IPC Focal Point, Ebola Treatment Center (ECT), July 2026

Starting Date / Initial Contract Details

ASAP. Full-time, 6 months

Role Summary

The IPC Focal Point is responsible for ensuring strict compliance with all Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures throughout the ETC. The post holder supervises and monitors all staff to ensure correct PPE use, safe patient and staff flow, appropriate waste management, environmental decontamination, and implementation of IPC measures in the crèche and caregiver areas. The IPC Focal Point also monitors PPE, chlorine, disinfectant, and hygiene-material consumption to prevent stock-outs.

Project Overview

The project strengthens Ebola preparedness and response in the DRC by improving health facility capacity for infection prevention, triage, and case management while maintaining essential services. It enhances community surveillance through trained Community Health Workers for early detection and referrals. Additionally, it establishes an Ebola Treatment Centre to provide safe isolation, quality care, laboratory coordination, and psychosocial support by one of the other partners.

Workplace & Conditions

Butembo (Nord Kivu)

Responsibilities:

IPC Compliance

• Ensure adherence to all ETC IPC SOPs and protocols.

• Monitor Doctors, Nurses, Hygienists, Cleaners, Laboratory and Support Staff for IPC compliance.

• Investigate and report IPC breaches and exposure incidents.

PPE Oversight

• Supervise all PPE donning and doffing procedures.

• Ensure correct PPE use and safe work practices in all ETC areas.

• Provide immediate corrective action when unsafe practices are observed.

Flow Management

• Monitor patient flow, staff flow, visitor/caregiver flow, and waste flow within the ETC.

• Ensure proper separation between high-risk and low-risk zones.

• Oversee safe waste handling, transport, and disposal.

Environmental Hygiene

• Supervise cleaning, disinfection, chlorine preparation, and environmental decontamination activities.

• Ensure IPC compliance in the crèche and caregiver areas.

Stock Monitoring

• Track daily consumption of PPE, chlorine, disinfectants, hand hygiene products, and cleaning materials.

• Maintain adequate stock levels and coordinate with Logistics to prevent stock-outs.

Training & Reporting

• Deliver IPC induction and refresher training.

• Participate in drills and outbreak preparedness activities.

• Produce regular IPC compliance and stock monitoring reports.

Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:

• Registered Nurse.

• IPC and/or Ebola outbreak response training desirable.

• 1-year overseas experience in relief work with an NGO, having worked in the health sector desirable.

Behavioural Skills

• Strong knowledge of Ebola IPC procedures.

• Excellent observation, supervision, and coaching skills.

• Ability to enforce standards across all staff categories.

• Strong organizational, reporting, and problem-solving skills.

• Commitment to patient and staff safety.

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Team Spiritual Life

Reflect the values of Medair with team members, local staff, people we serve, and external contacts. Work, live, and pray together in our Christian faith-based teams. Fully contribute to a rich spiritual team life, including team devotion, prayer, and words of encouragement.

How to apply

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Before you apply

Please ensure you are fully aware of the:

Medair organisational values.
Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staff are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with,Medair’s accountability policies and best practices.
Medair Relief & Recovery Orientation Course (ROC) (which forms part of the recruitment selection process for field positions).

Application Process

To apply, go to this vacancy on our Medair page. Please do not make multiple applications. We will not review email applications. Only English-language applications / CVs will be reviewed.

More Information

Job City Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Medair

Medair is a humanitarian aid organisation inspired by Christian faith. For our Headquarters and Internationally Recruited Staff, we are looking for professionals who share our values, and are committed and motivated to relieve suffering in some of the world’s most remote and vulnerable communities. What’s so rewarding about a career with Medair? You will help save and sustain the lives of people who truly need assistance, while also learning new skills in a complex humanitarian environment. You will immerse yourself in a foreign culture and experience the joys and challenges of living and working with an international team. You will know the rich blessing of saving a life, of teaching new skills, of seeing communities restored and transformed.

Medair is an international non-governmental organization NGO of humanitarian aid with a stated mission, "to relieve suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places." Medair provides emergency relief and recovery services including Health and Nutrition; Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene; and Shelter and Infrastructure. Medair lists its values as: hope, compassion, dignity, accountability, integrity, and faith.Medair’s statutes were registered in 1989 with the Registre du Commerce of the state of Vaud, Switzerland. Its international and operational headquarters are based in Switzerland. Medair has been active in 31 countries, working in some of the most remote, hard-to-reach places in the world. It is independent of any political, economic, or social authority. As a signatory of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, the organization provides aid to the most vulnerable, irrespective of race, gender, religion, age, or nationality.Medair has approximately 750 employees worldwide, many with years of humanitarian experience. Medair’s annual operating income in 2013 was USD 45.3 million. Its programs served 1.25 million direct beneficiaries in 2013.The organization is responding to the Nepal earthquakes, to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and Jordan and providing relief and recovery services in, South Sudan, Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia. Recent programs have been run in Albania, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Chad, Chechnya, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Ingushetia, Iraq, Iran, Kenya, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Ossetia, Philippines, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Pakistan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

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Role Summary

Project Overview

Workplace & Conditions

Butembo (Nord Kivu)

Responsibilities:

IPC Compliance

• Ensure adherence to all ETC IPC SOPs and protocols.• Monitor Doctors, Nurses, Hygienists, Cleaners, Laboratory and Support Staff for IPC compliance.• Investigate and report IPC breaches and exposure incidents.

PPE Oversight

• Supervise all PPE donning and doffing procedures.• Ensure correct PPE use and safe work practices in all ETC areas.• Provide immediate corrective action when unsafe practices are observed.

Flow Management

• Monitor patient flow, staff flow, visitor/caregiver flow, and waste flow within the ETC.• Ensure proper separation between high-risk and low-risk zones.• Oversee safe waste handling, transport, and disposal.

Environmental Hygiene

• Supervise cleaning, disinfection, chlorine preparation, and environmental decontamination activities.• Ensure IPC compliance in the crèche and caregiver areas.

Stock Monitoring

• Track daily consumption of PPE, chlorine, disinfectants, hand hygiene products, and cleaning materials.• Maintain adequate stock levels and coordinate with Logistics to prevent stock-outs.

Training & Reporting

• Deliver IPC induction and refresher training.• Participate in drills and outbreak preparedness activities.• Produce regular IPC compliance and stock monitoring reports.

Qualifications, Experience & Technical Competencies:

• Registered Nurse.• IPC and/or Ebola outbreak response training desirable.• 1-year overseas experience in relief work with an NGO, having worked in the health sector desirable.

Behavioural Skills

• Strong knowledge of Ebola IPC procedures.• Excellent observation, supervision, and coaching skills.• Ability to enforce standards across all staff categories.• Strong organizational, reporting, and problem-solving skills.• Commitment to patient and staff safety.‍

Team Spiritual Life