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The World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization is accepting CVs for the position of Health Cluster Coordinator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The period for submission of CVs begins June 11, 2010 and closes June 18, 2010. The duration of the position posting is minimum 6 months, with possibility of extension.
The Health Cluster Coordinator will ensure the good performance of the country Heath Cluster, promoting and upholding the Humanitarian Principles and the Principles of Partnership. The country Health Cluster performance, in turn, will be monitored and evaluated according to the extent by which the activities and programs of the cluster partners meet the health needs of the crisis-affected populations.
Please send emails with CVs to: hai.clustersante@paho.org. The subject line should read: CV For Health Cluster Coordinator
Qualifications
Education: Essential: Degree in medicine and/or Public Health., social science
Experience: Essential: Minimum of 6-10 years international field experience, of which at least 3 in managing and coordinating health programs in sudden-onset emergencies.
Languages
- Essential: Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English and French
- Desirable: Working knowledge of a another international/UN and/or local language.
Summary of duties
Identify Health Cluster partners
- Identify key humanitarian partners for the health cluster, respecting their respective mandates and program priorities; Identify other key partners, including national authorities, peacekeeping forces etc; Closely work with Nutrition and WASH Clusters and ensure effective links with Food Security and the Shelter Cluster (with OCHA support).
Assessment
- Promote and adopt standardized methods, tools and formats for common use in health needs assessments to ensure predictable action within a common strategy;
- Assess medical supplies available in the country or in the pipeline (map medical stocks);
- Ensure predictable action and a common strategy within the health cluster for the identification of gaps in the health sector and in the humanitarian health response.
Coordination of program implementation
- Ensure the establishment/maintenance of appropriate health coordination mechanisms, including working groups at the national and, if necessary, local level;
- Ensure and, whenever applicable, chair health coordination mechanisms including health cluster meetings and working groups in close collaboration with National authorities;
- Secure commitments from cluster participants in responding to needs and filling gaps, ensuring an appropriate distribution of responsibilities within the cluster, with clearly defined focal points for specific issues where necessary;
- Promote emergency response actions while at the same time considering the need for early recovery planning as well as prevention and risk reduction concerns;
- Ensure timely, effective and coordinated health responses based on participatory and community based approaches.
Planning and strategy development
- Develop/update agreed response strategies and action plans for the cluster and ensure that these are adequately reflected in overall country strategies
- Draw lessons learned from past activities and revise strategies and action plans accordingly;
- Prepare work and a strategy for the recovery phase and the handover to national and local health authorities.
- Lead and participate in weekly Health Cluster Staff meetings in Port-au-Prince or other department offices
- Produce Progress Reports every 6-8 weeks
- Monitor the status of professional staff contracts and provide recommendations for action to the WR
Application of standards
- Ensure that health cluster participants are aware of relevant policy guidelines, technical standards and relevant commitments that the Government has undertaken under international human rights law;
- Ensure that health responses are in line with existing (TASC) policy guidance, technical standards, and relevant Government human rights legal obligations.
- Review and monitor all health cluster staff and provide regular reports to Washington Office
- Ensure application of the long-term Health Cluster Strategic Plan
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