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Job Title:   Emergency Medical Services Officer

Organisation: Enabel

Duty Station:  Fort Portal, Uganda

About US:

Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements the Belgian governmental cooperation. The agency also implements actions for other national and international donors. With its Belgian and international partners, Enabel provides solutions to address urgent global challenges: Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Social and Economic Inequalities and Global Citizenship. With 1,800 staff, Enabel manages about 150 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.

Job Summary:  The Emergency Medical Services Officer will develop & implement a model (based on the Mama Rescue model) of a comprehensive and timely community health referral system, Strengthen the capacity of the regional and district coordination of emergency referrals while ensuring functional and qualitative emergency units 24/7 at regional and district referral hospitals.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• You develop sustainable plan of action for Emergency Medical staff and services
• You sensitize the community on their role in supporting timely transfer to health facilities.
• You develop a financial sustainability model to finance early referral system at community level
• You establish an emergency referral system from lower-level facilities to higher level facilities, including a sustainable financing mechanism for the ambulance service
• You train health staff in to upgrade their technical skills.

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate must hold a Masters’ degree in medicine or paramedical profile or Public Health or related degree.
• Five years of experience as a Public Health Expert in the public sector and/or within an international organization
• A minimum of three years of proven experience and knowledge of Ugandan health systems especially at operational district level
• You have broad and in-depth understanding of the various aspects of international cooperation (context, challenges, strengths, partners, functioning, etc.)
• Understanding of the health sector dynamics, preferably related to access and quality of care and social determinants of health;
• Experiences with emergency care and referral system
• Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health
• Mastering methods of stakeholder participation
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative M&E methods.
• Competences in change management, learning and knowledge management;
• Clear and concise writing skills for reporting, administrative and technical documents;
• Communication, presentation and facilitation skills;
• Creative thinking and being pro-active i.e., taking initiatives and responsibility at the same time
• Good working knowledge of ICT technologies (related software, phone, email) and computer applications (e.g., MS Office).
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender sensitive and non-discriminatory behavior and attitudes
• Fluent in English, with excellent reporting skills.
• You commit to the vision, mission and values of Enabel: https://www.enabel.be/content/enabel-vision-mission-values.

NB: Only applications submitted via the above link will be considered. Qualified and experienced women are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply:

All candidates should submit their applications online at the link below(indicating your preferred duty location) with an updated CV (maximum 3 pages)

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Deadline: 10^th March 2023 by 11:59pm

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