Volunteer from UNV: Associate Public Health Officer in Sudan

You will be responsible for performing the following:

• Take the lead in the assessment and analysis of the public health needs of forcibly displaced persons by implementing methods like: participatory assessments such as the Age, Gender, and Diversity.
• Ensure that public health programme interventions are reflected in implementing partner agreements in a timely manner; regularly monitor and report on compliance with established guidelines and procedures.
• Pursue collaborative, consultative partnerships to ensure quality public health planning and sustainable service provision for refugees in all camps.
• Take the lead in monitoring and evaluating public health programme implementation in the field, in accordance to work plans co-developed with partners.
• Oversee the implementation of the Health Information System from training of health workers on data collection, examination of quality of data collected, and providing supervisory support and guidance to partner health coordinators.
• In collaboration with partners and local authorities, ensure adequate preparedness, early detection, and effective response to disease outbreaks.
• Ensure comprehensive primary healthcare (PHC) programmes are implemented according to national guidelines by health partners in the refugee camps.
• Oversee and ensure medical referral activities from the secondary to tertiary level as per the UNHCR Medical Referral Guidelines.
• Ensure an efficient drug management system that encompasses assessment of essential medicine needs for the refugee operation based on drug consumption, procurement, storage, distribution, and rational utilization at the camp health facilities.
• Assess training needs of State Ministry of Health and NGO partner staff; ensure that health staff undergo capacity development activities relevant to their posts.
• Implement capacity development interventions with refugee / host community volunteers utilizing participatory approaches.
• Ensure periodic mass MUAC screening is conducted, and when operationally feasible, support conducting Standardized Expanded Nutrition Survey (SENS).
• Monitor the implementation of the nutrition programme as per the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) approach and the best Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) best practices.
• Collaborate with UNHCR / MOH / Health Partners’ engineers on the implementation of projects for upgrading of health infrastructure in the camps or host community areas.
• Participate in the evaluation of possible health financing schemes to ensure the sustainability of health services in the camps.
• Contribute to UNHCR’s advocacy efforts on the inclusion of refugees into the national health system to ensure the sustainability of health services delivery through health facilities managed by the State Ministry of Health.