World Vision recherche un conseiller en santé/responsable du secrétariat, Bangui, RCA
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type : Affectation internationale – Durée déterminée (durée déterminée)
Job Description :
The Country Secretariat Director in coordination with Gavi 5.0 WVUS headquarters staff will :
- Guide the development of the technical priorities and strategic plan for the project, ensuring that they contribute to the quality and coverage of supplemental immunization activities, utilization of routine immunization services and activities to reach ZDC in communities and at cross-border points/movement ;
- Monitor implementation of the Secretariat annual work plan and budget ;
- Guide the development of and approve the Secretariat and in-country partners’ work plans and budgets before they are submitted to the Gavi 5.0 headquarters staff ;
- Monitor the in-country partners’ adherence to the approved budgets and work plans and make any necessary program adjustments to ensure work plans are met within budget ;
- Monitor the field operations performed by the Secretariat and partners staff and make necessary program adjustments to ensure quality implementation. Review and approve all training work plans and training curricula developed by the secretariat technical staff ;
- Monitor training received by field staff in community-surveillance, social mobilization, communication, data collection and reporting tools and techniques and make any necessary program adjustments to ensure appropriate training is received ;
- Monitor Gavi 5.0 immunization goals and strategies; make necessary adjustments to ensure they contribute to the national and global goals and to the quality and sustainability of routine immunization services ;
- Maintain close formal and informal networking and communications with sub-national, national and international immunization partners and stakeholders, ensuring that community needs are communicated to them, and innovations lessons from Sahel Gavi 5.0 countries, technical advances, policy changes and other relevant information are communicated to all country consortium Gavi 5.0 partners/team ;
- Manage all communications with national and international stakeholders and partners working in CAR Ensure the timely completion of monthly data updates, produce quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports, and other reports as required ;
- Produce and disseminate memos documenting the key discussion points and decisions taken at Gavi 5.0 partners meetings, and at stakeholder meetings including meetings country-led immunization technical consultative groups, Technical Advisory Group(s) etc. ;
- Monitor the implementation of project monitoring and evaluation activities, including the planned Gavi 5.0 evaluations and guide the interpretation of the analyzed data ;
- Convene regular meetings with the in-country consortium Gavi 5.0 partners to share lessons learned, disseminate information, discuss challenges, solicit feedback, etc. ;
- Mentor and direct the work performed by the (country) consortium secretariat staff.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience :
- Master’s degree required (Master in Public Health) ;
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (eight years) work experience. Appropriate certifications may be required ;
- Requires work experience in a complex NGO environment ;
- Preferably managing major projects and initiatives; 10-15 years ;
- Previous experience in fragile, conflict, and cross-border settings ;
- Experience in immunization, primary health care service delivery, vaccine supply chain management, demand creation, and community engagement/mobilization strongly preferred ;
- Previous experience managing complex projects as a project manager ;
- Previous experience of partnership with the Ministry of Health at the national, intermediate and/or operational level ;
- Proficiency in French and good working knowledge in English ;
- Knowledge of primary health care with emphasis on routine and campaigns immunization (Standards of Immunization) ;
- Knowledge on the vaccine supply chain and cold chain ;
- Knowledge in social mobilization and community engagement ;
- Knowledge of MS Office, Outlook and statistical program (EPInfo, SPSS) ;
- Knowledge and Skills necessary in surveys, studies and health assessments ;
- Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources ;
- Ability to exhibit exemplary lifestyle as interpreted in specific local cultural context ;
- Writing, presentation and quality reporting skills.
Applicant Types Accepted : Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted.