Emergency Medical Coordinator 12-246

Job Requirements:

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility for rapid response to emergencies. International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

JOB SUMMARY
The Emergency Medical Coordinator is primarily responsible for the design, implementation and management of the emergency health programs. The Emergency Medical Coordinator will work in collaboration with the senior management team and health teams in the field. The Emergency Medical Coordinator will make frequent visits to the field sites to ensure the highest standards of service delivery and to ensure programs are in line with internationally accepted standards and/or relevant Ministries of Health.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Technical Monitoring and Program Quality
• Provide technical supervision of, and technical support to the emergency health program, including activities conducted by partner organizations
• Ensure activities are consistent with established best practices.
• Work closely with senior management and field teams to determine the operational needs of the medical program within the scope of the grants
• Oversee the collection and timely reporting of data and statistics for all programs (including objectives, indicators and outcomes of health programs) according to internal and donor requirements
• Review field reports and ensure appropriate follow up and decision making on data relevant to the organizations health programs
• Ensure timely and adequate provision of supplies and drugs through review of pharmacy consumption reports, national drug protocols, program budgets, acquisition of partner agency and UN drug kits, and health information materials.
•Provide regular updates, following the established reporting structures

2. Program Development
• Work with senior management team, field teams, and regional desk in strategic planning for future health programs.
• Work with PDOs, program coordinator and management team to draft concepts for future funding following the protocols and formats of each relevant donor

LANGUAGES
• Ability to speak Arabic required