Panama: Senior Officer, Health - Regional Population Movement

JOB PURPOSE

The Health Senior Officer is expected to deliver specialized support to ensure Migrant Cell and National Societies that are part of the migratory routes have the capacity to respond adequately to the health needs of migrant populations. The health Senior Officer will contribute to the (1) Planning, implementation and evaluation of regional programs to strengthen the capacities of National Societies to provide health care and psycho social support to migrant populations (2) ensure continued coordination between regional and national Red Cross programs working on health care and psycho social support to migrant populations (3) ensure ongoing and high level coordination with external partners (4) develop and innovate tools to support the quality implementation health activities to migrant populations (5) provide operational support when required in the field 5) broker and develop knowledge that supports internal and external learning in best practice

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the main technical reference of Health in implementing the Health interventions proposed by the Migration Cell.
• Support the Migration Cell in designing, planning, implementing and evaluating health programs, projects and activities aimed at the migrant population.
• Support the Migration Cell in coordinating with international agencies providing health responses with the aim of strengthening effectiveness of the Movement responses and preventing duplicated efforts.
• Support the National Societies, that are responding operationally to humanitarian challenges in migration corridors in coordinating, strategic planning and designing effective actions that will respond to health needs from migrant population.
• Identify strategies that can strengthen health capacities of the National Societies and propose a plan of action to achieve the objective
• Support training and capacity building of the National Societies (that are part of the migratory routes) staff/volunteers for health and PSS activities in favor of the migrant population.
• Support the National Societies in coordinating with national and international agencies that are responding to the emergency in the health sector, including local cluster organizations that are providing health services;
• Other tasks as may be assigned by the Line Manager.

EDUCATION

• Health Professional (Doctor, Nurse, Psychologist, Social Work, Pharmaceutic)
• Post graduate in public health or equivalent experience
• Training in health in emergencies with Red Cross, preferred

EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years experience in health in emergencies/Development
• 3+ years previous experience in response to Emergencies of the Red Cross / Red Crescent/Knowledge in the tools of disaster management
• Experience with National Societies of the Red Cross
• Experience in community-based health work and social mobilisation

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Leadership and Coordination skills
• Analytical thinking and planning
• Communication skills
• Ability to work under stress
• Capacity to do proper managemt of resources, Preferred
• Teaching habilities,Preferred

LANGUAGE

• Fluent spoken and written English
• Fluent spoken and written Spanish
• Good command of another IFRC official language (French or Arabic), or a language relevant in the region (i.e. Portuguese), preferred

COMPETENCIES AND VALUES

• VALUES: Respect for diversity; Integrity; Professionalism; Accountability
• CORE COMPETENCIES: Communication; Collaboration and Teamwork; Judgement and Decision Making; National Societies and Customer Relations; Creativity and Innovation; Building Trust
• FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES: Building Alliances; Leadership; Empowering Others

A letter of motivation must be submitted along with the application no later than October 1, 2018. In order to ensure a proper comparative evaluation of your application for this vacancy and to enable us to consider your profile against other similar current and future vacancies, we ask that you submit your application thru the following link http://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/working-with-us/current-vacancies/job-description/?id=13639 into account the following:

Message for applicants:

Applicants will need to send their applications together with a letter of motivation no later than the closing date. In order for us to assure a proper comparative evaluation of your application for this vacancy and to enable us to consider your profile against other similar current and future vacancies, we ask that you submit your application considering the following:

• Please note that this vacancy seeks to hire the selected candidate through an international contract;
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by Federation policies, procedures, plans and applicable laws;
• The closing date is midnight Geneva time. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered;
• Only those candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified.

The position will be based in Panama. If the selected candidate is a national or resident of Panama, a national contract will be offered in line with the applicable compensation and benefits. The position incumbent will travel frequently to the countries affected by the migratory crisis, identified within the appeal, as it evolves and as required by the operation.