Health Program Officer

Job Title: Health Program Officer

Position Status: Full time

Location: Gaziantep ,Turkey

Length of Contract: 12 Months

Vacancy: 1

About Us:

ALAMEEN for Humanitarian Support is a non -governmental organization established by a group of volunteers in Syria during the crisis in 2012 and registered in the USA, Sweden, and turkey.

ALAMEEN is implementing projects through regional offices in Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, and Somalia.

Our work sectors are Health, Nutrition, Education, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), Protection, Shelter &Non-food items, Wash and Sanitation.

ALAMEEN also manages development projects, advocates to empower civil societies and local governance.

Job Description

ALAMEEN is seeking a Health Program Officer (HPO) who will be responsible for perform administrative and supervisory duties for contracted and county-operated health programs and services, including but not limited to staff supervision, program development and implementation, program monitoring and evaluation, coordination of services, and related duties as assigned.

The HPO makes sure that health program policies and practices are properly implemented. They maintain the budget and track the transactions or expenditures.

Responsibilities:

Program and representation:

• Leads development and operationalization of ALAMEEN Health Strategy.
• Builds the capacity of ALAMEEN health team, ensuring regular training for staff and health personnel in such areas as clinical training, health service management, and data collection and reporting
• Work with the Proposals Development and Quality Assurance Unit to coordinate information needs and compile program-level monitoring and evaluation information for dissemination.
• Work on Theories, principles, goals, and objectives of public health.
• Work on Principles, practices, and techniques of program planning, development, and evaluation
• Principles and procedures of Program budget and monitoring, including budgets involving grants, contracted services.
• Develops operational procedures and monitors program activities to ensure compliance.
• Coordinates program activities with other public and private programs to ensure total compliance.
• Provides technical assistance to the medical and technical staff.

Management and Program Quality:

• Planning, organising, directing and controlling all activities and services and supervising the performance of employees.
• Preparing the centre’s work procedures manual and updating it from time to time.
• Preparing and following up on providing the centre’s devices, equipment, supplies and other needs.
• Distribution of workforce to cover the daily work of the department.
• Preparing a continuous education and training program to rehabilitate the department’s employees.
• Evaluating the performance of the department’s employees from various professions and making the necessary recommendations.

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting:

• Delivers timely quality reporting on project activities, including findings regarding the impact on individuals and communities.
• Takes part in project meetings called by donors and any relevant stakeholders, in close coordination and under the supervision of the Head of Mission

Ability to:

• Ability to work in a stressful setting and adapt quickly to changing environments
• Ability to conduct work in a professional and mature manner
• Ability to mentoring and training; experience in supervising staff desirable
• Ability to prioritise manage time effectively and work under pressure with deadlines.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, supervise and evaluate complex program activities and diverse staff
• Apply principles and techniques to problems and issues
• Build coalitions among groups with differing needs and objectives
• Analyze and evaluate data and information, and make appropriate recommendations
• Ability to travel.(YEMEN)

Qualifications

• Health professional with a medical degree or any relevant degree
• 3 years of experience managing health programs Especially prosthetic limbs and physiotherapy programs
• 3 years of supervisory and management experience
• Strong coordination and leadership skills with proven
• Excellent knowledge of the humanitarian and development sectors, experience and knowledge of humanitarian standards.

Languages:

• Arabic and English are mandatory (oral and written)

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS:

ALAMEEN and ALAMEEN Staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the ALAMEEN Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. By these values, the ALAMEEN enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

Compliance & Ethics

Promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout ALAMEEN. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of ALAMEEN and donor compliance and ethics standards and adhere to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicate these values to staff and partners and require them to adhere to them.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within ALAMEEN

and amongst beneficiaries served by ALAMEEN

NB: considering the purpose and values of the organisation, ALAMEEN requests its complete employee flexibility in terms of duties and commitment, as their job description and title can be adjusted throughout the year according to needs and priorities.