Overseas roles with Medecins du Monde

Coordinators:
Already have significant experience within the framework of a humanitarian program. Medical or non medical, they supervise and coordinate all program activities, in respect of the safety of goods and people, to guarantee the pertinence and adaptability of the program to the contract of objectives. They represent the association to local, national, and international authorities.
Doctors:
Can be GPs or specialists (anaesthetists, paediatricians, psychiatrists, casualty doctors, etc), and often have a qualification in public health or in tropical medicine. They can see patients or manage and train local teams.

Surgeons:
Work on all programmes and in all disciplines (general, trauma, urology, maxillofacial, gynae/obstetric) either to provide treatment or train others.

Nurses and midwives:
Either general or specialist (public health, community health, tropical diseases, anaesthesiology, operating theatre, casualty) can provide treatment, vaccinations, training, health education or pharmacy administration, for example.

Clinical psychologists:
Normally intervene in post-crisis contexts and work mainly on psycho trauma, victimology, and risk reduction. They never give treatment directly but take on a training, management, and skills-transfer role for local mental health professionals.

Managers:
Supervise, organise, and are responsible for the administrative and financial aspects of a programme. They look after the budget, financial reporting, contracts and personnel, both overseas and locally. They manage and train the local administrative team.

Logisticians:
Organise all the team’s living arrangements and provide technical support for the programme. They look after purchasing and provisioning, clearance of goods through customs, transport; and manage supplies (including car, telecommunications, and IT inventories), and the rebuilding of healthcare structures. They manage and train the local logistics team.

Human rights specialists:
Lawyers specialising in human rights, refugee rights, or international law can be brought in (most commonly in crisis/emergency or rebuilding programmes) to assume one or more functions: gathering testimonies/evidence, creating or maintaining a network, and supporting the coordinator in geopolitical analysis.

Miscellaneous:
Depending on a particular programme’s needs, Medecins du Monde occasionally calls upon other specialists such as nutritionists, anthropologists, ethnologists, pharmacists, and biologists.