Health Coordinator - EF Minya

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting the country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: The Health Coordinator will lead the implementation of community health activities in Elminya aimed at improving the health and well-being of vulnerable communities. This role involves hiring, training, and supervising Community Health Workers (CHWs), building the capacity of local NGO community health activities, and planning and implementing health awareness and screening sessions and events. This role involves coordinating with various health authorities and stakeholders to advocate for and implement health services, assess needs, and support infrastructure and capacity building in Elminya governorate.

The project is funded from Expertise France. The project duration is two years targeting 3 locations, Aswan, Elminya and Kafr Elsheikh. The PM will manage the component related to the project in Elminya governorate only.

Save the Children aims to strengthen Egypt’s primary health care system in line with the Universal Health Insurance rollout, ensuring equitable access for vulnerable groups including refugees, migrants, women, and persons with disabilities. The project focuses on improving service quality and inclusivity through health system strengthening, community engagement, and innovative delivery models. The project will be implemented over a 24-month period in Aswan, Kafr El Sheikh and in Minya governorates. All proposed activities will be implemented in all three governorates, except for those under Output 1.2, which will mainly target refugees and migrants residing in Aswan. Key priorities include training community health workers with standardized, nationally endorsed guidelines to ensure consistent, high-quality care, and expanding inclusive health awareness and primary care services provision to build trust and improve access for underserved populations. In addition, Save the Children will establish community health committees and lead community campaigns to foster participation, accountability, and health-seeking behaviours. SC will also pilot a model to include refugees and migrants within the national UHIS in Egypt.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reportsto: Health Officer

The team directlyreportingtothispost: NA

Field travel: Based in Elminya, with 70% travel to the field

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Project Implementation

• Collaborate with the Ministry of Health (MoH), Egyptian Health Authority (EHA), and NGOs to support primary care services operations.
• Coaching, mentoring and managing transition of clinics to selected local partners.
• Support local partners in establishing and maintaining primary healthcare services provision.
• Assess infrastructure, supplies, and capacity building needs of PHCs and hospitals in Elminya.
• Support the development of SOPs for cash for health interventions, determining eligibility, support amounts, and duration.
• Support the creation of internal SOPs for managing medical cases and referrals between projects in Elminya.
• Assess cases referred from the community to mobile clinics, secondary healthcare services focusing on those unable to access public services.
• Plan and implement cash for medical cases and health services reimbursement program and follow up to ensure service quality and risk mitigation.
• Identify, select, and support community members who can provide community health services.
• Support a health needs assessment for the target population in Elminya to ensure services are tailored to their needs.

· Co-train the community health workers and other stakeholders on health promotion methodologies and topics especially; Nutrition, NCDs, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health RMNCH

· Implement health and nutrition promotion sessions for refugees, migrants, and host communities.

Reporting and documentation

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all mobile clinics, public facilities needs assessments, and capacity building interventions.
• Prepare regular reports on project progress, challenges, and outcomes for internal and external stakeholders.

· Regular reporting to the Health Officer.

· Enter monthly data for service utilization in the project database.

· Record mobile clinics data and update the database. 

· Draft concise, useful, analytical reports, case studies, and other documents as needed.

· Participate in planning and developing future programming initiatives.

· Ensure that partner NGO is implementing the activities as planned promptly with high quality.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

· holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.

· holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

· sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.

· widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.

· future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

· builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.

· values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.

· approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

· develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.

· willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

· honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates the highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in medicine

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in implementing and supervising health services to vulnerable populations especially mobile clinics.
• Experience with refugee/marginalized communities.
• Previous experience in health system strengthening with similar projects and initiatives.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluency in Arabic (spoken and written) and good knowledge of English.
• Good report writing skills.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s values and Child Safeguarding.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and work ethic.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.