Career Opportunities in Nigeria at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), January 2016
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent
international medical humanitarian organization 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.
MSF-Spain is currently recruiting to fill the following job positions for its operations in Banisheikh Health Center:
Job Title: Logistics Coordinator Assistant
Main Purpose
Assist
the logistics coordinator in specific activities and assume some
delegated tasks, according to his/her instructions and complying with
MSF standards, in order to ensure a proper logistic management in
capital and provide support to logistic activities in the projects.
Job Description (Shortened)
- Plan and supervise the logistics within the coordination base
(repairs, equipment maintenance, stock management, cleanliness…), in
order to ensure the best operational working conditions in the
coordination project. Supervise all staff necessary to run the base,
including contractors or daily workers for small construction projects.
- Support the logistics coordinator and/or the supply manager in
organizing the ordering and transport of goods to the different
projects, in order to comply with their needs in terms of quality and
timeliness.
- Organize and supervise the fleet of vehicle in the coordination base
(driver’s schedules, vehicles maintenance, vehicles registration and
insurance, fuel consumptions, etc.), in order to ensure coping with the
transportation and movement needs. Collaborate with the mechanic to
update and to fill report monthly for all projects.
- Assist the logistics coordinator with the check up and supervision
of the proper functioning of the computers and other communication and
IT equipment, in order to ensure a continuous and appropriate flow of
information and communication, including conducting physical
maintenance, updating antivirus software, and ensuring timely backups.
- Ensure repair and maintenance of generators and power back-up
systems as well as cold chain equipment, water pumps and other technical
equipment used or stocked in capital and inform to the logistic
coordinator in case of any further needs concerning technical equipment,
in order to have an adequate running. Track all projects’ equipment
with an updated Tugeres.
- Support the LogCo in the planning and ensuring an appropriate
emergency preparedness and response capacity (stocks, contacts,
transport means, staff training), including security hibernation rooms.
Supervise the radio operator to follow all movements in Maiduguri and
maintain perfect communication with the Logistics Coordinator about team
locations.
- Inform the logistics coordinator in case of any major issue and
draw-up all required reporting, in order to keep updated and reliable
information that will ease decision-making.
- Maintain and distribute on a weekly basis a contact list for all MSF
phone numbers and email addresses in the projects, ensuring that every
expat has a charged phone with credit at all times.
Requirements
- Education: Essential secondary education plus further training
- Experience: Essential two years of previous experience in similar jobs.
- Desirable with MSF or other NGOs, in developing countries Essential experience managing staff.
- Languages: Mission language essential. Local language essential.
- Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (word, excel, internet)
- Technical capabilities in logistics (mechanics, electricity, construction
- Competencies: Stress Management, Commitment, Flexibility, Results, Teamwork
Work Location
Maiduguri, Borno state (Nigeria).
Contract
Fixed-term contract. Working hours according to Nigerian law.
Job Title: Midwife
Reference No: (Reference No. 08_ben16)
Place of Work: North East (Banisheikh Kga LGA, Borno State)
Salary: As per the MSF salary scale (national contract)
Responsibilities and Tasks
- Ensure the implementation and continuity of antenatal and postnatal
care, family planning, obstetrical care (BEmONC 1 and CEmONC 2),
neonatal and comprehensive abortion care, management of victims of
sexual violence, reproductive tract infections and Fistula care in
accordance with MSF Reproductive Core Package of Activities and
reinforce the implementation of standardized protocols.
- Where PMTCT is implemented, ensure implementation of the PMTCT
protocol in the ANC/delivery and PNC consultations (pre counselling,
test and post counselling
- Collaborate with the medical doctor and /or nurse in the management of Sexual Violence cases
- Assess the feasibility for referral of pregnant women form the TBAs
to the OPD/MCH for medical evaluation and/or complicated deliveries.
- Ensure hygiene and sterilization criteria (including universal precautions) are met according to MSF specifications.
- Guarantee a regular and ongoing supply of drugs and equipment
required for maternity activities (including monitoring/consumption
control/ordering of orders.
- Properly follow up all newborn babies from delivery until discharge,
informing mothers and relatives about importance of breast feeding,
vaccination and possible complications resulting from harmful
traditional practices.
