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
- Extensive 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
- ALSO (Advanced life support in obstetrics) certificate
- Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months or longer
- Current practicing certificate and must display no recent gap in clinical experience greater than two years
- Willingness to abide by Médecins Sans Frontières medical protocols
DESIRABLE
- Experience assisting delivery for pregnant women with infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and STD's
- Work experience or study in tropical medicine, refugee health or international public health
- NCPR (neonatal cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) certificate
