Wings of Healing started medical missions in Ethiopia 2011. We conducted 2 medical campaigns every year till 2015. Since then we carried more frequent campaigns. Up to July 2021, WOH carried out over 40 medical missions and performed over 2600 surgical procedures for pelvic organ prolapse and over 100 procedures for different types of gynaecological cancer. We focus on providing care in the rural areas where expertise and facilities are limited. WOH provides all the surgical material required and provided assistance for patients’ travel. During many campaigns, patients received as well food and clothes. We are currently focusing on training local doctors and nurses in Ethiopia to deliver the service in many parts of the country. We have provided cervical screening to over 10,000 women in Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charities and many local hospitals and Health Centres. This has prevented at least 3,000 cases of cervical cancer.

Responsibilities

Within delegated authority the project officer will be responsible for the following duties:

• Travels to the IDP clinics on a regular basis to follow the implementation of project activities and to maintain close relation /follow up/to clinic staff
• Control the supply of equipments & check the medication and medical supply stock out
• Support the health professionals assigned in the IDP clinics
• Asses and work with possible resource mobilization with WOH
• Identify and priorities major health issues regularly and communicate with relevant stakeholders
• Assist the project coordinator in doing base line assessment on the IDP centers and share with the headquarter
• Make sure all the clinical managements adhere with the national standard guideline and protocol
• Ensures that the project coordinator is fully up to date with regards to project activities and challenges through regular monitoring and reporting;
• Receive weekly reports from HEWS at weekly basis, cross check the completeness and accuracy and submit to project officer.
• Identifies training needs of health professionals
• Monitor project progress and activities of components, reviews reports and documents on the progress of joint programs identify bottle necks and recommends alternative management options to the country program manager/Country program Director/;
• Performs other duties and tasks at the request of the project coordinator
• Maintaining and Monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and also expenditures
• Organizing, attending, and participating in a stakeholder meeting with Organizations /GO’s and NGOs/ on behalf of WOH
• Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings, workshops, etc.
• Determining project changes like budget revisions are well done according to the budget time frame and activity and communicated to the project coordinator
• Developing project plans, and creating a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective
• Ensuring project adheres to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately and assessing project risks and issues and providing solutions where applicable
• Ensure stakeholder views are managed properly according to their policy and principles towards the best solution to the project aim and organization team

Job Requirement

• Bsc/Msc in nursing, health officer, midwife or any related medical field with a minimum of two years of experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong interpersonal skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other information processing software.
• Strong organizational skills, and ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Amharic

Place of work: Tigray, Ethiopia