VUFO NGO Resource Centre
Project Officer
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH
FHI 360 is an international non-governmental organization that, in Vietnam, promotes the health and well-being of the Vietnamese people, particularly vulnerable and marginalized populations. It works with the Vietnam Ministry of Health and other national bodies, as well as provincial and district-level health services to achieve project aims. FHI 360 is currently implementing programs to address HIV and TB prevention, testing, and treatment; combatting trafficking in persons; COVID-19; anti-microbial resistance; health system strengthening; non-communicable diseases; maternal and child health and nutrition; and diagnostic and laboratory services.
The Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) is a global project focused on HIV, global health security, and combatting trafficking in persons using funding from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). EpiC is seeking a qualified and motivated Vietnamese candidate to serve as a Project Officer based in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. The individual will be responsible for supporting a team working to advance the use of medical oxygen systems in hospitals, improve mental health for healthcare workers, and develop national-level health policy.
This is a limited term position, October 2024 through January 2025.
Main responsibilities:
- Assist in the development and implementation of learning programs, workshops, and webinars.
- Facilitate the development/modification of online and offline course content.
- Create user accounts and monitor progress of learners in online courses.
- Manage logistics for offline training efforts including scheduling, participant communication, material preparation, data collection, and improvement efforts.
- Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of learning activities.
- Support the administration of online and offline assessments.
- Create scopes of work and other procurement-related documents.
- Oversee consultants and coordinate technical staff contributions to surveys and assessments.
- Translate documents from English to Vietnamese and Vietnamese to English.
- Ensure relevant project deliverables are on-time and on-budget.
- Assist in the development of reports, knowledge products, and other written and visual deliverables.
- Facilitate the classification, tagging, and indexing of documents in SharePoint.
- Collaborate with teams across the organization to identify and share best practices and lessons learned.
- Coordinate internal and external meetings, take meeting minutes, etc.
- Other duties as assigned.
Experience and abilities for the position:
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, industrial maintenance, medicine, or other relevant area.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize.
- Experience working on donor funded, ideally USAID, projects
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Vietnamese
- Professional experience working with an international organization, ideally USAID-funded.
- Ability to travel as necessary.
FHI 360 offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits.
Interested candidates are invited to visit FHI 360’s career page at https://www.fhi360.org/careers and apply to the position ONLINE by September 27th, 2024. Selection and interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis and candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.