Mission
The purpose of the position is to coordinate the health actions of the projects that the organization develops in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps in Tindouf.
Geographic scope of Intervention
Sahrawi Refugee Population Camps, Tindouf, Algeria.
Organization chart
Hierarchical unit of the coordination of PaÃs MDM Sahara with a health technical team under its charge.
Responsibilities
Strategic
• Actively participate with the Country Coordination, in the development of lines of action and in the definition of the Country Strategy.
• Propose strategies in the health field to improve efficiency and effectiveness and to enhance synergies between lines of action. If applicable, implement them and follow up on them.
• Contribute to the integration of transversal approaches in the health field, together with the Gender and Human Rights Coordinator.
Development of programs and projects
• Support the entire project cycle from needs detection and formulation to final evaluation, in all health aspects, with a results and impact orientation approach.
• Together with the coordination of the different departments, supervise MdM interventions from a health point of view: analysis of the quality of services, technical and scientific support/advice during the execution of projects, analysis and monitoring of indicators, compliance with standards doctors, relationships and appropriation of the health system, etc.
Technical assistance
• Contribute to the process of coordinating the purchase of medicines, consumables and project materials, in collaboration with the personnel responsible for pharmacy, logistics, administration and the rest of the team.
• Track indicators, results, FFVV and other products
• Support the healthcare team hired by Doctors of the World, specifically in terms of training, supervision, training needs and performance evaluation.
• Identify training needs of health personnel and promote their implementation, guaranteeing quality content and scientific rigor.
• Supervise the contents of Health Education campaigns.
Monitoring and Reporting
• Ensure the monitoring and health reporting of activities in compliance with the conditions and stipulations of the projects and the procedures and principles of the Doctors of the World.
• Participate and promote the collection and analysis of data from health services, contributing to the reinforcement of the MSP Health Information System; and monitoring data from MdM projects, contributing to the development of Activity Info
• Identify new health intervention needs, including response to health emergencies that may occur such as. for example, epidemic outbreaks
• Monitor and support the implementation of activities to strengthen the Priority Programs of the Ministry of Health of the SADR, as well as participate and promote the collection and analysis of statistical data on medical services (reinforcement of the Health Information System).
• Collaborate in the preparation of project monitoring reports: internal reports from Médicos del Mundo, external reports from donors and local and international institutions.
• Write periodic technical reports, SITREPs, and participate in team meetings.
Coordination and representation
• Maintain contacts and close collaborative relationships from a technical-medical point of view with local partners, Sahrawi health authorities, agencies or other national and international NGOs related to health.
• Participate and be part of the International Network of Doctors of the World
• Participate in the Communities, Working Groups of the geostrategic group or the International Network when required by the person responsible.
Health risk management
• Be responsible for the existence, knowledge, updating and application of safety standards related to the health of MdM personnel: health guide, MEDEVAC, first aid kits, COVID-19 protocols, etc.
• Participate in the definition and implementation of the health policy of the MdM teams.
• Technically support emergency responses in the area of intervention and in the management of critical incidents with a health component.
Any other demand related to their functions, made by the Country Coordination.
Requirements:
Training
Academic Qualification:
Required: Graduate in medicine or diploma in nursing.
Additional Training:
Project cycle management (logical framework, results-oriented management, rights-based approach), management of health programs and projects, community health, awareness, public health, interculturality and gender.
Requirements
Languages: Excellent level of Spanish essential Highly desirable: English, French.
Valuable: Arabic.
Computing: User level of the Office package.
Experience
Field experience in international cooperation in the aforementioned functions is essential.
Experience in humanitarian action contexts and knowledge of the Sahrawi context is desirable.
Competencies
– Management and development of people.
– Interculturality, approach based on gender and human rights.
– Planning and organization.
– Relational capacity and excellent communication skills.
– Problem solving.
– Work in adverse situations.
– Results orientation.
– Flexibility and adaptation to change.
– Abilities to work as a team.
– Diplomacy.
Remuneration/Conditions
Salary tables of Doctors of the World. Category: Group 4: Medical Coordination. Indefinite contract.
Working day: 40 hours.
Note:
Doctors of the World promotes equal opportunities for all people and establishes positive action measures for those who, due to functional diversity or social and/or cultural exclusion, belong to underrepresented groups in the positions offered. Therefore, no candidacy with a valid profile will be rejected due to its functional diversity or because it is culturally or socially excluded due to birth, ethnicity, race, sex, gender or any other personal, social or cultural condition or circumstance.
