Field/ Project Coordinator (based in Awash 7 Killo), April 2024

Vacancy Announcement:

Health Poverty Action (HPA) is a UK based international development organization with a mission of supporting the poorest and most vulnerable people to achieve better health and wellbeing in their effort. Established in 1984, HPA currently operates in 13 countries including Ethiopia.

HPA has been operational in Ethiopia since 2006, primarily with semi-nomadic pastoralists, and has implemented various SRHR, MNCH, TB, NCDs and other health and women empowerment projects that support communities in South Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR), in lowland districts of Bale, Oromia Region and in Liben Zone of the Ethiopian Somali Region and other selected hospitals and health centres in Addis Ababa and 6 regional states. Currently, we are preparing to implement COVID-19 testing and other women empowerment project in the Zone 3 of Afar regional state with field office in Awash 7 Killo. For more information about our organisation please visit our website: www.healthpovertyaction.org

HPA wants to recruit for the following vacant position:

Field/ Project Coordinator (based in Awash 7 Killo):

Under the direct line management of the Program Manager in Addis, the Field/Project Coordinator is responsible for the overall management of field office activities as per the project documents including management of field teams, logistics management, external relations support as well as liaising with the local governmental and non-governmental stakeholders of HPA.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Represent HPA to NGOs, UN agencies, regional authorities, communities, donors and other relevant parties in the field and share information with the field and coordination teams
Ensure the coordination and implementation of all project activities in the target location/region and ensure the activities are implemented as planned, prepare action plans, implementing / monitoring of activities; information sharing; reporting (including financial management of field office)
Ensure adequate information flow within the country office
Oversee and coordinate the general functioning of the field/project office
Create/maintain a positive “team spirit” among the project staff
Support team members under direct supervision in their duties
Ensure the implementation of the project in the field and its follow-up in its different aspects
Maintain close and regular update and communication with country office team
Work with the program manager, partners and stakeholders in the region to adjust operational approach and activities, depending on changing needs in the area
Coordinate and lead outreach community mobilization, Ag-RDT testing campaigns, events both at health facility and community levels
Contribute and give inputs for business development in the region
Work closely with the woreda health office heads and responsible persons in the respective woredas.
Ensure efficiency and timely implementation of the Ag-RDT and other health project interventions in the project implementation areas.
Responsible for the preparation and submission of regular project reports and case stories and meets deadlines for reporting and program updates.

Duration: The contract duration is one year with possibility of renewal depending on the availability of funds and performance. Please clearly indicate the name of the position and location that you’re applying in subject line of your email.

Job Requirements

Competence and Personal Requirements:

Strong experience working on a field or hard to reach community in a health related project context
A minimum of MPH/BSc degree in Public Health/Nursing/Health Officer with 5/7 years’ relevant work experience in implementing and coordinating health projects at grassroot level.
INGO work experience in the region is an asset
Solid understanding of the Ethiopian health policy and strategies, as well as the health sector transformation plan and the health extension platform
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
Good command in written and spoken English.
Good communication skills and Team player
Willingness to work under pressure and extra hours.
Good command in the local language

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send their CV and one page motivation letter by including their salary expectations and when you’ll be available only through [email protected] and [email protected] for seven consecutive working days starting from the first date of advertisement. Applicants will be short-listed and contacted for an interview on a progressive basis.

Note: Use “Field/Project Coordinator (based in Awash 7 Killo)” as the subject title of your email!

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Job City Afar

Afar

Health Poverty Action

In 1984 a young British doctor returned from Afghanistan with a profound understanding of the connection between health and poverty.

He wrote a vivid account of life in marginalised communities in the mountains of Afghanistan for the Guardian newspaper, depicting malnutrition, frequent child deaths and people walking for nine days to see a doctor. He described the lack of support for people there, and how development organisations were unable to help because they were either not able or not willing to face the ‘political hot potato’.

In small type at the end of the article was his phone number and a request that anyone interested in strengthening health services in Afghanistan contact him. The responses were overwhelming.

Doctors, nurses and development workers assembled to become the first Health Poverty Action staff and set up an organisation that would stand in partnership with marginalised communities for decades to come (then known as Health Unlimited).

This organisation would specialise in the connection between health and poverty. One of its defining characteristics would be to prioritise the people and issues missed out by everyone else – going where others could not or would not.

It would also recognise that, especially for the poorest, tackling one problem in isolation might achieve little more than change the cause of their death. So right from the start it took an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach. In its first year – in southern Afghanistan – Health Poverty Action focused not just on medical care, but also on improving access to nutritious food and clean water.

