Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health)

Hong Kong Red Cross

  • Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
The Hong Kong Red Cross was established in 1950. We belong to the World's largest humanitarian network and provide impartial and quality care to protect life and health, and to enhance the capacity of vulnerable people to live a safe and dignified life. Our services include disaster relief, special education, volunteer service, first aid and health training, and blood transfusion. http://www.redcross.org.hkJob 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:
  • 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
  • Conduct research to analyze global trend of humanitarian needs and required competencies to inform or design training plan and curricula for personnel, including volunteers and staff, participating in overseas missions
  • Assist Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to lead a team of staff and collaborate with identified Movement partners to ensure the effective and efficient management and implementation of programmes.
  • Support Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to mobilize resources, including personnel and funding, to respond to overseas emergencies.
  • Identify the needs of research and analysis exercise on health themes, for designing and implementing humanitarian health programmes.
  • Plan and coordinate experience consolidation and knowledge sharing exercise within the department and Agency.
  • Make recommendations for improving programme management systems and formulating operational plans to Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to fulfill the operational strategies for overseas emergency health service.
  • Support the Senior Programme Coordinator (Emergency Health) to advocate for humanitarian agenda to gain public awareness and support, by collecting relevant information, consolidating HKRC experience and recommending the key messages for public communications.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree in health-related disciplines
  • 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
  • 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:Fringe benefits including generous annual leave, marriage leave, compassionate leave, caring leave, medical and dental benefits (including dependents), Employer MPF voluntary contribution, and a discretionary incentive payment (where applicable) will be offered to the right candidates.
  • Contract Period: 1 year
Please send application together with full curriculum vitae and expected salary to the Head of Human Resources Development, Hong Kong Red Cross, 9/F Hong Kong Red Cross Headquarters, 19 Hoi Ting Road, West Kowloon, HK or email to [email redacted, apply via Company website] on or before 14 September 2025.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.

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