Project Coordinator at the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)

The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) is an independent humanitarian medical NGO that was created in 2009 by professionals of humanitarian medicine. ALIMA’s mission is to provide medical care in emergency situations or medical catastrophes.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Coordinator

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Report to (Direct & Functional): Head of Mission
Staff Reporting to him:  3

Mission and Main Activities

• The Project Coordinator is responsible for ALIMA’s operational response to the Project. In close collaboration with the mission coordination team, define and plan the project objectives and priorities, identify the population’s health and humanitarian needs, analyze the context and the humanitarian issues at stake, the risks and constraints and calculate human and financial needs.
• Coordinate, in close collaboration with the Head of Mission, its implementation in order to efficiently ensure the goals as well as to improve the targeted population’s health conditions and humanitarian situation.

Main Role

• Definition and strategic planning
• Program Implementation
  • Project management and monitoring
  • Representation
  • Management of material and financial resources
• Data analysis and reporting
• Team management and leadership
• Security analysis and management
• Implementation of preventive measures against abuse of power, gender-based and sexual violence

Experience and Skills
Training:

• You have a project Management qualification
• You have a medical degree/paramedical qualification or Master’s degree in public health / epidemiology.

Experience:

• You have experience in medical INGO in managing medical projects and supervising a multicultural team
• You demonstrate deep negotiation capacity and are able to develop and maintain an efficient network
• You like to develop strategic vision for new program and supporting a multidisciplinary team in encouraging teamwork

Languages skills:

• A strong command of both spoken and written English is essential for this position; French is an asset.

Conditions

• Duration and type of contract: contract under french law, 6 months, renewable
• Start date: ASAP
• Salary: According to the ALIMA salary scale + recognition of experience + Perdiem

ALIMA pays for:

• Travel expenses between the expatriate's country of origin and the place of assignment
• Accommodation costs
• Medical cover from the first day of the contract to one month after the date of departure from the country of assignment for the employee and his/her dependants
• Evacuation for the employee and his/her dependants

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.