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Contract South Africa Medical/Health Print


Médecins Sans Frontières has delivered medical and emergency humanitarian aid to people affected by violence or armed conflicts, as well as epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF teams are active in more than 60 countries throughout the world, and relies on 22,000 employees, of all kinds of nationalities. The organization, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1999, works in total neutrality and impartiality. When MSF witnesses serious acts of violence, neglected crises, or obstructions to its activities, the organization may decide to speak out.

HIV Epidemiologist  

Job description

  • Supervise and manage the M&E team, involving a data manager and data analyste, in order to ensure timely collection of data for project pilots
  • Work with project managers in the design and implementation of M&E for new pilot projects, with enhancement of existing data collection systems when possible
  • Participate in M&E meetings within MSF and with stakeholders
  • Compile quarterly statistics and assist with the development of yearly project indicators
  • Support the quarterly reporting of data from pilot project managers
  • Further development and maintenance of M&E tools for new and ongoing projects
  • Ensuring that each pilot project has a valid concept paper, research protocol, and ethics approval as needed
  • Maintaining an up to date operational research agenda
  • Ensuring communication on data updates and data collection challenges of current projects within the project team
  • Providing support for pilot projects from conceptualization during the yearly planning process through to dissemination of findings
  • Support operational research through writing of peer reviewed articles and study reports; the epidemiologist may lead the process of publication as first author, or provide support for other team members, depending on the person responsible for publication
  • Conduct data cleaning and statistical analyses as needed for data analysis; this will include mostly quantitative analyses of observational cohort data, but qualitative input may also be required
  • Ensuring ethics approvals are renewed per request from ethics review boards
  • Organizing meetings with research partners as needed
  • Support the capacity building of the M&E/operational research staff in the Khayelitsha project

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Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971 in France by a group of doctors and journalists in the wake of war and famine in Biafra. Their aim was to establish an independent organisation that focuses on delivering emergency medicine aid quickly, effectively and impartially.

Doctors Without Borders

Three hundred volunteers made up the organisation when it was founded: doctors, nurses and other staff, including the 13 founding doctors and journalists.

MSF was created in the belief that all people should have access to healthcare regardless of gender, race, religion, creed or political affiliation, and that people’s medical needs outweigh respect for national boundaries. MSF’s principles of action are described in our charter, which established a framework for our activities.

MSF's first missions

MSF’s first mission was to the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, in 1972, after an earthquake destroyed most of the city and killed between 10,000 and 30,000 people.

In 1974, MSF set up a relief mission to help the people of Honduras after Hurricane Fifi caused major flooding and killed thousands of people.

In 1975, MSF established its first large-scale medical programme during a refugee crisis, providing medical care for the waves of Cambodians seeking sanctuary from Pol Pot’s oppressive rule.

In these first missions, the weaknesses of MSF as a new humanitarian organisation became readily apparent: preparation was lacking, doctors were left unsupported and supply chains were tangled.

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Médecins Sans Frontières has delivered medical and emergency humanitarian aid to people affected by violence or armed conflicts, as well as epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF teams are active in more than 60 countries throughout the world, and relies on 22,000 employees, of all kinds of nationalities. The organization, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1999, works in total neutrality and impartiality. When MSF witnesses serious acts of violence, neglected crises, or obstructions to its activities, the organization may decide to speak out.

HIV Epidemiologist  

Job description

  • Supervise and manage the M&E team, involving a data manager and data analyste, in order to ensure timely collection of data for project pilots
  • Work with project managers in the design and implementation of M&E for new pilot projects, with enhancement of existing data collection systems when possible
  • Participate in M&E meetings within MSF and with stakeholders
  • Compile quarterly statistics and assist with the development of yearly project indicators
  • Support the quarterly reporting of data from pilot project managers
  • Further development and maintenance of M&E tools for new and ongoing projects
  • Ensuring that each pilot project has a valid concept paper, research protocol, and ethics approval as needed
  • Maintaining an up to date operational research agenda
  • Ensuring communication on data updates and data collection challenges of current projects within the project team
  • Providing support for pilot projects from conceptualization during the yearly planning process through to dissemination of findings
  • Support operational research through writing of peer reviewed articles and study reports; the epidemiologist may lead the process of publication as first author, or provide support for other team members, depending on the person responsible for publication
  • Conduct data cleaning and statistical analyses as needed for data analysis; this will include mostly quantitative analyses of observational cohort data, but qualitative input may also be required
  • Ensuring ethics approvals are renewed per request from ethics review boards
  • Organizing meetings with research partners as needed
  • Support the capacity building of the M&E/operational research staff in the Khayelitsha project
 2017-03-31

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