Emergency Health Coordinator Consultant At FHI 360

Background

FHI 360 is harnessing its four decades of development experience to provide humanitarian assistance in crisis-affected countries. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team (CRT) meets the urgent needs of people whose lives are jeopardized by conflict, disaster or displacement. FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team is looking to rapidly respond to the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s southern peninsula on August 14^th, 2021. The FHI 360’s Crisis Response Team is preparing to deploy an emergency response team to implement health, WASH, and protection programming to assist the earthquake victims.

Scope of Work

In this particular context, the Crisis Response Team requires the services of a highly skilled Emergency Health Coordinator Consultant to support HQ CRT to conduct preliminary assessments and scalable mapping exercises to design and implement an anticipated health program. The Emergency Health Coordinator Consultant will engage with cluster leads, government of Haiti officials, health facility-based personnel and other NGO partners to discuss the pressing needs and challenges of the impacted area. The consultant will participate in start-up activities to help launch a fully integrated health program. The consultant must also have a strong background in humanitarian programming and experience with rapid startups.

Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Conduct health sector assessments, provide technical guidance on emergency activities and devise sector-specific response strategies
• Assess municipal health infrastructure, service-provider capabilities, and service gaps
• Attend coordination meetings with local service providers, implementing partners and donors as well as attend regional cluster meetings
• Work with operations staff to ensure health commodities are procured, handled, and managed properly in accordance with FHI 360 protocols
• Start up FHI 360’s health sector response activities in Haiti, including identifying staff, implementing activities, providing supportive supervision to health workers, meeting with authorities and coordinator.
• Develop project proposals and plans to determine scheduling, budget, procedures, staffing, and allotment of resources needed for projects

Deliverables:

• Participate in the start-up of health-related activities in the areas of intervention
• Develop programmatic strategy for the health sector
• Assist in multi-sectoral proposal development, including technical narrative, budget, and implementation plan **

Location of Work:

Southern Haiti
Important Note: Applicant should research COVID-19 measures and the associated risks of this location before submitting an application.

Travel:
Level of Effort: 10 weeks with possible extension
Period of Engagement: Mid-September
Travel and accommodations are provided

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree with experience in primary health care and acute malnutrition response or related technical field experience required
• At least 8 years of professional experience in designing, implementing, or supporting emergency health programming
• Experience establishing and leading successful startup operations/projects in complex emergencies situations
• Significant background in managing public health initiatives is required
• Experience leading technical assessments using methodologies such as SMART and SQUEAC; strong background in outcome monitoring and evaluation is preferred
• Experience coordinating complex health programs with wide variety of stakeholders; experience as cluster co-lead is desirable
• Prior experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency or related industry experience
• Sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned area
• Fluency in verbal and written English and French required.