Health Project Manager
Starting Date / Initial Contract Details
October 2025, Full-time, 2-year contract
Role Summary
Develop, lead, monitor, and evaluate assigned health projects, ensuring delivery against objectives, timeframe, and budget. Manage health staff, oversee primary health care services to international quality standards, coordinate with stakeholders, and contribute to new project proposals and reports.
Project Overview
Medair delivers life-saving health interventions to conflict-affected populations in eastern DRC, focusing on primary health care, referral systems, training and supervision of Ministry of Health staff, behaviour change communication, and rehabilitation of health facilities. These activities aim to reduce morbidity and mortality despite ongoing insecurity and access challenges.
Workplace & Conditions
Field-based positions in DRC (Goma and Butembo). Interventions may be in remote and physically demanding locations with a complex security environment requiring constant monitoring
Responsibilities:
- Lead health project implementation, monitoring, and reporting within time, budget, and quality standards.
- Manage and develop health staff, including training, coaching, and performance oversight.
- Oversee budget management and ensure compliance with donor and organisational standards.
- Coordinate with stakeholders, clusters, and other actors to strengthen project impact.
- Ensure quality assurance, accountability, and adherence to humanitarian and protection standards
Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:
- Clinical degree/diploma (nurse, midwife, doctor) or Public Health degree.
- Strong English and French skills (spoken and written).
- Minimum 2 years’ post-qualification medical experience, including 1+ year in health project management.
- Experience in staff training, mentoring, and community mobilisation.
- Knowledge of humanitarian principles, Sphere standards, and Core Humanitarian Standards.
Behavioural Skills
- Servant leadership and consultative management style.
- Flexible, adaptable, open-minded, and culturally sensitive.
- Able to manage stress and work under pressure in challenging environments.
- Skilled in prioritisation, delegation, and overseeing multiple tasks.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Team Spiritual Life
Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.
Before you apply
Please ensure you are fully aware of the:
- Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
- Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).
Application Process
To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.