Primary Care, Contractors 64 views

About the Job

ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE:

For more than 43 million people, blindness is a daily reality; another 295 million suffer from moderate to severe vision impairment. 90% of these people live in low-and middle-income communities where access to eye care is limited and the challenges for those who can’t see are severe. But, there is hope: 80% of this burden is treatable or preventable. For example, 17 million blind people could be cured with a 10-minute cataract surgery. Millions more suffer from corneal blindness, which is often preventable or treatable. At the Cure Blindness Project, we believe avoidable blindness can – and must – be overcome. For more than 25 years, we have worked alongside a capable network of collaborators to help people around the world retain and regain their sight by developing high-quality, cost-effective eye care systems in underserved areas of the world. With the help of partners in more than 25 countries, Cure Blindness Project has provided more than 1.4 million sight-restoring surgeries and screened more than 14.5 million people to provide care and basic treatments. We’ve trained more than 19,500 eye health professionals, and have established 5 eye hospitals. There is more work left to do, but we can overcome the mountain of global blindness, together. Cure Blindness Project is expanding its team to meet new challenges, scale its work, and broaden its reach. We are seeking individuals who are passionate about changing lives and want to be a part of a team that works together to reach new heights. We want leaders who can aim high, make things happen, and are invested in building a positive team dynamic to bring the work to life.

VISION: We will be the catalyst to create a world in which no one is needlessly blind.

MISSION: We enable countries to end avoidable blindness by developing high quality, cost-effective eye care systems in underserved areas of the world so everyone everywhere can regain or retain their sight.

SCOPE OF WORK: Individual Contractors play a crucial role in managing the project activities and operations by working in close coordination with Primary Health Care Workers, Health Extension Workers, Health Centers, Primary Hospitals, Woreda Health Offices & Zonal Health Departments in Oromia and Sidama regions. HEWs play an extremely important role in creating awareness in the community about the prevention of eye diseases, timely intervention and early referral. The Health Workers (Nurse & Public Health Officers) from the Health Centers and Primary Hospitals will be trained to provide first level of eye care services for minor eye health problems. The Individual Contractors will serve as a crucial connection between the Primary Health Care worker and the Program Manager. The Individual Contractors will be responsible for driving the efforts of Health Workers in the right direction to achieve the desired results of the program. The Individual Contractors shall be responsible for managing the project activities in the project area by closely working with the government and other stakeholders.

ESSENTIAL CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Program Implementation
  • Coordinate and organize the training for Nurses & Public Health Officers
  • Work closely with Health Workers and provide technical support to ensure project awareness is created on a regular basis in the target communities.
  • Meet the Health center, Primary Hospital, Woreda Health Office and Zonal Health Department Officials and discuss the areas of support needed from them
  • Maintain a regular rhythm of business with Program Manager and proactively flag issues to Program Manager which need immediate attention
  • Provide training to the Health Extension Workers on community awareness and prevention
  • Provide updates on the program during the district health office meetings, during the Primary Health Care Unit review meetings, and health center meetings on a regular basis.
  • Identify gaps and work with Primary Care Program Manager to improve the situation
  • Visit the Health Centers and Primary Hospitals regularly to collect report, to discuss challenges and solutions
  • Visit the Primary Eye Care Units to identify the referred cases and to get feedback
  • Regularly participate in the local government meetings
  • Track and monitor regular project meetings, share status updates, and track the implementation of agreed actions.

Stakeholder Relations

  • Responsible for all the project activities in project areas.
  • Work closely with Nurses & Public Health Officers to identify project related issues and troubleshoot them in coordination with local stakeholders
  • Work closely with Zonal Health Department, District Health Office and Health Centre to achieve project goals
  • Locally take a lead and drive all field visits related to the program
  • Work in close collaboration with Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Eye Care Units, and other health facilities to ensure smooth implementation of referral chains
  • Identify gaps and work with Health Workers to improve and mitigate issues
  • Develop and lead plan for strengthening follow up for referred cases
  • Travel in the field on regular basis to see the status of project operations, identify and address the gaps
  • Regularly participate in the local meetings to discuss challenges, opportunities and to monitor the project status, to collect reports from the Health Workers.
  • Documentation & Reporting
  • Collect monthly report from health facilities
  • Prepare, analyze, and share monthly reports with the Program Manager
  • Ensure prevention program data quality and provide support to the health care workers if needed
  • Ensure online data entry from the health facilities are regularly updated in the program database
About You

Essential Skills

  • Ability to work in the field, interact with community health workers and patients passionately.
  • Excellent communication skills in the local languages of the regions are essential and English is desired.
  • Ability to work independently and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.
  • Good knowledge of MS office, Excell, and power point.

Personal Attributes

  • Diplomatic and culturally sensitive approach to working with diverse stakeholders
  • Detail-oriented with exceptional organizational skills
  • Adaptable and resilient in changing environments
  • Demonstrated commitment to healthcare access and quality improvement
  • Professional demeanor with ability to maintain confidentiality
  • High personal integrity and ethics
  • Self-motivated team player with desire and ability to learn rapidly.

Required Experience & Education

  • BSc in Ophthalmic Nursing/Optometry with minimum of 4 years of work experience or MPH/MSc with BSc in Ophthalmic Nursing/Optometry and 2 years of work experience.
  • NGO work experience is an advantage.

Additional qualifications include:

  • Excitement to join a nonprofit institution poised to expand global operations.
  • Outgoing personality can collaborate with a variety of personalities at all levels of the organization, building relationships and shared goals across departments and partner organizations.
  • A sense of discretion and a high degree of professionalism is required, ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information.
  • Demonstrates a highly professional and cooperative demeanor with supervisors, coworkers and partners.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
  • Detail oriented and able to efficiently prioritize tasks.
  • Flexibility to adjust and contribute to continually evolving work situations and changing priorities.
  • Excellent computer skills and technical aptitude, proficient with Google Workspace, MS Office, Asana (and other cloud-based software), MacOS, and experience with Apple hardware.
  • Committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion.

Physical requirements:

  • Based in Jimma & Hawassa with regular travel to woredas & health facilities
  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at a time.
Requirement Skill
Office suites (MS Office, iWork)
Adaptability
Communication
Patient care and assistance
Attention to detail
Technical proficiency
How To Apply

We invite qualified candidates to submit a resume and cover letter. Please send materials via email to: jobs@cureblindness.org

The Cure Blindness Project encourages applications from people of all races, religions, national origins, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and ages, as well as veterans and individuals with disabilities.

More Information

  • This job has expired!
Email Me Jobs Like These
Showing 1–0 of 0 jobs

Leave your thoughts

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Share this job
Company Information
Contact Us
https://justjobset.com/wp-content/themes/noo-jobmonster/framework/functions/noo-captcha.php?code=2ebc5