Job Vacancies at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context - whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities - babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed. 
 
It's a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following: 

• Pre and post-delivery care 
• Deliveries, often complicated 
• Care of survivors of sexual violence 
• Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals 
• Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices 
• Running awareness programs in the community 
• Training local midwives 
• On-call care, often 24 hours 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in midwifery or a Degree in nursing with the exception of Community Health Nursing.
• All nurses applying to the midwifery position must have over 2 years’ experience working in a busy labor ward.
• Valid registration
• Experience in supervising, managing and training others
• Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence
• Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries
• Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Available for six to nine months
• Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team
• Flexible and able to manage stress
• Fluency in English

Desirable

• Tropical nursing diploma
• Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS
• Family planning experience
• Community midwifery experience
• Experience working in a similar organisation​
• Knowledge of other working languages e.g French and or Arabic

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Being a mental health officer (MHO) with MSF is an intense but rewarding job. From providing psychological first aid to survivors of natural disasters to counselling HIV patients, our MHOs play a vital role in our projects. Trauma is often the most painful aspect of surviving a conflict or disaster, or living with a disease, and mental healthcare is vital for recovery.

Responsibilities 

• Our MHOs often head a group of outreach workers and counsellors, providing care in the health facilities but also out in the community. 
• It’s a challenging and exciting role and you would be responsible for some or all of the following:  
• Doing a community mental health assessment 
• Planning a mental health strategy 
• Managing mental healthcare for an entire hospital/project 
• Providing care for victims of sexual violence 
• Supporting groups of displaced people 
• Identifying and managing protection issues

Requirements

• Formal education and post qualification in one of the following: Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Social work (with additional psychological therapy qualification), Psychiatry (with additional psychological therapy qualification) 
• Currently licensed to practice  one of the above areas with independent licensed clinical practice 
• Two year's post-qualification experience 
• Experience working in the field of HIV/AIDS, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), sexual violence, Tuberculosis (TB) care 
• Experience in managing and training mental health workers 
• Experience in the clinical supervision of others and treating trauma related problems 
• Experience with emergency mental health/crisis interventions 
• A second language (preferably French, Arabic, Spanish or Portuguese) 
• Able to work well as a part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team 
• Willing to work in unstable areas and ability to cope in a difficult and unpredictable environment 
• Available for a minimum of nine to twelve months 
• Minimum of three months’ work, volunteering or travelling experience in developing countries 
• Fluency in English​ is essential, Arabic and French will be an asset

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Responsabilities 

Our WATSANs usually work in the project, and manage a variety of work including hospital waste management, health promotion and clean water provision.

It’s an exciting and diverse role and you would be responsible for some or all of the following:

• ​Managing a team of waste zone operators, hygiene promoters, WATSAN assistants and various others
• Sourcing and delivering clean water to populations in need
• Siting and constructing latrines and other sanitation facilities
• Managing hospital waste
• Supervising hygiene promotiom

Requirements

• Education in Civil Engineering, Water and Sanitation, Land and Water Management (preferably international), or similar
• Significant work experience in water and sanitation
• Experience in managing, supervising and training others
• Available for a minimum of nine months
• Minimum of three months’ work, volunteering or travel experience in developing countries
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Adaptable and able to work in a multicultural team
• Flexible and able to manage stress
• Able to provide training and supervision to others
• Fluency in English

Desirable

• Knowledge of Arabic and or French
• Experience working with INGOs

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Our registered nurses often head departments in hospital/health centres and are the forefront of providing primary healthcare in our projects.  Below are some of the responsibilities;

• Establishing and managing health posts
• Operating feeding centres and in/outpatient clinics and hospitals
• Planning and implementing vaccination campaigns
• Organising mother-child health programmes
• Training, supervising and managing local nursing staff or community health providers
• Support policy development

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• Valid and current registration
• Minimum two years relevant post qualification work experience
• Available for a minimum of nine months
• Experience supervising, training and managing others
• Exposure to developing countries through work, volunteerism or travel
• Willingness to work in unstable areas
• Adaptable and able to work in a multicultural team
•  Flexible and able to manage stress
• Ability to provide training and supervision to others
• Fluency in English

Desirable

• Knowledge of Arabic and or French
• Experience working with MSF or Similar INGOs
• Specialization or training in tropical medicine
• Proficiency with MS Ofice software

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As a paediatrician with MSF, you will ensure the proper functioning of the pediatric medical activities under his/her responsibility at the supported health facilities, defining and implementing MSF policies, protocols and procedures, and guaranteeing the quality of pediatric healthcare in order to improve health conditions of the target population and decrease under-5 mortality rate

Responsibilities

• As part of the medical team, takes part in the project medical activities such as epidemiological profile elaboration, differential diagnostic algorithm for fever, anthropological study and mortality survey. Also participates in the annual plan revision and planning and in the log frame and indicators definition.
• Define the necessary protocols and flowcharts prior to the beginning of the medical activities (initial phase).
• Coordinate, assess and supervise the proper functioning of the pediatric medical activities according to the defined MSF protocols and procedures and through the correct compilation and analysis of medical data regarding patients’ health conditions.
• Check all administrative procedures related to patients’ follow-up (individual card filling, registers, paper exit, discharge, transfers...) are correctly carried out according to MSF procedures.
• Collaborate in the preparation of the medical orders needed to implement the medical activities under his/her responsibility, and identifies non-medical support needs (material, infrastructure, transport, etc.), reporting them to the line manager.
• Identify training needs, design and provide theoretical and practical training to MoH staff and evaluate their capacities and performance in order to improve their capabilities and for the incentives scheme management
• Coordinate and monitor the daily working plan of the team under his/her responsibility (absent personnel, vacations, tracking leaves ...) Provides on the job training to MoH staff and replaces doctor if necessary and participates in shifts.
• Ensure, in coordination with the Nursing Activity Manager responsible for the pharmacy, an efficient pharmacy management and ensure an efficient medical equipment management and monitor the rational use of them.
• Participate in the programs / project follow-up, supervise and ensure that medical activities objectives under his/her responsibility are achieved and report to the technical referent any problem arising in the service.
• Participate in the monthly reports according to guidelines (i.e. SitReps, medical statistical reports, etc.) and definition of annual planning, budget for the project.

Requirements

• Essential Medical Doctor Diploma with specialization in Pediatrics. Desirable specialization or training in Tropical Medicine or related studies
• Essential English & Spanish or English & Portuguese, or English & French
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

Competencies

• People Management
• Planning
• Teamwork
• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to train, mobilizes, and manages both international and national staff
• Willingness and ability to work in unstable contexts