Overseas Emergency Health Programme Lead

Leadingnation; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Marriage leave

Medical and dental benefits

Employer MPF contribution

Discretionary incentive payment

Job summary

International & Relief Service (IRS) seeks a Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to lead a team, coordinate with Movement partners, and ensure effective overseas emergency health responses. The role requires planning, analysis of crises, and strong volunteer development across international health initiatives.

You will monitor humanitarian needs, mobilize resources, and ensure compliance with policies while building institutional capacity among volunteers and staff for high-impact

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in health-related disciplines; Master of Public Health or related discipline preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant post-graduation work experience, including at least 2 years at a managerial level within overseas humanitarian sectors.
• Experience in programme management and networking within the health sector (local and international).
• Experience in volunteer management and development, preferably for professional volunteers in health-related disciplines.
• Experience in disaster response or community health approaches.

Responsibilities

• Assist Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to lead a team of staff and collaborate with identified Movement partners to ensure effective and efficient health responses to emergencies.
• Monitor and analyze humanitarian crisis and disasters and make recommendations to mobilize resources, including personnel and funding, to respond to overseas emergencies.
• Coordinate and ensure compliance with policy, guidelines, and mechanisms related to volunteer management, retention and engagement, to achieve service quality and accountability through development of competent staff and volunteers.
• Plan and coordinate volunteer engagement plans to facilitate team building, experience consolidation and knowledge sharing within the Overseas Humanitarian Volunteer Service Unit.
• Coordinate the recruitment of professional volunteers in Overseas Emergency Health Service and ensure tailored briefing, training and development advice for volunteers to maintain desirable competencies.
• Coordinate development and organization of overseas emergency response trainings and build up institutional capacity of volunteers for overseas emergency and humanitarian works.
• Make recommendations for improving programme management systems and formulating operational plans for the Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to fulfill the operational strategies for overseas emergency health service.
• Coordinate internally and externally the execution of team’s plans to achieve relevancy to humanitarian needs and accountability to the public, donors and recipients.

Skills

Team leadership

Crisis analysis

Programme management

Networking

Volunteer coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in health-related disciplines

Master of Public Health or related discipline preferred

Job description

International & Relief Service (IRS) seeks a Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to lead a team, coordinate with Movement partners, and ensure effective overseas emergency health responses. The role requires planning, analysis of crises, and strong volunteer development across international health initiatives.

You will monitor humanitarian needs, mobilize resources, and ensure compliance with policies while building institutional capacity among volunteers and staff for high-impact