# Senior Health Officer

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Senior Health Officer will support the implementation of a project aimed at contributing to polio eradication by enhancing surveillance for Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) among communities residing close to the South Sudan/Uganda border and in refugee settlements in Lamwo district.

Responsibilities:

- Support host and settlement Health facilities to effectively conduct community awareness on and vigilance for AFP/VPDs and health promotion activities

- Oversee the implementation of surveillance activities to support the process of AFP case detection, verification, investigation, and reporting

- Prepare program work plans in coordination with the Health Manager

- Conduct regular monitoring visits to project sites

- Identify technical quality and/or other implementation issues, and provide solutions

- Ensure that the health program is implemented in line with IRC principles

- Strictly follow up the medical and operational supply chain system

- Work closely with other IRC programs and stakeholders

- Coordinate and conduct VHT weekly or monthly meetings

- Collaborate with other LG Health staff in conducting active case search for AFP

Staff Supervision & Development:

- Directly supervise the health assistant

- Ensure training and ongoing capacity building opportunities for staff

- Support proposal development processes

Grant Management and Reporting:

- Participate in the management of all health grants

- Develop work, spending and procurement plans for all projects

- Prepare internal and external reports

- Review Budget vs. Actual (BvA) reports

Coordination & Representation:

- Actively develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders

- Participate in Sector working group meetings

Monitoring and Evaluation:

- Ensure all required donor reports are completed on time

- Oversee the collection and timely reporting of program data and indicators

- Conduct monthly program data analysis

Other Duties:

- Monitor/assess the safety and security of field teams

- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor

## Skills

### Required
- Diploma in Clinical medicine and Public Health
- Registered and licensed with the Allied Health Professionals Council
- Computer literacy in MS office packages
- Valid class A license
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated capacity to attain high quality results

### Nice to have
- Experience working with community structures and district surveillance health systems
- Experience in SBCC and training in VPD surveillance or IDSR

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