Job Description

Position: Medical Activity Manager

Job site: Taiz 

Reporting to: 

(Hierarchical): Project manager

(Technical): Programme Medical Referent (if any)/Medical Coordinator

Status: Full-time Staff

Main Purpose

Define, coordinate and monitor medical activities of the project under his responsibility according to INTERSOS protocols, standards and procedures in order to ensure the delivery of quality medical care for patients and their local communities as well as to improve the health conditions of the target population of the project. 

Tasks

• Coordinate, assess and supervise the proper functioning of the medical activities of the project according to INTERSOS protocols, standards and procedures and through the correct compilation and analysis of medical data regarding patients health conditions
• Participate in the definition of annual planning and budget for the project and in the follow up of the project. Supervise and ensure that medical activities objectives under his responsibility are achieved, reporting to the technical referent any problem arising in the service 
• Coach and train the medical team of the activities he manage in order to guarantee the good quality of the medical activities and to provide the medical care to the patients
• Check all administrative procedures related to patients’ follow-up (card filling, registers, paper exit, discharge, transfers ...) are carried out correctly and according to INTERSOS procedures
• Coordinate and monitor the daily working plan of the team under his responsibility (absent personnel, vacations, tracking leaves ...). Participate in shifts and replaces a staff if necessary
• Plan and supervise, in close coordination with the HR department, the associated processes (recruitment, training, performance evaluation, development and internal communication) of the staffs under his responsibility in order to improve staff’s capabilities and to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required
• Participate in the monthly reports according to guidelines

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in medicine or other paramedical studies
• Minimum 2 year’s relevant work experience in the humanitarian sector especially in fragile and unstable environments 
• English or French or Spanish according to the country 
• Mission language desirable
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
• Demonstrate experience with different donors’ compliance and reporting
• Leadership, people management and development
• Teamwork and cooperation
• Strategic vision
• Service orientation
• Understanding of humanitarian operations principles, standards and best practices
• Commitment to INTERSOS principles