Health Technical Specialist

Health Technical Specialist, International Health Unit Location: Boone, NC, United States Job ID: 14982 Date Posted: Apr 5, 2024 Job Description Get Involved. Our International Projects team has an opening for a Technical Specialist, International Health Unit. The International Health Unit is called to deliver the hope and healing of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth through innovative, compassionate, quality, and contextualized health care through Samaritans Purse field offices and Disaster Responses. This role will serve in the support of field office programs, regional and disaster medical response activities, and technical advisory role to support Samaritans Purses overall mission. Come be a part of what the Lord is doing here at Samaritan's Purse. A day in the life of a Technical Specialist, International Health Unit: At Samaritans Purse, the Gospel really is the center of all we do. We start each day with a time of devotions and spend time praying for each other, our staff and volunteers who serve around the globe. In the role of Technical Specialist, International Health Unit, you will have the opportunity to: Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him Engage with assigned country offices and regional teams on a regular basis to provide programmatic and technical support with growth of existing and new programming Participate in the proposal and program development for country offices and in Emergency Medical responses Develop and maintain best practices and training resources in the sector in order to ensure that our health programs are consistent with Samaritans Purse core Christian values, and that Samaritans Purse medical programs are making an appropriate Christ centered contribution to the work of the international community Provide support to Emergency Medical response programming by preparing, planning, and deploying emergency health responses as needed Serve on the Incident Management Team (IMT) or Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) as directed Support in the mentorship of current and future health and medical program managers Travel to field sites as needed for temporary assigned field responsibility, project assessment, field support/training, and other duties as needed Actively pursue and maintain global relevancy and readiness for international programming and response Work collaboratively with the Program Management to maintain technical resources and complete technical reviews for proposals and documents routed through Awards Management Team Provide support to technical interviews of potential health programming candidates and medical Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Staff All other duties as assigned Learn more about