Health Promotion Activity Manager – Ukraine – M/F

ALIMA PRESENTATION

ALIMA ETHOS: ALIMA’s purpose is to save lives and provide care for the most vulnerable populations, without any discrimination based on identity, religion or politics, through actions based on proximity, innovation, and the alliance of organizations and individuals. We act with humanity and impartiality in accordance with universal medical ethics. To gain access to patients, we undertake to act in a neutral and independent manner.

Our CHARTER defines the VALUES and PRINCIPLES of our action:

1. The patient First
2. Revolutionising humanitarian medicine
3. Responsibility and freedom
4. Improve the quality of our actions
5. To trust
6. Collective intelligence
7. Environmental responsibility

ALIMA promotes and defends the principles of fundamental human rights. ALIMA has a zero-tolerance approach towards people guilty of acts of gender-based and sexual violence as well as towards inaction in the face of alleged or proven acts of violence. The protection of those benefiting from and impacted by our intervention is our top priority in everything we do. Anyone collaborating with ALIMA agrees to:

• Respect the charter, the code of conduct, the institutional policies including the policy of protection against abuse of power and sexist and sexual violence, the policy of prevention of corruption and fraud;
• Report any violation of the policies, framework documents and procedures to a superior, a superior, a referent or a referent.

CARING – INNOVATING – TOGETHER:

Since its inception in 2009, ALIMA has treated more than 10 million patients and is now operating in 13 countries in Africa. In 2020, we have developed 67 humanitarian medical response projects to meet the needs of populations affected by conflict, epidemics and extreme poverty. All of these projects support national health authorities through 357 health facilities (including 45 hospitals and 312 health centers). We work in partnership, particularly with local NGOs, whenever possible to ensure that our patients benefit from expertise wherever it is available, whether in their country or in the rest of the world. In addition, to improve the humanitarian response, we conduct operational and clinical research projects, particularly in the areas of malnutrition and viral hemorrhagic fevers. ALIMA also conducts operations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in all our missions.

**THE ALIMA TEAM:**More than 2,000 people are currently working for ALIMA. The field teams, closest to the patients, receive their support from the coordination teams generally based in the capitals of the countries of intervention. These receive support from the 4 desk teams and the emergency and opening service team based at the operational headquarters in Dakar, Senegal. The Paris and New York teams are actively working on fundraising as well as representing ALIMA. The rest of the ALIMA Galaxy includes individuals and partner teams who work on behalf of other organizations such as medical NGOs BEFEN, Alerte Santé, SOS Médecins, KEOOGO, AMCP-SP, research organizations PAC-CI, Inserm , the Universities of Bordeaux or Copenhagen, the NGO Solidarités International and many others.

THE WORK WE DO: Primary and Secondary Health Care, with a main focus on children and women – including treatment and prevention of Acute Malnutrition, Maternal Health, Pediatric Care, Mental Health, response to Epidemics (Ebola, Cholera, Measles, Dengue, Lassa Fever), Surgery, Displaced Populations, and Gender-Based Violence, Covid-19

COUNTRIES WHERE WE WORK: Mali, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, South Sudan, Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan, Ethiopia and Ukraine.

ALIMA in UKRAINE

In Ukraine, ALIMA’s intervention is focused on the South of the country, to provide emergency primary health care and support to hospitals in the war zone of Mykolaiv Oblast and around. The main objective is to reduce the mortality and suffering among the population affected by the war in this area, through 4 axes:

• Reducing mortality and morbidity among the impacted population;
• Providing free access to primary health care and selected medical specialties;
• Providing free access to sexual and reproductive health care and mental health care;
• Ensuring continuity of secondary/tertiary health care and mass casualty plan preparation;

Mission Location: Mykolaiv Oblast & Kherson

FUNCTIONAL AND HIERARCHICAL LINKS

He/she reports to the Project Coordinator (line manager) and the MHPSS Coordinator in close connection with MTL and MedCo (functional manager)

He/she manages the community health workers supervisor

He/she collaborates with all other members of the mission

PROTECTION OF BENEFICIARIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Level 3: As part of his/her duties, the incumbent will visit programs and come into contact with children and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, a criminal record check or a certificate of good character will be required. In situations where a criminal record check or character reference is not possible, a declaration of honour will be requested.

General activity :

Assess, define, implement and supervise all the Health Promotion activities in the project area, by assessing knowledge of the target group on a health risk, promoting ALIMA services, including mental health services, increasing knowledge of the target population around their health, support of preventive activities and collaboration to improve the services, and managing the staff involved in the activity according to ALIMA protocols and values

Core task

• Analysis of the context (local culture, traditions, habits, health perception) to adapt health activities and support the social mapping (villages, populations, actors) ;
• Define and update the HP strategy and related activities through projects and budget plan (objectives, target population, campaigns, messages, activities, specific actions, etc.)
• Identify indicators in order to monitor HP activities results, achievement and use the concrete tools to measure and follow up those activities;
• Supervise the HP team and their activities, in and outside health facilities, reporting difficulties and progress as well as adapting format and content when necessary ;
• Assess, develop and adapt HP materials according to the needs of the project. Ensure content and format have been pre-tested with target groups in order to ensure the adequacy, relevance, full understanding of the messages ;
• Identify and liaise with other relevant actors (national and International NGO’s , authorities) also involved in prevention activities, analyzing interventions and building cooperative relationships and advocacy, in order to enhance the influence of the campaigns and messages and to improve awareness among the targeted population;
• Plan and supervise the HR associated processes (recruitment, training, evaluation, development and internal communication) of the HP staff of the project. This will be done in close coordination with the HR department, the administration manager and project coordinator and according to ALIMA vision, values and procedures;
• Ensure regular collaboration and coordination with the ALIMA medical team, to guarantee that the HP is part of medical activities and contribute to the medical objectives of the project.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Experiences:

• Essential, university degree in social sciences, social communication, health promotion or related studies.
• Experience in qualitative research is a plus
• Essential, working experience of in related jobs (health promotion, project coordination, social research),
• Computer literacy

Qualities of the candidate

• Professional rigor
• Competences : People Management, commitment, flexibility, results, teamwork.
• Diplomatic and interpersonal skills to be fully integrated into the coordination mechanism.
• Calm, excellent stress management and composure
• Very good communication and listening skills
• Ability to adapt
• Excellent ability to understand and follow medical procedures

Languages:

• English speaking, reading and writing is mandatory
• Ukrainian is an asset

CONDITIONS

Contract Term: CDD under French law of 3 months

Salary: depending on experience + Perdiem

Position to be filled: As Soon as Possible

ALIMA pays for:

• Travel costs between the expatriate’s country of origin and the mission location
• accommodation costs
• Medical cover from the first day of the contract to a month after the date of departure from the mission country for the employee and his/her family
• Evacuation of the employee.