Position Title:
Dentist
Start Date:
September 2021
Status:
Full-time, Contract Position
Reports to:
Dental Director
Supervises:
N/A
Mission Statement: To improve the quality of life for the Haitian people, particularly children.
Brief Organizational Summary: Hope for Haiti is an innovative and creative international development organization that has been working in Haiti for 30 years. The organization partners with private donors to create community-based sustainable change through a grassroots and strategic holistic approach. Hope for Haiti is an action-oriented and fast-paced organization that believes in partnership solutions to poverty alleviation. Our vision for Haiti: joyful children, healthy families, thriving communities, and the resources to make it so. Hope for Haiti has a distinguished and well-established Board of Directors that provides the organization with strong governance, oversight, and strategic direction. Building upon the organization’s proven track record of success, Hope for Haiti stays true to its mission and founding principles while offering a dynamic and supportive work environment. For more information about Hope for Haiti, please visit www.hopeforhaiti.com.
Role Purpose:
Provide patients at the Infirmary St. Etienne (ISE) and at mobile clinics implemented in our partner areas in southern Haiti.
Under the supervision of the Dental Director, the Dentist will work closely with the medical team. The Dentist is responsible for, but not limited to, providing dental services at the ISE and at mobile clinics in our partner communities, as needed. He/She will work closely with the Hope for Haiti team, medical partners, beneficiary schools, community health workers and community leadership to ensure Hope for Haiti’s programming is functioning efficiently and effectively. The Dentist will also have a focus on dental public health. The Dentist, in collaboration with the Dental Director and the Community Health Program Manager, will also think strategically on what partnerships and programming can be established to advance the dental public health of the greater south of Haiti.
The Dentist is a National position, based full-time in Les Cayes, Haiti.
Essential Duties and Tasks
* Provide dental healthcare at the ISE and at mobile clinics, as needed
Work with the ISE Dentist to determine the supplies and materials needed for dental health at the ISE
Work with Operations and medical teams to procure supplies/materials needed in a timely manner
Evaluate dental health at the ISE through Monitoring and Evaluation and reporting KPIs
Ensure all dental tools and equipment are kept clean and in good working condition
EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS THAT ALIGN WITH CORE VALUES
Resiliency
Empower
Accountable
Collaboration
Hope
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