Trocaire Horn & East Africa Regional Office (HEARO) Employment Opportunities

Trocaire Horn & East Africa Regional Office (HEARO) seeks to fill the under listed positions in its Somalia Country Programme, Trocaire is an Irish Catholic development organization, which works in solidarity with local development actors in over 30 countries throughout the developing world.

Trocaire worKs through local partners who implement programmes in the organisation's pnonty areas of Building Sustainable Livelihoods, Mobilising for Justice, Preparing & Responding to Emergencies, Responding to HtV/AIDS, Promoting Gender Equality and Demanding for Environmental Justice.

Trocaire Somalia programme currently implements a regional health programme, supporting three district hospitals, 5 health centres and 50 Health Posts in Gedo.

Finance Manager
Job Purpose:
To provide sound management of the financial resources entrusted with the Somalia Country Office and to ensure that there are effective procedures in place to facilitate internal controls and accountability of funds to all stakeholders including donors and local partners (DHBs & CECs).

The incumbent will report to the Somalia Country Representative.

Key duties and responsibilities
  • Ensuring adherence to quality financial stewardship, internal controls and promotion of good financial management practice and documentation throughout the country programme
  • Responsible for management of donor contracts and ensuring all donor requirements, policies and procedures are met across the programme.
  • Ensuring timely and accurate monthly management and quarterly donor financial reports are prepared and submitted in the correct formats.
  • Providing support in planning, preparation, monitoring and oversight of Somalia programme finance department and its annual budgets
Qualifications and attributes required
  • Possession of a Bachelors degree in Finance or accounting and full accountancy qualifications like CPA -K ,ACCA OR CIMA with a minimum of 5 years in a similar role
  • Extensive experience in financial management of international donor contracts, management accounting and setting up of internal control systems
  • Excellent knowledge of Quick Books or similar accounting management software
  • Strong analytical capabilities, communication skills and ability to prepare detailed informative financial reports
  • Ability to organize his/her work independently, prioritize, meet deadlines and multitask.
Health Programme Manager

Job Purpose:

Responsible for the day to day management of the Trocaire health programme in Somalia, This will include: planning and monitoring programme performance: managing programme staff; building capacity; liaison with community structures, managing budgets and supplies, monitoring and preparing narrative and financial reports for internal use and for donors.

The incumbent will report to the Country Representative

Key duties and responsibilities:
  • Providing supportive guidance, supervision and management support to the health programme coordinators and the District Health Management teams.
  • Management and supervision of all health promotion, prevention and curative aspects of the programme and overseeing the development of protocols and guidelines.
  • Working with District Health Boards and a variety of community groups and CBOs to strengthen and encourage effective community access, participation and representation in all programme activities
  • Responsible for the preparation of donor proposals and reports and monitoring of relevant components of the programme budget.
  • Ensuring effective use of health data collection tools through training and support, and the collation and sound epidemiological analysis of the health data collected to inform programme direction.
  • Ensuring maintenance of routine medial supplies and stocks for hospitals, outreach, health centres and health posts, including ordering systems and inventory control.
  • Advocating and negotiating with donors, UN and NGOs active in Somalia to improve collaboration and coherence of interventions.
Qualifications and attributes required
  • Medical Doctor/ Registered Nurse - midwife with minimum of 5 years senior health programme management experience, preferably with an NGO.
  • Masters Degree in Public Health.
  • Good personnel management skills with proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and deliver results.
  • Experience of managing programme in emergency and insecure environments
  • Ability to collate, manage and analysise epidemiological data providing high quality narrative and data reporting.
  • Experience of capacity development of health workers
  • Sound knowledge of programme cycle management and budgeting
Hospital Coordinator

Job Purpose:

Coordinating, supervising and providing technical support to three district hospitals. The incumbent will report to the Health Programme Manager

Key duties and responsibilities
  • Technical line mgt of Hospital Matrons and Medical Officer
  • Overall technical responsibility of service delivery in 3 hospitals and development of quality services including MCH
  • Participate in programme development and design with senior management team
  • Capacity building of hospital staff
  • Ensuring regular gathering and analysis and reporting of hospital data; weekly /monthly meetings with matrons/DHMTs to review data and hospital issues
  • Preparation high quality narrative and data reports
  • Preparation of drugs, supplies and equipment orders,
Qualifications and attributes required
  • Degree in a health field with a bias towards clinical services in hospital setting.
  • Minimum four years experience in managing a health programmes, preferably with an international NGO in conflict situations.
  • Strong report writing skills with ability to collate and analyse health information
  • Ability to work independently, lead and motivate staff to achieve programme results
  • Strong problem-solving skills, analytical skills, ability to work under pressure and good communication skills.
  • Experience in Somalia desirable
  • Computer literate
Health Programme Training Co-Ordinator

Job Purpose

Providing day to day management and coordination of all aspects of capacity building of Trocaire Somalia Health Programme and reporting on training activities The incumbent will report to the Health Programme Manager

Key duties and responsibilities
  • Overall responsibility for coordination, implementation and monitoring of all training activities for health programme; development of training plans, documentation and reporting
  • Developing assessment tools to evaluate baseline skills of different cadre(s) to be trained
  • Coordinating development of training curricula and other capacity building guidelines
  • Working with senior staff, DHBs, and DHMTs to establish resource centres in each district health zone
  • Identifying external institutions and expertise and facilitate them to support capacity building activities as appropriate.
Qualifications and attributes required
  • Degree in a health field with a bias towards clinical services.
  • Minimum four years experience in managing capacity building in health programmes, preferably with an international NGO.
  • Strong report writing skills with ability to collate and analyse information
  • Ability to work independently, lead and motivate staff to achieve programme results
  • Strong problem-solving skills, analytical skills, ability to work under pressure and good communication skills.
  • Computer literate
Health Management Information Officer

Job Purpose

Responsible for all health programme data entry and analysis including inventories

The incumbent will report to the Hospital Co-ordinator

Key duties and responsibilities
  • Overall responsibility for all data entry and analysis, including inventories
  • Development and maintenance of hard copy and electronic filing systems and databases for hospital and Public Health information.
  • Capacity building of data entry clerks
  • Work closely with Hospital and PHC coordinators towards regular analysis and use of data
Qualifications and attributes required
  • Degree in Information sciences or public health.
  • Minimum three years experience in managing health information, preferably with an NGO.
  • Strong report writing skills with ability to collate and analyse information
  • Strong problem-solving skills, analytical skills, ability to work under pressure and good communication skills.
  • Strong Computer knowledge and analytical skills
Terms & Conditions

All the successful candidates in the above positions will be given a One year contract with the possibility of extension, coupled with an attractive package.

Qualified Somali nationals who meet the criteria set herein are encouraged to apply for these positions.

If you meet the above requirements, please submit an application letter and an up to date CV not exceeding 3 pages to the Human Resourcese Officer P.O Box 66300-00800 Nairobi or via email to hr @ trocaire.or.ke no later than 11th of September 2009

Please include reliable day time telephone contacts and contact details of three referees.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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