Health Project Manager – Cox’s Bazar JOB

We are looking for our delegation in Bangladesh for a

Health Project Manager

Position Start Date: 17^th of September 2018

Duration: 6 months

Location: Cox’s Bazar- Bangladesh

Terre des hommes does not set closing dates for this position; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled

Contractual conditions:

Expatriate contract under Swiss labour code 2’950 CHF (~2’550 €) 4’300 CHF (~3’700 €) net /monthaccording to experience x 13, Holidays: 25 days per year. Local accommodation and transportation, Health insurance, accident and medical repatriation insurance, return flight.

Context:

Following the massive displacement of more than 688,000 people into Bangladesh since end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important emergency response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on health, WASH and child protection. For the child protection component this includes: PSS activities in CFSs and with Mobile Teams, Case Management & Alternative Care and Capacity Building.

Main responsibilities:

The Health PM is responsible for Tdh’s Health programming in Cox’s Bazar (Bangladesh) and for the overall quality of the program. He/she ensures correct evaluation, implementation and management of medical programming and monitoring of the Health Projects, including finance and logistics. He/She ensures monitoring of qualitative and medical operational aspects of the Delegation’s programs in Cox’s Bazar on a day-to-day basis.

He / she supports the designing and fundraising of grants related to health, through monitoring donor opportunities, drafting of concept notes, budgets and project documents in collaboration and supervision with the WASH, Health and Nutrition coordinator and HQs’ experts.

He / she is responsible as well for health Project Cycle Management, the day-to-day implementation and management of health activities, the Coordination and Representation with official authorities (MoH) and INGOs, the Management of health team Human Resources including capacity building of national staff.

Fonction details:

Project Management

• To develop, implement and monitors the emergency health projects, in accordance with multiple objectives, activities and targets outlined within current donor proposals and in line with projects’ budgets;
• With support of the M&E Manager to ensure that activities are appropriately monitored and evaluated;
• To recommend amendments to the implementation strategy and project proposals, according to the health situation in the country;
• To forecast and follow up on expenditures related to the project;
• To participate in budget revision exercises;
• To prepare timely purchase requests in line with the project needs;
• To support required actions by the administration related to Health team management and supervision;
• To identify logistic and admin support needs related to the project and communicate these to the relevant log/admin support person(s).

Reporting, monitoring, communication and planning

• Ensures external and internal reporting;
• Writing of the narrative monthly, quarterly, intermediate and final reports, according to the templates and requirements;
• Feeds information to the WASH, Health and Nutrition coordinator;
• Participates in designing strategies and objectives for improved support to beneficiaries and contributes actively to its monitoring, evaluation and revision;
• Participates in assessments in its geographical zone of intervention;
• As requested by his/her Line Manager, takes part in the definition of strategic orientation for the mission, be it in the operational or in the technical part;
• Plans activities. He/she provides activity planning for all the duration of the project, as well as monthly and/or as requested;
• Creates and applies communication and visibility plans in the project(s) under his/her responsibility;
• Designs, and implements correctly, a data gathering system and tools as needed for the implementation of the project;
• Ensures the capitalization of lessons learnt and good practices in formal documents.

Coordination and representation

• Participates in internal coordination meetings as needed and requested;
• Participates in external coordination meetings (Cluster meetings, meetings with authorities from the Ministry of Health, technical working groups) and ensures the correct technical coordination with other Tdh activities;
• Represents Tdh in front of the Ministries of Health, as requested;
• Ensures the correct integration of Tdh’s health activities and strategy in line with existing national policies and guidelines;
• Ensures the correct coordination with the other Project Managers, in the activities related to his area of work;
• Ensures the coordination and solves potential overlapping of activities with other organizations and actors in health sector;
• Ensures communication and reporting regarding technical matters, as needed, with the technical referent for Health available at the mission or at HQ;
• Participates, as requested by his/her Line Manager, in the writing of Health proposals.

Team Management & Human Resources Management

• To identify, recruit train and manage staff;
• To ensure staff care;
• To ensure Child safeguarding policy is enforced;
• To ensure the whole team has a clear understanding of the Tdh mandate and project;
• Ensure a positive working environment and good team dynamics (solve out potential conflicts), organize and lead coordination meetings;
• Evaluate the staff under his/her direct responsibility on a regular basis and pass on the evaluations and recommendations to HR;
• Ensure the communication contract is implemented within his/her team(s) and project teams;
• Create conditions for a good flow of operational information from delegation – field – delegation (verbal exchanges, e-mails, sitreps, reports,, etc.);
• Ensure overall compliance with the Tdh HR procedures and those of the country (fairness, transparency);
• Participate in the delegation coordination meetings;
• Ensure and support the accountability of the national teams in a gradual process of delegation and nationalization of managerial posts;
• Develop his/her subordinates’ self-reliance and encourage collaboration.

Security

• Comply with Tdh Security Regulations;
• Ensure Staff safety and inform staff on security rules as defined;
• Reports any security/safety incident and/or risk to the emergency coordinator.

Profile:

Job requirements

• Degree in Medicine or Nursing;
• At least four years of experience in the implementation of Health projects, preferably in humanitarian contexts;
• Successful track record of developing funding strategies and securing high levels of funding from institutional donors (OFDA; BPRM; DFID; ECHO; UN; etc.) ; excellent knowledge of the Logframe, proposal and budget development;
• Proven knowledge of logistics implementation at national level;
• Ability to work well and punctually under pressure;
• A commitment to excellence; attention to detail;
• Excellent level of English, written and spoken;
• Excellent handling of IT tools, be it generalistic (Windows, Office, etc.) as well specific (EPI-INFO, etc.

As well as the following specific competencies

• Adaptable to changing situations, and to be able to change the orientation and planning of activities according to a changing environment;
• Able to work under stress, be it because of the exigencies of the workload;
• Able to manage his/her stress during the implementation of activities;
• Negotiation ability, in order to successfully defend TdH’s interests and the activities and goals of the project;
• Analytical, able to plan and enforce planning. Strategic, being able to define long-term policies and goals for his/her team;
• Culturally sensitive, adapting his/her behavior and manners to the reality of Cox’s Bazar;
• Proactive and independent, able to work autonomously and to propose solutions to problems in a creative and realistic manner;
• Is able to establish and manage his/her priorities correctly.

Child Safeguarding Policy:

• Raising awareness within the Foundation on violence against children;
• Providing guidance to employees and others and defining expectations when it comes to preventing, raising, denouncing and responding to issues of child abuse;
• Reducing the risk of child abuse by selectively recruiting employees and others;
• Reducing the risk of child abuse by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children.

We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.

Are you interested? Do you want to face this challenge?

Procedure:

Please postulate on our website: http://www.jobs.net/j/JfICNvkb?idpartenaire=20007

We will only consider complete online applications corresponding to the required profile.

Your application must include a complete CV and a covering letter. Additional documents such as diplomas and work certificates will only be required in case of an interview.

If you are not shortlisted, your file will be destroyed by us, according to the rules on data protection.

If you face difficulties in applying online, please contact our HR department: rh@tdh.ch

Terre des hommes provides equal working conditions for men and women. Furthermore, for candidates with equivalent qualifications and for positions with responsibilities, applications from women are strongly encouraged.

The recruitment and selection procedures of Terre des hommes reflect our commitment for child security and protection.

What is Terre des hommes: https://vimeo.com/253387235