Director of Public Health Under Statute at HUYE DISTRICT: (Deadline 31 May 2023)

Director of Public Health Under Statute at HUYE DISTRICT: (Deadline 31 May 2023)

Job description

– Coordinate the identification of the District’s health needs and priorities to facilitate an integrated planning, budgeting, resources mobilization, implementation, monitoring and evaluation reporting related to health at the Unit, Sector and health facilities levels, and instill the practice of knowledge management;
– Coordinate a multi-stakeholders’ elaboration of actionable strategies or plans meant to localize national policies and the District Council’s decisions pertaining to health and oversee their implementation;
– Coordinate the dissemination and monitor the implementation of national guidelines, protocols by health facilities and coordinate campaigns meant to raise local population’s awareness on community health including the benefits of community health insurance schemes;
– Maintain an updated consolidated database of health initiatives/interventions implemented within the District and work hand in hand with the Human Resource Unit in the elaboration of capacity building initiatives meant to address capacity gaps in the health sector at the District level;
– Serve as a member of the District Technical Coordination Committee and advise the institution on matters pertaining to health.