Job Summary

 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters or exclusion from healthcare.

Main purpose:

Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning nursing and the team associated, according to MSF values, policies and protocols and universal health standards, in order to warrant the quality and continuity of the health care and the development of the plan of action. 

Accountability:

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as a nurse or anesthetist, whenever required or needed, in order to optimize the resources, contributing with his/her knowledge and experience.
• Implement all the protocols and hygiene procedures and supervise his/her team follow the same standards, in order to warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her specialty.
• Organize and coordinate the activities of his/her team (week’s schedule, annual leave, absences, etc.), evaluate their performance and define and ensure the needs for training of staff, in order to ensure the coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of quality.
• Carry out and/or supervise the ( decentralized) pharmacy and medical equipment management (drugs orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, drugs consumption, etc.)in his or her department, in order to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring that cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
• Carry-out and/or coordinate administrative (exit-paper, transfer-paper, etc.), information and data collection (patient files, forms, statistics, etc.) tasks, and elaborate regular reporting, in order to have updated and reliable information about the day-to-day activity in the project, output/ outcome and support decision-taking.

Give feedback/ reports to medical focal point.Context specific accountability:

Due to the context, the SNNP Region has recently experienced an increased displacement of people and the outbreaks of several diseases and therefore an increase on medical need. Currently there is a measles outbreak for which we support for the clinical management and in the organisation of the unit. Mobile clinics are organized in collaboration and in order to support the existing health care system. 

On a regular basis, we assess where these populations are residing and if there are gaps in terms of health care, and organize mobile clinics consequently. The region has been identified as being susceptible for food crises. That is why we will work on malnutrition services in the different areas where we are active.

There are still many challenges in the area that will require from our team a big flexibility to adapt to the needs: changes in the location or the specific tasks that the staff was performing, extra hours, etc. Currently we are working in Konso Zone, Alle Special Woreda, Derashe Special Woreda, Amaro Special Woreda and soon in Burji Special Woreda. However, MSF will adapt its strategy and activities according to the needs. For this reason the MSF team needs to be flexible and may have to work in others places that the ones mentioned above.

MSF is an independent, neutral and impartial organisation that is providing quality medical care free of charge regardless the ethnic origin of our patients, so to both local and refugee population.

We ensure that our staff is aware and respect the cultural differences of our patients and collaborates with the Regional Health Bureau staff in an equally respectful way. 

Job Requirements

Education

Mandatory: Specialist (nurse) diploma.

Experience

Mandatory: 2 years of previous experience.

Desirable: Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries

Languages             

Mandatory: good command of both Amharic and English

Knowledge

Mandatory: computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

Competencies

• Results
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Stress management

How to Apply

All applicants should send a CV, a cover letter, educational records, work certificates and a copy of national ID.

Application can be submitted/ sent:

- by email: to msfocb-snnpr-hrfin@brussels.msf.org (please indicate on the subject box: the vacancy title and your name)

Posting date: 11/02/2021

Closing date: 17/02/2021

MSF Spain promotes the EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION.

We strongly encourage women and people with reduced mobility (able to work in remote places) to apply.

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Copies of CV + supporting documents are non-returnable. Phone calls are not allowed.