The French Section of Médecins Sans Frontières is currently recruiting
| Position: Laboratory Technician | Opening Date: August 15, 2025 |
| Work Location: Maiduguri | End Date: August 19, 2025 |
| Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract |
Context
Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, not-for-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in distress, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.
Main Purpose
Perform clinical laboratory activities according to MSF protocols, security, and hygiene measures in order to obtain results that orient diagnosis, support patient monitoring, and case management.
Job Description
- According to medical prescription, to prepare and perform clinical exams/tests with appropriate techniques and following MSF protocols and procedures. This function includes, among others:
- Taking blood and bodily fluid, and tissue samples.
- Preparation of test sample examples by centrifuging blood and urine samples.
- Performing laboratory exams (serology, hematology, biochemistry, bacteriology, or parasitology, according to the context of the mission).
- Ensuring proper reporting and registration of the sample results in order to keep a written track of activity and give information to the relevant persons, ensuring confidentiality.
- Taking care, managing, and organizing efficiently the laboratory material/equipment:
- Perform cleaning and minor maintenance for the biomedical equipment used. Following the user manual and protocols, and alert the supervisor in case of malfunctioning
- Applying hygiene and safety protocols, doing daily cleaning /maintenance, sterilization, and washing general glassware after procedures are done.
- Ensuring proper sample waste disposal according to MSF protocols and highest safety standards.
- Supplying orders, do stock, storage conditions follow-up, and keep inventory.
- Keeping organized the data collection system of laboratory results and all information generated from the analysis done.
- Reporting all relevant information linked to the activity in the laboratory to the line manager, especially the loss/robbery/damage of laboratory equipment or medicines.
- Participate in the morning medical meetings and ensure handover is done before leaving the service
- Ensuring knowledge of updated MSF Protocols, policies, and guidelines.
- Participate in on-the-job and other laboratory-related trainings for both lab and non-lab staff.
- Issuing out accurate and reliable laboratory test results to respective wards/units in a timely manner
- Participate in transfusion activities, including blood transfusion file review.
- Participate in Quality Improvement staff meetings whenever required to do so.
- Any other context-specific laboratory duties as may be assigned by direct-line supervisor from time to time.
- Active participation in other project activities and meetings
- Participate in the development of reforms in working strategies.
Requirements
| Education | • | Essential Laboratory Technician diploma /degree. |
| Experience | • | Minimum 1 year working experience essential. |
| Languages | • | Mission language desirable and local language essential |
| Knowledge | • | Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet) |
| Competencies | • | Results, teamwork, flexibility, commitment, service |
Contract 208 working hours per month
To Apply
https://forms.gle/ZfDCn42XsAFWtB97A
Renumeration
According to MSF salary scale plus 13th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary
Qualified females are highly encouraged to apply.
Only successful applicants will be called for the next steps and are obligated to disclose any information about family member(s) currently in the employ of MSF-France in any location.
No monetary transactions, neither demands of favours in kind, nor other types of favouritism will be tolerated in the MSF recruitment process.
MSF reserves the right to refuse to hire a candidate having benefitted from any such acts. All illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.
MSF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages any Nigerian citizen to apply irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, political affiliation.
Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct and hence not acceptable.
MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage. MSF France takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their application.
