The Area Health Officer will collaborate with the Health Coordinator (HGC) and the Public Health and Healthcare Planning Specialist in:

1. Promoting the management, coordination, and planning, and the quality of health care services at canton level through direct mentoring, capacity building and supportive supervision to the Area Stewardship Unit ASU in Hassaka area in close collaboration with Hassaka Local Health Authorities

2. Increasing the knowledge on the health systems in NES in the canton, and increasing the capacity of health actors to manage health needs and epidemic outbreaks thanks to a Health Information System (HIS) and to emergency preparedness and response protocols.

3. Improving the training offer and capacities of local Health Education Institutions (HEIs) in the canton if any, increasing the capacities of local health professionals and expanding their roles through task-shifting

4. The AHO will collaborate with the Health Coordinator (HC) and the Public Health and Healthcare Planning Specialist in achieving the following results and outputs of the ERSHAD project in Hassaka health area:

▪ Ensure continues and regular supportive supervision and regular training sessions to the ASU members with adequate mentoring and guidance to advance their healthcare management skils and knowledge.

▪ Health care planning, preparedness and responsiveness are reinforced through multi-stakeholder engagement, management and monitoring.

▪ Support to the development and roll out, through the ASU, of territorial healthcare priorities setting exercise at area level and oversee provision of external technical assistance and Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTPs)

▪ Maintaining strong stakeholders’ engagement throughout the Area Health Technical Committees and other coordination platforms fostering Area-Based Approach in area healthcare management.

▪ Support to a review of quality of care delivered in the territory, embedded within the ASU, possibly informing discussions on quality improvement initiatives and monitoring.

▪ Support to the review of health financing, sustainability, revenue raising, cost efficiency considerations and expectations in as far as AANES / private sector contributions informing a long-term sustainability strategy and complementary research endeavors if necessary.

▪ Mapping of emergency and referral services in NES, establishment and support to a referral network including a hotline in coordination with existing networks and resources.

▪ Support to the curriculum development or review and capacitation of selected Health Education Institutes in the delivery of one postgraduate course in Global Health and Epidemiology.

5. Support in regular supportive supervision, capacity building and monitoring of health services in UPP supported Health facilities (PHCCs) in Hassaka area when assigned by the Health Coordinator, under guidance from the Health Service Delivery Specialist.

The Health coordinator will coordinate and supervise the function of the Area Health Officer with the assistance of the Public Health and Healthcare Planning, giving corresponding time and planning for his/her personal capacity building in the above mentioned areas