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
Draft a project (including funding formulation)
Capacity to work and to live in tense conditions (climate, cultural context, promiscuity, isolation)
Excellent Microsoft Office skills (especially Word and Excel)
Languages: English is mandatory (oral and written)
Knowledge of Ukrainian and/or Russian is an asset
You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde.

TELEPHONE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications.
MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde, a campaigning medical organisation committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies. 

Those working for this independent organisation do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.  

MdM-France currently works in 30 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: emergency and crisis, sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, migrants and displaced populations (health rights), health and environment. 

MdM-France is currently carrying out an exploratory mission in Odessa and Mikolaiev oblasts to assess the needs of people affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

MdM-France is planning to open a country office in Odessa and launch activities in the south part of Ukraine (Odessa-Mikolaiev).

MdM-Spain has the lead for global MdM repsonse in Ukraine and they cover Kiev and surroundings, Donbass, Kharkiv, Zaporidja. MdM-Germnay covers Dnipro and Vinitsia. MdM France will cover the Southern part of Ukraine.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the supervision of the general coordinator and in collaboration with the health advisor based at HQ, you are in charge of designing, planning, implementing, adapting and monitoring health activities. You directly manage the medical team. 

Your main responsibilities are the following: 

• Participate in the definition of the country strategy led by the general coordinator and drive the medical and technical aspects in the development of this strategy 
• Design, plan, implement, adapt and monitor the programme’s health activities
• Ensure the quality and relevance of health activities, supervise the collection and analysis of medical data
• Recruit, manage, train and motivate the medical team
• Ensure the management of pharmaceutical products
• Carry out health needs assessments and evaluations of medical partners
• Cooperate with the administration team regarding budgeting and supervise the medical purchase process
• Represent MdM with authorities, partners and other NGOs on health issues
• Participate in the writing of proposals and reports  

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Status : Employee Contract : Fixed-term contract
Duration : 6 months

Starting date: as soon as possible
Gross monthly salary: 3 175 euros
Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments - minimum of 6 months seniority required
Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
Guesthouse housing
22.5 RTT (recovery days) per year
5 weeks of paid leaves per year
Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
Insurance (repatriation…)
Teleworking agreement for positions eligible to telework: 110 days/year (2.5 days teleworking on average per week) with a minimum of 1 day per week onsite
Given the current circumstances of Covid-19 pandemic, we are taking special measures to apply health protocols and hygiene measures to guarantee the safety of our staff.
Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
Single posting

Mental health professional
Master’s in Public Health is desirable
Minimum 1 year experience of work in MHPSS programs in humanitarian emergencies/context with both individual counselling and psychosocial support activities
Experience to build up local partnerships
Training in transcultural approach is highly desirable
Knowledge of public health issues
Good training abilities
Capacity to create relationships with the communities
Ability to create tools and monitoring process
Previous supervisory and management experience
Proven pedagogical and psychological technical expertise
Understanding of integrated approach in MHPSS is mandatory (cross-cutting approach)
Patience and stress management
Ability to work with minimum support
Ability to work in a tense security context and with limited social life
Reactivity, anticipation, and adaptability
Capacity to take initiatives
Organisational skills and rigor
Impartiality
Good communication skills
Team spirit
Excellent knowledge of Office365 environment (word, excel)
Languages: fluent English (written and spoken) mandatory.
Knowledge of Ukrainian/Russian is a strong asset
You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde.

TELEPHONE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications.
MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde, a campaigning medical organisation committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies.

Those working for this independent organisation do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.

MdM currently works in 30 countries across all continents where it focuses on 5 priority areas: emergency and crisis, sexual and reproductive health, harm reduction, migrants and displaced populations (health rights), health and environment.

MdM-France is currently carrying out an exploratory mission in Odessa and Mikolaiev oblasts to assess the needs of people affected by the conflict in Ukraine.

MdM-F is planning to open a country office in Odessa and launch activities in the south part of Ukraine (Odessa-Mikolaiev).

