Fresh Careers at at Médecins Sans Frontières

Job Title: Nutrition Nurse

• Provide nursing care, treatment and follow-up for children suffering from severe malnutrition, according to MSF TFP (ITFC/ATFC/SFP) protocols, universal hygienic standards and other procedures, in order to ensure a good delivery of care and improve their nutritional conditions.

• Implement and follow at all times the universal hygiene standards, security rules and other protocols and procedures regarding nursing and children nutrition matters.
• Ensure proper functioning of the Therapeutic Program. This includes:
• Daily collect the number of new admissions and exits and to check the attendance
• Calculate the quantity of food needed for the day based on the number of children registered
• Ensure triage of patients in waiting areas, detecting the priority acute cases, carrying out first aid care when necessary and referring them to the doctor if necessary.
• Carry-out all patient’s related tasks for the admission, weighing and measuring the children, identifying the degree and types of malnutrition, administration (patient card, register,..) etc.
• Ensure that medical and nutritional care is properly delivered to the patients and to daily follow the evolution of the patients.
• Carry-out consultations to children and their parents, undertaking a complete clinical examination of children, looking for associated pathologies, drawing up nutritional surveillance forms and milk cards, providing required vaccination, etc.
• Carry-out surveillance and follow-up of patients’ medical and nutritional evolution, identifying possible emergency situations arising and keeping doctors informed if necessary.
• Provide advice and inform children’s families about everything concerning the hospitalization, participate in the health education of the mothers and/or treatment process.
• Control all pharmacy, food, and medical equipment (carrying out inventories, checking its quality and its functioning, storage conditions, doing follow-up of expired drugs, etc.).
• Carry-out and supervise administrative procedures and documents (fill in patients files, forms, statistics, etc.), ensure an appropriate written/oral handover, and report any problematic situations and cases arising.

• Education: Nursing diploma with nutritional training essential.
• Experience: Previous experience required. Experience in MSF or other NGO’s and /or in developing countries desirable.
• Languages: English language essential. Local language desirable.
• Knowledge: Desirable computer literacy (word, excel)
• Competences: Results, teamwork, commitment, flexibility, service.

• Borno state (Nigeria).

• 208 working hours per month and roster flexibility required.

Job Title: Administrative Assistant

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• Manage the administrative files of the staff with confidentiality and according to the MSF Internal Regulation;
• Assist the Field Administrator with contracts, leaves or any other HR request;
• Calculate accurately the payroll monthly for both MSF and MoH staff collaborating on the project;
• Manage, register and archive the accounting of the mission according to MSF protocols as well as the budget;
• Process the payment of suppliers after verification and approval from the Field Administrator in collaboration with Logistics Department.
• Implement cash management procedures in order to ensure the highest control and security, and ensure cash availability.
• Enter data into the HR database and personal files and keep them up-to-date in order to facilitate HR processes management(collects, records and updates the staff individual files: individual information sheets, copy of signed contracts, amendments, records of leaves, absences, overtime, etc. then enter all the data into Homere software).
• Other Administrative Duties as may be required.

• Degree in business administration and/or accounting;
• Computer skills and good faculty to learn new software;
• Strong work ethic, commitment to humanitarian objectives and interest in health care;
• High motivation, flexibility, quick learning and team working;
• Fluent in spoken and written English and Hausa.

Job Title: Nutrition Nurse Supervisor

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• Draw up outpatients activity planning,
• Follow up the evolution of patients and discuss the problem cases taking part in the medical assistant’s round, and install referral system
• Check that medical and nutrition prescriptions are carried out.
• Check the diffusion, knowledge and application of medical, nutritional and anthropometric protocols.
• Supervise nursing care and hygiene circumstances.
• Checking the food’s quality.
• Ensure that mothers are well informed about the functioning of the centre, the state and evolution of their child: their tasks (help with cleaning, feeding their child, etc)
• Supervises, in cooperation with the pharmacist and project medical referent, the management of the pharmacy, ensuring reception and storage of orders, preparing new orders when required, supervising expiration terms and consumption patterns, in order to ensure, a rationale use as well as pharmacy stock levels are permanently updated and above minimum safety point.
• Ensure correct nutritional data collection (registers, nutritional forms, morbidity forms), compile weekly and monthly statistics for the outpatients unit, report this information to the line manager and provide feedback on the results to the team. In these sense, this function includes all kind of nutritional information that nutritional supervisor has in his /her hands.

• Education: Nurse qualification. Desirable with a nutritionist diploma
• Experience: Minimum 2 year experience as nut nurse.
• Languages: English language essential and local language
• Competences: Results, teamwork, flexibility, commitment, stress management

• Borno state (Nigeria).

• 208 working hours per month and roster flexibility required.