Expanded Program on Immunization Officer

About The IRC

We are, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international Non-Governmental organizations, providing relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response

Job purpose

Under the joint supervision of Assosa based Health Manager, this position is a junior management that involves planning, management, monitoring & evaluation of immunization and surveillance activities under health programs of Belojiganfoiye woredas. The Officer will be based at Belojiganfoiye- Sogie town and will have frequent travel to health posts and health centers of both woredas. She/he will be responsible in planning and implementing, monitoring and evaluation of the programmatic activities. The position requires working with a government health workers; district health office team, Health centers, Health Extension workers (HEWs) and Health post nurses.

The officer is to coordinate Health activities for the projects of Core Group Polio- CGPP- that IRC agreed up on to conduct, budget Monitoring, sector reporting and for cordial and constructive coordination with the other actors in the sector, especially with health facility staffs, woreda Health office, and other partners working in assigned woredas.

Key Job functions/responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Technical

• Lead local Health programs in her/his assigned woreda by monitoring and mentor of routine immunization and diseases surveillance activities at health facilities and community levels, implementation of BCC strategy, coordinating workshops & trainings.
• Support woreda based government officers on community engagements activities.
• Make sure Health program falling in line with protocols, policies & guidelines and donor requirements.
• Provide technical assistance for government staff (HEWs, HP based nurses, and WoHOs program officers) to have quality program implementation.
• Draft monthly, quarterly and final reports of Health programs for review for submission to Addis TU by the health Mangers.
• Analyze monthly and quarterly report submitted by woreda health officers for data quality and presentation of data for use and she/he will handle to submit quality report to health manager.
• Program Management

Grant Management

• She/he is responsible in managing Health projects in her/ his assigned woredas.
• She/he is responsible to ensure all activities are implemented according to the work plan and that targets are met.

Budget Monitoring

• She/he is responsible to Monitor and appropriately spend the project budget.
• She/he is responsible for developing spending plan and procurement plans for the assigned project in his/ her assigned woreda and needs to monitor budget spending.
• She/he is responsible for quarter procurement and budget tracking follow ups.

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Oversee data collection and management by IRC staff and Maintenance of HMIS data.
• Prepare and submit monthly activity progress reports.
• Monitor and evaluate activities of Health within local communities for operations.
• Develop donor reports in collaboration with health Manager.
• Responsible to track monthly indicators report
• Participate in projectevaluation.
• Assure data quality and data audit.

Key Working Relationships

Internal

• Work with other IRC health officers based in woredas, Senior Health Officer and Health Manager for proper implementation of the project.

External

• Work with Kamashi ZHD, woreda health offices, Health centers staff, HEWs, HP based nurses and communities.