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• Amman, Al ‘A̅şimah, Jordan

JOD 3,630 - JOD 4,356 per monthJob detailsApply Job description

Organization

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent, neutral, impartial humanitarian organisation that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. MSF assistance to people is based solely on their needs, irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation.

Context

The Operations Department at MSF's Operational Centre of Geneva (OCG) is in charge of steering and implementing field programs, which includes providing direct medico-operational support to the field during implementation and ensuring that fundamentals are met in all projects. The Medical Department, at MSF's Operational Centre of Geneva (OCG), on the other side, is in charge of developing technical and/or strategic solutions to complex medical challenges encountered in the field or to opted medical ambitions. The Medical Department also plays a critical role in knowledge transmission to field medical staff through adapted trainings and quick access to key reference documents, tools, as well as recruitment strategies.

Collaboration between the two departments is regarded as a cornerstone for the organization's efforts to improve the overall quality of its projects and the level of care provided to patients it serves.

The Middle East Support Office (MESO) is the HQ office of OCG in Amman, Jordan. Its purpose is to support MSF programs in the face of the growing contextual complexity for humanitarian intervention and new challenges faced in the Middle East and beyond. Since 2023, the OCG Middle East Support Office consolidated medical support to OCG operations through a Medical Unit based in Amman that is attached to the OCG Medical Department in Geneva. The Amman based Medical Unit comprises of various positions such as IPC and Laboratory Advisors with a global scope, and several flying and implementing positions (Mental Health, Mini-lab, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Project Medical Referent) to boost implementation capacity in OCG missions.

Objectives of the position & scope of responsibilities

Through delegation from the Amman Unit Medical Leader of the MESO, the Infectious Disease & Antimicrobial Resistance (ID/AMR) Advisor develops medico-operational solutions requiring specific medical skills and/or in-depth investment, answering to recognized needs set in the medical ambitions.

In that perspective, he/she is proactively monitoring emerging scientific and medical infectious disease and AMR issues that might shape OCG medical practices and ambitions.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

The ID/AMR Advisor contributes to the achievements of the objectives for its domain of expertise and, to this aim:

• Supports the Medical Responsible of the Program (RMPs) for each Cell with regards to complex technical issues link to ID/AMR with strategic and programmatic advice.
• Responds to complex and technical issues requiring expertise or/and development.
• Strengthens the skills and competencies of MSF staff through capacity-building in ID/AMR.
• Develops expertise in ID/AMR and integrate external knowledge into MSF practices.
• Supports the implementation of innovation and operational research projects.
• Participates in the tele-medicine ID/AMR clinical support.

Specificity of the position

Antimicrobial stewardship

• Defines the medical policy, strategies, technical norms, and tools related to Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in hospital and potentially primary health care settings.

Support the use of bacteriology

• Develops algorithms outlining indications for ordering various microbiological tests in collaboration with other medical specialists and referents

Medico-operational support

• Provides clinical decision and patient management support to the field (prescribers, pharmacists and laboratory technicians) for complex infections or clinical conditions, including interpretation of results and adaptation of treatment based on preliminary microbiology results and AST.

Monitoring and analysis of Microbiology and Antibiotic use activity

• Establishes a surveillance data management system in collaboration with the microbiologist/laboratory advisor.

Collaborate in internal working groups and assure representation outside MSF

• Participates in workshops, conferences, international expert groups, or other validated initiatives.

Job requirements

Education:

• Medical degree is mandatory.
• Specialization in Infectious Diseases, AMR or related field is mandatory.
• Master in Tropical Medicine, Public/Global or International Health is an asset.

Experience:

• Field and/or HQ experience with MSF or similar medical organization is mandatory.
• Experience with implementation/monitoring/evaluation of a hospital antibiotic stewardship program is an asset.
• Significant experience in programs and tools of Antibiotic stewardship and IPC is an asset.
• Experience in development and facilitation of trainings and workshops is an asset.
• Experience with field research in resource poor settings is an asset.
• Difficult, complex or remote field experience response is an asset.

Professional competences:

• Understanding of medical humanitarian work with regards to the medical-technical and the political dimensions.
• Ability to analyze medical and structural issues.
• Medical project management, including operational support.
• Good clinical skills.
• Good training skills

Languages:

• Fluent in English and French.
• Arabic is an asset.

Personal abilities and qualities:

• Good analytical and synthesis skills
• Results, innovation and quality oriented
• Problem solving and service oriented
• Strong interpersonal skills, team spirit, networking and communication skills
• Able to travel (this position is expected to travel about 40% of her/his time)

Contract

• Full-time position 100%
• Open-ended Jordanian contract, commitment to 3-years term, renewable once and maximum 6 years assignment (mandated position)
• Position based in Amman with regular visits to the field (40% of the time in the field)
• Ideal start date: ASAP
• Gross monthly salary: 3’630 JOD (+ seniority in MSF) according to the internal regulations and salary grid of MSF in Amman.
• Relocation package for staff recruited from abroad.

The closing date for applications is14 April 2024. The applications will be treated confidentially. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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