This was the time of the Soviet war. During such conflicts it is almost always the poorest and most marginalised who suffer most, often living in remote and inaccessible areas. In the years since that first project we have seen how often severely poor and neglected populations – often indigenous people or ethnic minorities – are living in post-conflict situations.

Health Poverty Action has developed valuable relationships of trust with many communities like this, who have learnt through bitter experience to trust few outsiders. We always respect the fact that our role is to strengthen them, in their struggle for health. The way forward should be the one they choose. Health Poverty Action doesn’t set up its own parallel systems, but helps communities build on what is already there and demand their rights.

Today, Health Poverty Action works in 13 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We continue to go where other organisations can’t or won’t. We continue to emphasise the connection between health and poverty. And we continue to tackle the two together, in integrated ways.

We remain strongly rooted in the communities we work with, the vast majority of our staff coming from the populations they serve. Alongside this we do policy and campaigns work at national and international levels, to help change the policies and practices that cause and sustain poverty, and deny poor and marginalised people their health rights.

The People’s Health Movement and Alma-Ata principles

Health Poverty Action is part of a global movement.

In 1978, health campaigners worldwide achieved a major breakthrough at the UN Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care. This conference statement signalled a new approach to health care, often described as the ‘primary health care approach’ or the ‘Alma-Ata principles’ – deeply rooted in the social and structural determinants of health (such as poverty eradication), and emphasising the importance of health care being accountable and accessible to the people it serves. A global target of achieving “Health for All” by the year 2000 was established.

Health Poverty Action was born out of this primary health care movement. We have always been part of it, and it remains our primary global network (now known as the People’s Health Movement).

The title ‘People’s Health Movement’ came into being in the year 2000. The world had moved away move away from the Alma-Ata principles towards a more market-led approach (championed by the World Bank). Instead of seeing Health For All, the last millennium ended amid a global health crisis.

In response, a worldwide People’s Health Assembly was called. Thousands of health campaigners and civil society representatives (including Health Poverty Action) gathered together in Bangladesh – and the People’s Health Movement was born. This global network of grassroots activists, civil society organisations and academic institutions, particularly from developing countries, continues to work for health justice – so that one day the vision of Health For All will become reality.

The People’s Health Movement’s history, analysis and positioning is a fundamental part of Health Poverty Action’s identity. This is recognised by Health Poverty Action being one of only a handful of organisations in the world that is awarded the status of being formally affiliated to the movement.

Changing our name from Health Unlimited to Health Poverty Action

In 2010 we refreshed our identity. For the 25 years prior, ‘Health Unlimited’ served the cause well, but we increasingly found that it didn’t easily communicate what kind of organisation we are. As a result we changed our name to Health Poverty Action, to better reflec

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Vacancy Announcement:

HPA wants to recruit for the following vacant position:

Field/ Project Coordinator (based in Awash 7 Killo):

Main duties and responsibilities:

Represent HPA to NGOs, UN agencies, regional authorities, communities, donors and other relevant parties in the field and share information with the field and coordination teams
Ensure the coordination and implementation of all project activities in the target location/region and ensure the activities are implemented as planned, prepare action plans, implementing / monitoring of activities; information sharing; reporting (including financial management of field office)
Ensure adequate information flow within the country office
Oversee and coordinate the general functioning of the field/project office
Create/maintain a positive “team spirit” among the project staff
Support team members under direct supervision in their duties
Ensure the implementation of the project in the field and its follow-up in its different aspects
Maintain close and regular update and communication with country office team
Work with the program manager, partners and stakeholders in the region to adjust operational approach and activities, depending on changing needs in the area
Coordinate and lead outreach community mobilization, Ag-RDT testing campaigns, events both at health facility and community levels
Contribute and give inputs for business development in the region
Work closely with the woreda health office heads and responsible persons in the respective woredas.
Ensure efficiency and timely implementation of the Ag-RDT and other health project interventions in the project implementation areas.
Responsible for the preparation and submission of regular project reports and case stories and meets deadlines for reporting and program updates.

Job Requirements

Competence and Personal Requirements:

Strong experience working on a field or hard to reach community in a health related project context
A minimum of MPH/BSc degree in Public Health/Nursing/Health Officer with 5/7 years’ relevant work experience in implementing and coordinating health projects at grassroot level.
INGO work experience in the region is an asset
Solid understanding of the Ethiopian health policy and strategies, as well as the health sector transformation plan and the health extension platform
Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
Good command in written and spoken English.
Good communication skills and Team player
Willingness to work under pressure and extra hours.
Good command in the local language

How to Apply

Note: Use "Field/Project Coordinator (based in Awash 7 Killo)" as the subject title of your email!

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