HRH Planning, Development and Innovation Specialist

 Job Description

1. Planning for health professional development 

• Foster quality undergraduate and postgraduate health professional teaching programs for public and private teaching institutions;
• Prepare overall strategic health professionals development plan in order to meet health sector needs;
• Plan, support and supervise site visits for health professional development;
•  Ensure the availability of medical professionals in the health education;
•  Initiate and sustain the role of health manager into the public sector health system
•  Assure Continuous Professional Development for all health professionals;

2. Initiate the development of strategies for health professional training 

•  Initiate the development of national policies on health professional education;
•  Initiate strategies and identify opportunities for sub- specialties and advancement of health professional skills
•  Put in place strategies to attract more student’s enrollment in health profession education;
•  Ensure the coordination of the medical internship;
•  Initiate best practices, reforms and innovations in health professional education
•  Initiate tools and procedures for selection, development, monitoring and evaluation for Health professional training;

3. Ensure implementation of health professional education and training 

• Follow- up the initiatives of public and private health professional education institutions
•  Promote quality research, research-based education and exchange programs;
• Keep an updated database of the health professionals in training and the workforce;
•  Enhance the implementation of health professional’s education and capacity development;

 Job Profile

Master’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Nursing, Midwifery, Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Global Health with 3 years of relevant working experience Or Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences with 5 years of relevant working experience.

Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required: 

•  Interpersonal skills and teamwork spirit; 
•  Ability to work independently with minimum supervision; 
•  Knowledge of internationally recognized standards for health educational processes; 
•  Accountability for administrative decisions; 
•  Decency and integrity.