Deputy Medical Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Deputy Medical Coordinator

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Essential degree in medicine. Training in tropical medicine or Public Health will be an asset
∎ Skills Required: Able to work under pressure

Experience Requirements:
∎ 2 to 3 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Accountabilities:
∎ Supporting the Medical Coordinator in defining, monitoring and updating the medical content of the MSF country policy and annual plan, by scanning health needs and translating them into objectives, priorities and resources needed in order to cover medical and humanitarian needs of the population at risk.
∎ At the request of the Medical Coordinator, representing MSF before third parties concerning medical issues, ensuring its good public image and the alignment with the mission interests, through regular contacts with other actors in the country, negotiating with authorities when necessary, and informing on MSF charter, values and principles
∎ Participating and contributing in the definition and update of the country policy, annual plan and budgets in order to develop the projects and programmes aimed at addressing humanitarian issues at stake ensuring its efficiency and quality ( i.e. monitoring the project implementation, assisting the Project Coordinator and the medical teams in drafting the project proposal and follow up, identifying priority needs, other potential areas of action and emergency situations and collaborating and assisting in the production of medical reports)
∎ Coaching, training and motivating the teams in the mission in order to align all field staff with MSF values and ethics, and ensuring their capability to carry out their job achieving MSF quality standards (i.e. induction, briefing/debriefing, training, potential detection, evaluation)
∎ Collaborating, together with the logistics department and according to project needs, in the pharmacy management in order to ensure enough and quality supply of drugs and medical material (i.e. review of medical orders and monitoring of medicines consumption and stock levels of the different projects)
∎ Assisting in defining and implementing the staff health and security policies for international and national staff in order to ensure its overall safety (i.e. monitors both physical and mental health state of staff, promotes compliance of all related protocols and procedures and collaborates in the update of issues regarding the security context)
∎ Ensuring the Medical Coordination in the Mission and fully assuming the Medical Coordinator's tasks and responsibilities in case of absence/gaps.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience : Essential 2 years' experience in relevant jobs, in MSF or other NGO's.
∎ Languages : English and Bengali essential
∎ Knowledge : Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
∎ Competencies Strategic Vision L2
∎ Leadership L2
∎ People Management and Development L3
∎ Service Orientation L3
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation L4

Salary:
∎ Tk. 197305 - 236766 (Monthly)
∎ Two (2) annual leave days per month. Medical Reimbursement for employee and direct dependent.Note: Income Tax will be deducted as per legal compliance from the mentioned salary.

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Medical allowance
∎ Festival Bonus: 2
∎ Festival Bonus and Medical Reimbursement are paid based on organization policy.

Application Deadline: 12 Nov 2020

Company Information:
∎ 1 Nov 2020
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in many countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Category: Medical/Pharma