MdM Spain has the lead for global MdM response in Ukraine and they cover Kiev and surroundings, Donbass, Kharkiv, Zaporidja. MdM Germany covers Dnipro and Vinitsia. MdM France will cover the Southern part of Ukraine.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the supervision of the general coordinator and in the context of the mission opening, your main responsibilities are the following:

• Design MHPSS activities based on on-ground field assessment, gap analysis and actors mapping in accordance with international standards and MdM MHPSS frameworks
• Support the inclusion of social and psychological considerations in programming, evaluating the needs and designing activities in a cross-cutting approach, working closely with other sectors
• Ensure strategic management of MHPSS program component in Ukraine
• Ensure supervision of the MHPSS teams for monitoring the quality of delivered services
• Participate in the recruitment of staff under your technical responsibility
• Train, support and provide guidelines and tools to relevant staff for approach of both refugees and volunteers/medical staff working with refugees
• Train relevant staff on the referral system and the reporting tools
• Ensure reporting by collecting data from the different bases and provide an analysis
• Ensure close coordination with UN agencies, NGOs, MHPSS local partners and local authorities in MdM area of intervention

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Status : Employee

Contract : Fixed-term contract
Duration : 6 months
Starting date: as soon as possible
Gross monthly salary: 2940 euros
Position based in Odessa, with regular travel to different locations in the country.
Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments - minimum of 6 months seniority required
Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
Guesthouse housing
22.5 RTT (recovery days) per year
5 weeks of paid leaves per year
Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
Insurance (repatriation…)
Teleworking agreement for positions eligible to telework: 110 days/year (minimum of 1 day per week onsite)
Given the current circumstances of Covid-19 pandemic, we are taking special measures to apply health protocols and hygiene measures to guarantee the safety of our staff.
Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
Single posting

• You hold a diploma in Prosthetics and Orthotics
• You have at least 5 years of professional experience as a P&O with at least 2 years in humanitarian context
• You have strong intercultural skills and interpersonal skills with a high level of autonomy
• You have experience in capacity building
• You are able to work under pressure and on unsecure contexts
• You speak english

HI is engaged in supporting the Ukrainian population affected by the war: since February 28, two teams left for Ukraine and the neighboring countries to analyze the context, the security, and the needs.

To date, HI continues the implementation of its program in two countries, Ukraine and Moldova, with more than 20 expatriates and more than 50 employees recruited on the spot.

More than any other, HI ensures that humanitarian actions are inclusive, allowing the most vulnerable populations (people with disabilities, elderly, sick, injured) to have access to the help they need.  With a focus on physical rehabilitation, psychosocial support, shelter, access to food, water, and sanitation, explosive remnants of war risk education, and advocacy.

With its Atlas Logistics Unit, HI also ensures the delivery of humanitarian aid in hard-to-reach areas in the East for all NGOs in need thanks to its shared transport and storage activities. For more information, visit our website HERE 

 

Health

In response to critical health needs exacerbated by damage to health infrastructure, movement bans due to ongoing conflict, and targeting health facilities in certain areas, HI aims to improve access to quality physical rehabilitation and mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS for conflict-affected vulnerable populations ( including the injured) while strengthening the capacity of existing health structures.

Dnipro

The security situation in Dnepropetrovsk remains strong. Markets, restaurants, and cafes are open and life remains normal. From 22:00 to 6:00, there is a strict curfew as in the whole of Ukraine. In the last two months, there have been several ballistic missile attacks on the airport and military and logistics facilities on the periphery, but no impact on the city center. The nearest front line is 130 km away, completely out of reach of artillery or ground attacks. Hi, the staff in Dnepropetrovsk is currently sleeping in each room at the hotel. We opened an office a few minutes from the hotel. Within walking distance are at least 20/30 restaurants and cafes with a variety of quality dining styles, as well as a large public park and shopping center.

Primary responsibilities

The P&O Technical Officer contributes to the implementation of the mandate and strategy in his/her home country. He also contributes to the implementation of Humanity & Inclusion's mandate and 10-year strategy in his/her home country. He/she contributes to the implementation of projects by providing technical expertise and ensuring that the quality and impact of the project(s) concerned are optimised. He/she works closely with the programme's technical team.

