International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
International Medical Corps is responding to the humanitarian crisis in West Africa.
International Medical Corps is seeking a Training Coordinator who has a strong background in management of design and delivery of training initiatives to work in Guinea to assist with the day to day operations of the training center.
SCOPE OF WORK:
Under the direction of the Training Director, the Training Coordinator will assume the following roles and responsibilities:
• Coordinate application process for trainees coming to the training center
• Manage daily assignments of students and matching with pre-ceptors for the “hot zone” training component
• Develop and train staff on checklists for monitoring student performance;
• Develop and manage database for students;
• Organize all data regarding performance of trainees and recommendations provided by International Medical Corps trainers;
• Track students graduating from program to determine percentage of participants who work in the Ebola response post training;
• Support the development of concepts and proposals for Ebola training initiatives;
• Represent IMC in relevant working groups and task forces and share information regarding the training center;
• Process requests for mobile support team (MST) support to agencies setting up an ETU;
• Participate as requested in relevant meetings related to training initiatives by response organizations such as MSF, Save, IFRC, CDC, and USAID OFDA /USAID Global Health.
• Conduct after action reviews for the training programs and facilitate the process at field sites.
• Travel to training program sites to lead after action reviews and documentation;
• Write final training reports based on the after action review and ensure a lessons learned event for each training program in country.
Qualifications:
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Graduate of Public health/international health or related degree
• At least 5 years of public health field experience in developing countries;
• At least 3 years’ experience in design and delivery of training programs in the field;
• Focus is primarily on West Africa and willingness to travel in the region is essential;
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral;
• Excellent team player
• French speaking skills are required.
HOW TO APPLY:
How to apply:
To officially begin the application process, qualified candidates please go to our career pagehttp://careers.internationalmedicalcorps.org/careers.aspx , noting where you noticed the position you are applying for and complete the online employment application form.
