Emergency Public Health Engineer – Trauma & Surgical Unit

NOTE - THIS POSITION IS TO APPLY TO A STAND BY ROSTER FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (ERT).

Candidates selected for this position will be placed on the ERT standby roster and may be called when the International Medical Corps ERT responds to an emergency. This position is not compensated unless candidates are responding to an emergency response.

When catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground.

International Medical Corps maintains a roster of staff which is updated on regular basis in order to include new staff into the system. This also provides an opportunity for the existing staff to update their areas of expertise and other relevant information.

Through this expression of Interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.

JOB SUMMARY The Public Health Engineer for the Trauma and Surgical Deployment Unit (TSDU) main tasks lie in: • The technical assessment, analysis and prioritization of urgent water and sanitation needs at the specialized health care unit to allow for safe and high quality health care delivery, as well as at the staff accommodation site, • Appropriate designing, implementation and coordination of any such intervention, and • Ensuring adequate maintenance and operation of water and sanitation-related equipment, facilities and services, including training of relevant health facility staff in cleaning and disinfection, as well as appropriate health care waste management.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES: 1. Assessment • Technical input in the adequate setting of the TSDU, and associated staff accommodation • Provide water and sanitation, and relevant infection control expertise in rapid needs assessments and analysis at existing and new health care structures • Conduct initial rapid assessment of current situation in collaboration with existing health care facility management and staffs, and affected population; determine plan of action and related immediate activities and resource needs (HR, finances, materials and supplies) • Assess and coordinate in-country resources and capacities (human, material and financial) for response with relevant staff and agencies • Represent International Medical Corps to stakeholders and Governmental and non-Governmental agencies, including relevant Ministries and Clusters where and as necessary

1. Program Design • Define scale of the overall water and sanitation operation at existing health care facilities and/or TSDU and staff accommodation in accordance with relevant standards. • Design appropriate, phased, technical interventions to ensure timely, safe and high quality health care delivery at existing facilities and/or TSDU and staff accommodation, including contingency preparation for potential infectious disease outbreaks as directed • Determine and ensure safe and sufficient water supply through the design and prioritization of rehabilitation and/or upgrading works of existing systems at health care facilities, and/or installation of new systems at TSDU and staff accommodation including source selection (ground water, surface water), abstraction, storage, treatment and distribution • Select and design the most appropriate form of sanitation system (excreta disposal, vector control, health care waste treatment and disposal, drainage), taking full account of local conditions, resources, customs and culture and safe health care provision related conditions • Ensure that issues of protection, gender, infection control, climatic conditions, environmental protection, security, access, safe operation and maintenance are factored into the response design • Ensure WHO minimum standards both qualitative and quantitative are considered and any departures documented • Assist in the development of letters of intent, concept papers, budgets and proposals as directed
2. Response Management and Implementation • Plan and manage WASH interventions at health care facilities in a phased and prioritized manner with full consultation and co-ordination with relevant International Medical Corps’ staff and other agencies both governmental and non-governmental • Organize with the logistics and finance departments materials, (re-)supply and support needed for all activities • Build and oversee a technical support team that has the capacity to respond to outbreaks, and assist in hiring and training as needed • Design and develop appropriate supervisory, monitoring and evaluation systems as needed
3. Information and Co-ordination • Provide regular updates to supervisor and team on progress, priorities and constraints as directed • Represent International Medical Corps to governmental and non-governmental groups as needed and agreed with the supervisor • Represent International Medical Corps in WASH and relevant emergency related Cluster activities

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS: • Public Health Engineering degree (emphasis in Water / Sanitation) 5+ years of relevant work experience • Experience in emergency response, including rapid assessments and needs analysis • Technical experience in water source development, water treatment and supply, as well as on-site sanitation technology, and effective and safe vector control measures • Sound knowledge of adequate water and sanitation-related infection control measures at health care facilities • Proven training and capacity building experience • Ability to work in extreme conditions • Profound cross-cultural awareness • Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently • Extremely flexible, and have the ability to cope with stressful situations and frustrations • Ability to relate to and motivate local staff effectively • Fluency in English (both oral and written skills), working knowledge in French, Spanish, Arabic a plus

How to apply:

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

To officially begin the application process, please visit our website athttp://careers.internationalmedicalcorps.org/careers.aspx

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