Health Coordinator Full Time NEW

Job Title: Health Coordinator

Job by: The Well in Action

Category: Health

Reports to: Cluster coordinator

Location: Enda Mehoni, Tigray, Ethiopia.

Employment Type: Full Time

Duration: Six (6) Month (Possibility of Extension)

Salary: Negotiable and Attractive,

Number of Positions: One

Application Deadline: seven days from the date of posting

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION 

The Well in Action (TWA) is an Ethiopian Resident Charity Organization. TWA intervention in Ethiopia is to contribute to the sustainable improvement of the living conditions of the smallholder farmers and deprived people. TWA’s core areas of intervention include sustainable livelihoods and food security, rural water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) emergency response and resilience building, agricultural job creation and youth employment, and education. The organization primarily serves vulnerable rural and urban communities, with a particular focus on poor households, farmers, women, and youth This can be achieved by performing projects which focus on improving agricultural productivity, and stimulating entrepreneurship that are implemented both in rural and urban contexts.

Position Purpose 

The Health Coordinator provides overall technical leadership, strategic direction and operational coordination for TWA’s six-month Health – Essential Services & Emergency Response project in Enda Mehoni, Tigray. The role ensures that emergency health interventions are planned, delivered, monitored and reported effectively, in line with national health priorities, humanitarian principles, donor requirements and TWA policies. The coordinator leads coordination with health authorities and partners and promotes an integrated, accountable response that restores access and dignity for drought- and displacement-affected communities.

Key Roles and Responsibilities 

• Lead development, implementation and regular review of the six-month health workplan, activity schedule, procurement plan and implementation targets.
• Provide technical guidance to the Health Officer and field teams; translate project objectives into practical activities, deliverables, indicators and clear responsibilities.
• Ensure interventions are evidence-based, context-appropriate and aligned with Ministry of Health guidelines, the Health Cluster approach and relevant humanitarian standards.
• Identify implementation risks, access constraints and changing health needs; recommend timely adaptations and escalate major issues to project management.
• Oversee assessment of essential health-service gaps and ensure timely planning for procurement, pre-positioning and distribution of medicines, trauma kits, emergency supplies and clean-delivery kits.
• Coordinate with supply chain, logistics, finance and health authorities to ensure quality assurance, appropriate storage, stock accountability and last-mile delivery.
• Monitor supply availability and utilization, review stock reports and take action to prevent stock-outs, overstocking, expiry, diversion or interruption of essential services.
• Ensure ambulance support activities, including fuel, maintenance and referral supplies, are appropriately planned, documented and monitored.
• Provide oversight for strengthening Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM), surveillance, early warning, preparedness and response capacity at woreda and facility levels.
• Coordinate technical support for outbreak investigation, active case finding, rapid response, information sharing and multi-sectoral coordination with the responsible authorities.
• Ensure timely analysis and escalation of epidemiological alerts and response gaps while maintaining appropriate confidentiality and data quality.
• Oversee capacity-building on MISP for SRH in crisis settings and ensure training is linked to practical service readiness and referral pathways.
• Guide training and mentoring on Clinical Management of Rape (CMR), including MHPSS, ensuring qualified facilitators, survivor-centred practice and adherence to national clinical protocols.
• Promote safe, confidential, non-discriminatory and accessible services; ensure appropriate referral arrangements for survivors and people with urgent health needs.
• Lead coordination and quality oversight of integrated health and nutrition campaigns in hard-to-reach areas, ensuring appropriate staffing, supplies, community mobilization and referral arrangements.
• Oversee assessment, prioritization and implementation monitoring of minor health-facility rehabilitation, ensuring approved scope, technical quality, safety, accessibility and timely completion.
• Coordinate with WASH and other relevant sectors to promote infection prevention and control, safe water, sanitation, hygiene and functional health-facility environments.
• Ensure health activities complement integrated MPCA and other emergency assistance, with clear coordination, referral information and safeguards against duplication or exclusion.
• Promote a people-centred response that restores dignity and improves access for drought- and displacement-affected populations, including women, children, older people and persons with disabilities.
• Strengthen community engagement, two-way feedback, complaints response and accountability to affected populations, ensuring safe and accessible feedback channels.
• Supervise, coach and support the Health Officer and other assigned staff; set performance expectations, review progress and address capacity gaps.
• Represent TWA in relevant woreda/zonal health coordination forums and maintain effective working relationships with government health offices, facilities, humanitarian partners and community representatives.
• Facilitate joint planning, supportive supervision, technical review meetings and coordinated problem-solving; communicate decisions and follow up agreed actions.
• Lead performance monitoring against the project logframe, indicators, targets, budget and implementation schedule; ensure data is accurate, disaggregated where appropriate and verifiable.
• Review and consolidate quality narrative and quantitative reports, success stories, case studies and lessons learned; submit reports within agreed deadlines.
• Monitor budget utilization with finance and project management, review forecasts and expenditure against plans, and ensure value for money and compliance with donor and TWA procedures.
• Maintain organized records for assessments, distributions, training, supervision, procurement, referrals and rehabilitation; support audits, donor visits and project reviews.
• Prepare an orderly handover and close-out plan, including outstanding commitments, asset and stock accountability, final reporting and sustainability/referral arrangements before the six-month project ends.

Preference 

• Women applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

N.B.: – TWA requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguard our intended program participant, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Staff at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation, and abuse, safeguards the rights of program participants and community members (especially women, children’s and people with disability).

• BSc degree in Public Health, Health Officer, Health Services Management, Epidemiology or a related health field. MSc Degree is preferable. At least 5 years INGO/NGO progressively responsible experience in health programming, including 2 years in a coordination or supervisory role; demonstrated experience in humanitarian/emergency health response, essential health services, PHEM, SRH and health-system coordination is highly desirable.

Required Competencies 

• Strong technical leadership, strategic and operational planning, staff management, coordination, analytical and report-writing skills; budget and resource management; risk management; donor compliance; partnership building; decision-making under pressure; and proficiency in Word, Excel and reporting tools.
• Language: Fluency in Tigrigna is mandatory, Amharic and English language is desirable.