Medical Coordinator – Ethiopia – M/F – Ethiopia

The ALIMA SPIRIT: ALIMA’s raison d’être is to save lots of lives and take care of essentially the most susceptible populations, with none discrimination based mostly on id, faith or politics, by way of actions based mostly on proximity, innovation and the alliance of organizations and people. We act with humanism, impartiality and respect for common medical ethics. In an effort to entry sufferers, we’re dedicated to intervening in a impartial and impartial method.

THE VALUES and PRINCIPLES of our motion, inscribed in our CHARTER :

1. The affected person first
2. Revolutionizing humanitarian drugs
3. Accountability and freedom
4. Enhance the standard of our actions
5. To belief
6. Collective intelligence
7. Environmental accountability

ALIMA promotes and defends the rules of basic human rights. ALIMA has a zero-tolerance method to perpetrators of gender-based and sexual violence and to inaction within the face of suspected or precise violence. The safety of those that profit and are impacted by our intervention is our prime precedence in all the things we do. Everybody who collaborates with ALIMA is dedicated to :

• Respect the constitution, the code of conduct, the institutional insurance policies together with the coverage of safety towards abuse of energy and gender and sexual violence, the coverage of prevention of corruption and fraud;
• Report any violations of insurance policies, framework paperwork and procedures to a supervisor, supervisor, or referral agent or to the tackle offered for that objective

CARING – INNOVATING – TOGETHER:

Since its inception in 2009, ALIMA has handled greater than 10 million sufferers and is now working in 12 nations in Africa. In 2021, we’ve got developed 67 humanitarian medical response initiatives to satisfy the wants of populations affected by battle, epidemics and excessive poverty. All of those initiatives help nationwide well being authorities by way of 357 well being services (together with 45 hospitals and 312 well being facilities). We work in partnership, notably with native NGOs, every time potential to make sure that our sufferers profit from experience wherever it’s accessible, whether or not of their nation or in the remainder of the world. As well as, to enhance the humanitarian response, we conduct operational and scientific analysis initiatives, notably within the areas of malnutrition and viral hemorrhagic fevers. ALIMA additionally conducts operations in response to the covid-19 pandemic in all our missions.

OUR PROJECT THEMES: Malnutrition, Sexual and Reproductive Well being together with Gender Primarily based Violence, Main and Secondary Well being, Surgical procedure, Pediatric Care, Killer Illnesses corresponding to Malaria, ARI, Diarrhea, Epidemics (Hemorrhagic Fevers, Meningitis, Cholera, Measles, Dengue, Covid-19)

OUR COUNTRIES OF INTERVENTION: Mali, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Guinea, South Sudan, Mauritania, Senegal and Sudan.

ALIMA IN ETHIOPIA

On the finish of March 2022, ALIMA visited Ethiopia for the primary time to develop official contacts and collect sufficient info to arrange an ALIMA mission within the nation.

On the finish of Could 2022, ALIMA carried out an exploratory mission within the Afder zone with a purpose to higher perceive the context, and to evaluate the well being and vitamin wants, to establish the necessity for a humanitarian intervention. Three woredas had been focused: Hargele, Barey and Elkare. The choice was based mostly on; the most recent nationwide hotspot classification (all three are precedence one), a number of well being indicators shared by the Regional Well being Bureau (RHB), latest knowledge from the regional vitamin cluster exhibiting rising acute malnutrition ranges, the Famine Early Warning Methods Community forecasts on meals safety (all three can be IPC stage 4 – Emergency section), displacement knowledge (IOM), and final however not least the low presence of different actors and companions.

The primary actions to come back will include :

Within the quick time period :

November 2022 : get hold of registration / immigration course of / checking account and HR…

December 2022 : open and implement a take-off mission for the mission.

In response to the drought and vitamin disaster -> Somali area (wants + entry)

Evaluation accomplished in Could-June. Dietary screening in August if settlement will be obtained from PPN and the Ministry of Well being.

Cut back mortality and morbidity related to AM and pediatric ailments and maternal

Within the mid-to-long time period

Begin an anchor mission within the Northern Area (Ahmara / Afar or Tigray) together with conducting new assessments.

Mission Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa with frequent travels to the mission areas.

For the MEDCO, the priorities through the opening section of the mission can be:

• Recruitment and help of the medical staff
• Organising the mission (medical order, knowledge…)
• Assessments of different areas for mission extension

PROTECTION OF BENEFICIARIES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Degree 3: As a part of his/her duties, the incumbent will go to applications and are available into contact with youngsters and/or susceptible adults. Due to this fact, a legal document examine or a certificates of fine character can be required. In conditions the place a legal document examine or character reference is just not potential, a declaration of honor can be requested.

FUNCTIONAL AND HIERARCHICAL LINKS

• Studies to the Head of Mission
• Technical referent is the Medical Desk referent
• Is the referent of the referring doctor(s) of the mission(s)
• Collaborates with the Discipline Undertaking Coordinators, Coordination Workforce

MISSION AND MAIN ACTIVITIES

The medical coordinator should outline the aims and technical orientations of the mission, suggest methods in line with the medical and humanitarian wants of the areas of intervention and supply technical help to all of the medical groups of the mission.

