Implementation Coordinator

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION COORDINATOR FOR COMMUNITIES HEALTHY HEARTHS PROJECT, VIETNAM COUNTRY PROGRAM

Title: Implementation Coordinator
Location: Hochiminh, Vietnam
Division: Global Health Programs

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health. Working in Vietnam since the early 1980s, PATH established a permanent office in Hanoi in 1997.

The Vietnam country office is committed to responding to a broad range of community health needs in Vietnam. This includes reproductive, maternal, and child health, TB, HIV, vaccines and immunization, emerging and epidemic diseases, and health technologies. To achieve impact, PATH Vietnam works across the public and private sectors and focuses on sustainable, system-level changes.

PATH is implementing “Communities for Healthy Hearts” to improve hypertension management and control in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). The Communities for Healthy Hearts (CH2) project is an innovative healthcare delivery model designed to improve hypertension management and control, which focuses on Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), home to the largest urban population in Vietnam. CH2 is implemented in four districts, which cover a population of approximately 2 million people.

CH2 aims to improve blood pressure control and health outcomes of adults living in urban settings in Vietnam by:

1. Increasing awareness of hypertension and demand for screening and treatment among adults.
2. Increasing availability of hypertension screening and referral services.
3. Increasing availability of hypertension services reflecting the full continuum of patient-centered care in public and private facilities.
4. Reducing loss to follow-up by strengthening referral systems, increasing patient contact, and empowering patients.
5. Enabling country-level decision-makers to use project evidence to sustain and scale hypertension services.

PATH is seeking a HCMC based Implementation Coordinator to coordinate, oversee and provide assistance for the project implementation in the field.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under supervision of the Project Director, the Implementation Coordinator provides oversight, coordination and assistance for the project implementation and operations ensuring timeliness and efficiency in planning, delivery, distribution, documentation and reporting all activities related in the field. Specifically, S/he will:

1. Field Implementation planning

  • Contribute to development of annual work plans; and work closely with CH2 team members, local partners, stakeholders to ensure the project work-plan updated throughout the year reflecting project changes, and evolution.
  • Work with the team members, project director and local counter-parts to develop monthly activity implementation plans based on the annual plan, and then facilitate their implementation in the field.
  • Maintain team calendar to ensure everyone is up-to-date on key activities.
  • Liaise and coordinate with local authorities, government agencies, partner agencies and other stakeholders to address issues related to program implementation in assigned communes/districts

2. Field implementation:

  • Develop and maintain an effective coordination with key local stakeholders and partners, including provincial, district, commune health partners, and local authorities regarding project planning and implementation activities.
  • Draft the correspondences to the local partners to facilitate the administrative work and field implementation
  • Liaise and coordinate with local authorities, health partners and other stakeholders to address issues related to field implementation and represent the project in appropriate events, meetings, trainings etc. at commune and district levels.
  • Work side-by-side with local district and commune implementers to organize hypertension screening and outreach activities
  • Coordinate training and monitoring of community collaborators/case managers and blood pressure checkpoints, including monthly supportive supervision visits to observe the performance of community collaborator case managers and checkpoints against standard operating procedures.
  • Assists with developing clinical supportive supervision schedule, lining up clinicians to provide the supportive supervision as per scheduled and compiling results from these visits.
  • Support and coordinate the implementation the DQA and QA implementations in the field. (Data quality assusrance and quality assurance)
  • Support organization of project technical working group and project steering committee
  • Participate and prepare meeting minutes for coordination meetings with government officials and local partners and timely submit those to the Project Directors

3. Field monitoring and reporting:

  • Prepare monthly reports on work achieved compared to monthly plan
  • With assistance/guidance of the M&E Officer, maintain monthly data collection reports from the local partners and supervise the quality of data collected in the field; and to prepare monthly data report to share with PATH management and donor
  • Ensure timely preparation and submission of all internal reports (program implementation, financial and M&E) as required.
  • Identify potential and existing challenges during implementation through continuous coordinating, monitoring of program activities in the field; keep informed and facilitate dialogue to address problem solving to these issues and ensure smooth implementation of the program.
  • Document the challenges and lessons learned during the field implementations
  • Acts as liaison with project administrator (PADMs) and other project staff to gather key quarterly milestones for donor reporting
    Coordinate inputs for the semi-annual and annual report together with the Hanoi
    Communications Officer and Project Director

Required Skills and Experiences

  • Bachelor in Public Health, Administration, Social Science, Human Resources Management or related field
  • Having at least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in NGOs project implementation and activity coordination
  • Having activity planning and coordination skills
  • Understanding of the Vietnam healthcare system and implementation of public health programs in both healthcare/hospitals and community settings an asset.
  • Understanding of community mobilization approaches in Vietnam context preferred
  • Prioritizing and managing multiple tasks simultaneously, and follow through on issues in a timely manner
  • Strong knowledge of MS Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Strong communication skills, including writing, listening, explaining and presenting.

PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.

PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment.

PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

TO APPLY: Please submit an application through our website: https://bit.ly/2JsA285

Job Details
Organisation Name: 
PATH
Location: 
Ho Chi Minh
Application Deadline: 
Tue, 2018-07-10