Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Deadline Tue, 31 Mar 2015
Job type: Contract
Location:
Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response. The Emergency Health Unit is a new and exciting programme, part of the humanitarian department, that was recently launched to improve humanitarian response. The unit ensures a pre-standing emergency health capacity, including medical supplies, logistics and skilled medical personnel, to deploy anywhere in the world in the event of a major disaster or conflict. This capacity includes the set up of three mobile teams to support primary health care, mass immunization and diarrheal disease response in the initial phase of an emergency, ideally to be set up within 72 hours of the disaster.
The three mobile teams will comprise of team leader, clinical lead, nurse, logistician, medical logistician and WASH Manager, and will be managed by the Head of EHU Outpatient Department and supported by Save the Children Humanitarian Operations and Technical Unit.
About the role
This role will supervise one of the mobile team and manage the daily operations. The role holder will also represent the response at project/field level and liaise with the Country Office, greater Save the Children’s humanitarian response and supported by the Country Health Lead, Ministry of Public Health and Health Cluster.
His/her key responsibilities include develop management SOPs, contribute to training programmes for the Outpatient Mobile Team members, and to the creation of effective project plans for the deployment. During deployment, the team leader will line manage the Outpatient Mobile Team, engaging in primary health care, immunization or diarrhoeal disease outbreak response, overseeing operations, logistics, finance, security and HR for a specific field team.
About you
Our ideal candidate will have experience of setting up emergency health programmes in Level 3 emergencies including during first phase from scratch. As a previous programme, operation manager, or field officer, you have managed budget, reports, contributed to proposals and have undertaken representational duties with donors, partners and clusters. You have managed teams, developed staff, conducted trainings, and have demonstrated excellent leadership skills and your ability to work, and lead in a multi-cultural environment, establishing and maintaining a positive team dynamic in insecure environments. You are flexible, dynamic and able to deploy to overseas locations at very short notice.
For more details, please see the job description.
What we offer in return
You will receive a competitive salary, hardship allowance, 35 days of annual leave, medical insurance while on deployment; travel and accommodation provided for; based in home country- In addition you will receive paid R&R; complexity allowance and expensive posting allowance where applicable.
About the recruitment process
We will review applications on the rolling basis and might test, interview, and appoint prior the closing date. Ideally, the role holder will start in May 2015 with a period for orientation and training.
Team Leader- Emergency Health Unit (2 Roles)
Job posted by: Save the Children UK - Wed, 4 Mar 2015Job Details:
Organisation: Save the Children UK
Deadline Tue, 31 Mar 2015
Job type: Contract
Location:
Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response. The Emergency Health Unit is a new and exciting programme, part of the humanitarian department, that was recently launched to improve humanitarian response. The unit ensures a pre-standing emergency health capacity, including medical supplies, logistics and skilled medical personnel, to deploy anywhere in the world in the event of a major disaster or conflict. This capacity includes the set up of three mobile teams to support primary health care, mass immunization and diarrheal disease response in the initial phase of an emergency, ideally to be set up within 72 hours of the disaster.
The three mobile teams will comprise of team leader, clinical lead, nurse, logistician, medical logistician and WASH Manager, and will be managed by the Head of EHU Outpatient Department and supported by Save the Children Humanitarian Operations and Technical Unit.
About the role
This role will supervise one of the mobile team and manage the daily operations. The role holder will also represent the response at project/field level and liaise with the Country Office, greater Save the Children’s humanitarian response and supported by the Country Health Lead, Ministry of Public Health and Health Cluster.
His/her key responsibilities include develop management SOPs, contribute to training programmes for the Outpatient Mobile Team members, and to the creation of effective project plans for the deployment. During deployment, the team leader will line manage the Outpatient Mobile Team, engaging in primary health care, immunization or diarrhoeal disease outbreak response, overseeing operations, logistics, finance, security and HR for a specific field team.
About you
Our ideal candidate will have experience of setting up emergency health programmes in Level 3 emergencies including during first phase from scratch. As a previous programme, operation manager, or field officer, you have managed budget, reports, contributed to proposals and have undertaken representational duties with donors, partners and clusters. You have managed teams, developed staff, conducted trainings, and have demonstrated excellent leadership skills and your ability to work, and lead in a multi-cultural environment, establishing and maintaining a positive team dynamic in insecure environments. You are flexible, dynamic and able to deploy to overseas locations at very short notice.
For more details, please see the job description.
What we offer in return
You will receive a competitive salary, hardship allowance, 35 days of annual leave, medical insurance while on deployment; travel and accommodation provided for; based in home country- In addition you will receive paid R&R; complexity allowance and expensive posting allowance where applicable.
About the recruitment process
We will review applications on the rolling basis and might test, interview, and appoint prior the closing date. Ideally, the role holder will start in May 2015 with a period for orientation and training.