- Ensure patients’ right to privacy and confidentiality is respected
- Supervise that administrative procedures of admissions and
hospitalizations comply with MSF protocols , as well as verify patients
are properly informed and receive the documents required (birth
certificate, vaccination card, etc
- NB: The responsibilities mentioned above are not exhaustive and
other work can be required according to the needs of the mission.
Mobility is requested from MSF staff, including short term assignments
from their usual place of work .
REQUIREMENTS:
- Education
- Essential midwifery qualification or specialization. Desired Bachelor in Midwifery + Midwife License.
- Experience
- Essential working experience of at least two years in midwife activities related jobs Essential Desirable.
- Languages
- Essential, English, Hausa and Kanuri language would be an asset.
- Competencies
- Results
- Teamwork
- Flexibility
- Commitment
- Service
Job Title: Midwife Assistant - 4 positions
Place of Work: North East (Banisheikh Kga LGA, Borno State)
Salary: As per the MSF salary scale (national contract)
Main Objective of Position
Assist
the midwife during labour and all sexual and reproductive health
activities, according to his/her instructions and MSF protocols, in
order to ensure hygiene, care and comfort of all patients.
Responsibilities and Tasks
- Assist the midwife during delivery and antenatal; postnatal and
family planning consultations, in order to receive and install the
patient, providing them the information required, helping in taking,
monitoring and interpreting the parameters, etc.
- Follow hygiene and safety protocols at all times, during delivery,
consultations, etc., ensuring the cleanliness and tidiness of all
facilities, material, linen, equipment, and carrying out the sorting and
waste disposal.
- Inform patients and their relatives throughout their stay.
- Set up health education sessions, according to needs.
- Ensure comfort of bed-ridden patients: washing, installation for eating meals, changing position, etc.
- Refer to the midwife in case of any abnormal change in patient’s health status and other problems occurring.
- Ensure good transfer and transport of patients between the different services and departments.
- Transport samples to the laboratory and collect the results.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Education
- Essential literacy and midwifery or health training
- Experience
- Essential working experience in similar relevant jobs with other NGOs.
- Languages
- Local languages (Kanuri, Hausa) desirable and mission language essential.
- Competencies
- Results
- Teamwork
- Flexibility
- Commitment
- Service
- Stress Management
Job Title: Medical Doctor For Monguno Project
Main Purpose
Provide
outpatient and/or inpatient medical care to patients/beneficiaries
according to adapted and updated medical knowledge, MSF protocols,
values and universal hygiene standards to improve the
patients/beneficiaries health conditions.
Job Description (Shortened)
- Apply medical knowledge and skills to diagnose and prevention. Carry
out outpatient and inpatient consultations, prescribing the necessary
treatment respecting MSF protocols.
- Keep the patient and/or his/her family informed about the illness
and provide appropriate explanations about the treatment to follow,
checking they have understood.
- Follow up the evolution of the hospitalized/IDP patients, through
daily visits , consultations and examinations, prescribing the necessary
treatment following MSF protocols, deciding whether they can be
discharged or transferred to other departments – in collaboration with
other doctors- and informing their family about the patient’s evolution.
- Check and control the rational distribution of medicines and
equipment under his/her responsibility and take care the quality,
disinfection and sterilization of the medical material. Assure general
compliance with standing hygiene standards.
- Participate in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data,
checking its validity and informing the line manager or project
coordinator about any problem or complication of the patients illness,
medical error and monitors the proper functioning of the department,
equipment or material.
- Ensure ongoing training of the medical/paramedical multidisciplinary team in order to optimize the quality of care.
- Knows and ensures all MSF medical protocols are followed and
implemented, checking universal precautions are followed at all times
and reducing bio-hazard risks and improving infection control. Ensures
professional confidentiality is respected.
- Manage the team under his/her direct responsibility according to MSF
HR policies and procedures, supervising their performance, organizing
and scheduling shifts and rotations, directly participating in
emergencies and on calls if necessary.
- Know, promote, implement and follow at all times the universal
hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection
control, security rules and other protocols and procedures in the
medical premises and ensure high standards of hygiene of his/her working
environment .
