Medical Team Leader – Mykolaiv – Ukraine – M/F

ALIMA in Ukraine

ALIMA will focus its effort in South Ukraine to provide emergency primary health care and support to hospitals in the war zone of Mykolaiv Oblast and around. The main objective is to reduce the mortality and suffering among the population affected by the war in this area through 4 axes:

• Reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with chronic disease and
• communicable diseases among the isolated population in Mykolaiv Oblast
• Reduce mental health burden through psychological care in Mykolaiv Oblast
• Support hospitals to deliver trauma and intensive health care in Mykolaiv City
• Ensuring a rapid response mechanism to delivered health care support to affected population

Functional and hierarchical links

Line Manager:

• Project Coordinator
• Directly manages Medical and Chirugical Activity Manager and Psychological activity Manager ; also collaborates with Logistic and RH managers.

Main activities

• Medical activities
• Analyzes the medical context of the project area and suggests areas of intervention in line with ALIMA country policy and strategies
• Organizes and manages the implementation of medical activities in accordance with the proposals and ALIMA and National protocols
• Coordinates referrals and counter-referrals of patients
• Coordinates medical activities among activity managers
• Ensures consistent adherence to diagnostic processes, rational use of diagnostic tests
• Monitors and supervises the management of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and equipment
• Organizes in collaboration with the Pharmacy Management, biomedical services for medical equipment’s maintenance
• Ensures quality data collection at all sites, and update the ALIMA data reporting toll, ensure data collection tools are updated and available at all levels
• Ensures all ALIMA supported Health Facilities are regularly provided with relevant tools (registers and forms) from the SMOH
• Contributes to the donor, UN agencies (WHO, UNHCR, UNICEF, EMT and UNFPA) and MoH reporting
• Participates on a monthly basis at the Health Cluster Meeting at the SMOH and prepare minutes with the Project Coordinator
• Ensures epidemiological surveillance analysis
• Ensure proper maintenance of medical records
• Provides support medical’s manager in charge of conducting death audit, analysis and reporting in particular on the maternal death in the ward
• Ensures and promotes guaranteed respect and dignity of patients, their families and all employees across ALIMA supported by health care facilities
• Participates in ALIMA facilitated rapid response mechanism (RRM) training, and will be part of the response team(where necessary) in the event of crisis (outbreaks and displacement)
• Management of medical staff
• Analyzes staff needs based on increased workload and/or knowledge/skill gap,
• Organizes and facilitates regular team meetings on a regular basis
• Coordinates channel of communication and the flow of information among the medical team members.
• Participates in the administrative management of the medical team (absence/leave/replacements, etc.).
• Ensures that all ALIMA medical staff in Ukraine are provided with performance objectives that match to the projectives objectives, are escorded and evaluated at the end of the period
• Contributes to the performance and skills assessment of the staff
• Analyzes knowledge/skill gaps of the staff, defines the needed training in line with the project objectives. facilitate the conduct of the appropriate training to resolve the identified gaps
• Participates in the training, and coaches team members
• Reporting on the implementation of activities
• Participates in the sharing information within the team
• Collects information on the medical operation and report to the Project Coordinator to discuss ALIMA field sitrep on a weekly basis
• Ensures the feedback of daily statistical data
• Document cases of malfunctions/abnormalities observed, and good practices for analysis and capitalization purposes
• Implementation of preventive measures against abuse of power, gender-based and sexual violences
• Ensures that the team, partners (Ministry of Health) and community members are aware of ALIMA’s AMTSL policy and have access to information (complaint escalation mechanism, focal point…)
• Facilitates and participate in the conduct of AMPS training and awareness sessions for his/her team
• Applies standards relating to abuse prevention
• Ensures that team members and partners involved in the project (Ministry of Health, national partners, etc.) attend training and awareness sessions and apply the abuse prevention rules
• Contributes to creating and maintaining a nurturing and protective environment for his/her team, community members and partners involved in the project

Experience

• Medical Doctor Degree.
• Essential minimum 2 years’ experiences as a referent in medical activities Manager.
• Working experience with International medical NGO in developing countries is desirable
• Experience in a medical position in a context of armed conflict would be an asset

Skills

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, internet)
• Negotiation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, team work

Language

• Oral and written fluency in English is essential
• Proficiency in a local language is an asset

CONDITIONS

• Duration and type of contract: 3 months
• Starting position: Winter 2022
• Salary: according to ALIMA scale + experience + per diem

ALIMA supports:

• Travel expenses between the expatriate’s home country and the place of assignment
• Accommodation costs
• 2.08 days off per month
• Daily per diem
• Medical coverage from the first day of the contract to one month after the date of departure from the country of assignment for the employee and his/her dependents
• The break policy every 3 months (for 6 months of the mission)
• Evacuation for the employee