Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health & Field Personnel)

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

• Assist to lead a team of staff and collaborate with identified Movement partners
• Monitor and analyze humanitarian crisis and disasters and make recommendation
• 5 years’ relevant experience, preferable in programme management and networking

Job Purpose:

The core purpose of this role is to support the service of Overseas Emergency Health including emergency response and humanitarian health programmes of International & Relief Service (IRS). S/he works under the supervision of the Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to coordinate internally and externally the execution of plans related to overseas emergency health responses and humanitarian health initiatives with partners in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Key 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 recommendation 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 exercise within the Overseas Humanitarian Volunteer Service Unit.
• Coordinate the recruitment of professional volunteers in Overseas Emergency Health Service and ensure tailored, relevant and updated 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 in order to achieve the highest level of relevancy to humanitarian needs and accountability to the public, the donors, partners and people receiving assistance.

Requirements:

• 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 year 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
• Good interpersonal skills, mature personality, self-motivated, strong sense of responsibility, independent, with high cultural sensitivity, able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and under pressure
• Excellent command of both written and spoken English, Chinese (Cantonese and Putonghua)

Fringe Benefits:

• generous annual leave
• marriage leave
• caring leave
• volunteer leave
• medical and dental benefits (including dependents)
• Employer MPF voluntary contribution
• a discretionary incentive payment (where applicable)

Contract Period: 2 years

Review of applications will start as soon as possible and continue until 18 October 2026, or until the post is filled, whichever is earlier.

Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with Agency’s data protection policy for recruitment purposes only. Applicants not contacted within 4 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful and all related information will be kept on our files up to a period of 6 months.