Deadline: 10 January 2016
World Food Programme (WFP) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Regional Medical Officer in Dakar, Senegal.
The WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Regional Medical Officer will perform the following functions-
- Carry out frequent and systematic field visits to the top priority countries of the region and report to Regional Directors and RMWM Chief on findings recommending solutions based on local approaches.
- To design and coordinate the delivery of medical services in the region for efficient and effective promotion, prevention and protection of the health and safety of WFP staff following the Wellness Strategy and the Regional strategic objectives.
- Provide technical expertise, advice and solutions that support strategic results, and formulate regional strategies and approaches where appropriate.
- Provide travel medicine services for staff on official travel, incorporating destination-specific health advice, facilitating access to immunization, prophylactic medications and travel medical kits.
- Support WFP Country Offices in the management and monitoring of the implementation of the Service Level Agreements or Memoranda of Understanding regarding the sharing of DPKO/DFS Missions field medical services to WFP staff.
- Access and liaise with local medical facilities to ascertain proper medical care rendered and establish a referral list and updated list of reasonable and customary costs, whilst monitoring and verifying appropriateness, reasonableness and customary nature of major medical bills/treatments as required.
- Provide surge capacity to the corporate and UN System emergency response capacity including mass casualty incidents.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Doctorate in Medicine.
- Postgraduate medical qualification in, preferably, one of the following medical specialties: emergency medicine, internal medicine, occupational health and safety, and/or public health.
- Currently registered to practice medicine in own country or another UN member state is required.
- Minimum 10 years of clinical practice of which, at least, 1-2 years should be in an international organization.
- At least 5 years of successful management of interdisciplinary teams.
- An asset would be experience within the UN system, or similar NGO.
- Demonstrated leadership, management and team building skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation and drafting skills.
- Knowledge of addressing the psychosocial needs of humanitarian workers.
- Experience in emergency management (crisis or disaster medicine), travel medicine, tropical and infectious disease.
- Negotiation skills.
- Project design and management.
- Training experience and facilitation is an asset.
- Fluency in oral and written English with an intermediate knowledge of French.
- Knowledge of other UN languages (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) are desirable.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit WFP.
