Community Health Programme Manager At Inter Help

Mission based in Kankan, Republic of Guinea

Who are we ?

Inter Aide is a French NGO specializing in the implementation of development programs for particularly deprived families. The association’s areas of action, since its creation in 1980, are access to water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH), agriculture, health and educational support. These programs are implemented in rural areas, particularly isolated, combining high intensity of needs and high population density, and where the context is sufficiently stable to develop actions oriented towards the autonomy of populations in the long term.

Since 2017, Inter Aide has been engaged in a prospecting process in Guinea Conakry, particularly in rural areas and in the areas of EHA (water, hygiene and sanitation) and community health. Inter Aide has launched two projects in Upper Guinea in the Kankan Prefecture. The community health program activities were launched in October 2021.

The objective of the project is to improve the health of children and women in the target area, by combating the major risks and diseases that affect them (main communicable diseases, factors related to maternal and/or reproductive health, etc.). The program will be structured around the following two axes:

• Awareness-raising/training of rural communities on preventive practices and early care-seeking attitudes to adopt;
• Support for local public health services to improve access and quality of care for rural communities, including the establishment of community health workers and the strengthening of rural health posts.

The mission:

You will be based in Kankan, with very frequent travel to the intervention municipalities, and to Conakry on an ad hoc basis. You will be accompanied by the Sector Manager based at headquarters.

The main missions will be:

• The coherence and relevance of the strategy and activities defined in response to the identified needs;
• The practical implementation of these activities and their supervision;
• The development and monitoring of a reliable and relevant monitoring and evaluation system, including ad hoc surveys to assess the impact of the programme;
• The establishment, formalization or maintenance of the necessary partnerships with the appropriate government services, at the national, regional and prefectural levels (in particular the Ministry of Health, the Regional Health Directorate and the Prefectural Health Directorate);
• Management of the programme team to enable the implementation of activities, including recruitment, training and supervision (10-20 people);
• The logistical and material implementation of the project, then the logistical coordination and good management of the financial and material resources of the program;
• Operational and financial monitoring of the implementation partner on the awareness component (local CSO);
• Drafting regular operational reports to the Sector Manager and the Administrative and Financial Manager based at headquarters;
• The continuation of the administrative procedures necessary for the deployment of activity by Inter Aide in Guinea, at the national (Conakry) and regional (Kankan) level;
• Collaboration and coordination of actions with the EHA program manager who is also monitoring the second project in the same region;
• Capitalizing on acquired experience.

Profile sought

You have medical or paramedical training, a Master’s degree in public health or health economics, or failing that, the exercise of concrete responsibilities in the context of public or community health actions.

You have experience in coordinating/managing health projects.

You have 2 years of prior experience in project/program management in developing countries essential.

You have knowledge of the Republic of Guinea or similar contexts.

You have strong teaching, training and facilitation skills.

You demonstrate methodological rigor, patience, diplomacy, a strong ability to negotiate with local authorities, and tenacity.

You are able to work in isolated contexts.

You are independent in your work and have a strong taste for the field.

You have a basic command of statistics.

The conditions:

VSI mission lasting 24 months (renewable)

Compensation €1,400 per month + land allowance

Full social security coverage + repatriation insurance

Return ticket at the start and end of the mission, from home to the mission location

Annual return ticket from the mission location to headquarters