Health Project Officer

Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh) is an international NGO focussed on Child Rights and Health project.

To support the development of its Child Protection program and Health & Nutrition Program in Garissa County, Tdh is encouraging applications from Kenyan nationals for the role of:

Health Project Officer

2 Positions

Ref: Tdh/HPO/2012/12

Reporting to: Health Project Manager

Duty station: Lagdera

Contract duration: 12 months – renewable (with 3 month probation period)

Main responsibilities:

In collaboration with the Tdh Health /Nutrition Project Manager and the MOH (DNO/DMHO), she/he is responsible for supporting and mentoring health worker teams in 4 health facilities and the outreach activities that they perform.

As part of the capacity building of the staff, she/he is in charge of organizing training and animate it according to the evaluated needs.

Requirements:

• Professional health degree in clinical nursing with clinical nutrition background.
• At least two years experience in the health/nutrition area
• Experience in managing staff
• Trained in IMCI
• Experience in working in close collaboration with MoH
• Good analytical capacity
• To be able to analyse data and formulate reports on time
• Experience in training and ToT
• Experience in developing health staff capacity
• Knowledge and experience in stock management
• Knowledge of informatics: Word, Excel.
• Punctual, efficient with time and working under pressure
• Fluency in English (essential), Somali (essential) and good Swahili (desirable).

Responsibilities:

• Training of staff
• Working closely with facility staff on clinical management of patients
• Reporting
• Supervision of the outreach activities
• Developing good stock management of facilities

Application modalities:

Qualified and interested candidates should submit a covering letter, CV and references. Applications should be addressed to Health Project manager and submitted to:

Terre des hommes,
Lamu Road opposite MSF - Garissa
They can also be emailed to hpm.ke@tdh.ch

Closing date for these positions is 2nd March 2012.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.

The short listed candidates will have to travel at their own expense to the place of recruitment (i.e.Lagdera or Nairobi).

No compensation whatsoever will be given for transport or other.

Tdh’s recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to protect children’s rights, which includes the prevention of all forms of child abuse.

Tdh is an equal opportunity employer. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.