Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, the International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, the International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job Purpose:

To deliver safe, respectful, and culturally appropriate maternal and newborn healthcare services in the emergency situation within the crisis-affected communities. She will support life-saving emergency RMNCH services.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Participate in rapid assessments, and provision of emergency life-saving servies during crises and emergency situations.
2. Community awareness and health education, give the necessary care and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period.
3. Provide RMNCH services including Antenatal care, post-natal care, attend emergency deliveries, FP, treatment of STIs, referral of complicated pregenancies to higher level HFs aligned with the BPHS guidelines.
4. Manage complications in pregnancy and childbirth, in accordance with the principles of basic emergency obstetric care.
5. MUAC screening of all pregnant and lactating women and referral of those with MUAC less than 23 cm to the nutrition team for treatment
6. IYCF counseling and education sessions for all pregnant and lactating women
7. Provide iron-folic acid supplementation to all pregnant women Counsel and educate women, their families, and the community, in relevant areas of health including preparation for parenthood and childbirth.
8. Obtain specialized assistance as necessary (consultation or referral).
9. Perform limited, select administrative duties such as patient charting, recording, and reporting of data, clinic and/or facility management, or coordination of specific educational or outreach programs.
10. Follow established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiative; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards.
11. Participate in weekly meetings of health facilities to share information and discuss the program's progress.
12. Provision of RMNCH services reports in HMIS formats to the team leader.
13. Identify and report immediately any problem that interferes in the delivery of services or in achieving the program objectives to the team leader, and team leader to his/her immediate supervisor.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles, and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within the International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by the International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Qualification:

The candidate must be a midwife, who graduated from a recognized midwifery institute.

Experience:

The candidate should have 2 years of experience in BPHS or similar health projects with international or national NGOs.

• Familiarity with HMIS tools of MoH
• Good knowledge and experience in midwifery activities.
• Good knowledge and experience of Health and nutrition training delivery.
• Excellent reputation/well-known Desirable.
• Capacity to perform effectively under pressure and harsh conditions; ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues responsibly and maturely.
• Excellent capacity development and teamwork skills; cross-cultural and gender sensitivity.
• The candidate will be able to travel to hard-to-reach districts of the target province.
• The candidate will have good human and communication skills.

The candidate should fluently speak Local languges, and English is an asset.

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

• IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
• IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
• Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
• IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

To apply for this vacancy, please use the following link:

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Make sure that you have Entered All Education, Work Experiences Details Completely, Accurate & at the end of the application you press Submit.

Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.