Country Health Director

CR333

Our client is a leading international NGO focusing on primary healthcare programmes.

The goal of our Client's projects in Sudan is to address humanitarian health needs through supporting essential primary and referral level health care interventions, increasing capacity of local health structures to deliver effective and quality health care services. Currently, our Client supports three hospitals and a wide network of primary health care facilities in Pibor, Khorfulus, Magwi and Torit counties in South Sudan.

Main purpose of the role
To provide strategic and technical leadership to ensure the effective development, implementation and monitoring of quality health programmes in South Sudan

Overall Objectives (scope)
•        Provide leadership and management to the programme in South Sudan

•        Ensure the effective implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health programming in line with approved program proposals and budgets.
•        Contribute to the overall planning and strategic direction of our Client’s program in South Sudan.
•        Provide technical support to the South Sudan program
•        Represent the organisation to national authorities, international donors, international organisations and other NGOs at the national level

£25, 956 - £28,181 per annum

Juba, South Sudan

Essential
Qualifications, experience and competences

•        Qualified Health professional with Masters in Public Health or Medical Doctor with sufficient post qualification experience ideally in tropical medicine
•        Clear vision, analysis and synthesis skills
•        Significant experience of health programming in developing countries and in difficult environments
•        Excellent management and personnel skills to enable the motivation, encouragement and participation of the medical team, Willing to build local capacity
•        Ability and flexibility to understand the cultural and political environment.
•        Flexibility towards treatment protocols but adherence to MoH or WHO guidelines, ability to incorporate advice from the medical team when developing the same.
•        Ability to manage the medical team from a distance.
•        Ability to assess medical conditions quickly and calmly under pressure as required.
•        Experience of representation at national and local levels.
•        Experience in epidemiological analysis.
•        Experience in conducting assessments, programme development and proposal writing
•        Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation
•        Diplomatic (for working with authorities)
•        Ability to work in climatic extremes and in areas of conflict.
•        Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English
•        Confident and proficient in the use of MS Office
•        Experience of establishing strong working relationships with colleagues from different functions and cultures
•        Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritizing a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
•        Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues

Desirable
Qualifications, experience and competences

•        Previous experience within a humanitarian aid programme
•        Previous experience of working on a HIV/AIDS programme and coordinating of a technical team
•        Clinical experience, particularly in infectious diseases in developing country context (particularly in Africa) and in general medicine (for expat health)
•        Experience with the management of tropical diseases

•        Experience and / or qualification in one or more of the following settings:
•        working with IDPs, in camp or host community settings
•        reproductive health, Sexual and Gender Based Violence
•        child health

This role is unaccompanied.

To apply, please send in an updated CV and covering letter to:
applications@skillsforcauses.com

Due to the urgency of this role, applications will be reviewed on an onging basis