Emergency health response team advertisement
Background
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering worldwide through healthcare training, relief, and development programs. The organization has been operational in Ethiopia since 2003 with multidimensional development and emergency programs in areas of Nutrition, Primary Health Care (PHC), Reproductive Health (RH), Mental Health and Psychosocial Services (MHPS), Livelihoods and Disaster Risk Reduction, and WASH. As a pro-poor, non-partisan and humanitarian organization, International Medical Corps addresses the humanitarian, emergency and developmental needs of vulnerable segments internally displaced people, drought affected local communities in Gambella, Oromia, Somali, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples (SNNP) Regional States.
The purpose of this advertisement having emergency health response team or roster is to enhance International Medical Corps efforts as a first responder to emergency. This will help to give immediate response for any health emergencies including disease outbreaks as fast as possible. The team will have a variety of health profession especially Medical doctors, health officers, Nurses, Midwives and environmental health. The role of the team is providing emergency health services such as providing emergency medical treatment and for the affected communities and also public health emergency management role. The team will be assigned in any location where critical emergency and lifesaving response is required. To realize this International Medical Corps is planned to advertise this post for preparing roster with list of potential applicants who have experience and fulfill the requirement listed below.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
All professionals should have graduated from recognized universities and who has all evidences at hand.
1.1.Medical Doctors: Who have Doctoral degree and at least one year of clinical and public health experience and also participated in emergency health services, clinical consultation and outbreak response.
1.2.Nurses: Who have BSC at least 2 years’ experience on emergency health service such as immunization, nutrition screening, child health services
1.3.Midwives: Who have BSC and experience maternal and child health services such as ANC, delivery PNC, FP, and new born care among the required services.
1.4.Environmental Health: Who have BSC and experience on personal environmental and health facility hygiene program.
Additional requirements
· Experience on emergency nutrition, BCC and PHEM intervention like CMAM, IYCF, major epidemic diseases surveillance and epidemic/outbreak investigation and response
· Relevant training on the respective profession and responsibilities.
· Experience of facilitation of training review meetings and workshops
· Excellent computer skills, including all Microsoft applications
· Proficiency in written and spoken English
· Knowledge of the respective site language if required.