Medical Coordinator (F/M) at Médecins du MondeApply
Job description
In the context of mission opening, the medical coordinator will be specifically in charge of the following :
- Participate in the definition of the country strategy led by the general coordinator and drive the medical and technical aspects in the development of this strategy
- Design, plan, implement, adapt and monitor the programme’s health activities
- Ensure the quality and relevance of health activities, supervise the collection and analysis of medical data
- Recruit, manage, train, and motivate the medical team
- Ensure the management of pharmaceutical products
- Carry out health needs assessments and evaluations of medical partners
- Cooperate with the administration team regarding budgeting and supervise the medical purchase process
- Represent MdM with authorities, partners and other NGOs on health issues
- Participate in the writing of proposals and reports
Requirements
- Medical Doctor or Nurse or Midwife.
- Master’s in Public Health is desirable.
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in similar positions or in humanitarian sector.
- Experiences in public health and in managing health welfare in communities.
- Experience in supervising Sexual and Reproductive Health and Nutrition programs.
- Experience in outbreak management and emergency response.
- Experience in hard negotiations with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky context.
- Understand a healthcare system (including organisation, curriculum of medical profiles and national healthcare programmes) and summarise the broad outlines.
- Understand and analyse a health context, health problems and data.
- Define a level of emergency (micro and macro).
- Plan and quantify health activities.
- Define medical needs and adapt operational activities to new constraints in the field of new scientific information.
- Draft a project (including funding formulation).
- Identify training needs, create and lead medical training modules.
- Discuss, present arguments and negotiate with healthcare authorities
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills (especially Word and Excel).
- Languages : English is mandatory (oral and written), knowledge of Swahili is an asset
- You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde