activities, needs assessment, the distribution of assistance and the reporting. She/He will work across various areas of East Ukraine to deploy PUI’s emergency response. 

Place of work - Dnipro, Dnipro region

Qualifications 

Education Degree: Medical diploma of higher or secondary medical education. 

Work experience: previous engagements in humanitarian health sector is desired. 

Language Skills: Fluent in Ukrainian and Russian, good level in English is mandatory. 

Knowledge & Skills: 

Team player, good listener, proactive, good critical thinking; ability to synthesis a wide scope of information, solid organizational and planning skills, excellent communication as well as conflict resolution skills. 

Computer skills: comfortable is using Microsoft Office (with focus on Excel and Word), data treatment and Outlook.  

TASKS AND DUTIES :

1. Activities implementation 

• Participate in the drafting of procurement requests based on identified needs. 

• Participate in the preparation of drugs and medical equipment distributions to the health facilities, working closely with the Pharmacist Assistant and the Deputy Project Manager Health, including the drafting of administrative documents and terms of reference. 

• Participate in the distributions of drugs and medical equipment in the health facilities. 

• Implement PUI’s health activities across various areas in East Ukraine. 

• Participate in the preparation of the drafts of Memorandums of Understanding, Donation certificate and other programmatic legal agreements to be conducted with the partner health facilities with support of the Deputy Project Manager Health.  

• Ensure health interventions are complementary to and/or feed into the national health system. 

• Ensure compliance with PUI’s strategies and methodologies at field level, following and adhere to available SoPs and Guidelines. 

2. Assessment  

• Draft Terms of Reference for assessments. 
• Identify new sites of intervention within PUI’s geographical scope of work. 
• Oversee assessments of health facilities and mobile health team locations, both under the existing project and potential future projects, considering the strategic plan of the mission.  
• Draft assessment reports and archive them on the Sharepoint. 
• Analyse assessment results and suggest actions in-line with PUI programming.  
• Ensure the monitoring of activities, and final assessment to measure outcomes of PUI emergency activities.  

3. Training to health facilities 

• Identify training needs in supported health facilities.  

• Develop training materials in collaboration with the deputy project manager health and Health Coordinator.  

• Train health workers on topics identified based on the needs. 

4. Reporting 

• To collect and ensure compliant data for internal and external reporting as per the Deputy Project Manager Health guidance and in-line with donors’ requirements.    

• Report any delay, problem or other relevant information to the Deputy Project Manager Health and Multi-Sectoral Project Manager. 

• Report on the progress of health activities on a weekly basis to the Deputy Project Manager Health.   

• To attend and contribute to Weekly Team Meeting.  

• Provide inputs for proposals and reports, under the needs provided by the Deputy Project Manager Health and Mission Coordination. 

5. Communication and follow up 

• Communicate PUI’s policies at field level when needed; 

• Report complaints received from beneficiaries and be transparent with them; 

• Ensure, in coordination with the logistics department, appropriate storage of medications, medical consumables, equipment.  

6. External representation 

• To act as the focal point for health facilities and ensure regular communication and follow up. 

• To participate in external meetings as requested by the Deputy Project Manager Health and share meeting minutes. 

CONDITIONS

Starting time: ASAP

Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday

HOW TO APPLY:

Interested candidates should submit their CV in English, and be ready to provide at least 2 reference contacts upon selection.

Only candidates shortlisted will be contacted. PUI reserves the right to conduct interviews with candidates on an ongoing basis, therefore a candidate may be selected before the closing date.