IOM Mission in Myanmar – Yangon 318‐A, Ahlone Road, Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmar E‐mail: [email protected] • Website: http://www.iom.int Tel: +95‐1‐210588 • Fax extension 5010
Vacancy
Announcement
(SVNMM099)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Yangon, a Geneva‐based international organization with over 150 offices world‐wide, is seeking qualified professionals to join the IOM offices in Kyaikmaraw, Bogalay, Mawlamyinegyun, Buthidaung Townships, Myanmar.
VA No. Position Title No. of
position Duty Station
VA/15/182 Township Community Project
Assistant (TB/HIV) 1 Kyaikmaraw Township, Mon State
VA/15/183 Logistics Clerk 1 Bogalay Township, Ayeyarwaddy
Region VA/15/184 Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Promoter 2 Mawlamyinegyun Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region VA/15/185
(Re‐announce) Field Project Coordinator 1 Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State
*Remark: Above vacancies are for Special Short‐Term contracts.* Interested candidates are invited to submit an application letter and an updated CV with a maximum length of 3 pages including names and contact details of 3 referees (copies of certificates and further documents are not required at this stage) to below address; International Organization for Migration (IOM) Mission in Myanmar – Yangon Office 318‐A, Ahlone Road, Dagon Township, Yangon, Myanmar Tel Land Line : +95‐1‐210 588, +95‐1 230 1960~2 Tel CDMA : 09 7323 6679, 09 7323 6680 Fax : + 95‐1‐210588 (Ext: 5010) Email : [email protected] (OR) International Organization for Migration (Mawlamyine Sub office) Attention: Admin /Finance Assistant No.65, Upper Main Road Mayangone Township, Mawlamyine, Mon State Phone: 09 731 40217, 09 731 40218, 057 22717 (OR)
IOM Mission in Myanmar – Yangon International Organization for Migration (Bogalay Sub Office) Attention: Admin /Finance Assistant No.140, Bo Tayza Street, Ward 1, Bogalay Township, Ayeyarwaddy Division, Myanmar Tel: +95 9 732 10 412 (OR) International Organization for Migration (Mawlamyinegyun Sub Office) Attention: Admin /Finance Assistant No.2, (11) Road, Ward‐4, Mawlamyinegyun Township Phone: 09 732 38 412, 09 732 16 974 (OR) International Organization for Migration (Sittwe Sub office) Attention: Admin /Finance Assistant Pyi Taw Thar Ward, Lan Ma Gyi Road (23), Sittwe Township, Rakhine State Tel: +95 9 254 401 725 Application deadline: 25 December 2015 (Friday). Note that the cover letter should clearly state the title of the position that is applied for. Only short‐listed candidates will be contacted.
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I.POSITION INFORMATION Vacancy Announcement Position title Position grade Duty stationSVN (internal and external)
Township Community Project Assistant (TB/HIV)
Kyaikmaraw Township, Mon State
Seniority band: Job family: Organizational unit: Position number Position rated ¨ Subject to rotation V Migration Health
Migration Health Unit
Reporting directly to Assistant Project Manager (Social Mobilization)
Overall supervision by Head of sub‐office
Managerial responsibility
Directly reporting staff
II.ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT AND SCOPE
IOM is committed to the principle that safe and orderly migration is a benefit to migrants
and society, and is essential for achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. As a
global intergovernmental organization, IOM supports governments to effectively manage
the various challenges related to migration, and also provides assistance to migrants. In
the health sector, this involves acting as a technical agency to address national priorities
and as an implementing agency which partners with government, communities, and
other agencies to strengthen health systems to meet the needs of hard‐to‐reach mobile
populations, migrants, and their local host communities.
Within the context of promoting safer migration, IOM’s Eastern Myanmar Health
Programme comprises several projects that extend the reach of government health
systems to locations which host internal migrants and are also transit, source, and return
communities for international migrants. IOM’s programme involves close partnership
with government counterparts and builds capacity of partners and migrant hosting
communities for health promotion, diagnostics, referral, treatment, and for extension of
service delivery to vulnerable groups. The comprehensive package addresses key health
challenges faced by migrants, including maternal and child health, tuberculosis,
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and in some locations primary care.
Under the overall supervision of Head of Sub‐Office and direct supervision of the
Assistant Project Manager (Mobilization), the incumbent will be responsible to work
mobility affected communities to identify their specific health vulnerabilities, in
awareness and resilience by developing specific prevention activities and support to
infected and affected patients and their families.
III.RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
a) Supporting communities of nine to ten villages to develop health promotion activities
using Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology.
Establish the Village Mobility Working Groups (VMWG) (one per village).
Facilitate community mobilization through regular interaction with Village
Mobility Working Groups (VMWG) and Community Action Volunteers (CAV).
Provide necessary assistance to CAV in their activities.
Facilitate ad‐hoc capacity building activities and identify initial and refresher
training needs for VMWG members and other key persons, as well as specific
groups in the community, according to needs expressed by the VMWG, by liaising
with APM (SM).
Together with other CPA, organize monthly reflection meetings with OHW to
share experiences and challenges on PAR activities in the townships.
Facilitate the development of community care and support fund proposals by
VMWG.
Assist APMs in preparing monthly work plan and plan for special performance
such as World TB day or World AIDS day activities.
Document the PAR process, record and report as requested on programme
process and on any findings relevant to the project.
b) Assisting the recruitment and training of Outreach Health Workers (OHW) and
Community Action Volunteers (CAV) in his/her project area.
Facilitate the recruitment process of OHW and at least two CAV per village in
his/her project area.
Transfer the knowledge of PAR methodology and basic knowledge and updated
information on three diseases to OHW and VMWG.
Identify and train CAV in condom demonstrations and health education etc.
c) Supervising the OHW in the area of diagnosis and treatment
Liaise with OHW to ensure communities have continued access to diagnosis,
treatment services for TB, and HIV/AIDS including hospital referrals of severely ill
patients in assigned geographic locations.
Supervise and support OHW in developing a network of sputum collection points,
transport of sputum specimens to increase the TB cases detection in his/her
project area.
Ensure all sputum positive patients received anti‐TB drugs from township/station
hospitals, TB teams and monitor DOTS completion to improve the TB treatment
successful rate.
Assist migrants and their family members to ensure receiving TB and HIV
medications without interruption when they move away from his/her project area
to reduce the TB / ART defaulter and treatment failure rate.
Ensure access to the VCCT services by migrants, mobile populations, returnees
and targeted communities in assigned geographic locations.
Facilitate to carry out CD4 count blood tests in collaboration with OHW and
APM‐Medical.
Assist APM‐Medical in identifying eligible People Living with HIV (PLHIV) to
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d) Supervising care and support services provided by OHW and VMWG.
Ensure the receiving support (transportation and / food allowances) for hospital
referrals of severe patients and diagnosis and treatment of patients with TB, and
opportunistic infections in the IOM/DOH health facilities.
Ensure access to Home‐Based Care services for PLHIV including nutritional
support, psychological support and counselling.
e) Facilitating the development of Self‐Help Groups (SHG) and SHG activities in the
project areas.
Encourage PLHIV to establish SHG in assigned geographic locations.
Encourage SHG members to carry out regular meetings and improve/expand
networks with other SHG outside the project areas.
Facilitate the capacity building programmes initiated and supported by IOM and
/or through other positive group networks.
f) Data collection and Reporting
Submit monthly activity reports (quantitative and qualitative) to data base team.
Submit monthly financial report/claim which will be initially endorsed by APM
(SM) and Finance Assistant.
g) Monitoring and evaluation
Ensure the effective monitoring and evaluation of the programme in assigned
geographic locations.
Monitor the achievements of OHW through reflection meetings and monitoring
visits
Evaluate the performance of OHW through IOM evaluation form adjusted for
OHW biannually.
h) Public/private relations and communication
Assist the APM (SM) in organizing advocacy meetings with key persons in the
Townships /Villages.
Assist to conduct the bi‐annual VMWG cross‐visits (experience sharing meetings),
mid‐term and / or annual project evaluation workshops.
Develop and maintain good professional relationships with all health actors
through regular informal / formal meetings in the township level.
Establish and maintain regular formal and informal contacts with local
administrative, religious and educational authorities as well as other
implementing partners (INGO and NGO) in the township level, to explain the
program and receive feedback.
Uphold, explain, and defend the IOM principles, position and strategy in the
population local authorities and other partners in the township level.
Serve as IOM’s focal point in the designated Township in liaison with the local
authorities.
i) Other duties as may be assigned.
IV.COMPETENCIES
The incumbent is expected to demonstrate the following technical and behavioural
competencies
Behavioural
Accountability
Accepts and gives constructive criticism
Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies
Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs
Monitors own work to correct errors
Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings
Client Orientation
Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients
Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors,
governments, and project beneficiaries
Keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks
Continuous Learning
Contributes to colleagues' learning
Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills
Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas
Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area
Communication
Actively shares relevant information
Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and
procedures
Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience
Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience
Creativity and Initiative
Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services
Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones
Persuades others to consider new ideas
Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems
Leadership and Negotiation
Convinces others to share resources
Actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change
Presents goals as shared interests
Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitments
Performance Management
Provides constructive feedback to colleagues
Identifies ways for their staff to develop their abilities and careers
Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR
procedures
Holds directly reporting managers accountable for providing fair, accurate, timely,
and constructive staff evaluations
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Planning and Organizing
Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others
Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others Organizes and
documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
Identifies risks and makes contingency plans
Adjusts priorities and plans to achieve goals
Allocates appropriate times and resources for own work and that of team members
Professionalism
Masters subject matter related to responsibilities
Identifies issues, opportunities, and risks central to responsibilities
Incorporates gender‐related needs, perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal
gender participation
Persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress
Treats all colleagues with respect and dignity
Works effectively with people from different cultures by adapting to relevant
cultural contexts
Knowledgeable about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration solutions
Teamwork
Actively contributes to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment
Contributes to, and follows team objectives
Gives credit where credit is due
Seeks input and feedback from others
Delegates tasks and responsibilities as appropriate
Actively supports and implements final group decisions
Takes joint responsibility for team's work
Technological Awareness
Learns about developments in available technology
Proactively identifies and advocates for cost‐efficient technology solutions
Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to
appropriate work
Resource Mobilization
Establishes realistic resource requirements to meet IOM needs
Technical
Effectively applies knowledge of health issues in execution of responsibilities at
appropriate level
Maintains confidentiality and discretion in appropriate areas of work
V.EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Myanmar national.
University Degree
Three years professional working experience, development sector preferable.
Experience of community‐based work, using participatory methodologies would be a
Capacity to work independently; sensitivity to participatory approach, gender issues.
Personal commitment, efficiency and flexibility.
VI.LANGUAGES
Required
Speaking English and Myanmar Advantageous