Recrutement  ERITREA - Medical Coordinator

MdM has provided support since 2004 to disfigured people by war, diseases or malnutrition, supporting people excluded by their disability to return to a normal social life. Since March 2006, MdM is providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to improve access to obstetrical surgical care in Afabet Hospital and the referral system for high-risk deliveries in Northern Red Sea region, where the estimated maternal mortality rate is one of the highest in the world.

The medical coordinator will have to supervise, organise and coordinate the mission’s medical part in order to guarantee the medical activity’s pertinence and the contract of objectives’ respect:

- In terms of management: the medical coordinator manages national and expatriate medical team and organises its activity at the operational level.

- He supervises, organises and implements the mission’s medical activities.

- He is in charge and guarantor for the respect of protocols and for the respect of ethics in medical terms.

- He takes part in drafting the project and writes the medical narrative reports (final and intermediary), in the respect of donors’ requirements.

- He is in charge of the mission’s medical budget.

- In terms of relation with the authorities and local partners, in the medical field: He takes part in the negotiation and in the development of agreements and contracts; he supervises and organises their application and keeps regular contacts.

- He is in charge of the exchange of medical technical information with the head office; he supervises the respect of procedures and of the obligation to give information within his team.

Departure : ASAP

Duration : 6 months

Status : salaried

Profile :

- Doctor, Nurse or Midwife with knowledge of Maternal & Child Health

- Experience of humanitarian work and medical coordination

- Experience of surgery is an asset

- Security: experience of difficult working conditions

- Reporting skills

- English fluent