Vacancies at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define, implement and monitor medical activities during the emergency response, in accordance with MSF's charter, policies, protocols and ethical principles with consideration for international and national laws, in order to ensure the delivery of quality medical care for patients and their communities as well as to improve the health condition and humanitarian living conditions of the target population, and in collaboration with the Project Coordinator and the rest of team, the Medical Coordinator, and MoH partners 
• Participate in high quality and timely exploratory assignments and situation assessments (defining medical operational priorities when needed) and the development of the project policy, budget review and project proposal  
• Identify health staffing needs for emergency interventions and ensure rapid and qualitative recruitment, induction and training of new medical staff  
• Provide technical support to medical personnel in the project through self-knowledge and policies, ensuring compliance with the protocols of MSF medical activities  
• Coordinate, supervise, coach, support, and evaluate the medical team members’ performance to improve the medical components of the project and ensure compliance with MSF protocols and standards as well as MoH protocols  
• Be responsible for the medical data collection, monitoring, analysis and reporting to the Medical Coordination to enhance the effectiveness and quality of the medical activities as part of the emergency intervention 
• Supervise an efficient management of the MSF program pharmacy and medical equipment, in collaboration with the logistics department and project biomedical service and in consideration of program directions and protocol changes. Monitor consumption and preparation of medical orders to provide drugs, medical materials, medical devices, and consumables at all circumstances and avoid stock shortage 
• Provide reports on the project’s evolution from the medical perspective, as required, and is responsible for the medical library of the project. Inform the medical program staff of all materials available, and keeps all medical documents updated in the database   
• Implement the health policy for both international mobile and local staff; provide all prophylactic and preventive necessary measures, structures and emergency plans; manage any medical evacuation in order to ensure MSF staff health  
• Represent MSF at local medical authorities and keep regular contact with other counterparts in the project (NGOs, local organizations, donors, authorities) in order to broaden the medical-humanitarian situation analysis, strengthening the impact of the medical intervention and supporting advocacy actions to raise humanitarian awareness  
• Close emergency interventions included the handover of medical activities to other actors and ensure the proper archiving of medical files at the end of an intervention  

REQUIREMENTS

Education and Experience 

• Essential, degree in medicine or paramedical studies  
• Masters in Public Health (or similar) is an asset 
• Diploma in tropical medicine or to have at least 1 years of working experience in a tropical context is an asset 
• Minimum of 3 years of MSF (or other INGOs) experience in projects in developing countries 
• Minimum of 1 year MSF experience as PMR in emergency interventions 

Competencies 

• Strong technical skills related to primary health care, maternal and child health, reproductive health, communicable diseases, vaccination, malnutrition, emergency preparedness and response 
• Strategic vision   
• Dynamism, rigor and reactivity 
• Resistance to stress, ability to adapt to different contexts  
• Leadership (able to set priorities, make choices and assume decisions) 
• Experience in supervising, capacity building, coaching and training being a strong asset 
• Flexibility – Autonomy 

Languages 

• English and/or French essential  
• Arabic and/or Spanish/Portuguese is an asset 

Other 

• Availability to travel to any country on short notice 

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MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

• Develop and customize the Odoo enterprise edition V15 backend and web-portal to meet the needs of our users. The focus will be set on debugging existing customized modules as well as on implementing new features for HR department
• Follow best practices, under the supervision of the HRIS coordinator and with the support of our integrator, in software engineering to ensure the software developments are correctly documented and easy to migrate to future Odoo enterprise versions
• Share knowledge about the developed python code with the other members of the HRIS Team.
• Collaborate with the ICT unit
• Ensure that MSF has a degree of independence from our integrator for any further development once the main development project is finished

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience                                                             

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management or related fields is an asset 
• Proven knowledge and experience of Python
• Understanding and experience with object-oriented development
• Experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience in large projects 
• Experience in IT support is an asset
• Experience in Test Automation is an asset
• Contribution to Open Source Projects is an asset
• Experience with MSF is an asset

Competencies

• Understanding and experience with object-oriented development
• Basic understanding of web development
• Knowledge of Version Control tools like Git
• Passion for development
• Quick & Autonomous learner
• Fluent in English and French
• Good team player
• Good communication skills
• Willing to work in an international, multidisciplinary and humanitarian environment
• Knowledge of Odoo framework is an asset
• Knowledge of Docker & container management is an asset
• Knowledge of JavaScript and JavaScript libraries is an asset
• Knowledge of API developments over XML-RPC is an asset
• Knowledge of several programming languages is an asset
• Knowledge of Linux is an asset

Languages

• Fluent in English and French (oral & written)