Country Health Director

5 days ago

Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan beBeeHealthDirector Full time
Job Summary:

The Country Health Director is responsible for overseeing the design, implementation, and management of health programs in their country of assignment. This includes providing technical oversight, capacity building of staff, supervision, and coordination with other departments and relevant agencies.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Work with the senior management team to develop a sector strategy for health programs in the country through identification of program/sector needs, understanding of national priorities, and the funding/donor landscape.
  • Conduct needs assessments at International Medical Corps current and potential new areas and ensure field inputs are incorporated into project design.
  • Identify potential partnerships which can contribute to the country's strategic objectives.
  • Provide accurate regular reports, statistics, and documented results and maintain detailed records of overall health program activities in the country mission in collaboration with the MEAL unit.
  • Ensure that data are summarized into regular country reports providing relevant analysis and interpretation on morbidity trends taking into consideration contextual information.
  • Review and complete relevant activity reports to include training, supervisory, and site visit reports prior to submission to head quarter/donor.

Program Management:
  • Take lead following up with support departments to ensure all programmatic needs are provided in a timely basis according to work plans, procurement plans, and HR.
  • Regularly review and update program management tools with the assistance of the senior management team being mindful of achievements against project indicators.
  • Provide feedback to the program director or country director.
  • Oversee the country health team including field health manager, community health workers, health facility staff, and mobile health team to ensure timely and successful implementation of planned health activities to ensure set goals and objectives are met within allocated resources.

Representation:
  • Represent and actively participate in health coordination meetings and other relevant meetings at field level.
  • Attend and participate in working group meetings.
  • Provide documented feedback to the senior management team on meetings attended.

Coordination:
  • Work closely with the senior management team in updating and coordinating health activities.
  • Coordinate with the field leadership and the senior management team to determine opportunities for collaboration with local authorities and other partners.

Budget Management:
  • Ensure proper documentation for all contracts and payments for services in coordination with the logistics, finance, and procurement teams.
  • Prepare expenditure projections for each project activity along with expected targets making sure to update them on a regular basis.
  • Review Budget vs Actual expenditure for the health programs in the country on regular monthly basis with programs, procurement, and finance teams.

Staff Management:
  • Organize daily work schedule for the country team according to the agreed work plan and assign tasks according to priorities in implementation.
  • Monitor the health team's performance according to their assigned tasks and provide regular feedback to the senior management team.

Technical Oversight:
  • Work with the country team to develop technical protocols and guidelines as needed.
  • Develop a training plan for healthcare workers including community health workers in coordination with the field health team.
  • Oversee the technical quality of inputs, interventions, and reports at field site level.
  • Directly supervise country health teams, pharmacy officers, community health officers, medical officers, HIS officers, and health program officers (where applicable) to ensure country program interventions and project objectives are met in accordance to committed standards.

Supervision:
  • Lead and oversee the country health teams.
  • Ensure timely delivery of program components according to proposed activities and available funds through regular technical and programmatic meetings at the country and field site levels with his/her direct reporting lines including MEAL and other relevant support department heads.

Capacity Building:
  • Responsible for his/her own personal and professional development by regularly attending learning opportunities online or face-to-face.
  • Take lead in identifying professional and technical training needs for his/her team.

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