Mission 1:  Expertise

Responsibility 1: Provides guidance and technical support to projects in accordance with the overall technical frameworks and standards within its sectoral perimeter

Responsibility 2: Provides technical learning from projects

Responsibility 3: Contributes to professional development

Mission 2:  Implementation and monitoring

Responsibility 1: Ensures the planning of activities and established action plans

Responsibility 2: Contributes to project data management

Responsibility 3: Contributes to project reporting

Mission 3:  Influence

Responsibility 1 : Contributes to the influence of HI's expertise: can represent HI's rehabilitation technical expertise in relevant local networks and with local partners

Responsibility 2 : Communicates on the technical aspect of the project to partners, authorities and stakeholders when relevant

Mission 4:  Strategy & Business development

Responsibility 1 : Contributes to programme or country operational strategy (StratOp)

Responsibility 2Contributes to new project proposals drafting for the continuity or expansion of the project

Responsibility 3 : Contributes to the drafting of new proposals for new opportunities

Conditions

In HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission. https://hi.org/en/join-the-team

• 6 months International contract starting from 01/09/2022
• The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation:
• Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals
• Pension scheme adapted to the situation of our employees: If you already have a personal pension scheme HI will contribute at the same level as your monthly contribution with a maximum of 272.53€/month; If you do not have a personal pension scheme, we will open a private pension account with your contribution of 272.53€/month and a contribution of HI of the same amount
• Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution; Repatriation insurance paid by HI
• Salary from 2270€ gross/month upon experience 
• Perdiem: 637,87 € net/month - paid in the field;
• Hardship: 500 € net/month paid with your salary
• Paid leaves: 25 days per year;
• R&R: 5 days every 8 weeks => + possible transport/package support.
• Position: unaccompanied; Payment for travel costs (air ticket & visa)
• Housing: Collective took in charge by HI
• If you live in your home country: package local

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• You hold an Advanced Degree / diploma in HumanitarianAction/Development studies, Disability Studies, or social fields (anthropology, psychosocial, sociology, protection, public health…)

technical skills/ KNOW HOW

• Very good command of project cycle management (planning/drafting of donor reports, logistics and budget monitoring)
• Ability to present and create evidence-based disability inclusion strategies in inter-agency coordination systems
• In depth knowledge of international humanitarian law and the inclusion of people with disabilities.
• Ability to develop advice and technical tools adapted to the context
• Excellent writing and synthesis skills
• Fluency in English and French (read, written, spoken)
• Mastery of computer tools, in particular
• the usual software (Word, Excel, Outlook)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Minimum 2 years’ experience as a project manager within an NGO

- First experience in an emergency context

- Experience in disability mainstreaming projects in the humanitarian sector

 

SOFT SKILLS

- Ability to engage, empower and foster meaningful participation of people with disabilities

- Ability to build the capacities of humanitarian actors

- Ability to work and live in a degraded security environment (stress management/adaptation)

- Ability to take a step back

- Management style encouraging innovation and risk taking

- Patience

- Autonomy and initiative

- Understanding of intercultural dynamics and issues

- Personal commitment to the values ​​and projects of the association

 

SALARY
- Base salary at 2500 euros gross monthly (upon experience) + per diem of 498 euros per month.
EXPATRIATE PACKAGE
- R&R: 5 days every 8 weeks with payment of a return plane ticket at a maximum of 300 euros AR during the period of the contract.
- Health coverage
- Medical cover
- Repatriation insurance
- Collective housing taken in charge by HI
NB : A Schengen Visa is necessary to travel in Ukraine.

 

LOOKS LIKE YOU?
Send your application (CV + cover letter) with the reference « HI_IHAPM_MOLDOVA » at: recrutement@humanitalents.com before the 15th of July 2022*.
*We reserve the right to process applications before the closing date mentioned above
* Only candidates with valid travel documents are allowed to apply

Handicap International is an independent and impartial international solidarity organization, which intervenes in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflicts and disasters. Working alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, it acts and speaks out to meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. 

With more than 4,000 employees around the world, HI operates in dozens of countries, on 4 continents.

 

HI is committed to an employment policy in favour of workers with disabilities. 

Context of the position in Moldova

HI response to the conflict and its regional impact and his re-opening a two-country program covering Ukraine and Moldova. In Ukraine, HI aims at intervening in the West and East of the country, adapting modalities of intervention to the various and diverging contexts of implementation. 

The main objectives will be to assess more deeply the current context & environment, identify potential operational partners, meet with key relevant stakeholders on the ground and asses the overall needs of the population, and requirement to start operations.