- Organize and carry out care and treatments according to medical
prescriptions, as well as assist them during consultations/ daily rounds
and other medical procedures.
- Ensure patients are properly received and installed in the health
service. Ensures that patients with lack of autonomy are assisted,
especially regarding their feeding, personal hygiene, movements and
comfort.
- Respect medical secret and confidentiality
- Carry-out admission, surveillance and follow-up of patients meaning
assessment of their health state evolution, and identification of
emergency situation or any deterioration,
- Participate in health education of the patient (and family) when necessary
- Supervise and train nurse-aids, nutritional assistants, cleaners and
other related staff under his/her supervision in their work with
special focus in following all appropriate protocols and procedures and
ensuring team work
- Participate in the department-related pharmacy and medical equipment
control and maintenance (carrying out inventories, carrying out stock
takes of medicines and material at every team changeover, ensuring no
material is taken out of nursing area/wards without prior authorisation,
checking its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, doing
follow-up of expired drugs, etc.).
- Carry-out and supervise administrative procedures and documents
(fill in patients files, forms, consumptions, statistics, etc.), ensure
an appropriate written/oral handover, and report any problematic
situations and cases that may arise. fill in all necessary registers and
health files, participate in data collection and keep
doctors/supervisors informed.
- For ER and OPD nurse, ensure triage of patients in waiting areas,
wards or during emergencies, detecting the priority acute/emergency
cases, carrying out first aid care when necessary and referring them to
the doctor.
- If applicable, identify Sexually Gender Based Violence victims and
refer them to the medical team, so they can receive the necessary
treatment.
- Knows and is aware of the importance and appropriate use of the Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Kit
- Sends material to be sterilized and recuperates it from sterilization.
Requirements
- Education: Nigerian Medical Diploma with minimum of 2 years of active clinical experience since graduation
- Experience: 2 year experience minimum as a Medical Doctor or in
clinical work (can be within medical training). Desirable in tropical
medicine, or post-registration experience in Public Health , infectious
diseases, HIV/AIDS/STDs, TB, general practice, general medicine or minor
surgery.
- Languages: Mission language essential (English). Local language compulsory.
- Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (word, excel)
- Competencies: People management, commitment, flexibility, results, teamwork
Work Location
Maiduguri, Borno state (Nigeria).
Contract
Fixed-term contract. Working hours according to Nigerian law.
Job Title: Midwife Supervisor
Place of Work: North East (Banisheikh Kga LGA, Borno State)
Salary: As per the MSF salary scale (national contract)
Main Objective of Position
Defines,
implements and follows up all midwife and maternity related activities
in project area ; ensuring the proper implementation of protocols and
the quality of cares, analyzing statistics and reports, managing staff
involved in the midwife and maternity related activities.
Functional and Hierarchical Lines
Reports hierarchically to functionally to the Midwife Activities Manager
Manages the midwives and nursing related staff
Collaborates with other team.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Midwife Activities Management
- Develop midwives roster in monthly in Delivery, OPD, with consultation of your line supervisor.
- To supervise the work of the midwives involved in the activity with close consultation of your line supervisor.
- Participates on job trainings of all midwives and nursing related staff
- Defines the training needs of the midwife and nursery related staff according to project objectives and potential.
- Organises with your line supervisor and implements trainings of midwife and maternity staff.
- Ensures relevant transfer of information from one duty team to another.
- Ensures that all midwife and maternity staff promotes and maintains confidentiality regarding all patient cases and records.
- Ensure with your supervisor in responsibilities for the surveillance of all maternity patients delivery, ANCs, PNC.
- Is responsible for hygiene and universal precautions in health
facilities according to protocols and in cooperation with logistics
department and your line manager, Knows and implements accidental
exposure policy.
- Supervises dressing, sterilization and injection services related to delivery, ANC, PNC patients in the health facilities.
- Ensures that basic delivery plans are adhered by delivery, ANC, PNC
including BEMOC that prescriptions and protocols are respected.
- Ensures that all pregnant women and new born children are referred
to the Extended Program on Immunisation (EPI). Consider making this post
primary responsible for all EPI.
- Supervises daily routine activities in the delivery ward, ANC, PNC and support with midwives any overload of the work.
- To ensure all the administration procedures and document are used correctly, as well as existed data management tools.
