Country: occupied Palestinian territory
Closing date: 26 Nov 2018
Job Title
Senior Programme Officer
Location
Ramallah, West Bank
Mission
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) works for the health and dignity of Palestinians living under occupation and as refugees. MAP is the leading UK charity delivering health and medical care to those worst affected by conflict, occupation and displacement, in the occupied Palestinian territory and Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon.
Job Purpose
Overseeing the implementation of MAP’s family medicine project. The Senior Programme Officer will also contribute to the management/monitoring of MAP’s other projects in the West Bank
Background
Palestine has a well-established Primary Health Care (PHC) system. However, the evolving health challenges of the 21st century (an aging population and spiralling rates of non-communicable diseases and mental health problems) together with the increasing costs of specialist services require adaptation of Palestine’s PHC service delivery model toward a family medicine/practice approach to provide continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, person and family-centred care, with a multidisciplinary team responsible for delivery of services to a defined population.
The Palestinian MoH has expressed its commitment to implement such a transformation. However, moving toward this new model requires changes at various levels, including the training of family medicine specialists, changes in the organisation and infrastructure of PHC services, and orientation of existing PHC staff toward family practice principles and the modified service delivery model.
ANNU has been delivering a four-year, post-graduate residency programme for family medicine specialists for a number of years – the only one in Palestine. To date there are 22 Board certified graduates of the programme, and 18 residents at various stages of training. There is an ongoing need to strengthen the programme’s educational curriculum and in particular to improve the quality of clinical training placements for the residents at designated MoH family medicine training centres (two functioning in the middle and south of the West Bank, with a third to be established soon in the north). Even more importantly there are over 800 GPs, and an even greater number of nurses, pharmacists, midwives and laboratory technicians, currently working in MoH and UNRWA PHC centres in the West Bank without any specialist training in family medicine or family practice. Experience from elsewhere in the world suggests that it could take over 20 years for the entire PHC workforce to complete full specialty training programmes, so it is vital that an appropriately tailored transitional training programme is offered in the short term to the existing workforce to raise standards of care across the region and support the desire of MoH and UNWRA to transform the delivery of services. This in turn will make a huge contribution to the MoH and WHO goal of achieving universal health coverage.
Duties and key responsibilities
· Oversee the family medicine project including:
o Liaising and communicating with all project stakeholders and participants to ensure activities are being implemented on time, as per the agreed work plan.
o Organising and assisting visiting individuals and delegations of doctors from the UK.
o Supporting regular stakeholder coordination meetings conducted via skype and in the West Bank; including the preparation of meeting agendas and minutes.
o Regular liaison with family medicine faculty, residents and graduates, and in-country coordination of online and face-to-face educational activities.
o Drafting of internal and donor required project reports and related grant applications.
· Manage/support some of MAP’s other West Bank projects, as required by the DoP, ensuring objectives are achieved, financial/procurement procedures are strictly adhered to, budgets are closely monitored and financial and narrative reports are produced as required.
· Conduct visits to project sites and partners and provide support to partner organisations in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects.
· Keep abreast of developments in the health sector in Palestine and keep up-to-date with the work of other health sector stakeholders including the MoH, national and international NGOs and the UN.
How to apply:
Candidates should download and fill the application form at the following link:
http://www.map-uk.org/job-opportunities/job-opportunities
and send it to hr@map-uk.org at midnight on Monday 26 November 2018. Please write “Application – Senior Programme Officer, West Bank” in the email subject line. Do not attach CVs or any other documents. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
