Medical Coordinator Support

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. We offer assistance to people based on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF Ukraine is looking for:

Medical Coordinator Support

Main duties:

• Support the medical coordinator to define, monitor and update the medical content of the MSF country policy and annual plan, by scanning health needs through exploratory missions and implementation of health information system, elaborating, monitoring and reviewing project proposals, determining, necessary resources in order to cover medical and humanitarian needs of the population at risk. This will be done by ensuring linkage with the community, its proximity, safe-guarding medical ethics and the quality of medical programming (ie. Relevance, effectiveness, safety, accessibility and appropriateness of MSF's medical interventions, as well as «best practices» clinical management of beneficiaries.
• Represent MSF before third parties concerning medical issues, ensuring its good public image and the alignment with the mission interests.
• Ensuring regular contact with local authorities and institutions, other NGOs in the country and other MSF sections, for a better coordination in the implementation of health projects and programs.
• Negotiating with the authorities when necessary.
• Informing on MSF charter, values and principles.
• Participate and contribute 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.
• Monitoring the project (s) implementation.
• Assisting the project coordinator and the medical teams in drafting the project proposal and follow-up.
• Participating together with the Medical Coordinator in the definition and follow-up of medical staff needs, other medical resources needed, and budgeting.
• Collaborating and assisting in the production of medical reports.
• Identifying priority needs, other potential areas of action, and emergency situations
• Coach, train and motivate 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.
• Ensuring proper induction of all MSF Staff.
• Carrying out medical briefings and debriefings.
• Identifying training needs for medical staff.
• Identifying personnel showing potential.
• Supervising and carrying out technical evaluations.
• Promoting strict follow-up of MSF values and ethics by all staff and identifying any possible issue regarding this matter
• Collaborate in the pharmacy management in order to ensure enough and quality supply of drugs and medical material.
• Reviewing medical orders, monitoring of medicines consumption and stock levels of the different projects.
  
• Assist defining and implementing the staff health and security policies for international and national staff in order to ensure its overall safety.
• Monitoring both physical and mental health state of staff.
• Promoting the compliance of all related protocols and procedures.
• Collaborating in the update of issues regarding the security context.
• Ensures the Medical Coordination in the Mission and fully assumes the Medical Coordinator's tasks and responsibilities in case of absence/gaps

Requirements:

Education

• Medical Doctor with training or experience in public health.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years' experience in similar positions

Knowledge

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, internet, PP)

Languages

• English, Russian and Ukrainian are essential.

Competences

• Strategic vision
• Leadership
• People Management
• Planning
• Teamwork
• Flexibility and willingness to travel inside Ukraine, up to 40% of work time

Closing date: June 16, 2019 (due to the urgency of the position the recruitment can be finalized before the closing date of the position).

Monthly gross salary (before taxation): 32 962 UAH.

Type of contract: CLA for 3 months extendable with labor agreement.