Health Consultant
About The Position
The consultant will support the implementation and monitoring of health interventions under the Public Health Unit (PHU). The consultancy will contribute to strengthening access to essential health services, improving the quality and continuity of supported health interventions, and enhancing community-based public health preparedness, surveillance, screening, outreach, and response activities. The consultant will support the effective implementation, tracking, and quality assurance of healthcare services and community-based interventions, ensuring timely delivery and appropriate follow-up. The role will also contribute to evidence-based decision-making, strengthened programme performance, and compliance with IOM standards and donor requirements. The consultant will be contributing to the Programmes/ Public Health Unit.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Epidemiology, Health Information Systems, or a related field
- At least three to five years of relevant experience in public health programmes, health system support, disease surveillance, or health project coordination.
- Strong coordination and organizational skills.
- Good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong reporting and data-management skills.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
Nice To Haves
- Prior work experience with international humanitarian organizations, non-government or government institutions/organizations in a multi-cultural setting is an advantage.
- Experience in community engagement interventions is an advantage.
Responsibilities
- A coordination, implementation, monitoring, and follow-up plan for assigned PHU interventions, including Community-Based Event Surveillance (CBES) and other community- and facility-based health activities, as applicable.
- Monthly progress reports on supported PHU interventions, summarizing implementation status, beneficiary reach, service utilization, referral pathways and outcomes, surveillance and outreach activities, key achievements, challenges, and recommendations.
- Coordination records and follow-up reports on supported healthcare interventions, including eligibility verification, case review, approvals, referrals, case management, continuity of care, and coordination with healthcare providers and relevant stakeholders, as applicable.
- Consolidated and verified programme data, databases, and monitoring records for supported PHU interventions, ensuring data quality, completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely reporting in accordance with IOM reporting requirements.
- Monitoring reports on community-based activities, including CBES, health screening, outreach, health promotion, community engagement, referral mechanisms, and public health response activities, as requested.
- Training, orientation and briefing materials for field teams and implementing partners, including attendance records, training reports, and supportive supervision or field monitoring reports, as applicable.
- Coordination records, action trackers, and follow-up reports with field teams and other relevant stakeholders, as required.
- Technical inputs to programme planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and quality improvement processes, including the development of tools, trackers, standard operating procedures (SOPs), guidance notes, and other programme documents, as requested.
- A final consultancy report summarizing activities implemented, outputs achieved, key findings, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations to strengthen the design, implementation, monitoring, and quality of PHU-supported interventions.
Benefits
- IOM covers Consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under the Compensation Plan (CP), free of charge, for the duration of the consultancy.
