MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES UK

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides life-saving emergency relief and longer-term medical care to some of the most vulnerable and excluded communities around the world. As an independent medical humanitarian organisation, we deliver care based only on need, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, religion or political affiliation.

MSF relies on donations from private individuals and organisations for the majority of its income. This private funding gives MSF the freedom to respond where needs are greatest and to speak out publicly, free from any political interference.

MSF has around 63,000 local and international staff working in over 70 countries, in some of the most challenging places in the world. Our medical humanitarian projects are supported by offices in 44 countries, including the UK and Ireland. These teams recruit staff, organise fundraising, and raise awareness on the humanitarian crises our colleagues are witnessing, as well as running different and diverse support activities. MSF offices are spread across Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

At MSF UK/IE, we support MSF's operations by building relationships with our supporters, increasing awareness of our work, raising funds, providing specialist medical expertise, ensuring MSF staff have access to relevant higher education programmes, catalysing change on medical humanitarian issues, and recruiting field staff. MSF UK/IE personnel are dynamic, hard-working, enthusiastic and committed to MSF's values and aims. In addition MSF continues to build upon its presence in Ireland to become a widely recognised, accepted and respected humanitarian organisation among Irish audiences, and within the Irish humanitarian and political sector.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)

Duration: 6 months FTC

Salary: £49,121 per annum

Public Health Department (PHD):

The Public Health Department (PHD) of MSF’s Operational 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 Manson Unit (MU) is a multi-disciplinary medical team within MSF UK and is the London based part of the Public Health Department. We aim to improve the quality of MSF’s medical programmes worldwide, so the best possible care is delivered to our patients.

The eHealth Medical Content Advisor is a member of the eHealth team within the Manson Unit. The key purpose of this team is to ensure eHealth solutions are integrated and managed correctly and in a sustainable way across OCA.

Job Purpose:

The eHealth Medical Content Advisor holds overall responsibility and ownership of the medical data model in the software platforms comprising the Health Information System (HIS) for OCA. The postholder plays an active role in ongoing development and improvement of the HIS in alignment with the development of the OCA Public Health Department’s strategy for other heath data tools and activities.

Please download the job description and person specification below for full details of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Degree in epidemiology, public health, health informatics or a medical/paramedical profession.
• Previous experience with DHIS2.
• Demonstrable experience in managing and analysing medical data (public health data, electronic medical records or similar) in medical databases / data warehouses.
• Strong team-working skills and experience, particularly in a matrix management environment.
• Excellent support skills, for aiding non-expert users with complex content.
• An understanding and knowledge of medical issues and challenges in humanitarian contexts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.
• Experience in the practical use of personal IT equipment and Microsoft Office 365 suite. The ability to effectively collaborate and communicate within a hybrid working environment utilising Teams, SharePoint, One Drive and Yammer.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive organisation. MSF UK thrives when everyone feels comfortable bringing their best self to work. We celebrate difference, whilst striving to create an environment where colleagues feel respected and valued for their unique potential. We are committed to our values on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Please read our Equality & Diversity policy for more information.

MSF UK is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from all sections of our diverse community.

Safeguarding

MSF UK/IE is dedicated to safeguarding everyone who comes into contact with the organisation, for whatever reason and however brief. All posts are subject to safer recruitment process which include robust reference requests, scrutiny of employment history and where applicable criminal record and barring checks.

Our safeguarding commitment is underpinned by policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the organisation. On joining MSF UK/IE you will be required to attend safeguarding training to ensure responsibility for and maintaining safe working practice and to safeguard our teams, beneficiaries, and communities.

Right to work

If you are not sure about your right to work status in the UK and/or would like to discuss this, please contact [email protected]

If candidates wish to work from a location outside of UK, they must have the right to work in the country they wish to be based in and this will also be dependent on whether the position can be hosted from the MSF HQ office of that country.

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply on our website by submitting a copy of your CV together with a letter of motivation (please upload as one document) by the closing date.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Recruitment timetable:

• Closing date for applications: 30 July 2023, 11:59pm (BST)
• Interviews: Early August 2023

Interviews will be held on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the application early if we find a suitable candidate.

Accessibility

We are committed to removing barriers for people with specific accessibility needs. If you need an adjustment to the recruitment process to be considered for the role, please let us know by contacting [email protected]

Examples of adjustments we can make:

• offering you an alternative if you are unable to use our online application system
• providing necessary information, such as the job description or assessment materials, in an alternate format
• allowing you to have someone with you during an interview for example, a Sign Language interpreter.

For questions, issues or further information, please contact [email protected].

For further information about the role please contact [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application!