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Job Overview
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Date PostedJuly 19, 2024
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Location
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Expiration dateAugust 1, 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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OrganizationConcern Worldwide
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Required LanguagesEnglish, Krio
Job Description
Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies, including a Programme Participant Protection Policy and Child Safeguarding policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme, and partner organizations, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Code of Conduct & Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing these documents, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and all of its Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on Concern ensuring that the names of any new employee or volunteer do not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List). Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will be made pending a clearance check being conducted on the applicant and satisfactory clearance. For additional information, please consult our web site or contact the Human Resource Division in our Head Office. Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
Concern Worldwide has been operational in Sierra Leone since 1996. We currently operates in the Districts of Western Area Urban (Freetown), Western Area Rural, Tonkolili, Kambia and Port Loko – as well as remotely in, Koinadugu, Falaba, Bombali and Karene.
On this note, Concern would like to invite well experienced and professional applicants for the under mentioned role:
01. Job Title | Health Programme Coordinator |
Reports to: | Programme Director (PD) |
Direct reports: | Health Project Coordinators and Managers (2 presently). |
Liaises with: |
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Job Location: | Freetown, with frequent travel to the other districts where Concern works. |
Start Date: | September 2024 |
Contract Details: | 2 years |
Job Purpose: | This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the significant growth of Concern’s Health Programme in Sierra Leone, in partnership with key line ministries and (I)NGO partners. You will provide leadership and management to the health sector, and technical support to ensure Concern is delivering high quality, relevant, impactful and accountable programming that targets hard to reach, underserved communities living in conditions of extreme poverty. This includes oversight of Concern’s existing health portfolio which takes an integrated and system strengthening approach across 4 pillars: (i) Community Health Seeking and Health Systems (including Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health (ASRH) and Nutrition, in close collaboration with the livelihoods sector); (ii) Formal Health System Strengthening (at district and national levels); (iii) Disease Prevention (including vaccination programming); and (iv) Humanitarian response – technical support to the Emergency Coordinator on health related emergency preparedness and response. All pillars are underpinned by gender and equality, protection, climate and environment, disaster risk reduction and conflict sensitivity. You will also play a key role in positioning Concern towards new funding opportunities in Sierra Leone and developing high quality proposals. You will be responsible to maintain and build strong relationships with donors, partners and the Sierra Leonean government – relevant line ministries.
Concern has been awarded the FCDO-funded Saving Lives in Sierra Leone 3 (SLiSL3) as consortium lead, which is an exciting new flagship programme for Concern, under the leadership of Consortium Coordination Unit (CCU) and of significant importance for Sierra Leone. The health coordinator, however, plays a key role in ensuring quality and timely delivery of SLiSL3 in Concern districts. You will be based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with frequent travel to the other districts where Concern works. |
Main duties &
Responsibilities: |
Programme Leadership and Development:
Programme integration and partnership development
Proposal Development, Grants and Financial Management
Human resource management and development
Monitoring, evaluation and learning, Innovation
Accountability In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):
Visibility
Staff health and wellbeing
General
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Person specification: | Education
Experience
We also value the following special skills and aptitudes:
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Emergency response | Concern is committed to responding to emergencies efficiently and effectively in order to help affected people meet their basic needs, alleviate suffering and maintain their dignity. To this end, when emergencies strike and Sierra Leone Programme is to respond, all staff are required to actively participate in the response, regardless of location and contribute to the efforts aimed at achieving the humanitarian objective of the organization |
HIV & AIDS | Concern Sierra Leone is committed to respond to HIV & AIDS and to a supportive working environment for those infected or affected. Each staff member is required to contribute to achieving this commitment by:
Sharing information with colleagues and avoiding stigma and discrimination. |
Gender Equality | Concern Worldwide in Sierra Leone recognizes that the establishment of equality of opportunity between men and women is fundamental to both the achievement of fairness and to poverty elimination.
Therefore, each staff member of Concern is expected to be sensitive to equality issues in their relationships with colleagues and in their work and to participate in implementation of gender mainstreaming plans, both at the workplace and in programmes. |
Safeguarding at Concern: Code of Conduct and its Associated Policies
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking. |
HOW TO APPLY
All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date.
CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length.
Closing date for receipt of applications for the above vacancy is 17.00 on Thursday 1st August 2024
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
PLEASE NOTE THAT A COPY OF THE APPLICATION LETTER (written or typed) MUST BE SENT TO THE NGO DESK OFFICER, MINISTRY OF LABOUR & SOCIAL, NEW ENGLAND OR EMAILED TO Email: employmentdesk71@gmail.com
“FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY”