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For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organization committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies. Those working for this independent organization do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.

MdM France currently works in more than 30 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: emergency and crisis, sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, migrants and displaced populations (health rights), health and environment.

In July 2017, MdM-F conducted a fact-finding mission in the South Sudanese refugee settlement of Bidibidi in Yumbe district, northern Uganda. Uganda approximately hosts more than one million refugees and asylum seekers, with South Sudanese accounting for more than two-thirds of this total. The refugee population is spread across 13 settlements located in 12 districts.

Following the fact-finding mission, two project proposals were successfully developed to gradually take over Médecins Sans Frontières France (MSF-F) activities in Zone 4 of Bidibidi refugee settlement, including support to Bolomoni Health Centre (HC) III (level 3) and to outreach activities. The project was launched in July 2018. The catchment population includes an estimated 37,500 South-Sudanese refugees (the majority being women and children, many of whom have fled across the border alone) and 12,500 host communities. However, as a number of government health facilities are under rehabilitation, the catchment population is likely to be larger.

In January 2019, MdM–F took over the in-patient department from MSF-F. The IPD capacity is as follows: emergency room: 2-bed; paediatrics: 20-bed; adult (female): 6-bed; adult (male): 6-bed; maternity: 1 observation room; 2 delivery coaches; 13 post-delivery beds; and 5 neonatal beds. There has been an average of 350 hospitalizations per month. The outreach component includes community mobilization and sensitization through a team of four community workers.

The 2019 – 2021 project strategy included two key phases:

  • January – December 2019: Consolidation of health services provision at Bolomoni HC III level and development of outreach activities at community level. The latter will also be carried out with the support of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), a local NGO based in Kampala. Furthermore, in order to align with the national health facility mapping, MdM will support the upgrading of Bolomoni HC III into a permanent Ministry of Health’s health infrastructure;
  • January 2020 – June 2021: Gradual staff downsizing (from approximately 200 staff to 19) as per Ministry of Health standards, and gradual hand-over of Bolomoni HC III to the District Health Office (DHO) in Yumbe.

However, as the government health facilities in Yumbe district are still under rehabilitation, the above-mentioned downsizing strategy will not take place as initially planned. In 2020 Bolomoni HC III is likely to continue delivering a high level of activity, with quality and continuity of health care remaining core priorities.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you are supervising the implementation of medical activities. You are defining MdM strategy regarding medical activities in line with MdM’s overall framework and responsible for the overall quality of medical and health-related activities of the programmes.

More specifically, your responsibilities are to:

  • Participate in the development of the operational strategy and develop health activities’ operational plan with the coordination team
  • Perform/validate health needs assessments in new identified areas
  • Provide technical supervision and technical support to the trainers and partners’ supervisors
  • Ensure the recruitment and appraisal processes of medical/paramedical staff
  • Identify and validate technical trainings
  • Provide briefing on health services availability and process for international staff at arrival in Uganda
  • Participate to national staff health policy definition, implementation and evaluation
  • Identify, validate referral health facilities for international and national staff
  • Ensure quality health data monitoring system is applied by the partners, especially MARPI as far as the LGBT project is concerned and HRAPF
  • Participate to technical aspects of local partnership development
  • Prioritize medical issues trainings for the partners
  • Participate to health sector platforms and any relevant health coordination mechanisms in both Yumbe and Kampala
  • Establish and maintain good relationship with Ministry of Health, partners, UN agencies and other NGOs
  • Supervise the pharmacies operations quality (consumptions, orders & inventory)
  • Participate to MdM internal meetings, elaborate health activities monthly reports
  • Participate in the writing of donors activity reports and proposals

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Status : Employee
Fixed-term contract
Duration : 8 months

Starting date: as soon as possible
Gross monthly salary: 2.816 euros
Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
Guesthouse housing
22.5 RTT (recovery days) per year
5 weeks of paid leaves per year
Health insurance (60% covered by MdM, 40% by the employee)
Insurance (repatriation…)

Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
Single posting

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED:

Medical doctor or nurse or midwife with experience in public health and project coordination
Demonstrated 2-3 years professional experience in humanitarian settings with significant experience in similar positions
Working experiences in public health. Experience in outbreak management and emergency response
Experience in hard negotiations with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky context
Demonstrated experience to work with local partners
Ability to have a global overview of a programme (not only on medical plan)
Ability to take quick decisions according to the context in coordination with the team

Ability to manage a team
Reactivity, anticipation, adaptation
Ability to manage the priorities
Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment.
Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills.
Excellent project design and proposal development skills and developing tools for cross-organizational sharing of best practices
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
Demonstrated writing and reporting skills
Team spirit
Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues
Interest in politically sensitive projects (e.g. sexual minorities and gender identities)

Languages: English mandatory, French is an asset
IT: Excellent excel skills
You are committed to MdM’s values as an organisation and motivated by its non-statutory, NFP model.

TELEPHONE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications.
MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

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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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0 USD Yumbe CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Médecins du Monde

For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organization committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies. Those working for this independent organization do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.

