Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?

Médecins Sans Frontières, association médicale humanitaire internationale, apporte une assistance médicale à des populations dont la vie est menacée.
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Médecins Sans Frontières, an international medical humanitarian association created in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threatened: mainly in the event of armed conflicts, but also of epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters or exclusion from care. The French section of MSF is present in about thirty countries.
In the context of a project opening, we are looking for a: Paediatric capitalization and training expert for TACTiC – Treat, Avoid and Cure TB in Children
MISSION
Children with tuberculosis (TB) are underdiagnosed and undertreated, leading to high mortality and morbidity. Almost all MSF projects, in almost all contexts see patients with TB and struggle with the challenges of diagnosing TB, especially amongst children. In March 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Program published new recommendations for children with TB including an integrated treatment decision algorithm to diagnose pulmonary TB, a shorter 4-month treatment for non-severe TB and shorter treatments for TB prevention. These recent WHO recommendations present a unique window of opportunity that cannot be missed to transform the way that children with TB are diagnosed and treated across MSF projects, and to have a truly meaningful impact on mortality and morbidity from TB in this population.
In order to achieve this, MSF has built a project to scale up the use of the new recommendations, both within MSF projects and beyond, as well as to provide evidence to ease their further use and improvement.
All MSF operational sections are involved in this multidisciplinary, inter-working groups, transversal and integrated project which will roll out along 3 main axes of work:
The project should be user-centered (MSF teams, MSF/MoH clinicians and other health staff) and have a special focus on patient experience and coordination/continuity of care, anticipating dialogue with populations at every stage and inform what is left to do beyond medical needs. The main deliverables are a toolkit for implementation and advocacy and a roadmap for scale up.
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES
The main role of the pediatric capitalization and training expert will be to develop tools to support projects in the implementation of the WHO recommendations.In particular, he/she will be responsible for development of a comprehensive implementation toolkit including training tools to support successful field implementation of the WHO recommendations building on previous experiences of missions supported by TACTiC and to allow larger scale roll-out and support field team capacity. In addition, the capitalization officer will actively contribute to the development of a roadmap for effective global scale up across MSF, including an impact analysis.
The pediatric capitalization and training expert will:
The pediatric capitalization and training expert may also contribute to but not be responsible for:
2. Project level implementor role:
In order to become familiar with the implementation process firsthand, the pediatric capitalization and training expert will travel to the project to support the implementation of the WHO recommendations in at least one project site as per the needs of the hosting MSF Mission/Project. The implementor works closely with an appointed TB focal point from the project with the goal of training, mentoring, and supporting the TB focal point who will be responsible in the long term for support to TB activities in the project. Therefore, all activities as described below are performed in collaboration with the project teams and TB focal point:
The time estimated for supporting kick-start of implementation is project dependent but can be estimated as 8 weeks on average.
DELIVERABLES
ORGANIGRAM
Hierarchical manager: The Project Manager will supervise the pediatric capitalization and training expert to ensure a good integration with key MSF internal stakeholders, respectful of the project’s objectives, scope and budget.
The project leader will guide the capitalization office in the type and content of the tools developed and their transposability to other projects and will be the link with the technical groups.
The research coordinator will facilitate the work of the pediatric capitalization and training expert to leverage the documentation done a part of the operational research in the tools.
EXPERIENCE
Management of sick children in MSF contexts, required (at least two to three missions)
Experience developing training and implementation tools.
Experience of capitalization: writing of analytic report, extracting lessons learnt and transforming these into concrete tools
Experience with implementing new recommendations a strong asset.
Experience of diagnosing and treating children with tuberculosis an advantage but not essential
EDUCATION : Medical profile: medical doctor degree
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Excellent analytical skills
Good knowledge of children’s health: previous work experiences in MSF paediatric projects
Knowledge of tuberculosis a strong asset
LANGUAGES
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Rigor, autonomy and organization
Team spirit, sense of initiative and cooperation
Good communication
Excellent training skills
Excellent reporting skills
SPECIFICITIES OF THE POSITION
Status: The post is 4 months based in country with MSF representation but with the possibility to work according to Central European Time zone and ability to travel to the field.
Salary conditions: According contracting section MSF
Position to be filled: CurrentOctober 2024
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