Position: Technical Manager (Rapid Recruitment) – PRF-2407-01002-1489

Job Location: Gaziantep, Turkey

Reporting to: Senior Programs Manager

Working area: Gaziantep, Turkey

Number of positions open: 1

Last date for application: August 5, 2024

Summary of the position

The Technical Manager for Health, Nutrition, MHPSS, and Protection will provide strategic leadership, direction, and advisory oversight to programs related to health, nutrition, mental health, and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and protection. This role involves working closely with the Health and Nutrition technical staff, as well as the MHPSS/Protection technical staff, both in Turkey and Syria to ensure effective program implementation, quality assurance, capacity building, and coordination with relevant stakeholders including the MEAL department and the program implementation team. The Technical Manager will need to allocate appropriate working hours of his/her time amongst the 4 themes as required according to the workload.

Key relationships:

Grant, Syria Office Manager, MEAL, IMU, Field Offices, Finance Manager, Procurement, Logistics, Projects Managers.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

General responsibilities:

• Oversee the technical guidelines continuous developing and provide the tools to enable the process of monitoring the implementation of those guidelines.
• Engage in the project implementation with the Project Managers effectively.
• Engage with the main stakeholders in Turkey (Clusters, UN agencies, Technical Working Groups, and any other required engagement)
• Oversee the field reports from the MEAL and Field officers to rectify any issues.
• Submit the internal and external reports in a timely manner respecting the deadlines.
• Participate actively in the proposal writing and project amendments.
• Any other relevant task assigned by the line manager.

Health and Nutrition:

• Monitor the health and nutrition landscape to identify potential risks, outbreaks, and changes in community health and nutritional status.
• Strengthen the monitoring and reporting system for health and nutrition activities, working closely with the MEAL department.
• Collaborate with the MEAL department to select appropriate indicators and tools for monitoring health and nutrition programs.
• Review and provide input on health and nutrition reports to enhance program quality, including assessments, design documents, monitoring, and evaluation reports.
• Utilize monitoring and evaluation data to advise operational improvements in health and nutrition programs.
• Ensure compliance with organizational and donor standards in the implementation and management of health and nutrition initiatives.
• Contribute to writing project proposals by ensuring that the quality benchmarks are being explained and illustrated to enrich the quality of the proposals and increase the success rate of the proposals submitted.
• Setting/revising the guidelines to ensure that the quality standards are being followed and implemented, ensuring issuing reports reflect the practices, and rectifying any gaps by issuing correction plans.
• Ensure the support is provided to any procurement process that requires technical expertise to evaluate the offers as per SAMS policies.
• Strengthen the quality control process to ensure quality services are being provided to beneficiaries.
• Ensure that the organization is represented in all relevant clusters and technical working groups.

MHPSS and Protection:

• Provide strategic support and leadership for the MHPSS and protection programs in Northwest Syria and Türkiye.
• Develop and implement capacity-building plans for MHPSS and protection teams, collaborating with relevant technical groups and clusters.
• Support education initiatives focused on mental health and psychosocial support, and facilitate coordination with partners.
• Lead the supervision and professional development of MHPSS and protection program staff, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, MH Gap doctors, PSWs, Protection and GBV case workers.
• Provide strategic oversight for general protection programs, child protection, and gender-based violence, ensuring alignment and implementation.
• Ensure the provision of inputs on MHPSS and Protection reports to enhance program quality, including assessments, design documents, monitoring, and evaluation reports.
• Ensure that the organization is represented in all relevant clusters and technical working groups.

Representation:

Represent SAMS in all relevant fora in relation to the position duties, e.g. Clusters, UNOCHA, NGOs, donors.

Office culture:

Promote and model a positive, professional, and respectful office culture.

THE CANDIDATE’S REQUIREMENTS

Mandatory Qualifications required:

• University degree in Medicine.
• A minimum of 1 year’s experience in Medical and Health Services Managers position is mandatory.
• Relevant experience in NW Syria context of at least 1 year is mandatory
• Two years of relevant experience as a Clinical practitioner (e.g. GP, Internist, Pediatrician or other specialties) is desirable

Competencies:

• Scientific Background
• Quality Monitoring of Services
• Development of Scientific protocols/guidelines
• Providing technical support for training Providing technical support for ongoing projects
• Providing technical input for proposals
• Clusters/TWGs
• Developing ToRs
• Health Planning
• Data Analysis

Languages:

• Fluent written and spoken in Arabic (mother tongue )
• Advanced written and spoken English