Location: Metekel, Ethiopia
Company: Plan International
Job Description
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.
We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.
Accountabilities
Assessment
- Provide sectoral leadership and expertise in the assessment.
- Conduct initial rapid assessment of current situation in collaboration with local specialists and affected population; determine priorities and immediate activities and resources
- Review, assess and update the Health situation in areas affected by emergency (including, but not limited)
- Highlight Health and MHPSS issues requiring a response – both immediate (less than 2 months) and medium term and make recommendations on specific PLAN actions required. Ensure core commitments to children are taken into consideration.
- Represent PLAN to Health and clusters, stakeholders and Governmental and non-Governmental agencies for the purposes of the protection aspects of the assessment.
- Assess in-country resources, human, material and financial for response with relevant staff and agencies and assist in capacity building of national staff.
- Identify potential partnerships to implement recommendations, assess potential partners where available or make recommendations on how to fill gaps.
Program Design
- In collaboration with national and international Health and Nutrition Actors, map current institutional response capacities.
- In collaboration with Health and Nutrition Actors , develop a realistic evidence‐based, Health and MHPSS program plan, including both programmatic and advocacy activities (results oriented).
- Design most appropriate Health and MHPSS interventions based on the outcomes of assessments and the context.
- Ensure that issues of gender, protection, DRR, and conflict sensitivity are factored into the program design.
- Ensure PLAN’s guidelines and UN Health and Nutrition cluster standards are considered and any departures documented.
- Work in close collaboration with other program coordinators to ensure that emergency interventions build upon each other and link in to longer term programming.
- Develop an Health and MHPSS Program Plan, concept papers, and proposals in respect of the above.
Response Management and Implementation
- Provide technical support to local health workers for the delivery of emergency and primary health care services such as IMNCI/ICCM, FP, ANC, DELIVERY, PNC, IMMUNIZATION, EPI and MPHSS activities to people who have no access to the services.
- Facilitate and provide health and MHPSS education for care takers and beneficiaries
- Check vaccinations status and refer to health facilities when required;
- Ensure medical examination at discharge: validate the discharge upon the status of the patients.
- As part of MHN team. He/she will provide basic primary health and MHPSS service for people with no access to health and MHPSS services
- Improving basic preventive health care and MHPSS at community level with emphasis health, immunization, health and MHPSS services.
- Provide consultation & provide proper treatment based on the protocol
- Strengthening of linkages and coordination mechanisms between community and the Woreda health bureaus.
- Strengthening of early referrals mechanism
- Train and support the HEWs in PFA, MHPSS &| Community mobilization and follow-up according to national guideline
- Train and support community-based volunteer health workers for the implementation of the community component of the project.
- Conduct supportive supervision for HEWS and HWs using supportive supervision tools
- Conduct health care services and MHPSS assessment, identified health and MHPSS gaps of the woreda
- Representing PIE and participate on health cluster meeting and contribute your input.
- Ensure each and every admitted child receives adequate and quality clinical and MHPSS care through existing resources.
- Ensure at all times adequately equipped and supplied with the necessary nutritional and clinical requirements – Plumpy’nut, Vitamin A, routine drugs, nutritional equipment’s, nutritional/medical ,PFA kits, different kinds of basic kits ,stationeries, etc.
- Provide technical support to local health workers for the delivery of emergency and primary health care services such as IMNCI/ICCM activities to people who have no access to the se
Response Reporting & Evaluation
- Evaluate the implementation of PLAN Health and MHPSS activities and draft recommendations for improved program design
- Draft Health interventions reports to serve as standalone deliverables or to be included in larger emergency response reports for both donor and internal purposes.
- Report weekly up-date, monthly activity report to nutrition and health coordinator and cluster lead
- Up-date 3W and 5W keeping due date and report to cluster lead and to health & nutrition coordinator.
- Prepare weekly up-date and monthly MHPSS report to cluster lead and health & coordination coordinator
- Prepare quarter, bi-annual – and annual narrative and donor report
Information and Co-ordination
- Provide regular updates to Health and Nutrition coordinator, priorities and constraints – verbally and in writing on an agreed frequency.
- Engage and follow up with relevant Health and Nutrition coordinator Program Coordinators)
- Represent PLAN to governmental and non-governmental groups as needed and agreed with the Team Leader.
- Support the implementation of, and represent PLAN in, emergency Health coordination mechanisms including any relevant cluster.
- Brief updates and reports on sectoral activities/strategies to donors and other stakeholders.
Educational Qualification and Experience
- BSC Graduated in clinical or public Nurse
- At least 3 Years’ experience preferably in NGO
Knowledge
- Knowledge of humanitarian activities and understanding of international NGOs is preferred.
- Awareness of child protection issues
- Sensitivity to gender and child protection.
Skills Specific to the Post
- Be able to work under pressure with tight deadline.
- Good computer knowledge of MS Office Packages is preferable.
- Very good interpersonal communication skills.
- Must be capable of working both individually and as part of a team to undertake tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to live, work and travel in conflict areas.
- Commendable writing and communication skill
- Ability to communicate effectively in local languages verbally and in writing.
Location: Metekel
Type of Role: Health Officer
Reports to: Health and Nutrition coordinator
Grade: C1
Closing Date: 10 February 2023
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
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