# Emergency Health Coordinator, Global Surge

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

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster.

The IRC's Global Surge Team (GST) is a roster of highly qualified humanitarian professionals who deploy on short notice to emergency and non-emergency contexts to support the IRC's mission. Members of the GST provide specialist support where talent is most needed for short-term deployments of up to three months.

**Job Overview:** The Emergency Health Coordinator, Global Surge will provide leadership and direction in strengthening an effective, timely, high-quality emergency health response. The Emergency Health Coordinator will also coordinate different components of the response including primary health, reproductive health, and nutrition.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Ensure high-quality and timely integrated health assessments of the humanitarian needs and provide prioritized recommendations for program interventions, adaptations, strategy, and implementation to the country and technical leads;

- Design program responses and strategy, including geographic areas of intervention, in coordination with internal and external actors;

- Draft technical proposals and budgets for international donors, work in close collaboration with IRC grants and finance staff to finalize proposals and answer requests for additional information;

- Lead health program implementation, including staff recruitment and training, workplan development, guiding country program through guidelines and IRC tools, procurement and inventory planning, indicator and budget management;

- Prepare donor and management reports on grants and sector activities, including indicators;

- Select and implement appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems and tools; ensure consistent reporting and analysis of results to improve program efficiency and quality;

- Ensure compliance with IRC policy and procedures throughout the program team and activities;

- Represent and coordinate with other agencies, clusters, local government, donors, and other partners to promote delivery of standard methodology humanitarian assistance;

- Support media and communications activities as requested;

- Create an inclusive environment where diversity, different work styles, personalities and approaches are valued, and prioritize capacity building of team;

- Model inclusive behaviors to team members (ensuring all members' voices are heard);

- Provide a comprehensive handover to successor for sustainable long-term programming;

- Work with technical units to incorporate their guidance on responses.

**Job Requirements:**

- Master's or post-graduate degree in Public Health or equivalent;

- Minimum 3-5 years' work experience in their field at a senior level required;

- Effective leading and building programs and/or operations in fast-paced, multifaceted environments;

- Solid track record leading in an emergency environment and/or start-up environment as part of a multinational team, as well as resource mobilization for health emergencies;

- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated ability to communicate technical information in a clear manner;

- Fluency in English. Working knowledge of Spanish required;

- Digital literacy: MS Word, Excel & email applications required; MS Access, Project & GIS preferred;

- Excellent writing and editing skills, and can effectively write and edit grant proposals and reports;

- Effective people- and program-management skills in acute emergency contexts: can train and lead staff productively under stressful circumstances;

- Flexible, focused, and reliable in an environment of changing demands.

## Skills

### Required
- Public Health
- Leadership
- Program Management
- Communication
- MS Office
- English
- Spanish

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