HI is therefore preparing to be able to deploy quickly a large-scale multi sectoral humanitarian response. Aligning itself with the priorities of the Ukraine Flash Appeal HI pillars of interventions are the following: 

• Health: HI aims to improve access to quality physical rehabilitation and mental health and psychosocial services (MHPSS) for conflict-affected vulnerable population. 
• Protection: HI will conduct a multi-pronged approach to Explosive Ordnance (EO) risk education and will foster a disability- inclusive humanitarian response.  
• Basic needs  

• Humanitarian-to-humanitarian logistics 
• Inclusion: According to our mandate and given the serious concerns encountered by persons with disabilities, HI promotes a disability inclusive response and works closely with representative organizations while addressing these concerns.  

 

In Moldova, with the rapid increase in refugee arrivals, the authorities are stretched to respond and have limited capacities for inclusive action and have requested urgent support, including on: MHPSS assistance, social assistance mechanisms and the targeting of assistance (probably via cash transfers), protection, including GBV monitoring and referral.

HI is newly registered in the country.

The target organization chart for this emergency mission is aimed at 30 national staff for 4/5 expatriates).

 

The budget for the mission in Ukraine (with an associated program in Moldova) amounts to 9M euros in 2022. The main donors are ADH,12/12 and JOA.

The teams operate at the border with Ukraine in the Odessa/Nikolaev mission.

 

Your main responsabilities :

Under the responsibility of the country manager, and in close collaboration with the Inclusive Humanitarian Action specialist and partnership with networks and organizations of persons with disabilities. You will coordinate the design, implementation and monitoring of HI’s inclusive humanitarian action activities and project results.

 

Mission 1. Ensure a benevolent HR management

• Embody HI values on a daily basis and be a role model.
• Translate the strategy into operational objectives for his or her team, lead the necessary changes.
• Encourage inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice.
• Organise the operational management of his or her team, structure the work around identified processes, steer performance and facilitate the resolution of problems.
• Contribute to the development of his or her staff, creating the conditions for their commitment, professionalism and attachment to HI.
• Ensure compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, the mindset and expected individual and collective behaviour.

 

Mission 2. Strategy and steering: contribute to the development of the programme’s operational strategy

• Support the ongoing analysis of barriers and risks for persons with disabilities, including the

capacities of organizations and networks of persons with disabilities;

• Contribute to define and implement the programme or country operational strategy, aligned with the Refugee Response Plan for Ukraine and protection strategies for Moldova in close

link with organizations of persons with disabilities (StratOp);

• Contribute to the drafting of new proposals for new opportunities, if necessary.

Mission 3. Ensure the operational implementation of the project

• Ensure the implementation of the project is in line with the logical framework and allocated budget;
• Ensure that project implementation complies with the existing frameworks;
• Ensure project monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning;
• Ensure project data management.
• Coordinate the teams and partners involved in the project and facilitate collaboration with other HI teams;
• Contribute to external project communication.

Mission 4: Emergency Preparedness and Response

• In coordination with the Disability Working Group in Moldova, and the alliance of OPDS, raise awareness among humanitarian actors and build capacity of key stakeholders on disability inclusion
• Update mapping of relevant OPDs active in humanitarian response and support further assessment in order to nourish HI’s inclusive humanitarian action strategy and reaching out to persons with disabilities in our health, protection and basic needs programs;
• Create context specific guidance on inclusive humanitarian action, based on international guidelines, identified gaps in the response and context specific barriers faced by persons with disabilities;
• Support HI teams in enhancing an inclusive response by sharing guidance, conducting awareness rising or hands-on coaching and technical advisory activities;
• Support partner organizations and HI teams in identifying and removing barriers to services/centers and protection mechanisms, in particular for blue dots, refugee accommodation centers, rehabilitation centers and health facilities;
• Support HI to design and implement disability inclusive interventions, including through supporting the mobile teams and mechanisms for orientation, referral and inter-agency coordination;
• Actively participate and raise awareness in the Disability Working Group; the AAP working group and the protection working group on inclusive humanitarian action;
• Develop recommendations and tools set to support HI teams in reaching out to, engaging with, ensuring confidentiality and safety of persons with disabilities;
• Explore new sources and opportunities to further develop disability inclusion portfolio in the response.

Contract duration	2 months ( possible extension)
Duty Station	Chisinau
Minimum experience	2 years
Date of start	ASAP