This position is dependent on funding.
PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:
Mercy Corps has been operational in Liberia since 2002, most recently implementing programs in food security, peace building, and youth empowerment. Liberia is emerging from an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease, which over the last year has killed 3,947 people in the country and infected thousands more. While the outbreak is largely contained, it revealed profound vulnerabilities in the health system, weakened economic and food security conditions and called for the reevaluation of many traditional health and hygiene practices. As Liberia enters the recovery period, the challenge is to pair the ultimate eradication of Ebola with an overall systemic strengthening to enable the country to better weather future shocks and build the health and productivity of its people.
Mercy Corps' strategy to respond to the Ebola outbreak has focused on two approaches: 1) to engage local and international organizations through a national network of community organizations to promote healthy behaviors within communities that will help reduce the transmission of Ebola, and 2) to address market and household economic challenges that emerge as a result of the Ebola outbreak, paying particular attention to food insecurity and declining livelihoods. Mercy Corps' Ebola Community Action Platform (ECAP) has issued 26 separate sub-grants to work with a total of 78 local organizations, the vast majority of them Liberian, to convey specific health and hygiene messages designed by the Ministry of Health to reduce the transmission of Ebola. ECAP uses a social and behavioral change (SBC) approach with the aim of making communities feel empowered to maintain their own health and ensure those who are sick have access to care. The program uses an innovative approach to data collection and analysis, sending survey results via smartphone to be displayed in a country-wide dashboard; the program also employs a rapid research team to enable adaptation in response to changing field conditions. As the first phase of ECAP draws to a close, Mercy Corps is seeking funding for an additional 12 months to enable us to use our social mobilization approach to support the recovery at the community level, in health and hygiene and potentially other areas (such as WASH) that are priorities for the people we serve and connected with a healthy and thriving populace.
GENERAL POSITION SUMMARY:
The Program Director will provide overall leadership, management and strategic vision to the implementation of the second phase of the E-CAP (Ebola Community Action Platform) program, to ensure that the program meets its targets and deliverables on-time and within budget. S/he will supervise program staff and ensure accountability to Mercy Corps policies and donor rules and regulations, and will be the primary program representative to donors, relevant government entities, partners, other implementers and stakeholders.
For the complete description and application process, go to www.mercycorps.org/careers.
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