Under the general supervision of the MSIE Area Programs Manager, the job holder performs nursing duties, mobilization activities, ensuring efficient delivery and client care in accordance with accepted standard medical practice and professional codes of conduct.

1.  General

• Provides nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to clients based on client’s assessment and care planning procedures.

• Performs SRH interventions such as client counselling, family planning service provision, comprehensive abortion care, taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques, ensuring infection control

• Administers medication and observes and documents therapeutic effects

• Provides pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care

• Monitors Clients' progress, evaluate effectiveness of SRH interventions and consults with appropriate members of outreach team

• Provides reproductive health/family planning education to individuals and the communities.

• Plan, implement and document demand creation activities. 

  IDP Clinical Nurse Role

• Provides comprehensive family planning services 

• Provides family planning counselling services to make clients to make informed voluntary decision on their contraceptive choice.

• Provides safe abortion services based upon Ethiopian Legal Abortion Requirements

• Provides counselling on preventing unwanted pregnancies, correct use of pregnancy termination procedures. 

• Prepares all surgical instruments, sets and medical supplies required for operation in accordance with accepted standards, 

• Assists surgeons intra-operatively (as a Scrub Nurse, Circulating Nurse, etc.) and makes the instruments ready for other operations as required.

• Cleans and sterilizes the operating room and instruments.

• Carries messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments

• Makes beds and maintains Clients' rooms

Related Duties/Tasks

• Ensures the maintenance of high-level standards and applies universal precautions to prevent infection (e.g., Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS) from blood or other body fluids of Clients

• Accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.

• Prepares and submits periodic reports as required.

• Participate in demand creation activity

• Made close follow up for post procedure clients 

• Maintain inventory of supplies; accounts for all assets under his/her custody during regular stock taking and audit as and when required.

• Handling client’s belongingness properly

• Performs related tasks as required

Job Requirement

Qualification Requirements

A)Education: 

      BSc/Diploma in Nursing 

B)Experience

        Two Years’ experience for BSC nurse and four years for Diploma nurse.

C) Skills, Attitudes and Attributes

• Good Communication and Interpersonal skills

• Conscious of Government, MSI and MSIE regulations

• Counselling skill and ability to provide FP and SA services 

• Well conversant with Afar language

• Good knowledge of the area and the culture 

• Ability to work under insecure and stressful situation 

Number of Position: (02)

Duty Station: Awash Fentele and Semera, 

Employment for Five-month contract 

Salary: As per MSIE Salary Scale

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to download and fill the job application form from THIS LINK and email to Humanresource@mariestopes.org.et before the closing date of this announcement on Feb 10, ,2025 i.e. within Ten (10) consecutive days.

Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled in the application form and send us back.  We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.

Please mention the title of the position and workplace you applied for on the subject line of your email.

Due to the volume of applications, we will only contact shortlisted candidates, and we are unable to provide any feedback on unsuccessful applications.

CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

MSI ETHIOPIA REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES STRONGLY ENCOURAGE FEMALE CANDIDATES TO APPLY!