Turkey: Turkey Programme Medical Coordinator

General Description of the Programme

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2012, responding to the acute needs of conflict affected communities. GOAL is working in northern Syria delivering food, non-food, WASH, livelihoods and emergency programming with a strong focus on market based approaches. GOAL met the needs of more than 700,000 conflict affected Syrians in 2014 and has an estimated 2015 budget of more than $100 million.

In 2014 GOAL first began working in Turkey, responding to the needs of refugees displaced from Kobane. Subsequently, GOAL has worked to create a developing multi-donor programme with a particular focus on health care programming, but also incorporating livelihoods and emergency support components.

General Description of the Role

Located in Antakya, Reporting to the Turkish Head of Programmes, the Medical Coordinator will work directly with our partner, SSG, in the development, opening and operational supervision of a new Primary Health Care Centre in Adana. Working with the GOAL team, the MC role will focus on nuancing the specific programme design of the PHC programme and ensuring its full implementation, taking responsibility for the attainment of targets. The MC will also support the delivery of GOAL’s Syrian Patient Support Programmes in Hatay and Adana, by supervising the Health Officers and by offering technical advice for complex medical cases. The MC is a new role within GOAL Turkey; coming from a background in health, the ideal candidate will be an energetic and capable individual, capable of self-motivating and working under their own initiative. Arabic and English language skills are required, with Turkish an advantage.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program Development and Program Management

· Technically lead GOAL health program strategic planning and design in coordination with Turkey Head of Programmes, GOAL technical team, and other GOAL sector leads

· Support the timely preparation technically sound concept notes, proposals, work plans, budgets, reports and ad hoc information pieces

· Ensure timely implementation of proposed activities across all Health projects according to budget and activity plan

· In collaboration with the Head of Programmes, Health Officers and Finance Controller assume responsibility over the health budgets and making sure funds allocated to the response are used appropriately and in a timely manner

· Support effective management of drugs and medical supplies by partners and ensure ordering is doen with a view to quality and need

· Monitor the health situation in Turkey and advise management of changes in context, needs, and risks

· Ensure that programmes are implemented according to recognized Turkish and international standards

· Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning teams to create M&E plans, an appropriate accountability framework and to develop learning papers for internal and external audiences.

· Ensure appropriate medical protocols and data collection forms are used by all site offices and facilities

· Oversee the collection and timely reporting for all programs in accordance to the agreed internal and donors reporting requirements in collaboration with Grants team

Technical Support and Quality Assurance

· Provide overall technical support and guidance to all GOAL Health programmes, those implemented by partners and those implemented by GOAL

· Ensure linkages between Health projects and other sector projects in Turkey (i.e. Family Tracing, Vocational training) to offer a holistic package of care to beneficiaries

· Offer technical support from a medical logistics angle for drug and equipment ordering

Partnership

o Review partnership proposals providing technical input on activities, budget, work plans

o Oversee the technical implementation of partners and offer guidance as needed

o Work with partners to assess needs for capacity building and design training plans

o Meet monthly with partners to review context, activities, adherence to standards

o Alert management to real or potential risks to partner implementation (i.e. quality, timeliness, budget-spend)

o Ensure effective and quality health programming with support from MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning) through appropriate baseline surveys and health needs assessments as needed

o Ensure early warning systems and contingency plans are in place for investigation and control of outbreaks of infectious diseases

o Regularly visit partner offices and health facilities and provide needed health technical programme inputs

Representation and Coordination

o Participate and represent GOAL in health cluster coordination meetings; provide regular technical updates externally and report on meetings internally to GOAL

o Take a leadership role in sector specific task forces

o Ensure positive interaction and good relations with stakeholders including the MoH

o Represent GOAL to donors in collaboration with ACD-P

o Work closely with the GOAL WASH, Food Security, and NFI sectors to ensure synergy of interventions

o Hold and minute regular internal coordination meetings among health personnel to ensure all staff are aware of key developments, overall strategy and have a clear understanding of their work

o Support regional GOAL health coordination

Human Resources

o Identify staffing gaps in GOAL and partner teams, create and update staffing plans, and lead in the recruitment and training of staff required for program implementation

o Enhance technical and health management skills of national health staff through the provision of internal and external formal trainings and informal on the job training by their supervisors

o Provide supervision and direction to health officers and other health staff

o Line manage senior health staff and ensure managers are offering appropriate support to their staff

o Coordinate provision of coaching, training, capacity building and technical support to GOAL medical staff and partners on the planning, implementation and management of health related activities

Qualifications:

-Medical doctor with Masters in Public Health or relevant field
-Must have at least 4 years professional experience in leading and implementing health related projects for vulnerable populations
-Experienced in working with INGOs in humanitarian or development contexts; conflict/post-conflict experience required
-Experience in effective collaboration with international personnel, headquarters staff, donor agencies, government officials, and NGO. Able to work with a broad spectrum of people
-Extremely flexible, previous experience in managing large teams and ability to work under administrative and programmatic pressures and ability to cope with stressful situations
-Skills and knowledge in program sustainability and capacity building, and project monitoring and evaluation
-Fluent in written and spoken English and Arabic; knowledge of Turkish highly advantageous
-Skilled in Microsoft Office
-Able to travel to field sites and provide hands on support to personnel

Interested?

If you would like to apply for the above position, please send your CV and covering letter to syriajobs@sy.goal.ie ensuring that the job title and location of the role are clearly stated in the subject line of your email/letter. Thank you for your interest.

Note:

GOAL has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Child Protection Policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and children from exploitation. GOAL also has a confidentiality policy ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of GOAL, acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organisation without authority, except in the normal execution of duty. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to these policies any job offer made is also subject to a reference check. GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications equally from both men and women.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document.