Offer strategic and technical health and nutrition advice to headquarters and field staff, as well as training and coaching Medair field health and nutrition staff in emergency (acute and chronic) as well as transitional programming. Assist in strengthening, supporting and standardising the technical quality of Medair?s health and nutrition sector programming at field and HQ levels to ensure we meet international health guidelines and best serve our beneficiaries.
Medair Headquarters
Medair Headquarters (HQ) provides operational guidance for country programmes and activities, along with both technical and compassionate support for our relief workers. Within our headquarters, we are also responsible for promoting the work of Medair to the world, to raise and manage the funds needed to run our life-saving and sustaining programmes. Our headquarters teams are also responsible for recruiting international and HQ staff, and like our field teams, we are committed to serve the world?s most vulnerable with practical and compassionate care.
Workplace
Medair Headquarters, Ecublens, near Lausanne, Switzerland
Starting Date As soon as possible
Initial Contract Details Full time, open-ended contract
Key Activity Areas
Planning and Implementation
Review, implement, and monitor the health support strategy for Medair field programmes.
Develop and monitor metrics for activities under your responsibility from an organisational, portfolio, country, and project perspective.
Policy Development
Assist in the development of health related organisational policies.
Quality Management and Technical Assistance
Provide technical health advice to Head of Country Programmes and field advisors at all key stages of the project management cycle including needs assessment, technical strategy and design, implementation as well as sector specific monitoring and evaluation. This includes travel to field programmes as well as review of proposals, key reports and surveys prior to external submission.
Stay abreast of current best practice. Research and stay informed on academic and technical health and nutrition issues, techniques, and guidelines to inform and improve programming.
Training
Assist in developing internal training materials and resources and providing training to staff at appropriate venues, including but not limited to the ROC, HQ Briefing, HQ Inductions and online sessions.
Human Resource Management
Manage consultant activities or relationships as necessary.
Humanitarian Aid Networking
Develop and maintain public health and relief oriented networks in order to share ideas, best practices, lessons learned, and stay informed on current health, nutrition, and humanitarian aid trends including CORE group, global sector clusters and academic institutions.
Institutional Donor Development and Management
Assist in developing new institutional funding sources for health and nutrition related activities as requested.
Qualifications
Medical Doctor plus Masters preferably in Public Health
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene desirable
Languages
Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written)
Working knowledge of French (spoken and written) desirable
Experience / Competencies
At least 3 years? experience managing PHC programmes in developing countries, with at least 2 years? experience managing and coordinating acute and chronic complex emergency responses such as: outbreaks, displaced populations, nutritional emergencies and /or natural disasters
Experience conducting field research
Experience in epidemiology, designing monitoring and evaluation systems in developing countries as well as conducting rapid health and nutrition assessments and baseline surveys using cluster and LQAS sampling methodology desirable
Prior health service delivery experience in Africa and Asia desirable
Proficiency with statistical health software packages such as EPI info, SPSS, STATA, or ENA for SMART desirable
Demonstrable training skills; proven successful proposal writing and editing skills
Demonstrable health technical expertise in humanitarian settings
Capable to develop and motivate people in a servant and supportive manner; familiar with inter-cultural differences
Strong ability to think strategically along with analytical skills
Tactful, high level communication skills; strong people centred management expertise
Medair Standard Working Requirements for the International Headquarters
Committed Christians; commitment to the Medair values
Reflect the vision and values of Medair when interacting with team members and external contacts
At least one year of professional experience in a relevant field (more experience preferred)
Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written)
Working knowledge of French (spoken and written) for French-speaking roles
Competent with MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
Motivated by a spirit of service
Solid team player
Benefits
Salary commensurate with pay-grade of the position
Travel expenses to country programmes (for staff who are required to make field visits)
Annual leave; Accident insurance and pension; Death and disability insurance; Health insurance for loss of earnings
The opportunity to work in a Christian organisation where your contributions make a difference for the world?s most vulnerable
HQ Working Conditions
Swiss or eligible EU citizens, or those with a valid work permit for Switzerland, can apply.
This is an HQ based position in Lausanne Switzerland with travel for up to 2 - 3 months per year.
Application Process
Please apply to [url]www.medair.org/work-with-us[/url] by filling out an application for this position. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications.
Only English-language applications and CVs will be reviewed.
Medair does not set closing / deadline dates for applications; recruitment is on-going until the position is filled.