The Jr Health Programme Officer is responsible for:
Administrative Support:
Accountable for providing professional administrative expertise and support.
Establish a health team
Organization of meetings internally or externally: Planning and events, issuing and preparing invitations and requests for meetings.
Collect, compiles, tracks and anticipates the necessary documentation and files containing briefings and information for meetings, events and mission travel and ensures the required clearances.
Attend meetings and prepares meeting notes, meeting reports (syntheses, summaries, agreements and action points for follow-up), upon request identify meeting content.
Keep the various operational file holders informed of requests and upcoming commitments and deadlines.
Perform other administration duties as assigned by the Programs team.
Program
Conduct research on various health emergencies, health status and related issues.
Support to the program activities across the project cycle.
Supports the team in the daily program activities and provide assistance to compile any financial report.
Assist with the Management and monitoring of health and WASH programming in Southern Africa and arrange for technical support /quality assurance /monitoring field visit.
Establish, manage and/or support community-based public health interventions, including epidemic control, health promotion, and disease prevention interventions
Provide support with monitoring regional and national epidemiological data, health indicators and disaster patterns for analysis and early detection disease outbreaks and/or epidemics.
Assist in the follow up of the management of programme implementation in the operational area
Ensure evidence, best practices and core standards are applied to all levels of public health programming, to ensure quality of services.
Liaise regularly with the community through provincial, branch teams, local health committees and seek feedback on the community’s perception of health services and promoting community involvement in all aspects of health programming
Working closely with the Programs team on developing concept notes, proposals and funding requests
Communication
Provide support in drafting, editing and preparing presentations, correspondence and other communications when required.
Take a capacity building approach to work, providing training, technical support, mentoring and dissemination as part of emergency response and recovery activities.
Reinforce, when possible and appropriate, the capacity of SARCS’ staff and volunteers through basic and/or specialized CBHFA/ECV/CBS training.
Support knowledge management systems and file.
Maintain a central filing system for the operational team coordinate with archives and records ensuring all key documents are accessible and appropriately archived for all health-related programmes.
Manage the health team office inventory stocks and archives in collaboration with the Logistics officer
In close collaboration with the Programs team, develop and maintain an up-to-date mailing lists, contact lists for internal and external stakeholders for health-related matters.
