Vacancy Announcement

PIH currently has implementation programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Sierra Leone and Navajo Nation. Through our partnership with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, we support a wide range of programs in dozens of other countries around the world.

Our Work In Sierra Leone:

Partners In Health (PIH) began supporting the government of Sierra Leone in response to the Ebola epidemic in October 2014. Recognizing the large need for continued investments in the health system after Ebola, PIH is committed to long-term health system strengthening in support of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), guided by the same principles as our emergency response and our work around the world: public sector accompaniment, integrated and comprehensive services, social justice, nimbleness and flexibility, partnership, community ownership, and evidence-based interventions. In the aftermath of the epidemic, PIH is committed to supporting the delivery of comprehensive health services in Sierra Leone, from the community level to the health center and to referral hospitals.

• Maintains administrative staff by; upholding a safe and secure work environment, and also monitoring and controlling movement in and around the office.
• Accomplishes staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures within the administrative department.
• Provides supplies by identifying needs for reception, general office, guesthouses, and kitchen; establishing policies, procedures, as to usage and accountability.
• Provides communication systems by identifying needs; evaluating options; maintaining office equipment e.g projectors office printers, photocopiers, Freezers, and speaker phones
• Align required printing materials and forms; negotiating usage, quality, delivery and inventory system.
• Completes special projects by organizing and coordinating information and requirements; planning, arranging, and meeting schedules; monitoring results.
• Provides historical reference by developing and utilizing filing and retrieval systems.
• Maintains continuity with other organizations, division, and local work teams by documenting and communicating actions, abnormalities, and continuing needs.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as desired.
• Collaborate with Freetown admin team to make sure experts stay are regularized.
• Maintain and up keep Top-up (phone credits) Close user group (CUG) by coordinating with the HR team on newly recruited staff and those that are departing the organization.
• Managing office supplies and ordering new supplies as needed.
• Systematically filing important PIH-SL documents.
• Forwarding all correspondence, such as letters and packages, to staff members.
• Scheduling meetings and booking conference rooms.

At Partners In Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partners In Health’s PSEAH policy. Partner In Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures

• Bachelors/ Higher Diploma in Business Admin
• Minimum of 3 years of Admin or office administration experience.
• Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and need to juggle competing demands in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
• Strong qualitative and written skills with expertise in Micro soft word excel, power point
• Ability to plan, organize, and lead projects.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with culturally diverse staff across departments.
• Strong organizational skills and operational and business analytics thinking.
• Prior experience working in rural settings
• Sense of humor and flexible disposition very helpful.
• Interest in social justice and global health.