Health Coordinator - Aswan

About the role

Save the Children is recruiting a Health Coordinator for its Operation Program in Aswan, funded by Expertise France. The role leads community health activities aimed at improving the health and well-being of refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrant communities. It covers hiring, training and supervising Community Health Workers (CHWs), building the capacity of local NGO health activities, and planning and running health awareness and screening sessions. The project runs for two years across Aswan, El Minya and Kafr El Sheikh, and the postholder manages the Aswan component only. The position is pending donor approval.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the Ministry of Health, the Egyptian Health Authority and NGOs to support primary care services, coach and mentor clinics and help local partners maintain primary care services.
• Assess infrastructure, supplies and capacity-building needs of PHCs and hospitals in Aswan, and support SOPs for cash-for-health interventions and for managing medical cases and referrals between Aswan and Cairo.
• Assess cases referred from the community to mobile clinics and secondary care, and plan and run a cash-for-medical-cases and health-services reimbursement programme.
• Identify and support community members to provide health services, and co-train CHWs and stakeholders on health promotion, including nutrition, NCDs and RMNCH.
• Implement health and nutrition promotion sessions for refugees, migrants and host communities, and support a health and nutrition needs assessment.
• Maintain records of mobile clinics, facility needs assessments and capacity-building interventions, enter monthly service-utilization data into the project database, and prepare regular reports for the Health Officer and external stakeholders.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in medicine.
• At least 2-3 years' experience implementing and supervising health services for vulnerable populations, especially mobile clinics.
• Experience with refugee and marginalized communities, and previous health-system-strengthening projects.
• Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and good knowledge of English.
• Strong report writing skills and commitment to Save the Children's values and child safeguarding.