Deputy Medical Officer

Position Title: Deputy Medical Officer

Department: Technical Unit

Location: Remote in United States *

Key Relationships:

Reports to: Interim VP, Technical Unit (primary) and Chief Medical Officer (secondary)

Direct Reports: 2

Assignment Type: Full time

Compensation: $152,500 – $170,800

Benefits: Click here to learn more about our benefits!

About Americares:

Americares is a health-focused relief and development organization that saves lives and improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies, and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

About the position:

The Technical Unit is the organization’s hub for technical health program implementation expertise. Working within and across Americares Programs department, this unit partners with teams to provide expert technical program, health systems strengthening and capacity building oversight and guidance to Americares programmatic initiatives (both domestic and international), on the spectrum of issues: chronic disease, maternal & child health, WASH, Infection Prevention Control, infectious disease, emergency response, climate and disaster resilience, and medicine security.

The Deputy Medical Officer (DMO) will oversee the medical and clinical functions across the organization. The focus will be on leading and supporting Americares growing medicine security portfolio, advancing the technical support of Americares owned and operated clinics ensuring clinical quality, overseeing the medical component of organizational humanitarian response and serving as a medical resource across the organization and as a medical spokesperson for Americares. The impact of this role will be to ensure evidence-based standards are integrated across medical and clinical components of Americares work.

Key Outcomes:

In the first 90 days, the Deputy Medical Officer will demonstrate a deep understanding of Americares and our work and become a visible partner to key stakeholder teams. The DMO will be actively developing and nurturing deep relationships across teams.

In the first 6 months, the Deputy Medical Officer will oversee and lead the medical team’s role within the medicine security strategy in partnership with the Senior Pharmacy Advisor and other key stakeholders. They will begin building the strategy and community of practice plans for the Americares clinics and have established themselves as an organizational leader for supporting clinical project and program design.

In the first year, the Deputy Medical Officer will continue to advance the medical team’s contributions to the medicine security portfolio, including strategic plan, operational structure, clear avenues for advancement in specific functions, clear mix matrixed collaboration mechanisms with GIK, procurement, and other key stakeholders. They will have established themselves as a go-to source for medical advice and capacity building among Americares clinics and established an operational clinical community of practice. Additionally, they will oversee medical team support for humanitarian response and also bring high quality medical contributions to new funding opportunities, thought leadership efforts, and media events on behalf of Americares.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary medical resource across Americares portfolio of work
• Spearhead the medical team’s work in the medicine security portfolio incorporating innovation and new business models to drive growth
• Assist the Senior Pharmacy Advisor with research and providing clinical/pharmaceutical guidance as needed on partner inquiries, new medications and product offers, new models of access to essential medicines and ad-hoc requests
• Provide support to the Senior Pharmacy Advisor in Medicine Security work including day-to-day offer reviews as needed
• Advance the role of the medical unit in providing technical support and guidance as needed for any of Americares owned and operated clinical operations
• Support clinical programmatic quality improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with Monitoring and Evaluation on clinical quality assurance/improvement initiatives and data tracking
• Collaborate with Technical Advisor and Programs teams ensuring evidence-based standards are integrated across all Americares programming
• Support to Medical Unit for any day-to-day ad hoc requests and Technical Unit team support and management as needed
• Support as needed on clinically focused proposal development, project design, implementation, and evaluation of pertinent Americares programs project cycle management methodology
• Build and support the management of a new Community of Practice in Americares Clinical Services
• Provide training to frontline health workers and Americares staff as needed. This may include webinars, in-person facilitated training as well as small group sessions
• Contribute to and represent Americares in thought leadership through research, representation at external professional fora
• Serve as the medical spokesperson for Americares for media and at external events
• Supervise 1-2 staff members
• Please note that this role does require on-call consultative coverage for medical team recommendations and support for Americares emergency response work

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You are a medical doctor (MD, DO or MBBS), preferably in Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, or General Internal Medicine.
• You are skilled at working (3-5 years) in global public health internationally and/or nationally with non-governmental organizations.
• You have a demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally, engaging with multiple stakeholders and multiple teams in collaborative way.
• You have management and leadership experience of robust medical portfolio.
• You have a demonstrated understanding of project cycle management and contribution to funding proposal development.
• You have a demonstrated ability to set up processes and initiatives.
• You are competent in continuous quality improvement methods application.
• You have language fluency in at least one of our core languages, in addition to English: Spanish, Tagalog, Hindi, Kiswahili, Haitian Creole (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement).
• You have been a spokesperson for previous organizations (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement).
• You have prior experience with medicine security (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement).
• You have prior experience working within the free and charitable clinic sector or international health clinics (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement).
• You have experience with US and/or international emergency response (this would be a plus, but is not a requirement).
• You have US work authorization (required).

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Equity and inclusion
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Management
• Decision making

We know not all applicants will demonstrate all the competencies we’re looking for. We encourage you to apply even if you do not check all the boxes above, and we look forward to reviewing your application holistically.

What you can expect:

1. Interview with People and Talent
2. Video interview with a panel of key stakeholders from the Technical Unit
3. Reference check
4. Offer
5. Background check and onboarding!

As a global health organization, we are committed to ensuring a safe environment for our staff, partners, and visitors. All Americares staff and visitors who are on-site at any of our locations or will be traveling for work are required to be fully vaccinated (which includes a booster, when eligible) against COVID-19 unless an exemption required by law is applicable.

Americares is currently authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. #LI-REMOTE

Americares is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To request a disability accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected].