Liason Officer
Please send your CV, cover letter and 2 references to “[email protected]” and mentioning the position title in the subject of your email.
The job vacancy will be closed once it is filled.
Main tasks and responsibilities:
- Support the referral of patients who require specialized/secondary medical treatment
- Collect pertinent information and provide appropriate actions for patients who are seeking emergency care
- Liaising and networking with partner organizations, public institutions (MoPH, PHCs, hospitals), UN agencies and health partners e.g. for referrals and medical services
- Filing, documentation, management and regular follow up with individual patients in informal tented settlements (ITS)
- Coordinate regularly with MMU field officers and doctors concerning referral cases
- Ensure proper and timely reporting to CC and flow of information (special case meetings, team briefings, diagnosis, lab test results, etc.) between the doctors, the referred patients and the CC
- Support the MMU in the assessment, registration and monitoring of patients
- Assist the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in assessment and evaluation of current and potential humedica ITS
- Act as field officer to MMU if support is needed
- Act as driver and/or translator for CC if necessary
- Assist in logistics and data filing
Conditions of engagement:
Starting: ASAP
Contract duration: one year with possibility of extension
Working hours: 8.30 – 5:00, half an hour lunch break
Post based in the humedica office in Zahle and Central Bekaa with occasional field visits
Minimum requirements:
Education and Experience
- Experience in working with NGOs
- Medical background is desired (nurse, pharmacist etc.)
- Strong knowledge of the established Lebanese Health System in cooperation with UNHCR and INGOs in Bekaa Valley
Languages
- Fluent Arabic and good English language is mandatory
Competencies
- Strong skills in communication, mediation and cooperation
- Good knowledge of the Lebanese referral system and ability to explain the referral processes in detail to patients if needed
- Experience in filling out and sending referral forms desired
- Results and quality oriented
- High motivation for challenging and complex task and good common sense
- Ability to cope with difficult security context
- Able to work as part of a team
- Able and willing to work in a multi-cultural environment
- Able and willing to work in harsh environments
- Flexibility and reliability
- Commitment to Code of Conduct and humedica Principles
NOTE:
Daleel Madani, the civil society network, serves as a platform for organisations to post their professional opportunities, but is not involved in the recruitment process. The hiring organisation is solely responsible for the job and candidate selection.
- Lebanon
- Beqaa