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Job Overview
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Date PostedMarch 12, 2024
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Location
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Expiration dateMarch 25, 2024
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Experience5 Years
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GenderBoth
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QualificationBachelor Degree, Master’s Degree
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OrganizationPartners in Health
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Required LanguagesEnglish, Krio
Job Description
Vacancy Announcement |
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Job title: | Operations and Facility Management Advisor |
Work Location: | Freetown, Western Area Rural |
Department: | Operations |
Reports to: | Chief Operating Officer and District Advisor |
Requisition # | 4137 |
Line Management | No |
Application Status | External Advert |
Organisation Profile | |
Partners In Health (PIH) is an international health organization relentlessly committed to improving the health of the poor and marginalized. PIH partners with local governments to build local capacity and works closely with impoverished communities to deliver high-quality health care, address the root causes of illness, train providers, advance research, and advocate for global policy change. Our delivered services in the field are based in our partnership with the Governments and Ministries of Health and the support to education, training and mentorship to Health care workers and students is one of our pillars for the Health care system strengthening.
PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world. Our Work In Sierra Leone: Partners In Health (PIH) began supporting the government of Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola epidemic in October 2014. Recognizing the large need for continued investments in the health system after Ebola, PIH is committed to long-term health system strengthening in support of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), guided by the same principles as our emergency response and our work around the world: public sector accompaniment, integrated and comprehensive services, social justice, nimbleness and flexibility, partnership, community ownership, and evidence-based interventions. In the aftermath of the epidemic, PIH is committed to supporting the delivery of comprehensive health services in Sierra Leone, from the community level to the health center and to referral hospitals. |
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Position Overview | |
PIH-Sierra Leone is supporting the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in the implementation of the five-year World Bank funded QEHSSSP health systems strengthening project that will implement a comprehensive Hub-and-Spoke approach in 5 districts in Sierra Leone through focused investments in staff, stuff, space, systems and nutrition. The project will be implemented in 5 districts of Sierra Leone- Kailahun, Bonthe, Falaba, Tonkolili and Western Area Rural.
The Operations and Facility Management Advisor is a critical member of the PIH Sierra Leone team and will work collaboratively with the clinical and support services staff to provide technical assistance to the District Health Management Team in optimal operationalization of project supported health facilities including: DHMT operations; HR management of the health facility, strengthening the supply chain management of the project procured drugs and commodities, developing and implementing systems for routine and emergency maintenance of the health facility infrastructure and equipment, implementing SOPs for patient pathway through the health facility, supporting the referral systems and financial and commodity management for the selected health facilities. She/he will work closely internally with the Chief Operating Officer, Director of Infrastructure and District Advisor and on a daily basis with the DHMT focal person to improve the readiness of the health facilities to deliver high quality RMNCAH services and support the DHMT in programming. |
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities: | |
Supply chains for medicines and other commodities
Health facility operations
DHMT operations
PIH operations
Management and leadership
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Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment | |
At Partners In Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partners In Health’s PSEAH policy. Partner In Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures. | |
Education and Work Experience Requirements | |
Required
Strongly preferred
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Social Justice | |
We are a global health and social justice organization that responds to the moral imperative to provide high-quality health care globally to those who need it most. We strive to ease suffering by placing patients at the center of all care, bringing the benefits of modern medicine to all. | |
Method of application | |
Interested candidates are required to apply through our website: www.pih.org/employment. In your application, please ensure to include names, addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers of three (3) referees. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis. |