DEPUTY MEDICAL COORDINATOR
Job Description
Title: DEPUTY MEDICAL COORDINATOR
Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Vacancy: Not specific
Job Location: Cox's Bazar
Employment Status: Full-time
Educational Requirements:
∎ Essential degree on medicine or other paramedical studies. Training in tropical medicine or Public Health will be an asset.
∎ Essential 2 years’ experience in relevant jobs, in MSF or other NGO’s in developing countries.
Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 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 programs 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.
∎ MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:
∎ Performs delegated tasks and reports back to the Medical Coordinator and/or HOM; supervises implementation in projects in collaboration with the PCs and PMRs on the following:
∎ Collaboration and communication between all the departments for better comprehensive care of the patients in a multi-disciplinary approach.
∎ Supporting the Pharmacy Manager in clinical supervision and implementation of prescription audits, pharmacovigilance and antibiotic resistance (AMR) activities in the facilities.
∎ Oversight and collaboration on the implementation and management of the NS Health Policy and supervision of the focal person in resolving issues related to them.
∎ Oversight and collaboration on the management of data, surveillance, laboratory activities, health promotion and outreach, together with the MedCo; Takes up this responsibility in the absence of the MedCo.
∎ Support in the development and implementation of the intersectional E-prep, cyclone preparedness strategy.
∎ Recruitment, training, induction, performance evaluation, development, and internal/external communication of the medical staff (e.g. medical assistants, doctors) of coordination and the projects to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required and improve staff capabilities.
∎ In collaboration with the projects, monitoring the referral system to ensure the appropriateness of referrals and quality care provided to the patient(s) and update referral facilities according to project needs.
∎ Support the implementation of patient-centered care approach in MSF OCP projects by ensuring quality onboarding is done, indicators for PCA are collected, analyzed and acted on.
∎ Attend intersectional Medco meetings/ work as MedCo back-up or whenever needed in exchanging information, analyzing the current health situation, and Health Sector/Nutrition Sector and WASH Sector updates to coordinate MSF medical activity in the Rohingya camp and Goyalmara in defining MSF-OCP responsibility.
∎ Regular communication and contact with other pertinent health actors/partners responsible for the medical data collection, analysis, and reporting to ensure proper monitoring of the.
∎ Participation and reporting back in working group meetings and assessments of health actors in the camps to contribute to the most updated health context that MSF OCP works in.
∎ Participation in the conduct of operational research, provision of inputs, collaboration with partners, monitoring and evaluation of the process, analysis of the results and internal/external communication for information sharing and advocacy.
Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 18 years
∎ Specificity of the assignment:
∎ 2-year contract with integration of the selected candidate into MSF International Mobile Staff pool at the end of the 2 years, must be willing to become a mobile employee and go work in other missions.
∎ Language: English & Bangla essential.
∎ Knowledge: Basic Computer skill essential, (MS Word, MS Excel).
∎ Competences:
∎ Strategic Vision L2
∎ Leadership L2
∎ People Management and Development L3
∎ Service Orientation L3
∎ Teamwork and Cooperation L4
Salary:
∎ Salary according to MSF salary grid (Level 13) BDT197305, two (2) annual leave days per month worked. Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents.
Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.
Application Deadline: 2 Jan 2024
Company Information:
∎ 20 Dec 2023
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ Business : Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 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: NGO/Development
: Specificity of the assignment:2-year contract with integration of the selected candidate into MSF International Mobile Staff pool at the end of the 2 years, must be willing to become a mobile employee and go work in other missions.
Source: bdjobs.com
Deadline Expired on 2nd Jan 2024
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