Médecins Sans Frontières
Main Purpose
Supporting the Medical Coordinator through delegated tasks and responsibilities including administrative tasks related to the coordination of work, ensuring good relationships with local and national authorities and ensuring adequate program management in the projects, according to MSF protocols, (para)medical standards, rules of hygiene and the standard precautions in order to ensure the delivery of quality medical care for patients and their communities as well as to improve the health conditions of the targeted population
Accountabilities
HRM & Staff health:
- Participate in the review and implementation the health policy for national staff, including approval of NS health bill within agreed upon authorization limit
- Active involvement in the assessment & identification of designated medical institutions (DMIs) for national staff/their dependents and referral facilities for patients, in collaboration with the Medco and Hospital coordinator/MTL
- Support the Medco in briefing of the newly recruited staff at CXB on NS health policy, sick leave procedures and preventative measures
- Responsible for day-today supervision of referrals nurses in CXB and Chittagong(functional line manager) , ensure regular checking of the invoices submitted by referrals nurses; before final submission to the hospital coordinator/MTL for project approval
- Responsible for vaccination of CXB coordination staff and support the field team in following up of vaccination status of national staff, to ensure that all staff receive vaccination according to the in the national staff health policy
- Approval of sick-leave confirmation for national staff if justifiable, in the absent of/in collaboration with the MedCo/Deputy MedCo.
Logistics and medical supply management:
- In collaboration with the Medco and supply team, supports the Hospital coordinator, MTL and pharmacist with TSR review and gives feedback to project
- Support the Hospital coordinator/MTL and pharmacist in analysing monthly consumption reports from the project, as well as giving proposal on actions to be undertaken
- Participates in the MSL and FMC review in preparation for IMO, according to OCA ordering cycles
- Support the MTL/project with supply management, check deviations in the trends and regularly gives feedbacks to the Medco on supply issues.
Representation & networking:
- Represent MSF as delegated by Medical Coordinator in sector meetings and meetings with other partners and government officials
- Support of the medical coordinator with the stakeholders’ mapping (e.g. organigram of MoH, Health actors (local & International) etc.). These include collecting and Keeping updated useful contacts of national authorities and that of other stakeholders in Cox’s Bazar/Bangladesh/national level
- Support project teams if requested and delegated by Medical Coordinator for local-level representation to health officials in Ukhiya Upazila or inside the camps, such as camp-level sector meetings etc.
Other specific tasks:
- Participates in emergency interventions and responses in and out of the projects, as deems necessary by the mission
- Takes note of issues that may exclude some patients from accessing MSF’s health care services, and discuss them with the Hospital coordinator/MTL, PC, Medco and or Emco
- Fill the HR gap in the project, particularly when the respective projects is not able to provide adequate coverage with the available medical team members.
Requirements
Education
- Essential Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (MBBS/BDS). Masters in Public Health is preferable.
Experience
- Essential training or experience in tropical medicine and/or public health
- Experience working in a developing country
- Desirable emergency experience & experience in program management
- Essential minimum 2 years clinical & public health experience
Language
- English and Bangla language essential.
Position details
Contract length
- 12 months’ contract with possibility of extension
Benefits
- Salary according to level 9 of the internal MSF salary grid, which is 117,100 BDT gross. Two annual leave days per month worked. Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents.
Location:
- Bangladesh Coordination Cox’s Bazar office.
Others
- No relocation allowance shall be provided
How to apply
Application process
For this position we will accept online applications only. The deadline is 09 August 2022.
Please send your resume (CV) and motivation letter with answer to the question- “You are in charge of staff health in MSF and you have been tracking the covid vaccination status of staff. You found that only 20% of the staff have received at least one dose of covid vaccine in the logistic department. In not more than 500 words, explain the steps you would take to increase the covid vaccination coverage among the 80 staff of the logistic department.”, to Renata Machalkova at [email protected] with subject line: 202208_Medco Support.
Important Notes – Please Read
Applications without a motivational letter will be rejected. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews/testing. Application documents are non-returnable; please do not submit original documents. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Only Bangladesh citizens will be considered for this position. No monetary, goods or service offers, nor favoritism, will be tolerated in a recruitment process. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts. Any illicit solicitations can be reported to the justice system. MSF reserves the right to refuse any candidate having benefited from such acts and will stop collaboration with any workers involved in such acts.