General Coordinator

Job Description

Title: General Coordinator

Company Name: Médecins du Monde Suisse (MdM Switzerland)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master's degree in humanitarian assistance, development, public health, international relations, or other relevant field

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Médecins du Monde Suisse (MdM Switzerland) is an independent humanitarian health organisation founded in Neuchâtel in 1993. It is a member of the international Médecins du Monde network, composed of 16 chapters.
∎ MdM Switzerland aims to sustainably improve access to health for vulnerable populations - particularly women and children - both in Switzerland and around the world.
∎ Around the world, healthcare systems too often fail women and children who suffer from unequal access to services. MdM Switzerland is by their side, providing medical and social support to victims of violence while defending their rights, ensuring pain-free medical treatment to children, and helping women and girls make informed choices regarding their own bodies and sexuality, plan their pregnancy and give birth safely.
∎ To achieve its goals, MdM Switzerland develops programmes in three thematic areas: SRHR, violence prevention and response, and paediatric palliative care. From local to global, it adopts integrated approaches to bring lasting and complete solutions to unequal access to healthcare. Combining its thematic expertise with informed stakeholder coordination and close collaboration with local partners, MdM Switzerland is committed to ensure context-appropriate response concepts and the sustainability of effected work.
∎ MdM Switzerland has been working in support to the displaced Rohingya population and affected host community in Cox`s Bazar since 2018. The core focus of its response lies on quality primary health care, sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and quality care for gender-based violence (GBV) survivors in the Rohingya camps and surrounding local communities.
∎ The `hidden pandemic` evolving along the devastating impact of the COVID-19 crisis has again demonstrated the importance of GBV mainstreaming in health and other sectors which has been the course of recent work of MdM Switzerland in Cox`s Bazar. In strong partnership with our local partner, MdM Switzerland is committed to strengthening health structures and extensive capacity building on quality service for GBV survivors as well as to address communities` awareness and response capacity to GBV at community level.
∎ To ensure appropriate implementation and development of the programme, sound coordination at field level with a magnitude of actors in the Rohingya response and oversight of the overall mission, closely collaborating with other MdM chapters, MdM Switzerland is searching for a General Coordinator to start from December 2020 onwards. The position is open to both national and expatriate candidates. Detailed qualification requirements and information on the recruitment process are presented below. Please, note that only candidates fitting the below profile can be considered.

Additional Requirements:
∎ At least 3 years of work experience in the humanitarian and/or development sector as project manager / programme manager / coordinator
∎ Field-level experience with an international NGO
∎ Skills and qualities:
∎ Demonstrated experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation
∎ Sound knowledge of GBV thematic and/or health in emergencies
∎ Experience working in displacement context, knowledge of the Rohingya response is an asset
∎ Excellent coordination skills
∎ Experience in donor report writing and donor liaison
∎ Experience in context analysis and assessments
∎ Experience in partnership development;
∎ Motivated and adherence to MdM principles
∎ Patience and excellent diplomatic skills
∎ Language requirements:
∎ Excellent spoken and written English
∎ French and/or Bangla is an advantage

Application Deadline: 7 Nov 2020

Company Information:
∎ 22 Oct 2020
∎ Médecins du Monde Suisse (MdM Switzerland)

Category: NGO/Development

Read Before Apply: Médecins du Monde Switzerland strives to hire competent staff with relevant skills, experience and aptitude to work without regard to gender, race, religion, ethnicity or any other considerations. In that sense, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

Source: bdjobs.com

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