Health Project Assistant
Qualifications of Health Project Assistant:
- Location: Cairo, Egypt
- Vacancy No: 16729
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: IOM International Organization for Migration
- Deadline: 9/24/2025
Brief details about Health Project Assistant:
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Information about the organization that has offered the job:
Responsibilities
1. Contribute to establishing and/or maintaining strong and regular contacts with Government entities, civil society organizations, UN agencies, donors and other stakeholders pertaining to the Medical Assistance projects and MHU programmes.
2. Assist in exploring and identifying new project opportunities related to the IOM Egypt Strategy, government and partners’ needs, donors’ priorities and migrants’ context and situation.
3. Support the coordination, planning and implementation of health projects’ activities with focus on health assistance provision to most vulnerable categories as victims of trafficking, children, and vulnerable migrants.
4. Keep abreast of best practices relating to health promotion and health service provision to vulnerable migrants.
5. Assist in monitoring and evaluating all project aspects, according to IOM standards & procedures as well as donor requirements/standards.
6. Monitor implementing partners as healthcare providers and referral partners.
7. Provide inputs to project reports and updates and assist in ensuring proper information exchange on all operational aspects of MHU projects between IOM, donors and other project counterparts.
8. Facilitate payments for health services provided through direct relationships with hospitals for effective admissions.
9. Support all administrative, operational, and logistical tasks related to training sessions, roundtables and events with beneficiaries, civil society organizations, embassies, and other relevant stakeholders, Writing related reports.
10. Participate at seminars, meetings and events aimed at promoting IOM’s image and activities.
11. Provide unofficial interpretation English-Arabic/Arabic-English at bilateral or multilateral meetings and other events (seminars, workshops, etc.); draft and translate documents (minutes, reports, notes for file, agenda, concept notes) when requested.
12. Support the development of new migration health projects and concept notes and following up with funding applications and donors.
13. Conducting health awareness sessions along with the migration health division team to vulnerable migrants on different health topics.
14. Perform such other duties as may be assigned including duty travels if required.
Qualifications
- Completed university degree from an accredited academic institution in Public health, Medicine, or related field with 3 years of experience
- Secondary degree with 5 years of experience
- Two years’ experience in organizing events, such as training, workshops, awareness raising
campaigns, etc. and producing pertaining documentation. - Sound knowledge of Humanitarian Medical assistance is an advantage.
- Sound knowledge of healthcare, financial and administrative management is an advantage.
- Experience in IOM administrative and financial management, budget monitoring, cash management and internal control procedures.
- Experience in the usage of office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and knowledge of spreadsheet and data analysis.
- In depth knowledge of the broad range of migration related subject areas dealt with by the Organization; and
- Knowledge of UN and bilateral donor programming.
- Knowledge of project management.
- For all applicants, fluency in English and Arabic is required (oral and written).
- Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
- Integrity and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
- Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
- Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
- Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.
- Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
- Delivering results: Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
- Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
- Accountability: Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
- Communication: Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.
- Any offer made to the candidate in relation to this vacancy notice is subject to funding confirmation.
- This selection process may be used to staff similar positions in various duty stations. Recommended candidates will remain eligible to be appointed in a similar position for a period of 24 months.
- This post is subject to local recruitment. Only those holding a valid residence and work permit for the country where this position is based will be eligible for consideration.
- Appointment will be subject to certification that the candidate is medically fit for appointment, verification of residency, visa, and authorizations by the concerned Government, where applicable.
- IOM has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and IOM, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities.
- IOM does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, processing, training or other fee). IOM does not request any information related to bank accounts.
- IOM only accepts duly completed applications submitted through the IOM online recruitment system. The online tool also allows candidates to track the status of their application.