Health and Nutrition Officer-(Rapid Recruitment) ( Readvertised )

Position: Health and Nutrition Officer-(Rapid Recruitment) ( Readvertised )- PRF-2409-01006-1528

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: Senior Health and Nutrition Officer

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: November 01, 2024

Summary of the position

The Health and Nutrition Officer is responsible for developing the quality of the programs, providing technical support, and ensuring the implementation of standards and evidence-based protocols. Also, will be responsible for all the SRH tasks in training and guidance and help with the technical information, and represent SAMS in all SRH Meetings and groups.

Key relationships:

Program department, Procurement, Supply chain.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

Health & Nutrition:

• Define, develop, and implement SAMS’ quality assurance processes, testing methodologies, and supporting tools.
• Review requirements to provide feedback on completeness, testability, and risk areas that could affect service quality.
• Identify, replicate, document, prioritize, and track issues to closure using issue-tracking systems.
• To ensure service recipients and career feedback are collected and used to drive quality improvements for service users.
• To manage day-to-day relationships with providers including reviewing the quality of their service delivery and making recommendations for improvements.
• Work closely within the programs department and with operations to ensure the quality of processes and procedures.
• Educate team members across the organization regarding the quality function and their role in ensuring quality standards are met.
• Produce quality metrics, testing results, and other reports for all levels of management.
• Ensure technical compliance with the programs, projects, and standards.
• Attend all relevant meetings and represent SAMS in contributing to all related health sector/cluster services.
• Preparing/developing technical guidance, protocols, approaches, and service packages.
• Supervising technical capacity building programs, participating in assessing the training technical needs, and contributing to preparing these training materials.
• Providing technical support for the project team during the PLC.
• Other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Scope of job:

• Primary health care services (child health, reproductive health, communicable and non-communicable diseases)
• Secondary health care services including trauma cases.
• Tertiary health care and specialized services.
• Nutritional services and outreach programming

Office culture:

• Promote and model a positive, professional, and respectful office culture.
• Ensure effective internal communications.
• Work with the country program leadership to resolve issues/conflicts in the workplace in a professional manner when requested.

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required:

• A university degree in Medical Science (Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, or Public Health) is required.
• Proven experience of a minimum of 3 years in an H&N Officer position is mandatory.

Languages:

• Fluent written and spoken in Arabic (native)
• Upper-intermediate written and spoken in English

Competencies:

• Scientific Background
• Quality Monitoring of Services
• Development of Scientific protocols/guidelines
• Providing technical support for training
• Providing technical support for ongoing projects
• Providing technical input for proposals
• Clusters/TWGs
• Developing ToRs
• Health Planning
• Data Analysis

CONTRACT CONDITIONS

The salary will be defined according to the SAMS Turkey Office salary scale.

Note: This recruitment process is rapid. Due to the urgency of this position, the vacancy may close before the deadline. Applications will be assessed as received and the vacancy might be closed before the end of the announcement as per qualifications availability.

Interested candidates may please send their resumes and fill out the application at the following link:

https://recruitment.sams-hr.com/