Junior manager in health care activity

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF – Doctors Without Borders) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. 

Start date: as soon as possible.

Work place: Zaporizhzhia.

Mobility and flexibility required. Interactions with International Staff. English classes provided.

Scope of activities:

Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning his/her field of action (Nursery, laboratory, midwifery, anesthesiology) and the team associated, according to MSF values, policies and protocols and universal health standards, in order to warrant the quality and continuity of the health care and the development of the plan of action.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to his/her speciality, i.e. perform as a nurse, midwife, labtech and anesthetist, whenever required or needed, in order to optimize the resources, contributing with his/her knowledge and experience. 
• Implement all the protocols and hygiene procedures, and supervise his/her team follow the same standards, in order to warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her speciality.
• Organize and coordinate the activities of his/her team (week’s schedule, annual leave, absences, etc.), evaluate their performance and define and ensure the needs for training of staff, in order to ensure the coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of quality.
• Carry out and/or supervise the ( decentralized) pharmacy and medical equipment management (drugs orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, drugs consumption, etc.)in his or her department, in order to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Carry-out and/or coordinate administrative (exit-paper, transfer-paper, etc.), information and data collection (patient files, forms, statistics, etc.) tasks, and elaborate regular reporting, in order to have updated and reliable information about the day-to-day activity in the project, output/ outcome and support decision-taking.
• Give feedback/ reports to medical focal point.

Qualifications:

Specialty (Nurse) diploma essential.

Essential 2 years of previous experience. Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable. 

Experience in Palliative Patient Care, IPD (Inpatient department) or Neurological nursing care essential and IPC (Infection prevention Control) desirable. 

Training and Supervisor’s previous experience essential. 

 Language and IT:

English and local language essential.

Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)

• Results
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Commitment
• Stress management

Interested candidates should submit their application (resume and cover letter) no later than December 4th.