Consultant Opthalmologist, April 2024

1 position – Asmara (Eritrea)
24 month contract with possibility of extension
Capacity building focus

The Eritrean Ministry of Health, in partnership with The Fred Hollows Foundation, is seeking a Consultant Ophthalmologist to strengthen the Eritrean eye health service delivery systems. You will support eye health workers to develop their surgical, clinical and management skills, as well as complete surgery when required. Position is based in Asmara, Eritrea with travel as required.

The successful candidate will have:

·A minimum of two years MD residency in ophthalmology from a reputable institution.
Extensive demonstrated ophthalmic surgical and clinical experience.
Registration with the National Medical Council for Practicing Ophthalmology.
Experience in performing high volume small incision cataract surgery phacoemulsification.
Experience in the management of diabetic retinopathy
Experience as a trainer for cataract surgeons, including small incision cataract surgery.Commitment to patient centred, quality services, and data collection and analysis to provide the evidence for services.Training in other relevant ophthalmic subspecialties.
Teaching experience of ophthalmic Nursing training programs.An understanding of working and training conditions in developing countries and the flexibility to work in challenging contexts is highly desirable.
Excellent interpersonal and communications skills and a commitment to collaboration.The ability to bring energy and enthusiasm to the development of eye health services in Eritrea.
The ability to obtain the appropriate working visa for Eritrea.

You will contribute your expertise for 5 ½ days per week and in return we will provide competitive salary conditions, annual return airfare to home country, professional development opportunities, emergency medical expatriation insurance cover, contribution to relocation expenses and other benefits depending on experience and qualifications.

How to apply:

Applications should be made via our website: http://www.hollows.org/au/careers/current-vacancies

Alternatively, if you would like further information please contact the Program Manager Eritrea & HRD, Annette Kobusingye at [email protected]

The Fred Hollows Foundation is committed to protecting the rights of children in all areas where we work. Applicants are advised that The Foundation reserves the right to conduct police checks and other screening procedures to ensure we maintain and promote a child safe environment.

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Asmara Fred Hollows Foundation

The Fred Hollows Foundation

We are an international development organisation working towards eliminating avoidable blindness and improving Indigenous Australian health.It started around Fred and Gabi’s dinner table Four years after he was diagnosed with cancer, and knowing he didn’t have much longer to live, Fred and Gabi Hollows decided they needed to find a way to continue his work. They started The Foundation with a group of friends and supporters to keep alive Fred’s dream: that everyone, no matter whether rich or poor, would have the right to high quality and affordable eye care. They promised to continue to fight for the change Fred so badly wanted.Today we continue Fred’s vision: we see a world in which no person is needlessly blind and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders exercise their right to good health.Fred died less than one year later. It was a terribly sad time, but brightened by the knowledge that through The Fred Hollows Foundation his work would carry on. – Gabi Hollows The Fred Hollows Foundation today Since its humble beginnings in Fred and Gabi’s kitchen, The Foundation now works in more than 25 countries and has restored sight to over two million people.We are driven by Fred’s vision to eliminate avoidable blindness, for Indigenous Australians to have access to quality heath services and to stand up for what is right. We believe that collaboration, getting things done with integrity, and empowering local communities is the best way to make a difference.Today, there are 32.4 million people in the world who are blind – but many don’t need to be. We focus on preventable and treatable diseases such as cataract, trachoma and diabetic retinopathy. Our in-country work involves local training and providing affordable technology, so doctors, nurses and health care workers can recognise, diagnose, refer and treat eye problems in their communities. We use research to improve our understanding of avoidable blindness, then use our findings to implement strategies and advocate for change.The Foundation is overseen by our Board of Directors, which includes Gabi Hollows. CEO Brian Doolan leads day-to-day operations, and we’re still advised by Fred’s great mate and fellow humanitarian, Dr Sanduk Ruit. We are independent, not-for-profit, politically unaligned and secular.Fred’s influence Fred was the type of man who knew exactly what he wanted, then went about getting it. Through his years with the Aboriginal Medical Service, National Trachoma and Eye Health Program and his work in developing countries, he was driven by the injustices he saw.Being the man he was, he spent his final years planning to establish factories in Eritrea and Nepal and develop low cost lenses in these two countries that he cared deeply about. Months before his death, he also flew to Vietnam to keep a promise to train ophthalmologists in modern eye surgery techniques so that local people would be empowered to help their own communities.We’re working just as tirelessly as Fred did to end avoidable blindness – by fighting injustice, building local capacity, empowering the countries where we work, and staying true to our values. He had a big dream and it’s a dream that lives on in the work of The Foundation.We will only be done when every person, regardless of who they are, where they live or whether they are rich or poor, is living in a world free of avoidable blindness. – Brian Doolan Together, we can do this We know exactly how to help mothers who are pulling out their eyelashes in agony from trachoma. We know how to treat children who are needlessly blind from cataract and to get them back to school. We know how to prevent people with diabetes going irreversibly blind because they can’t access quality eye care.We know how to help, but there’s a lot of work still to be done across the world and in Indigenous communities in Australia. Eliminating avoidable blindness can be achieved – with the help of our partners and, most importantly, you, our invaluable supporters.

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Capacity building focus

The successful candidate will have:

·A minimum of two years MD residency in ophthalmology from a reputable institution.
Extensive demonstrated ophthalmic surgical and clinical experience.
Registration with the National Medical Council for Practicing Ophthalmology.
Experience in performing high volume small incision cataract surgery phacoemulsification.
Experience in the management of diabetic retinopathy
Experience as a trainer for cataract surgeons, including small incision cataract surgery.Commitment to patient centred, quality services, and data collection and analysis to provide the evidence for services.Training in other relevant ophthalmic subspecialties.
Teaching experience of ophthalmic Nursing training programs.An understanding of working and training conditions in developing countries and the flexibility to work in challenging contexts is highly desirable.
Excellent interpersonal and communications skills and a commitment to collaboration.The ability to bring energy and enthusiasm to the development of eye health services in Eritrea.
The ability to obtain the appropriate working visa for Eritrea.

How to apply:

Applications should be made via our website: http://www.hollows.org/au/careers/current-vacancies

Alternatively, if you would like further information please contact the Program Manager Eritrea & HRD, Annette Kobusingye at [email protected]

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