IRC Health Team Leader (Kakuma Refugee Camp)

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Kenya serves vulnerable populations in the Turkana region and refugees in the Kakuma and Dadaab (Hagadera) camps.

The IRC implements programs in the areas of comprehensive primary health care, nutrition, sanitation and hygiene and HIV/ AIDS.

The IRC provides an open ended contract, competitive salary and benefits package to its staff as well as a well planned staff development opportunity.

Applications are invited for the position of: Health Team Leader

IRC is currently looking for a Health Team Leader who shall work under the supervision of the Project Coordinator.

The Health Team Leader (HTL) is responsible for overall technical implementation, coordination and management of IRC?s Kakuma Refugee Camp health programs, overseeing the delivery of an integrated package of preventive and curative healthcare services in the camp to ensure improvement and maintenance of public health performance indicators as per SPHERE / UNHCR / WHO in Kakuma refugee camp and providing financial and grant management to ensure program spending is in line with approved budgets.

He/she supervises Health Program Managers and is based in Kakuma Refugee Camp.

For a detailed Job Description and person specification, send an email to jobs1@kenya.theirc.org

All interested candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and an updated CV (Do Not attach Certificates) to the following email address: hr@kenya.theirc.org by May 10, 2011.

IRC is an equal opportunity employer