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Job Title:  Medical Coordinator

Organisation: Médecins
du Monde (MdM)

Salary: Gross
monthly salary: 2.816 euros

Duty Station:
Uganda

About US:

For more than 40
years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organization committed to
international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations
at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in
accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in
health-for-all policies. Those working for this independent organization do not
solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and
rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious
situations.

Job Summary:
The Medical Coordinator will be supervising the implementation of medical
activities. You are defining MdM strategy regarding medical activities in line
with MdM’s overall framework and responsible for the overall quality of medical
and health-related activities of the programmes.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

·       
Participate
in the development of the operational strategy and develop health activities’
operational plan with the coordination team

·       
Perform/validate
health needs assessments in new identified areas

·       
Provide
technical supervision and technical support to the trainers and partners’
supervisors

·       
Ensure
the recruitment and appraisal processes of medical/paramedical staff

·       
Identify
and validate technical trainings

·       
Provide
briefing on health services availability and process for international staff at
arrival in Uganda

·       
Participate
to national staff health policy definition, implementation and evaluation

·       
Identify,
validate referral health facilities for international and national staff

·       
Ensure
quality health data monitoring system is applied by the partners, especially
MARPI as far as the LGBT project is concerned and HRAPF

·       
Participate
to technical aspects of local partnership development

·       
Prioritize
medical issues trainings for the partners

·       
Participate
to health sector platforms and any relevant health coordination mechanisms in
both Yumbe and Kampala

·       
Establish
and maintain good relationship with Ministry of Health, partners, UN agencies
and other NGOs

·       
Supervise
the pharmacies operations quality (consumptions, orders & inventory)

·       
Participate
to MdM internal meetings, elaborate health activities monthly reports

·       
Participate
in the writing of donors activity reports and proposals

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·       
The
applicant must be a Medical doctor or nurse or midwife with experience in
public health and project coordination

·       
Two to
three years of professional experience in humanitarian settings with
significant experience in similar positions

·       
Working
experiences in public health. Experience in outbreak management and emergency
response

·       
Experience
in hard negotiations with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky
context

·       
Demonstrated
experience to work with local partners

·       
Ability
to have a global overview of a programme (not only on medical plan)

·       
Ability
to take quick decisions according to the context in coordination with the team

·       
Ability
to manage a team

·       
Reactivity,
anticipation, adaptation

·       
Ability
to manage the priorities

·       
Ability
to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment.

·       
Strong
organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills.

·       
Excellent
project design and proposal development skills and developing tools for
cross-organizational sharing of best practices

·       
Excellent
analytical and problem solving skills

·       
Demonstrated
writing and reporting skills

·       
Team
spirit

·       
Good
sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues

·       
Interest
in politically sensitive projects (e.g. sexual minorities and gender
identities)

·       
Languages:
English mandatory, French is an asset

·       
IT:
Excellent excel skills

·       
You are
committed to MdM’s values as an organisation and motivated by its
non-statutory, NFP model.

Benefits

·       
Gross
monthly salary: 2.816 euros

·       
Premium
equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months
seniority required

·       
Expatriation
bonus (10% gross salary per month)

·       
Transportation
cost, vaccines and visas covered

·       
Guesthouse
housing

·       
22.5 RTT
(recovery days) per year

·       
5 weeks
of paid leaves per year

·       
Health
insurance (60% covered by MdM, 40% by the employee)

·       
Insurance
(repatriation…)

How to Apply:

All candidates
should upload an updated CV and cover letter online at the link below.

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Deadline: 28^th May 2020

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