Job Description: Medical Coordinator, Sierra Leone

Reporting: To the Field Director

Role: Coordinating all medical matters on Freetown and Kenema projects. This includes:

 - Liasing with the Ministry of Health on programme planning and implementation, according to MoH guidelines.

 - Coordination and programme planning with the members of the GOAL health teams in Freetown and Kenema, ensuring that the programme is implemented in accordance with the donor proposals.

 - Responsibility for compiling monthly medical report and contributing to donor reports on medical programmes.

 - Direct management of medical teams in Freetown and Kenema, consisting of five expatriates and 50 national staff.

 - Liasing on programme planning with NGOs at national and regional level.

 - Managing a medical budget, ensuring that medical items are purchased at appropriate costs, quantities and within the budget timeframe in coordination with the GOAL accountant and field director.

 - Managing medical stores in Freetown and coordinating logistics for the Kenema programme with the GOAL logistician.

 - Compiling of medical orders for GOAL programmes, coordination of import and clearance in conjunction with GOAL Dublin and the Freetown logistician.

 - Liasing with donors on the medical aspect of programmes.

 - Contributing to the GOAL administration system in terms of overall staff management.

 - Representing the GOAL Field Director in his or her absence.

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