MdM France currently works in more than 30 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: emergency and crisis, sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, migrants and displaced populations (health rights), health and environment.

In July 2017, MdM-F conducted a fact-finding mission in the South Sudanese refugee settlement of Bidibidi in Yumbe district, northern Uganda. Uganda approximately hosts more than one million refugees and asylum seekers, with South Sudanese accounting for more than two-thirds of this total. The refugee population is spread across 13 settlements located in 12 districts.

Following the fact-finding mission, two project proposals were successfully developed to gradually take over Médecins Sans Frontières France (MSF-F) activities in Zone 4 of Bidibidi refugee settlement, including support to Bolomoni Health Centre (HC) III (level 3) and to outreach activities. The project was launched in July 2018. The catchment population includes an estimated 37,500 South-Sudanese refugees (the majority being women and children, many of whom have fled across the border alone) and 12,500 host communities. However, as a number of government health facilities are under rehabilitation, the catchment population is likely to be larger.

In January 2019, MdM–F took over the in-patient department from MSF-F. The IPD capacity is as follows: emergency room: 2-bed; paediatrics: 20-bed; adult (female): 6-bed; adult (male): 6-bed; maternity: 1 observation room; 2 delivery coaches; 13 post-delivery beds; and 5 neonatal beds. There has been an average of 350 hospitalizations per month. The outreach component includes community mobilization and sensitization through a team of four community workers.

The 2019 – 2021 project strategy included two key phases:

  • January – December 2019: Consolidation of health services provision at Bolomoni HC III level and development of outreach activities at community level. The latter will also be carried out with the support of Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF), a local NGO based in Kampala. Furthermore, in order to align with the national health facility mapping, MdM will support the upgrading of Bolomoni HC III into a permanent Ministry of Health’s health infrastructure;
  • January 2020 – June 2021: Gradual staff downsizing (from approximately 200 staff to 19) as per Ministry of Health standards, and gradual hand-over of Bolomoni HC III to the District Health Office (DHO) in Yumbe.

However, as the government health facilities in Yumbe district are still under rehabilitation, the above-mentioned downsizing strategy will not take place as initially planned. In 2020 Bolomoni HC III is likely to continue delivering a high level of activity, with quality and continuity of health care remaining core priorities.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you are supervising the implementation of medical activities. You are defining MdM strategy regarding medical activities in line with MdM’s overall framework and responsible for the overall quality of medical and health-related activities of the programmes.

More specifically, your responsibilities are to:

  • Participate in the development of the operational strategy and develop health activities’ operational plan with the coordination team
  • Perform/validate health needs assessments in new identified areas
  • Provide technical supervision and technical support to the trainers and partners’ supervisors
  • Ensure the recruitment and appraisal processes of medical/paramedical staff
  • Identify and validate technical trainings
  • Provide briefing on health services availability and process for international staff at arrival in Uganda
  • Participate to national staff health policy definition, implementation and evaluation
  • Identify, validate referral health facilities for international and national staff
  • Ensure quality health data monitoring system is applied by the partners, especially MARPI as far as the LGBT project is concerned and HRAPF
  • Participate to technical aspects of local partnership development
  • Prioritize medical issues trainings for the partners
  • Participate to health sector platforms and any relevant health coordination mechanisms in both Yumbe and Kampala
  • Establish and maintain good relationship with Ministry of Health, partners, UN agencies and other NGOs
  • Supervise the pharmacies operations quality (consumptions, orders & inventory)
  • Participate to MdM internal meetings, elaborate health activities monthly reports
  • Participate in the writing of donors activity reports and proposals

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: Status : Employee Fixed-term contract Duration : 8 months

Starting date: as soon as possible Gross monthly salary: 2.816 euros Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments - minimum of 6 months seniority required Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month) Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered Guesthouse housing 22.5 RTT (recovery days) per year 5 weeks of paid leaves per year Health insurance (60% covered by MdM, 40% by the employee) Insurance (repatriation…)

Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility Single posting

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED:

Medical doctor or nurse or midwife with experience in public health and project coordination Demonstrated 2-3 years professional experience in humanitarian settings with significant experience in similar positions Working experiences in public health. Experience in outbreak management and emergency response Experience in hard negotiations with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky context Demonstrated experience to work with local partners Ability to have a global overview of a programme (not only on medical plan) Ability to take quick decisions according to the context in coordination with the team

Ability to manage a team Reactivity, anticipation, adaptation Ability to manage the priorities Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment. Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills. Excellent project design and proposal development skills and developing tools for cross-organizational sharing of best practices Excellent analytical and problem solving skills Demonstrated writing and reporting skills Team spirit Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues Interest in politically sensitive projects (e.g. sexual minorities and gender identities)

Languages: English mandatory, French is an asset IT: Excellent excel skills You are committed to MdM’s values as an organisation and motivated by its non-statutory, NFP model.

TELEPHONE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications. MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

2020-05-28

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