Médecins du Monde Medical coordinator Jobs in Uganda

Médecins du Monde Medical coordinator Jobs in Uganda

Closing date: 13 Jun 2019

For more than 30 years, Médecins du Monde, a campaigning medical organisation 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 organisation 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.

MdM currently works in more than 40 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: emergency and crisis, sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, migrants and displaced populations (health rights), health and environment.

From the 1990s until 2005, MdM ran HIV/AIDS programs, including support to orphans, in the districts of Rakaï and Kyotera, with technical and financial support to the hospital of Kakuto for HIV counselling and testing.

Since 2015, MdM has been supporting the local organization MARPI (Most At-Risk Populations) through grants and training. Since 2009, MARPI has been running a health facility located in the Mulago national referral hospital in Kampala, which provides free health services to the key populations, including sexual minorities and gender identities.

MdM provided MARPI staff with training on proctology.
In July 2017, a fact-finding mission was conducted in the South Sudanese refugee settlement of Bidibidi, northern Uganda, where the French section of MSF has been present since 2016.

MSF handed over the OPD activities to MdM in July 2018. It is planned for MdM to take over the IPD activities in April 2019. Then a two-year transition process will start, leading to a handover of Bolomoni HC III to the Yumbe District Health Office by March 2021 at the latest.

Task And Responsibility:

Under the responsibility of the general coordinator, you are in charge of supervising the implementation of the medical activities.

You are in charge of defining MdM strategy regarding medical activities in line with MdM’s overall framework and you are responsible for the overall quality of medical and health-related activities of the programmes.

More specifically, your responsibilities are to:

Programme management

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

Ensure the consistency of MdM programmes according to the identified public health needs, MdM policies, international humanitarian and ethical standards and available funds

Ensure quality health data monitoring system

Perform/validate health needs assessments in new identified areas

Supervise the pharmacy operations quality in

collaboration with the medical team

Team management

Establish and follow the priorities to be followed by the medical staff jointly with the general coordination

Provide technical supervision and technical support to the trainers (medical and paramedical) and partners supervisors

Be responsible of recruitment and appraisal processes of medical/paramedical staff

Identify and validate technical trainings

Participate in national staff health policy definition, implementation and evaluation

Identify, validate referral health facilities for international and national staff

Partnerships

Provide technical support to partners

Ensure quality health data monitoring system is applied by the partners

Participate to technical aspects of local partnership development

Prioritize medical trainings for the partners

Coordination

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 and District Health Office in Yumbe

Establish and maintain good relationship with partners, UN agencies and other NGOs

Reporting/communication

Participate in MdM internal meetings

Elaborate health activities monthly reports

Participate in the writing of donors activity reports and proposals

Conditions of Employment :

Status : Employee
Fixed-term contract : 6 months
Starting date: 1st April 2019
Gross monthly salary: 2 984 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 and 40% by the employee)

Insurance (repatriation…)

Punctual teleworking agreement (after 6 months)

Single posting

Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility

Skills and Experience Needed :

Medical doctor or nurse or midwife with experience in public health

Demonstrated 2-3 years professional experience in humanitarian settings with significant experience in similar positions

Experience in outbreak management and emergency response

Experience in negotiation with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky context

Demonstrated experience in collaboration with local partners

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

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

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

Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues

Languages: fluent English

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

How to apply:

To apply, click on the followinf link : Médecins du Monde Medical coordinator Jobs in Uganda