Your role may vary from setting up a maternal and child health department in a small rural clinic, to establishing a program to respond to sexual violence within a refugee population, to treating patients in an urban hospital. Your role will also include ensuring access to safe abortion care.
ACTIVITIES
- Manage the obstetrics ward (work schedule and activity report creation, supply management/ordering, data management)
- Plan and implement daily guidance and technical training for locally hired midwives and nurses
- Coach and support local mobile care TBAs (traditional birth attendants) and provide support with difficult births
- Manage teams (recruitment, training)
- Submit activity reports and manage data (patient files, forms, statistics, databases)
PROFILE REQUIREMENTS
- Compliance with essential criteria for all potential candidates
- Qualification as a registered midwife
- At least two years of professional experience as a midwife
- Experience managing high-risk pregnancies and complicated deliveries
- Experience in antenatal and postnatal care as well as delivery and newborn care, family planning and mother-child health care
- Available for assignment for a minimum of six months or longer
- Current practicing certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
- Fluency in English and/or French; any other languages are an asset (Swahili, Arabic, Hausa, etc.)
- Willingness to abide by Médecins Sans Frontières medical protocols
DESIRABLE
- People management experience
- Diploma in public health or tropical medicine an asset
- Training in emergency obstetrics (eg Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics certification)
- Demonstrated experience in the clinical management of sexual violence survivors, including provision of survivor-centred, confidential and trauma-informed care
