Emergency Health Delegate

Job Purpose

In close consultation with the Operations Manager, the Emergency Health Delegate will lead and coordination the emergency health preparedness and response activities of the Emergency Appeal, with a particular focus on national Society capacity building, coordination and collaboration, knowledge management and organisation learning.

These activities include disease prevention and control, epidemic preparedness and response, psychosocial support and sanitation. This entails liaising with the communicators in the National Society and at other Movement partners to ensure timely and quality production of updates and other possible outputs.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Emergency preparedness

1. Monitor epidemiological data, health indicators, disaster and disease patterns for analysis and early detection disease concerns. Facilitate the identification of necessary readiness and response actions to be taken, where necessary.
2. Support the further development and mobilisation of national and regional pools of qualified health practitioners, as part of the regional disaster response teams.
3. Contribute to the development as well as reviews of Federation response mechanisms, operating procedures and protocols affecting different levels of the organisation.

Emergency response

1. Support in the planning, implementation and management of the health component of National Society emergency response and recovery programmes supported and coordinated by the Federation.
2. Support ensuring that the physical and mental health needs of staff are well-looked after, and that staff health procedures and medical evacuation plans are updated regularly.

Knowledge management and organisational learning

1. Identify and document good practices on emergency health preparedness and response.
2. Compile essential technical guidelines, references, reports and case studies on disease preparedness and response

Coordination and collaboration

1. Participate in and work with relevant regional emergency health networks and coordination mechanisms with a view of improving health interventions in the operation, as well as strengthening effective and coordinated health response.
2. As part of the Federation’s global emergency health team, participate in defining collective priorities and initiatives to contribute to the delivery of the secretariat’s strategic operational framework for health in general, and in emergency health in particular.

NS capacity building

1. Support National Societies’ emergency health preparedness and response capacity strengthening consistent with their mandates and roles agreed with national authorities.
2. Promote, and where possible facilitate, the integration and mainstreaming of emergency health programmes and initiatives into relevant National Society programmes, as well as the co-ordination and co-operation between National Society emergency health programmes and initiatives.

Education

Required:

• Medical or other health-related degree
• Post-graduate education in public health

Preferred:

• Diploma or training in tropical medicine, infectious diseases control, or humanitarian assistance

Experience

Required:

• At least three years of experience in managing emergency health programmes and interventions.
• At least five years programme management experience in an international humanitarian organisation
• At least five years of experience in working with national counterparts
• Programme management experience within the Red Cross/Red Crescent system, preferably in an emergency response setting

Preferred:

• Experience in working with a national Red Cross Red Crescent society

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

Required:

• Extensive knowledge of the Federation’s health and disaster management objectives, mandate and programme orientation, as well as emergency health and disaster management system, tools and mechanisms.
• Good knowledge of disaster management and humanitarian assistance concepts and debates, as well as mechanisms, tools and guidelines for programming and coordination at different levels
• Leadership and coordination skills
• Analytical thinking skills
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Good training and facilitation skills
• Self-supporting in computers: word processing, spreadsheets and presentations
• Ability to work under stressful conditions, meet deadlines and travel extensively to support field operations or training
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred:

• Good command of Turkish

Competencies, Values and Comments

• Results focus and accountability
• National Society relations
• Professional standards
• Teamwork & Leadership
• Communications

Please note that the position may be filled before the deadline for submission of the applications.

Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.