Health Officer Angola, April 2024

JOB SUMMARY

Supervise the clinical management of MdM’s health care clinics as well as the community-based component of our Primary Health Care (PHC) program in Lovua settlement, a Congolese refugee settlement with a total population of about 20.000 people – with a focus on local capacity building.

GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF INTERVENTION:

Lovua – Dundo, Angola

ORGANIZATION CHART

The successful candidate will be part of the Humanitarian coordination team and will report to the Medical Coordinator.

FUNCTIONS

· Assist the Medical Coordinator in ensuring the appropriate functioning and clinical management of three MdM health care clinics in Lovua settlement (including management of the medical team, the central pharmacy and the referral system to secondary and tertiary health care facilities)

· Focus on capacity building within the medical team to train and empower local staff members with the goal to nationalize supervising roles and positions.

· Support the organization of the activities of 32 Community Health Workers (CHWs) to increase and improve the awareness raising, screening, identification and referral pathways of primary health care issues, such as malnutrition and sexual reproductive health.

· Empower and support the coordinator of the CHWs team in terms of scheduling, team management, recruitment, performance reflection, preparation of awareness campaigns, etc.

· Plan and implement capacity building activities for the medical team and CHWs to extend their knowledge and skills, such as trainings and workshops.

· Gather project information, monitor progress of activities and results through data collection and assist in report writing.

· Contribute to the emergency preparedness of the project through the review of the contingency plans.

· Participate in the writing of donor’s proposal and activity progress reports.

· If needed, participate in health needs assessment and identification of new projects.

· If needed, represent MdM with partners, stakeholders and authority.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Academic background: Degree in Medicine (preferably Family Doctor), Midwife or Nurse specialized in Sexual Reproductive Health

Desirable:

A Master in International Cooperation and/or Humanitarian Aid / Public Health Studies/ Tropical Medicine Studies

REQUIREMENTS:

Language requirements: High level of spoken and written French and Portuguese or Spanish. Advanced level of English is desired.

Experience: Previous experience with obstetrics, sexual reproductive health and/or nutrition programs. Experience in local capacity building and coaching.

Computer requirements: Office pack user level.

COMPETENCE PROFILE:

Ability to effectively coach and lead a team in a multi-cultural setting

Good people management skills

Excellent communication skills, including presenting and training skills

Ability to work in an organized manner in a challenging work environment

Flexible attitude and stress-resilient

AVAILABILITY

Starting end of June, availability for 3 months (it may be extended)

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Job City Angola

Angola Médicos del Mundo

Médecins du Monde

Médecins du Monde (MdM; French pronunciation: [medsɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d]) or Doctors of the World, provides emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people. It also advocates to end health inequities.

It was founded in 1980 by a group of 15 French physicians, including Bernard Kouchner. It works in both the developed and developing world.

MdM was formed with a mission to provide timely emergency medical care, free of legal and administrative restrictions; to work with local populations to ensure long-term sustainability of healthcare systems; and to advocate on behalf of client populations.

After more than 35 years of work, MdM is a famously active advocate for its beneficiaries, and works to change the underlying inequalities that affect people's ability to access medical care.

MdM was formally established on 1 February 1980. Its goals were "to go where others will not, to testify to the intolerable, and to volunteer".

Its origins lay in a 1979 intervention to assist a drifting boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea. Kouchner, with volunteer doctors, journalists, and others organized a hospital boat, L'Île de lumière, to provide medical care and to report the refugees' suffering.

MdM was founded as Bernard Kouchner and 14 others doctors split from the group he previously founded, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF, or Doctors WIthout Borders). It has been reported Kouchner felt that MSF was giving up its founding principle of témoignage ("witnessing"), which refers to aid workers making the atrocities they observe known to the public.

Kouchner was president of MdM from 1980 to 1982. In 1989, the foundation of MdM Spain paved the way for the creation of the MdM international network. In 2015, the MdM global network consisted of fifteen associations; France (founded 1980), Spain (founded 1989), Greece (founded 1990), Italy and Switzerland (both founded 1993), Sweden (founded 1994), Cyprus (founded 1995 by Elena Theoharous[1]), Argentina (founded 1998), Belgium, Canada and Portugal (all founded 1999), as well as in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, and the USA.

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