Position: Community Health Manager

Job Grade: Band 6

Location: Garowe, Puntland

Reports to: Primary Health Care (PHC) Director

Supervises: Branch CBS Officers and Community Health Focal Points

Overall Job Purpose

Coordinate the planning, implementation, supervision, support and monitoring and evaluation of Community Health including Community Based Surveillance Projects, aimed at the early detection and response preventing outbreaks in the communities and providing community health interventions supporting the continuum of care. Develop and implement capacity building programs and coordinate supervisors who facilitate trainings and workshops aimed at empowering vulnerable communities to improve primary health care services.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Program Planning & Implementation.

• Overall management and coordination of the Community Health (CH) including Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) projects in Puntland
• Develop CH including CBS budgets, workplans, logframes and other project documentation in collaboration with the project teams and senior management
• Monitor project budget expenditure and participate in the development and assessment of project Budget Variance Analysis
• Provide training of Community Health volunteers in Puntland
• Provide technical support to the CBS/Community Health Officers and Community Health focal points
• Overall management of community-based surveillance platform (Nyss) where volunteers send coded SMS.
• Responsible for communicating with partners e.g. Ministry of Health (MoH), when triggered alerts require partner response
• Work closely with other Health and Program staff from Partner National Societies (PNS) to ensure projects are established and maintained at a high quality, remain within budget and are on time
• Commitment and effective interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation and report writing skills
• Conduct and coordinate assessments of needs and feasibility of CH including CBS activities in current and potential new regions.
• Develop, review, and adjust the CH including CBS strategies for the targeted areas in collaboration with stakeholders and partners.
• Work closely with the community health team and branch health officer, the volunteer supervisor, volunteers and communities to formulate functional prevention and health emergency response to epidemics and pandemics
• Document functionality, effectiveness and lessons learned from CH including CBS and actively participate in the dissemination of those results in the country and beyond (e.g., to other CH projects)
• Work towards the achievement of project goals through effective technical and managerial methods.
• Develop and support up an atmosphere of respect and trust with the branches and SRCS officers.
• Prepare and submit routine reports (weekly, monthly and quarterly and annual) and ad hoc reports to SRCS management, donors, MoH and other stakeholders as required
• Perform any other specific duties assigned as may be required by the functional supervisor.

Operations Management

• Assist with event planning and implementation in support with program counterparts
• Support logistic arrangements for project activities in coordination with the Administration Department
• Maintain proper inventory records of goods and equipment owned by the project and ensure that relevant control systems are in place and complied with

External Relationships

• Represent SRCS at various CH fora and attend relevant meetings and events to promote CH including CBS project activities
• Foster partnership and networks with stakeholders, government ministries, humanitarian actors and community-based groups in the development and implementation of CH including CBS projects
• Build and foster alliances and networks that enhance sharing, learning and collaboration among relevant organizations and individuals involved in the promotion of CH including CBS projects