Commitment: Preferred January 1, 2013 start date for a 12 month tenure, including reasonable vacation time, with possibility of renewal
Location: Southeast Liberia
Compensation: FHW Manager provided with housing and a modest stipend. Flights, visas, and other related travel costs will also be covered.
Apply: Applications are being accepted on an immediate rolling basis until the position is filled.
Tiyatien Health is seeking a FHW Manager to be based at Tiyatien Health’s Konobo flagship project for 9-12 months with possible renewal. Compensation is negotiable, but Tiyatien Health will certainly provide housing and basic living stipend, in addition to covering travel, visa, and medication costs.
About Tiyatien Health
Africa faces a shortage of 1.5 million health workers. The continent suffers 33% of the world’s maternal and child disease, yet has only 3% of the global health workforce. Nowhere is the crisis worse than in rural areas of Liberia, which was left with just 51 doctors after its 14-year civil war. Today, people in remote villages of southeastern Liberia have to walk up to 17 hours to reach a clinic.
Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Tiyatien Health is a start-up NGO that is redefining how post-conflict nations rebuild rural public health services. Filling the massive health worker shortage in rural post-conflict areas, we recruit and train villagers to serve as frontline health workers, delivering comprehensive home-based medical and social services in villages previously thought unreachable.
We are growing quickly. Our initial cadre of frontline health workers delivers more than 2,000 home patients a month and has made HIV, epilepsy, and depression treatment available for a rural population of 23,000 people. This year, TH will be expanding our services to a population of 34,000 people in Liberia’s remote Konobo District.
Tiyatien Health closely partners with the Liberian Ministry of Health, Partners In Health, Clinton Global Initiative, and Harvard Medical School, amongst others. Our frontline health worker model has been recognized by Echoing Green, PopTech, and the Mulago Foundation.
Overview –FHW Manager
In July 2012, Tiyatien launched
an innovative pilot project in Konobo, one of the poorest, most remote districts in Liberia, aimed at significantly reducing maternal and child mortality through the use of a Frontline Health Worker (FHW) program and a set of clinical quality improvement initiatives at the Konobo Health Center. The FHW Manager will lead the implementation of the FHW program, including the recruitment, training, management/supervision, and support of villagers to serve as FHWs for a defined catchment population. The work of the FHW Manager will be critical to the success of the Konobo pilot as a whole.
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Tasks & Responsibilities:
1. Work closely with Medical Director and Executive Director to set the vision for the future of Frontline Health Worker program.
2. Oversee program resources and budget in conjunction with Finance and Logistics department.
3. Work with FHW Leaders to recruit, assess, and hire new FHWs, as needed. Terminate employment, with due reason, of any FHWs who are not performing their duty safely, accurately and in a timely fashion.
4. Work with the curriculum team to develop and revise Frontline Health Worker (FHW) curriculum
5. Work with M&E team to oversee and innovate around data collection and surveying, as needed. Analyze summary statistics to help guide implementation.
6. Organize and lead weekly ongoing training for full-time accompaniers to integrate new primary health care services into accompaniers’ roles and responsibilities.
7. Attend FHW Leader meeting every week to discuss management issues and prepare for trainings.
8. Attend monthly staff meetings.
9. Perform other duties as requested by the Medical Director.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, preferred Master’s degree in public health or epidemiology
• Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks at one time
• Strong communication, leadership and diplomacy skills
• Experience in training and/workshop facilitation and development
• Ability to work independently while being a strong team player
• Commitment to health and social justice
• Fluency in French an advantage
• Experience working in resource-poor settings preferred
• Public health experience preferred
• Program management experience preferred
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Personal Attributes:
• A deep commitment to serving the poor
• Ability to live comfortably in austere, challenging environments
• Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to advance projects under own initiative
• Patience, humor, and compassion
• Passion for gardening, cooking, or running are a plus
How to apply
Application process:
Please submit a curriculum vitae (C.V.) and cover letter via http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/tiyatienhealth/
What happens after submission?
Your submission will be responded to within 4 days, and if the application is advanced, we will ask for two references and an interview in-person or over skype.
Application Deadline: September 12, 2012