Health Officer Full Time NEW

Job Title: Health Officer

Job by: The Well in Action

Category: Health

Reports to: Health coordinator and Cluster Coordinator

Location: Enda Mehoni, Tigray Ethiopia.

Employment Type: Full Time

Duration: Six Month (Possibility of Extension)

Salary: Negotiable,

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 Overview

The Health Office will lead, coordinate, implement, supervise, and monitor the six-month integrated emergency health project under TWA in Enda Mehoni Tigray, ensuring timely access to essential and quality health services for crisis-affected communities. The office will strengthen health service delivery through the provision of essential medical supplies, capacity building of health workers, improved referral systems, disease surveillance and outbreak response, MISP implementation, MHPSS support, integrated health and nutrition campaigns, and minor rehabilitation of selected health facilities, in close collaboration with relevant government health authorities and humanitarian/donor partners.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Support health facilities and woreda health offices to identify priority gaps in essential medicines, medical consumables and basic health-care supplies; prepare timely, justified requisitions.
• Coordinate receipt, storage, stock control, distribution and last-mile delivery of medicines, trauma kits, emergency supplies and clean-delivery kits in line with national guidance and TWA procedures.
• Maintain accurate stock cards, issue/receipt records, consumption reports and expiry monitoring; promptly report stock-outs, losses or risks and support corrective action.
• Monitor the availability and quality of essential services at supported facilities and follow up agreed actions with facility staff and local health authorities.
• Support woreda and facility teams to strengthen Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM), event-based surveillance, early warning and timely notification of priority diseases.
• Assist with outbreak preparedness and response, including investigation support, active case finding, line listing, referral, risk communication and coordination with the responsible health authorities.
• Ensure that suspected outbreaks and other urgent public-health events are escalated immediately through established reporting channels; maintain confidentiality and accurate records.
• Work with health facilities and ambulance providers to support referral readiness, including fuel and maintenance follow-up, referral supplies, communication, documentation and feedback.
• Support health workers to apply the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for sexual and reproductive health in crisis settings, in coordination with qualified trainers and health authorities.
• Promote timely, confidential and respectful referral for survivors of sexual violence and other people requiring urgent clinical care; never investigate cases or disclose identifying information.
• Coordinate or support approved training and mentoring for health workers on Clinical Management of Rape (CMR), including psychological first-line support and appropriate MHPSS referral pathways.
• Promote survivor-centred, trauma-informed, confidential and non-discriminatory services in accordance with national protocols and organizational safeguarding standards.
• Support planning and delivery of integrated health and nutrition outreach campaigns in hard-to-reach communities, coordinating with local health structures and other project teams.
• Help identify minor rehabilitation needs at supported health facilities; monitor approved works for quality, safety, accessibility and completion, and report defects or delays.
• Promote infection prevention and control, safe waste management, water, sanitation and hygiene practices in health facilities and outreach activities.
• Coordinate health-sector inputs to integrated assistance, including Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA), where assigned, ensuring health needs and referral information are communicated through safe and appropriate channels.
• Support approaches that restore dignity and reduce barriers to essential services for drought- and displacement-affected women, men, girls, boys, older people and persons with disabilities.
• Engage communities, community health workers and local leaders in service information, feedback, health promotion and identification of access barriers without creating expectations beyond the project scope.
• Collect, verify and submit timely activity data, service statistics, distribution records, training reports, referral information and monthly/weekly updates using approved tools.
• Track workplans, targets, indicators, challenges and follow-up actions; maintain complete and organized supporting documentation for verification and audit.
• Participate in health coordination meetings and maintain constructive working relationships with woreda/zonal health offices, health facilities, humanitarian partners and community structures.
• Document lessons learned, emerging needs and practical recommendations for the Health Coordinator and project management.

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 or above in Public Health, Nursing, Nutrition, Health Officer, Midwifery or another relevant health discipline. At least 4 years of relevant experience in primary health care, emergency health, humanitarian or community health programming; experience in outbreak response, SRH, nutrition integration or health-facility support is an advantage. Knowledge of Ethiopia’s health system, PHEM, MISP, CMR referral principles, MHPSS and humanitarian standards is desirable.

Required Competencies 

Strong planning and field coordination; accurate data collection and reporting; communication and teamwork; problem-solving and prioritization; respectful community engagement; computer skills (Word, Excel and email); ability to work in hard-to-reach and emergency settings.

• Language: Fluency in Tigrigna is mandatory; Amharic and English language is desirable.

Preference 

• Women applicants are highly encouraged to apply.