Head of Public Health Department (Medical Doctor)

The overall purpose of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) is to preserve life and alleviate suffering, while protecting human dignity and seeking to restore the ability of people to make their own decisions. MSF accomplishes this through the provision of medical aid and a personal commitment to act as witness to events surrounding populations in danger. This work is essentially performed in periods of crisis, when a situation is no longer held in balance and the very survival of a population may be threatened. The underlying basis for realising MSF's objectives is respect for medical ethics, humanitarian principles, human rights and international humanitarian law.

The Public Health Department (PHD) of the Operations Centre Amsterdam (OCA) supports the overall purpose of MSF, providing medical and public health leadership for the organisation. The department is responsible for providing strategic direction and integrated advice on medical and public health issues to the field and headquarters. The PHD plays a key role in developing and maintaining the medical humanitarian identity and image of MSF-OCA, and in continuing to develop and improve intervention strategies so as to be relevant and effective.

The department is made up of a group of generalist Health Advisors (based in Amsterdam and Berlin) working directly with operational managers and the field, and medical and public health specialists (nutrition, laboratory, mental health, pharmacy, HIV/TB, water and sanitation, etc) so as to provide expert support in a range of fields. The Manson Unit, a medical unit based in MSF-UK, focuses on support to TB and epidemiology.

MSF OCA has a broad range of medical programming in diverse contexts, from emergency primary health care, water and sanitation and nutrition for displaced populations, to mental health, emergency obstetric care, surgery, HIV/AIDS and MDR TB interventions. Current strategic priorities are to enhance OCA's response to violence and conflict through a focus on TB treatment, scaling up the treatment of drug-resistant TB, investing in neglected diseases such as kala azar and sleeping sickness and improving our response to disease outbreaks. Emphasizing paediatrics, improving surgical services, including psychiatric care and enhancing vaccination services are a further focus for 2011-2014.

With immediate effect we are looking for a

Head of Public Health Department (100%)
based in Amsterdam

POSITION
The Head of Department, Public Health Department (HoD PHD) reports to the Medical Director of MSF-OCA. The HoD PHD is responsible for line management of the 3 Co-ordinators and the administrative assistant of the PHD. S/he has an advisory role with health advisors and specialists and collaborates with the head of the Manson Unit (medical unit in MSF-UK).
S/he participates in the Operations and HoD platforms, and collaborates with Operational Managers, other HoDs and Country Management Teams as relevant.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
• An active role in operational implementation of MSF-OCA's strategy in the fields of medicine and public health, through leadership and coordination of the PHD support to Operations (e.g. stimulating updates of topical strategies when indicated, ensuring coherence of departmental strategy across disciplines, etc);
• Participates in strategic and operational meetings including the Operations Platform and HoD platform, to safeguard the implementation of MSF-OCA's strategy in the fields of medicine and public health;
• Promote efficient operational and medical support to the field through sharing of information (Ops to PHD and vice versa) and by holding Ops accountable for their role in implementation of medical priorities;
• Contributes to MSF-OCA's strategic thinking and development of public health and medical issues integral to our action;
• Keeping and oversight of general and specialist issues/developments, and representing a unified medical voice in various platforms, and liaising with the Medical Director.
• Coordinates the PHD+ weekly meetings and the PHD+ block days and in collaboration with the Medical Director develops the programme for the Med-Co Days;
• Develops, proposes and coordinates implementation of the department's annual plan including human and financial resources; reports to the Medical Director/Management Team on progress against the annual plan;
• Gives support to recruitment and pool management for the PHD and carries out organisational HR policy regarding coaching, performance evaluation etc;
• Provides direct strategic content support to the medical specialists;
• Coordination, prioritisation, and development of the medical training agenda of OCA;
• Stimulates the operational research agenda in line with field priorities
• Safeguards medical quality in MSF-OCA programming and training;
• Establishes and maintains relevant networks with medical experts and other relevant agencies;
• Any other task, responsibility and duty that is commensurate with the post and profile as decided by the organisation.

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PROFILE
• Medical doctor, with Master of Public Health or similar post-graduate qualification;
• At least 4 years humanitarian-medical field experience with MSF or a comparable organisation;
• At least 2 years senior medical/health management experience within or outside of MSF;
• Up to date with latest medical developments particularly in the areas of tropical medicine with ideally, recent clinical experience
• Proven management skills and expertise in policy development, planning and monitoring of results;
• Good knowledge of recent developments in the field of humanitarian relief and public health;
• Good analytical and communication skills are essential as well as an excellent command of the English language (oral and written communication); French desirable;
• Willing to live and work in the Netherlands;
• Should be prepared to spend approximately 20% of his/her time on work related travel.

WE OFFER
• A contract for three years with a renewal option based on a fulltime appointment in salary grade 10 (with a gross monthly salary between € 4.408 and € 6.297 depending upon relevant professional experience and based upon a 40-hour working week).
• A premium free pension and 30 holidays
• A challenging position in an international working environment

INFORMATION & APPLICATION
For more information about this position, please contact Leslie Shanks, Medical Director on phone 020-520 8945.
If you are interested in this position and believe that you fit the profile, please e-mail your letter of application and Curriculum Vitae in English to officejobs@amsterdam.msf.org. for the attention of Marco Visser, Personnel Advisor. Please mention "HoD Public Health" in the subject line. Could you also mention in your E-mail where you came across the vacancy?
The application deadline is 12 December 2011. Interviews will be planned in week 51.

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