Overview
The Health Coordinator will lead the implementation of community health activities in Elminya to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable communities. This role involves managing community health workers, building capacity of local NGOs, and coordinating with health authorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of community health activities.
- Hire, train, and supervise Community Health Workers (CHWs).
- Build the capacity of local NGO community health activities.
- Plan and implement health awareness and screening sessions and events.
- Coordinate with various health authorities and stakeholders.
- Assess needs and support infrastructure and capacity building in Elminya governorate.
- Collaborate with the Ministry of Health (MoH), Egyptian Health Authority (EHA), and NGOs to support primary care services operations.
- Coach, mentor, and manage transition of clinics to selected local partners.
- Support local partners in establishing and maintaining primary healthcare services provision.
- Assess infrastructure, supplies, and capacity building needs of PHCs and hospitals in Elminya.
- Support the development of SOPs for cash for health interventions.
- Support the creation of internal SOPs for managing medical cases and referrals.
- Assess cases referred from the community to mobile clinics, secondary healthcare services.
- Plan and implement cash for medical cases and health services reimbursement program.
- Identify, select, and support community members who can provide community health services.
- Support a health needs assessment for the target population in Elminya.
- Co-train the community health workers and other stakeholders on health promotion methodologies and topics.
- Implement health and nutrition promotion sessions for refugees, migrants, and host communities.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all mobile clinics, public facilities needs assessments, and capacity building interventions.
- Prepare regular reports on project progress, challenges, and outcomes.
- Enter monthly data for service utilization in the project database.
- Record mobile clinics data and update the database.
- Draft concise, useful, analytical reports, case studies, and other documents.
- Participate in planning and developing future programming initiatives.
- Ensure that partner NGO is implementing the activities as planned promptly with high quality.
Required Experience
Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in implementing and supervising health services to vulnerable populations especially mobile clinics. Experience with refugee/marginalized communities. Previous experience in health system strengthening with similar projects and initiatives.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in medicine
