Seeking Project Leader for 'Food as Medicine for Palestine's PKU Kids' Pilot Program

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Are you a medical professional with solid project management experience? Are you good with logistics? Do you enjoy tough problems and big challenges?

Rebuilding Alliance is seeking an experienced project manager to lead a pilot program entitled, 'Food as Medicine for Palestine's PKU Kids'.

Please reply by email to: edgar@rebuildingalliance.org
With your email, please provide all of the following information:

1. Cover letter describing how you would approach the goals stated here, in our GlobalGiving project description: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/palestine-pku-children/#menu
   
   
2. Your resume, and
   
   
3. Three references

Referred to as an 'inborn error of metabolism', Phenylketonuria (PKU) impacts some 600 children & adults in Gaza and the West Bank. Untreated PKU results in cumulative, permanent brain damage and is life-threatening - but with monitoring, coaching, medical food supplements, and a low-protein diet, PKU children will lead full and healthy lives.

Our pilot project seeks to provide the 'Food Farmacy', family health coaching, and clinic staff training to assure Palestine's PKU children safe PHE numbers and good health.

Until recently In Palestine, children with PKU faced a horrifying shortage of medical food. Now both Ministries of Health and the U.N.'s Health Cluster made PKU care a priority, however, health care providers and parents don't understand the risks of standard diets and the role of medical food supplements. Normal blood phenylalanine, or phe measures less than 2.0 mg/dl but if PKU patients eat a standard diet, their PHE levels go way up, causing brain damage. A whole new approach is needed.

The Project Leader is asked to report to all-volunteer advisory team who are meeting twice a month. We start small with the goal of raising significant funds to include paid staffing downstream.

• As team leader, you will be responsible for managing the project, and coordinating with the implementation teams to request and evaluate their implementation proposals, then request and review their reports, and posting to Social Media and to the GlobalGiving reporting system.
  
  
• You'll want to build a team of volunteers to assist you
  
• If you are detail-oriented, passionate about public health particularly children’s health, a good writer, comfortable working with a team and independently, willing to spend a minimum of 15 hours per week on this project, able to respond to emergencies, good at fundraising (or want to learn how), and committed to making a positive difference in the lives of children, especially PKU children in Gaza and the West Bank, please apply.
  
  
• We ask for a 6 month commitment will potential for hiring upon reaching fundraising goals.