Egypt Job Openings
Save the Children
Health Officer- UNHCR
October 14, 2024
Health Project officer Elective - Egypt Country Office
TEAM/PROGRAMME: Operation Program
LOCATION : Cairo, with frequent visits to Alex and Damietta
GRADE : 4 (Competitive Package)
CONTRACT LENGTH:
Till end of December 2024
Till end of December 2024
Child Safeguarding:
Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people.
ROLE PURPOSE: The Health officer will be key in efficiently and urgently responding to non-emergency medical cases, ensuring that appropriate actions are taken as agreed with UNHCR and recording all required information. They will also be crucial in coordinating, implementing, and reporting under the health program with Save the Children International (SCI), working closely with healthcare providers, the project team, PHC partners, UNHCR, and other stakeholders. The Health officer will be responsible for delivering timely results and coordinating with governmental, partner, and community stakeholders to establish a coherent project model on the ground.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Health Project senior officer
Dimensions: Save the Children International works in 13 regions in Egypt with a current staff complement of approximately 350+ staff and current expenditure of approximately US $12 million each year.
Staff directly reporting to this post: 5 health care coordinators. + 2 Admin staff
Reports to: Health Project senior officer
Dimensions: Save the Children International works in 13 regions in Egypt with a current staff complement of approximately 350+ staff and current expenditure of approximately US $12 million each year.
Staff directly reporting to this post: 5 health care coordinators. + 2 Admin staff
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Project Implementation
Reporting and documentation
Project Implementation
- Directly and closely supervises and manages elective ceases -respond team and elective referral process (central management)
- Participates in medical assessment of elective cases, and provider selection.
- Assures that the elective cases are referred according to the cases’ medical needs, and geographical location to the appropriate healthcare facilities, throughout public facilities as the 1 st choice, or, if the needed service is not available in nearby public facilities, the case referred to the nearest healthcare facility of the SC medical network
- Manages the follow up of admitted cases medically and financially.
- Assures the implementation of UNHCR policy in managing referral of emergency cases
- Assures that all Referral cycle within the agreed timeframe started from received through referrals officer, and actions taken are recorded and well-documented clearly and separately
- Participates in healthcare facilities’ visits when required
- Participates in meetings with stakeholders when required
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Participates in deviations’ detection and investigation.
Reporting and documentation
- Assures and revises comprehensive, accurate, and on time data registration process for all non-emergency cases
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Assures that the action taken by the health coordinators are documented and cases are followed up, and the feedback recorded
- Provides timely reports on health outcomes of all no- emergency cases, provides comprehensive report including length of stay, medical prognosis, cost, and its justification to senior officer, and HIS officer
- Provides timely reports on calls received through his team to senior officer, and HIS officer
- Provides timely reports as scheduled to project senior officer and M&E officer, on indicators set by project M&E officer.
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Participates in deviations’ reporting as assigned by project senior officer.
Budgeting
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Support in quality budget phasing, monitoring and utilization, participates in cost/benefit assessment for admitted/hospitalized cases, guided by UNHCR 2nd care SOP, emergency referral guidelines, considering the health outcomes
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice) Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modeling SCI values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development
- Widely shares their personal vision for SCI, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks Integrity:
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Honest, encourages openness and transparency
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor degree of medicine with a minimum of 3-5 years of successful experience in project implementation with a reputed organization or NGO, previous work with UNHCR is preferred.
- Postgraduate degree in emergency medicine is preferred.
- Post graduate study in management is preferred.
- Previous work with refugees/asylum seekers is a plus.
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Strong government relations and networking skills
- 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.
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Commitment to Save the Children International values.
Date of issue: October 2024 Author: NI
Updated on: June 2023 by: Omar El Noman
Save the children India employ approximately 300 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
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