Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response. The Emergency Health Unit is a new and exciting programme, part of the humanitarian department, that was recently launched to improve humanitarian response. The unit ensures a pre-standing emergency health capacity, including medical supplies, logistics and skilled medical personnel, to deploy anywhere in the world in the event of a major disaster or conflict. This capacity includes the set up of three mobile teams to support primary health care, mass immunization and diarrheal disease response in the initial phase of an emergency, ideally to be set up within 72 hours of the disaster.
The three mobile teams will comprise of team leader, clinical lead, nurse, logistician, medical logistician and WASH Manager, and will be managed by the Head of EHU Outpatient Department and supported by Save the Children Humanitarian Operations and Technical Unit.
About the role
This role will manage the clinical lead of one primary team – cholera unit, mobile clinic or vaccination unit, providing technical leadership for the team and direct clinical care. Key responsibilities include to provide clinical input to emergency preparedness and to support the training of the response team. During a response, the role holder will oversee clinical care of specific modules – OPD, immunization and cholera, especially during the first phase of an emergency, will lead and oversee the recruitment of clinical staff with HR and ensure their clinical orientation and training the clinical team, will liaise at project level with Country Office, and together with the country health lead, MoPH and health cluster contribute to effective integration and exit strategies.
About you
Our ideal candidate is a medical Doctor, a Nurse or has very strong Public Health experience who has managed health programmes / component of emergencies responses including during thefirst phase emergencies. You have demonstrated strong knowledge of primary health care, Acute Water Diarrheal management and immunization- you have worked in an Ebola Treatment Centers/Units, setting up protocols and have experienced in supervising, coaching, training, medical teams. You have great written and oral communication skills, and have the ability to represent our organisation in external forums. Flexible, you are willing to be deployed at short notice and have demonstrated excellent leadership skills establishing and maintaining a positive team dynamic in insecure environments. For full details, please see the job description.
What we offer in return
You will receive a competitive salary, hardship allowance, 35 days of annual leave, medical insurance while on deployment; travel and accommodation provided for; based in home country- In addition you will receive paid R&R; complexity allowance and expensive posting allowance where applicable.
About the recruitment process
We will review applications on the rolling basis and might test, interview, and appoint prior the closing date. Ideally, the role holder will start in May 2015 with a period for orientation and training.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please apply via the enclosed link
