Médecins sans frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization (NGO) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases.

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