Overview
Oversees the overall management and of the health sector, providing leadership and facilitating processes to ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, and effective health project to address essential and basic health needs of the targeted population.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the management and distribution of health insurance packages for vulnerable refugees.
- Coordinate and advocate with Thai authorities for a smooth transition of health services to Thai government-led systems.
- Support the collective preparation and response with National and Provincial coordination body.
- Supervise all staff of the IRC (Health and WASH) team.
- Ensure health insurance package procurement and actions align with EU consortium and Ministry of Public Health policies and procedures.
- Identify core Health insurance advocacy concerns and contribute key messages to broader advocacy initiatives.
- Ensure access to Health Insurance package to displaced population and develop appropriate coordination between all Health partners.
- Create information channels of institutional support for border health system strengthening.
- Serve as focal point for communication with Thai health authorities in the process of Refugee Health Program transition plan.
- Identify gaps in the transition process of WASH and Health and conceptualize how inter-sectoral needs can be met.
- Continue developing/updating Health and WASH transition strategies and action plans.
- Prepare sound project budgets, monitor project budgets against expenditure, ensure compliance and appropriate adjustments.
- Develop workplan reflecting to the project timeline and ensure the health component of the project is achieve according to project timeline.
- Develop strong and coordinated project monitoring and evaluation systems in the health sector.
- Develop high-quality program reports for donor submission.
- Provide monitoring and evaluation of the knowledge and skills of WASH committee.
- Serve as focal lead person to coordinate with partners implementing Health and WASH Projects under the consortium.
- Provide technical support to implementing partners and coordinate with Partnership Team.
- Liaise with DDP and technical advisors to ensure partners’ projects are implemented according to the proposed plan.
- Manage, coordinate and be the overall lead of IRC health program under the EU consortium project.
- Ensure that Health responses are in line with existing policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government legal obligations.
- Ensure adequate monitoring mechanisms are in place to review impact of Health interventions and progress against implementation plans.
- Coordinate the development, adaptation and implementation of an Indicators' Monitoring Framework.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of direct experience implementing health projects along the Thai–Myanmar border.
- At least two years in a field-based role at the Team Leader or Health Program Management level.
Qualifications
- University degree (minimum preference at master’s degree level) in medicine and/or Public Health.
- Note that work experience may substitute for higher degree qualifications.