- To ensure and identify the needs of the logistic in the ANC, PNC, Delivery and report in your line manager.
- Flexibility of roster in night and day if needed
Pharmacy
- Ensures proper distribution and distribution of drugs according to protocols.
- Monitors and supervises weekly and monthly consumption of drugs as
well as inventories in cooperation with pharmacist ensuring that drug
consumptions match number of patients and prescriptions.
- Trains and supervises maternity staff regarding the proper use of drugs, needs and consumptions.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI)
- Supervises and ensures good quality of Prevention Parent To Child
Transmission (PPTCT) and Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT)
activities for all pregnant women.
- Supervises and ensures that counselling services are done appropriately following protocols.
- Works in collaboration with the Information, Education ad Communication (IEC) for all IEC activities.
- Ensure that transmission by HIV or other STIs is avoided with the
help of Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) and the use of condoms while
trying to respect local traditions.
Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV)
Knows SGBV protocol and ensure that it is implemented.
Identifies possible victims of SGBV and refers them to medical team for treatment according to protocols.
Emergencies
Participates in emergency activity or exploratory visit in or out of the project area if needed.
Recording
- Ensures that recording in individual patient’s card and registration books of all nursing activities are performed correctly.
- Ensures that all data management tools, i.e. Fuchia, EpiInfo, etc., are used and are updated properly.
- Ensures that all administrative procedures and documents used correctly (discharge paper, transfer paper)
Equipment
- Look after all equipment provided.
- Ensure that no material is taken out of midwife area and maternity rooms without prior authorisation.
- Ensure that inventories of all material and equipment used exist and are updated.
Maintenance
Ensure cleanliness of midwife areas, maternity and delivery rooms.
Reporting
- Preparation of weekly data collection as well as monthly data.
- Participates in the monthly reports according to guidelines
(SitReps, medical statistics, etc.) being responsible for this for all
SRH activities—collection and analysis of med stats)
- Participates in the epidemiological reports related to health facilities in the project area.
- Informs other medical/midwife managers or doctors about any possible
serious problem medical complicated or ex. worsening of state of
patients, problems in medicines, etc.
- Informs line manager of any problems that might be linked to work of
midwife or maternity staff as well as problematic equipment or material
(ex. broken, missing).
Meetings
- Participate in meetings with other supervisors in order to ensure
smooth collaboration of all departments in terms of activities running.
- Participate in meetings in health facility with MSF staff and collaborators.
- Participate in team meetings and possible trainings.
- etc.).
Sexually Gender Based Violence (SGBV)
Knows SGBV protocol and ensure that it is implemented.
Identifies possible victims of SGBV and refers them to medical team for treatment according to protocols
Reporting
- Participates in the monthly reports according to guidelines, i.e. Situation Reports (SitReps), medical statistical reports, etc.
- Participates in definition of annual planning and its updates with their relevant budgets for the project.
- Participates in the epidemiological reports related to health facilities in the area of work of MSF.
- Informs other medical managers or doctors about any possible serious
problem or complication, ex. worsening of state of patients, problems
in medicines, etc.
Others
Prepares any document related to work of all midwife or maternity staff.
Participates in meetings in health facility with MSF staff and collaborators.
REQUIREMENTS
- Education: Recognized midwifery qualification or specialization. Desired Bachelor in
- Midwifery and Recognized midwifery qualification + Midwife License
- Languages: Local languages (Kanuri, Hausa) desirable and mission language essential.
- Essential working experience of at least two years in relevant jobs
- Experience: Desirable experience with MSF other NGOs
- Knowledge: Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel and Internet)
How to Apply
Use the emails below to apply for the corresponding job positions above:
All applicants should send a CV and motivation letter and copies of credentials either by Email with the job title as subject
OR
OR in person to MSF Offices: in Banisheikh: Along Damaturu-Maiduguri Express way Near Check point
OR in person to MSF Offices: in Damaturu: Yakubu Bello House Damaturu Low Cost, Near Yobe Scholars Academy, New Jerusalem;
OR in person to MSF Offices: in Abuja: Road 131, House 10 Gwarimpa, Abuja.
Only short-listed applicants will be contacted
Application Deadline 10 January 2017