Bangladesh: Medical coordinator/specialist - Cox's Bazar

Position Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 8 to 10 weeks

Location: Cox's Bazar – Bangladesh

Consultancy - weekly rate of 1250 USD Terre des hommes (Tdh) is the leading Swiss organization for children’s aid. Since 1960, Tdh has helped build a better future for deprived children and their communities, making an impact with innovative and sustainable solutions. Active in more than 45 countries, Tdh works with local and international partners to develop and implement field projects which improve the daily lives of over 3 million children and their relatives, in the domains of health, protection and emergency relief. This engagement is financed by individual and institutional support, with administrative costs kept to a minimum.

Context:

Following the massive displacement of more than 600 000 people into Bangladesh since end of August 2017, Tdh has put in place an important emergency response plan to provide relief to the Rohingya refugees, notably on health, WASH and protection.

Today, Tdh is running nutrition activities (OTP, TSFP and BSFP) in 6 locations in the megacamp on top of one health post and a health center (clinic) open 24/7.

The Medical Coordinator/specialist will be responsible for providing strategic direction and vision to the Tdh’s Health and Nutrition programming in Cox Bazar (Bangladesh) and will be responsible for the overall quality implementation.

He/She will oversee the project managers and provide guidance to the Health and Nutrition staff to ensure that stated goals and objectives are met, that the projects are appropriately monitored and evaluated, and that project reports are written and submitted in a timely manner.

He / she is responsible as well for the Coordination and Representation with official authorities (MoH) and INGOs, the Management of health Human Resources, including capacity building of national counterpart and Tdh national staff with the provision of technical reference and guidance for the health and nutrition sector in the mission.

Function details :

Program Planning and Implementation:

· Provide technical and management leadership to the Health & Nutrition Program in accordance with best practice and Tdh’s policies.

· Ensure that all planned health & nutrition activities are implemented on time, within the budget, according to quality standards and as per the monthly plan.

· Identifying needs and gaps in programming and proactively suggest new activities to enhance the health and nutrition activities and propose adjustments of the project strategy if needed.

· Support preparedness planning for the cyclone and rainy season and any other emergencies (i.e. Cholera or other outbreaks (ie. Hepatitis E, diphtheria, etc).

· Contribute to the development of country sector strategic direction and plans.

· Work closely with various partners to ensure better coordination and representation of Tdh.

Monitoring and Reporting:

· Supervise the health & nutrition teams and managers to conduct regular monitoring and evaluation activities, and on a regular basis liaise with partners to identify gaps and challenges as well as to ensure quality impact of the health and nutrition approach.

· Work closely with M&E officer to ensure data are collected to better report on activities and to ensure quality services for beneficiaries.

· Regularly update the Coordination team on implementing challenges on a daily basis and data on a weekly basis.

Capacity building

· Identify training needs and develop a capacity building strategy.

· Provide follow-up health and protection training where required.

Coordination and representation

· To participates in internal coordination meetings as needed and requested.

· To participates in external coordination meetings (Cluster meetings, meetings with authorities from the Ministry of Health) and ensures the correct technical coordination with other Tdh activities.

· To represents Tdh in front of the Ministries of Health or any other relevamnt actors, as requested.

· To ensures the correct coordination with the other Coordinators/Project Managers, in the activities related to his area of work.

· To ensures the coordination and solves potential overlapping of activities with other organizations and actors in health sector in Cox’s Bazar.

· To ensures communication and reporting regarding technical matters, as needed, with the technical referent available at the mission or at HQ.

· To participates, as requested by his/her Line Manager, in the writing of proposals.

Human resources management· To organize and lead coordination meetings of health and nutrition teams.

· To ensure the communication contract is implemented within his/her team(s) and project teams.

· To create conditions for a good flow of operational information from delegation – field - delegation – HQ (verbal exchanges, e-mails, sitreps, reports, etc.).

· To participate in the senior management and extended senior management internal coordination meetings.

Security

· To comply with Tdh Security Regulations.

· To ensure the staff follow the safety and security rules as defined.

· To reports any security/safety incident and/or risk to the Head of emergency operations in a timely manner.

Profile :

Job requirements

· Degree in Medicine or Nursing.

· At least four years of experience in the implementation of Health and Nutrition projects in humanitarian contexts is mandatory.

· Excellent knowledge on CMAM programmes, IMCI, maternal and reproductive health and primary health care

· Successful track record of developing funding strategies and securing high levels of funding from institutional donors (OFDA; BPRM; DFID; ECHO; UN; etc.); excellent knowledge of the Logframe, proposal and budget development.

Competencies

· Adaptable to changing situations, and to be able to change the orientation and planning of activities according to a changing environment.

· Able to work under stress, be it because of the exigences of the workload

· Negotiation ability, in order to successfully defend Tdh’s interests and the activities and goals of the project.

· A commitment to excellence; attention to detail.

· Analytical, able to plan and enforce planning. Strategic, being able to define long-term policies and goals for his/her team.

· Culturally sensitive, adapting his/her behavior and manners to the reality of Cox’s Bazar

· Proactive and independent, able to work autonomously and to propose solutions to problems in a creative and realistic manner.

· Is able to establish and manage his/her priorities correctly.

· Able to work in a team, be it in a horizontal (together with the rest of departments, as well as externally with counterparts) or vertical (to the team managed by him/her).

As well as the following specific competencies:

· Excellent level of English, written and spoken.

· Excellent handling of IT tools, be it generalistic (Windows, Office, etc.) as well specific (EPI-INFO, etc.)

please submit CV and cover letter to

mrm@tdh.ch