Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone (SL) and Liberia and GOALs Response to Date
The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest Ebola outbreak in history and the first in West Africa. The current outbreak is affecting multiple countries in West Africa with Sierra Leone/Liberia first reporting cases in March of this year. As of September of this year Liberia has reported over 3,000 cases with Sierra Leone reporting over 2.500 cases. Based on current rates of infection it is expected that case numbers will climb significantly in the current months. GOAL has been working in Sierra Leone for several years now and has been active in the Ebola Health response since the outbreak was declared. Due to the scale of the outbreak in Liberia GOAL has decided to establish a response in Liberia to provide assistance to the large numbers of people who have become infected in recent weeks and are expected to be infected in the coming weeks and months ahead.
Summary of Role:
The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Emergency Health Coordinator will be responsible for the overall management, administration and planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Health Response programme in Sierra Leone.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of GOAL’s Ebola response programme in Sierra Leone which should be based on timely and quality sectoral analysis, and in coordination with key stakeholders
- Provide technical and managerial support to the EVD Medical Coordinator(s) and other staff as appropriate
- Ensure that all EVD responses are in line with current best practise and that staff safety protocols are in place and being reviewed regularly
- Ensure that each Treatment Centre/health team have a staff safety plan and appropriate training in plan in place.
- Ensure that effective partnership and collaboration are achieved and maintained with the Ministry of Health and other organisations for technical cooperation, programme coordination, information sharing and knowledge networking.
- Monitoring and evaluation of programme performance is properly undertaken for adjustment, acceleration and improvement of program delivery.
- Ensure that the most relevant and strategic information is provided to relevant stakeholders.
- Support in the preparation of donor reports and proposals as required.
- Other assigned duties and responsibilities are effectively accomplished.
Requirements:
- Health qualification Nurse, Doctor, Public Health or other relevant disciplines
- At least 2-3 years of experience as Health Manager/Coordinator, developing and implementing health programmes
- Experience working in a health humanitarian contexts; infectious disease outbreaks or medical emergency response.
- Relevant people management skills and providing direction for a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience in national representation and coordination.
- Excellent IT and report writing skills.
- Ability to work in a difficult situation and deal with challenging clinical settings.
Contract Duration:3-6 months