Analyzes, defines and adjusts the medical aims of ALIMA initiatives within the nation of mission

• Information assortment
• Ensures that ALIMA knowledge assortment instruments are correctly used on the mission
• Screens the mortality charge and suggests options for the development of high quality indicators
• Contributes to the quantitative analysis of native well being sources (HR, buildings, gear, and so on.) and qualitative analysis (upkeep, actors’ expertise, protocols, and group)
• Contributes to the gathering of indicators for monitoring the well being standing of the inhabitants with associate organizations and authorities relying on the context
• Analyzes, interprets and defines the medical-operational technique of the mission
• Coordinates the event of goal-oriented stories and medical indicators
• Analyzes and interprets the info to redirect the mission(s) after validation by the med desk and/or the HOM
• Contributes to the event of mission proposals and budgets with the coordination staff by figuring out the medical sources wanted to implement the initiatives
• Follows and analyses the qualities indicators et discover answer with the medical staff to carry out which might be unhealthy

Implementation of ALIMA applications

• Medical mission opening
• Assesses the necessity and hole of healthcare services and proposes strategic interventions to the Head of mission and the desk
• Helps the Undertaking coordinators and medical staff chief within the implementation of operation
• Developpes the required community to incorporate ALIMA within the humanitarian and social context in collaboration with the Emergency coordinator
• Participates within the medical evaluation wanted within the mission and within the opening of the brand new mission
• Contributes to the group of medical initiatives
• Supplies technical help, experience and safety to all well being applications, calling on the medical desk officer as wanted
• Controls the implementation, correct use and upkeep of diagnostic, scientific and therapeutic instruments crucial for affected person administration
• Identifies with the mission the completely different potential emergencies and participates within the preparedness of fast response mechanisms
• Participates within the pharma administration of initiatives
• Helps the monitoring of consumption and administration of the mission pharmacy
• Validates the drug distribution circuit
• Initiates the revision and updating of the nation commonplace drug listing
• Analyzes and validates consumption stories and makes suggestions
• Ensures that sourcing is revered throughout native purchases
• Participates within the validation and high quality management of native purchases
• Ensures the regularity of quarterly inventories and co-signs central pharmacy inventories
• Ensures compliance with good storage practices for medicine and narcotics
• Monitoring and analysis of initiatives
• Evaluates the standard of the providers provided within the referral buildings
• Ensures that medical ethics are revered and stays open to any questions on restrictions and limits of care within the mission surroundings (together with medical abuses and errors)
• Assesses dangers to workers, sufferers and caregivers
• Ensures compliance with workers and affected person safety measures

Illustration and communication

• Participates in coordination conferences and core conferences as requested by mission coordinators
• Represents the affiliation to 3rd events on medical points, guaranteeing the group’s good public picture and respecting the pursuits of the mission. On this capability, describes the initiatives and argues the alternatives
• Maintains common contact with native establishments and authorities, different NGOs within the nation, for a greater coordination of the deployment of well being initiatives (and applications) – participates in clusters and technical conferences

Capability constructing and staff facilitation

• Gives coaching programs
• Ensures that the abilities of the medical workers are up to date based on the evolution of the technical platform and the protocols made accessible to the mission
• Units up a medical division for coordination if crucial with the recruitment, coaching and reinforcement of a nationwide staff
• Defines and replace job profiles and efficiency goal plans for staff members and participates in the identical paperwork for medical and nursing referents
• Carries out the assessments of its staff in an method {of professional} course
• Makes coaching and job modifications potential for all medical workers within the mission
• Identifies the abilities that staff members want to accumulate to grasp their positions and manage coaching to bolster them

Workforce well being

• Develops the workers well being coverage for the nation
• Develops the medical evacuation SOP with help of logistic coordinator and Head of mission
• Participates within the evaluation of psychosocial dangers together with
• Validates with the Head of mission and help of the Human sources Coordinator the appliance modalities of the workers well being coverage (group, crucial means, protocols, SOP …)
• Ensures the standard of care offered within the workers well being setting (in-house or outsourced)
• Ensures that the medical confidentiality of the care offered is revered
• Ensures that insurance policies for the prevention of occupational ailments are efficient (vaccination, medical certificates, medical monitoring of particular initiatives, contraindications to sure actions, and so on.)
• Ensures that preventive measures for PSEA’s are carried out and that personnel are correctly cared for within the occasion of an accident.
• Identifies and evaluates accessible referral well being buildings (together with psychological well being)
• Informs the Medical desk in case of medical or psychological emergency and in case of want for well being evaluation
• Defines and ensures the supply of emergency kits and different inputs associated to workers well being
• Organizes the well being follow-up of the referred workers within the discipline
• Ensures coordination in case of medical evacuation

Implementation of prevention measures towards abuse of energy, gender-based and sexual violence:

• Participates in coaching and consciousness periods
• Take part within the Implementation abuse prevention requirements
• Ensures that staff members full coaching and consciousness periods and comply with abuse prevention guidelines
• Helps create and preserve a nurturing and protecting surroundings

EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS

Coaching

• Doctor or nurse with a Grasp’s diploma in public well being, mission administration, epidemiology…

Experiences

• 3 years expertise in an analogous place with a medical INGO
• Expertise on mission openings and/or missions
• Good sensible information of vitamin, pediatrics, SRH
• Expertise in getting ready proposals and donor stories

Abilities

• Monitoring and analysis
• Database administration in Excel
• Strategic imaginative and prescient
• Administration
• Surveys (SMART, CAP…)
• Pc science (Phrase, PowerPoint, superior Excel)

Languages

• Fluency in English is crucial
• Information of native languages (Somali and others) is a significant asset

CONDITIONS

• Contract time period: Contract underneath French regulation; contract size: 7 months, renewable.
• Place to be crammed: December 2022
• Wage: Relying on expertise

ALIMA pays for:

• Journey prices between the expatriate’s nation of origin and the mission location
• Lodging prices
• Medical cowl from the primary day of the contract to a month after the date of departure from the mission nation for the worker and his/her household
• Evacuation of the worker