Medical Coordinator

Position Title: Medical Coordinator

Activation Date: 05 March, 2025 Announced Date: 05 March, 2025 Expire Date: 12 March, 2025

• Job Location: Kabul
• Nationality: National
• Category: Health Care
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Salary: As per MdM Salary Scale
• Vacancy Number: 25AFG016
• No. Of Jobs: 1
• City: Kabul
• Organization: Medecins du Monde - France
• Years of Experience: Minimum 4 years’ experience in similar positions or in humanitarian sector
• Contract Duration: 6 months (Extendable)
• Gender: Male/Female
• Education: Medical Doctor, Nurse or Midwife, Master’s in Public Health is desirable
• Close date: 2025-03-12
  
  

About Medecins Du Monde - France

Médecins du Monde - France (MdM-F) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including Afghanistan. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

Job Description

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

In the context of the Afghanistan mission, the Head of medical department will be specifically in charge of:

• Designing, planning, implementing, adapting, and monitoring health and nutrition programs’
• Ensuring the quality and relevance of health and nutrition activities, practices, and data
• Directly or indirectly leading/supervising medical teams (MdM or partners)
• Participating in the definition of the country strategy led by the head of mission/General Coordinator
• Lead the design of new projects/programs and contribute to the development of new proposals to donors
  
  

Working Relationships

• Hierarchical link: Head of mission/General coordinator
• Functional link: Health Advisor based in HQ
• Team under his/her direct supervision: Medical/program team
  
  

Roles

• Program Management
• Participates to the development of the general strategy on MdM activities with the General Coordinator and the team.
• Drives the medical and technical aspects in the development of MdM’s strategy in collaboration with the General Coordinator.
• Ensures the programmatic strategy is in line with MdM’s global Strategic Plan 2 and its “Battles”
• Makes sure the different components of the program are consistent and in link with population needs
• Lead the design of new projects/programs and proposal development together with the General Coordinator and Grants Officer
• Contribute to the development of the donor strategy, as well as the development of partnerships and consortia with relevant actors
• Participates to the implementation of harm reduction, nutrition and medical activities in link with the needs of the focused areas of intervention (ex: training of MdM doctors, training on health education, capacity building on reporting, pharmacy management etc.).
• Ensures the quality and relevance of medical activities through delegation to medical program managers. Set up a monitoring system (with Monitool) and participate to the monitoring on a regular basis the different components of the program and to set up corrective measures in case of need.
• Ensures a rapid and appropriate response in the event of a sudden change by adapting the program if necessary (outbreaks, malnutrition, new needs arising, opening of new programs, etc.).
• Conducts Rapid Health Assessments/explo visits when requested.
• Analyse the medical data on monthly basis and provide feedback to the Coordination team and partners.
• Contribute to set up mission emergency preparedness and response plan implementation.
• Co-operate with the administration team regarding budgeting and be the budget holder for medical purchases (drugs, equipment, consumables, trainings, etc.)
• Team management
• Recruit staff under his/her direct or technical management.
• Ensure proper induction, capacity building and on the job training to team members.
• Develop individual action plans and proceed to regular professional evaluations of the team under his/her direct or technical responsibility.
• Organise and conduct regular medical department meetings.
• Participate in Disciplinary processes.
• Define, roll out and supervise the whistleblowing policy and tools.
• Management of medical stock and logistic chain for nutrition and medical purchase
• Ensure in collaboration with Logistic department that orders for medical equipment, drugs and consumables are appropriate to program requirements and local constraints.
• Supervise medical purchase process (needs evaluation, orders, quality).
• Ensure the supervision of the pharmacist (consumptions, orders & inventory) in collaboration with the medical team.
• Coordination with NGOs/local associations and representation
• Participate to the different medical meetings, especially Nutrition and Health Clusters meetings, playing a key role in any relevant medical coordination mechanisms, and be pro-active in the technical working groups that are created to answer the pressing health issues that need immediate action of the Health Cluster members.
• Establish and maintain good relationship with Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and Provincial Public Health Departments (PPHDs) to ensure all project activities are carried out with their agreement.
• Support the team in finalizing MoU’s and Partnership agreements.
• Liaise with the de facto authorities and/or appointed local medical authorities in the focused governorates/districts where MdM is presently working.
• Ensure coordination and work in close collaboration with partners and community representatives.
  
  

Evaluate the needs and request of our partners.

• Coordinate with UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, and WFP to receive supplies for reproductive health, health emergencies, moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), and severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
• Reporting and Internal Communication
• Participate to MdM internal meetings.
• Elaborate monthly Sitrep with the team.
• Ensure regular contacts with General Coordinator and Health Advisor.
• Participate in the writing of donor’s activity reports and proposals.
• Provide the needed information and available materials for advocacy and visibility on MDM action, humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
• Ensure MdM report to HRP through cluster hubs monthly.
  
  

Job Requirements

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Education and experience

• Medical Doctor or Nurse or Midwife
• Master’s in Public Health is desirable
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in similar positions or in humanitarian sector
• Experiences in public health and in managing health welfare in communities
• Experience in supervising Health Promotion activities and some basic mental health activities
• Experience in hard negotiations with local authorities, partners and staff in a tricky context
• Experience in outbreak management and emergency response
  
  

Skills

Technical

• Understand a healthcare system (including organisation, curriculum of medical profiles and national healthcare programmes) and summarise the broad outlines
• Understand and analyse a health context, health problems and data
• Define a level of emergency (micro and macro)
• Plan and quantify health activities
• Define medical needs and adapt operational activities to new constraints in the field of new scientific information
• Analyse medical and pharmaceutical indicators
• Draft a project (including funding formulation)
• Identify training needs, create and lead medical training modules
• Discuss, present arguments and negotiate with healthcare authorities
• Grasp and master international medical standards protocols
• Assess practices and propose redirections / support to teams
• Experience in Nutrition and Harm reduction will be an asset.
  
  

Soft

• Ability to take quick decisions according to the context in coordination with the team
• Ability to manage a team and work in an international team
• Ability to have a global overview of a program (not only on medical plan)
• Reactivity, anticipation, adaptability, capacity to take initiatives
• Organizational skills
• Good writing and communication skills
• Ability to manage priorities
• Team spirit
• Capacity to work and to live in tense conditions (climate, cultural context, promiscuity, isolation)
  
  

IT

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (especially Word and Excel)
  
  

Language

• Fluent in local languages Dari & Pushto and English is mandatory.
  
  

Submission Guideline

The interested candidates should submit their applications with the updated CV, motivation letter, including references details and with supporting documents (certificates, diplomas etc.) to the following email – [email protected] – no later than the closing date.

The reference "Medical Coordinator" must be stated in the subject of the email you will send to MdM. If you do not clearly state the position for which you are applying and attach the required diploma & other supporting documents, your application may not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that MdM does not reimburse transportation cost if applicants are asked for interview or a test.

MdM does not charge fee at any stage of its recruitment process. All applications are free for all candidates, and no one should require any payment or compensation during the recruitment process.

Submission Email

[email protected]