Health Manager

Important Note: Hiring on this position is contingent to funding approval by the donor.

Background/IRC Summary:  

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for over 30 years, and manages and delivers large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, protection, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. IRC works in partnership with local government and non-governmental organizations and currently works in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces.

Job Overview/Summary

The Health Manager in conjunction with the Health Coordinator and required management ensures that program technical goals, objectives and policies are successfully implemented and monitored; the prioritized technical sectors/areas are included into the overall programming and if needed developed appropriately. The Project Manager oversees the technical or sector aspects of the health programme/response, ensuring that technical programs are adequately addressed and integrated.

Major Responsibilities:

Actively participate in all aspects of the overall IRC health program with a focus on timely and quality results, teamwork, participation, empowerment, accountability, and client focus. The incumbent will work with numerous counterparts, implementing partners, and technical experts. Major duties as well as technical, programming, and management responsibilities are described below;

Management Responsibilities

·         Act as a technical support representative managing health care activities as required to ensure performance: review annual work plans, narrative reports and sub-contractor/grantee documents; develop/monitor budgeting and fiscal accountability; monitor short term technical assistance; prepare analyses and documentation required to obligate funds, and initiate and/or make any necessary amendments required for activity implementation;

·         Provide support to HC for IRC working against ongoing emergency response, supporting PHC/MNCH/Nutrition and family/planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) as and when required: develop/review scopes of work, annual budgets, and work plans; monitor program performance, prepare analyses and documentation required to obligate funds;

·         Ensure timely progress towards planned outputs and results, make recommendations to solve problems, and take the lead in implementing agreed upon actions.

·         Participate in activity conceptualization and design; write and edit activity approval documents, program descriptions and statements of work; prepare activity memos and justifications; lead or participate on technical evaluation committees as and when needed.

·         Monitor all aspects of ongoing emergency response work including holding regular meetings with implementing partners/stakeholders, reviewing and providing comments on annual work plans and semi-annual reports and annual reports, and undertaking regular site visits to ensure quality and performance;

·         Check validity of performance data acquisition;

·         Prepare written analyses, trip reports, briefing materials, activity descriptions, press releases, speeches, success stories, and other documents as and when required;

·         Collect, review, analyses and report Health projects’ data for annual planning and reporting documents; respond to information requests from all sources; guide drafting public affairs materials as needed with relevant sectors.

Technical Responsibilities

·         As IRC’s health manager, serve as principle support role for the Health Coordinator for all ongoing health programs;

·         Stay up to date with international and local state-of-the-art health’s technical approaches; analyze and interpret policy, strategy, and technical documents to ensure IRC’s health activities are aligned with;

·         Develop and maintain an extensive network of key public health contacts;

·         Represent IRC in sectorial technical working groups and coordination meetings in support to Health Coordinator;

·         Regularly coordinate with partners and stakeholders.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:  Health Coordinator

Job Requirements:

·         Education: Development sector & health professional – preferably a doctor with MPH background;

·         7 – 8 years’ of experience in relief/development projects managing diverse teams; operations of district offices. Experience of working in a large complex organizations, including preferably at least three (03) years of working within an international NGO.

·         Prior experience of working in emergencies, reproductive healthcare and PHC programming.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

·         Capacity to develop, implement and analyze health assessments, develop and implement work plans, program/project budgets in excel sheets and financial management

·         High quality skills in training, monitoring and evaluation of health interventions.

·         Strong coordination skills with the ability to manage information (report writing and presentations).

·         Team players and has experience of managing field team(s)

Language Skills: 

·         Fluent, professional level speaking, reading and writing in English and Urdu. At this level, applicant should have:

·         The ability to speak using sufficient, structured and accurate vocabulary in formal conversation;

·         The ability to use the language to satisfy professional needs;

·         The ability to read and write at a normal speed and with almost complete comprehension of a variety of materials, unfamiliar subjects, styles and forms pertinent to the job needs.

Tips to Consider:

·         Excellent knowledge of Government structure, institutions and procedures (Particularly in Punjab – South Punjab);

·         A good knowledge of Government legislation relating to development assistance, health, and FP/RH programming, as well as IRC programming policies, regulations, procedures and documentation and of the objectives, methodology and status of the programs and projects to which assigned;

·         Familiarity with capacities and constraints of NGOs active in Health activities in Pakistan;

·         Working experience with International NGOs or similar set-up.

Working Environment:  Works well in and promotes teamwork, flexible and able to handle pressure well.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments

·         The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

·         IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

o   Level of interaction with children: Frequent direct contact with children

·         IRC ensures that its staff must actively practice the roles and responsibilities related to client responsiveness, accountability to people in affected communities and must have competencies to solicits and listens to feedback and other’s perspectives, responds to feedback with maturity and sensitivity and takes appropriate decisions and makes changes to behavior or actions in response to feedback.

·         IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Women candidates and differently abled persons are highly encouraged to apply.