Health Manager in Burao, Somaliland (Somalia)

[Admin]

Medair Somalia/Somaliland is seeking for a qualified candidate to fill in the following position based in Burao, Somaliland.

Health Manager

Reports directly to the Health Projects Manager

Overall responsibility: Management and supervision of Medair’s community based health projects, including but not limited to: health post supervision, EPI services supervision, and supervising community health volunteers.

Detailed responsibilities include:
Manage, supervise and build capacity of national health staff. This includes job descriptions, recruitment, staff appraisals, staff development planning and training
Timely preparation of medical orders for community health projects
Management of drugs, medical materials, and equipment for the projects
Assist in accurate and timely submission of internal reports and input to external proposals and reports
Open and accurate communication regarding all aspects of project planning and implementation
Project implementation in compliance with Medair, donor, Somali, and international guidelines
Integration and mainstreaming of gender into the project in liaison with the Health Projects Manager
Qualifications and experience:
Registered nurse, midwife, or clinical officer
3 years clinical experience, and 3 years management experience
Sound knowledge of community health issues
MS Office, in particular Excel and Word are essential. Data entry and report writing will be an added advantage
Trauma training, experience in a relief setting and in setting up health projects will be an added advantage
Applications are invited from qualified persons to fill the above position.

If you believe you are the candidate we are looking for, please submit your letter of application and CV indicating daytime telephone contact. Also include telephone and email contacts of two
professional references (friends and relatives will not be accepted as referees) and your
current/ most recent employer to:

Admin/HR Officer,
Medair Somalia/Somaliland - Medair East Africa Office,
George Padmore Road, Nairobi;

or mail to Medair P.O. Box 76575, 00508 Nairobi.

Applications can be sent by email to: recruitment-som@medair.org

Applications must be sent in not later than Thursday 9 June, 2011.

Only successful applicants will be contacted.