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Job Title: Staff Health Focal Point (Fresher Job Opportunities)

Organisation: Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from health care.

Job Summary:  Support the Medical Coordinator through delegated tasks and responsibilities, including administrative tasks related to national and International staff health.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Apply the national staff employee health and social policy.
• Responsible for implementing, linking/communicating, monitoring/following up national staff health policy and international staff health needs
• In collaboration with the HR team participate in updating the national staff health and social policy
• Ensure all new staff are oriented about the health policy
• Provide First Aid and refer to health facility medical emergencies occurring within the Kampala Office
• Organize staff health promotion and education events
• Organize staff vaccination campaigns in the mission against Hepatitis, tetanus, Covid 19 and ensure that the vaccination database is updated
• In consultation with Medco, Update staff leaves forms upon verification of the Doctors’ notes
• Perform annual contact updates of the medical specialists/ hospitals/clinics
• Support the medical coordinator in briefing international staff arrivals about health risks, prevention, and access to health facilities
• Support international staff to make appointments
• Brief all staff coming to Uganda via Kampala for Ebola assignment, and ensure that they follow the Sops.
• Follow individual staff coming from Ebola assignments and staying in Kampala
• Ensure the application of Ebola preventive measures in the MSF offices
• Update IPC measures for other diseases such as Covid 19
• Work with the Pharmacy Coordinator to ensure that the First Aid kits in MSF cars, Guest Houses, and the medical emergency boxes are up to date
• Collect information from Insurance health providers, analyze/ prepare and share/present a quarterly staff health utilization report and recommend action points as per the report analysis

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine & Surgery. Must be registered with the UMDC
• Essential previous experience of at least two years in similar or relevant positions.
• Desirable previous experience in MSF or other NGOs in developing countries.
• Knowledge Mission language (English) and local language essential
• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, and internet)
• Desirable knowledge of basic mechanics

Competencies

• Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioral Flexibility, Commitment to MSF Principles.

How to Apply:

All Interested candidates are invited to submit their application letter and a detailed CV, academic documents, and work certificates merged together in a SINGLE PDF or WORD document with the applicant’s name & job title in the subject line to the HR department via email;

Deputy HR Coordinator

Médecins Sans Frontières

Muyenga Office

E-mail: msff-kampala-recruitment@paris.msf.org

Note: The candidature files will not be returned. Only persons responding to the job profile will be contacted for a written test and/or interview.

No monetary, good, or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruiting process. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system.

Deadline: 12th October 2022 at 17h00

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