Senior Health/Nutrition Officer (Maternity Cover) (4 Months) PRF-2212-01003-305 At Syrian American Medical Society Foundation

Position: Senior Health/Nutrition Officer (Maternity Cover) (4 Months) PRF-2212-01003-305

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: Senior Health Advisor Manager

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: January 25th 2023

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key relationships:

Project Staff, Information Staff, Grants Staff, and other Turkey office staff

General objective of the position:

The Senior Health and Nutrition Officer is responsible for Works with advisory department colleagues to ensure that the team provides effective, efficient and relevant technical inputs, recommendations and support.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Develop and implement SAMS’ quality assurance guidelines, testing methodologies and supporting tools.
Review requirements to provide feedback on completeness, testability and risk areas that could affect service quality.
Ensure service recipients and career feedback are collected and used to drive quality improvements for service providers.
Manage day-to-day relationships with services providers in SAMS facilities including reviewing the quality of services delivered and making recommendations for improvements.
Work closely with projects and other departments to ensure quality of processes and procedures.
Educate team members across the organization regarding the quality function and their role in ensuring quality standards are met (one team: unified overall objectives)
Provide technical support and follow up for the implementation of infection and prevention control IPC in SAMS supported health facilities.
Provide technical supervision and follow up for SAMS’ COVID-19 isolation hospitals and ambulance staff and increase coordination with other stakeholders
Technical supervision for nutrition and community health activities ensuring achievement of their planned targets
Participate in writing of health proposals from technical perspective (NA, LF, HR …).
Collaborate with IM department in obtaining statistical data, arrange, organize them in standard forms and analyze them to enhance the quality of services.
Representing SAMS in developing and revisiting of HC technical standards/packages.
Representing SAMS in HC meetings and different TWGs.
Representing SAMS in the COVID-19 taskforce and related pillar groups (CM/IPC/RCCE)
Coordinate with projects/training officer for the ongoing capacity building of the medical staff by developing required ToRs, implementing technical spot checks (as possible) and give the feedback and recommendations.
Supervise the nutrition component.
Other tasks as assigned by the Immediate manager.