Nurse, Surveillance at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - Spain

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters or exclusion from healthcare.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nurse, Surveillance

Job Code: MS02800
Location: Abuja, with frequent visits to field offices
Contract Period: 6 months (With possibility of extension) 
Contract: 208 working hours per month
Level: 6

Main Purpose

• Ensure completion and prompt reporting of all information and data related to emergencies, surveillanceand preparedness.
• Maintain active communication and liaison with all relevant internal or external resources for information and data gathering and provide necessary support to the NIMERT team for decision making.

Job Description

• Implement and maintain an efficient and effective surveillance system that will help to monitor epidemiological trends of relevant epidemic-prone diseases at mission level, throughout Nigeria.
• Performing surveillance through active and permanent contact with other actors of disease surveillance and notification from local governments and state levels, with focus on areas of MSF operational interest.
• Manage data systems and ensure accurate, high-quality databases; produce weekly reports and submit to the project medical referent for analyses and decision making.
• Implement and follow-up the MSF, National, and universal alert and emergency threshold and other protocols for different kinds of scenarios.
• Actively participate in the capacity building of medical department staff of NIMERT (and/or other projects if needed) targeting primarily those involved directly or indirectly in data management system.
• Ensure high standards quality information/data collection, communication, archiving, is done in strict compliance with confidentiality and safety as per MSF standard procedures.
• Actively participate in data interpretation and analysis of surveillance data and provide report, regular weekly & monthly (or daily basic if needed) feedbacks with timeliness and completeness.
• Collect context information related to emergencies in collaboration with PC support and report to PMR and Project coordinator. 
• Carry out proper routine systematic alert/medical humanitarian events monitoring and assist in alerts’ verification assessments as requested.
• Actively participates in the medical activities in case of MSF emergency response intervention.

Information, Technology and Communication:

• Assist medical staff in the understanding and use of the MSF data tool; and provide capacity building prioritizing “on-spot training approach primarily.
• Operate as Focal person for GIS, REACH and HMIS of NIMERT medical data.
• Closely participate with mission HMIS focal point/Mission epidemiologist, and PMR for defining and implementing HMIS hierarchy.
• May directly liaise with other projects through project PMR (if needed) for disease/alert surveillance; and play a key role in compiling mission AMT information.
• Participate in drafting project humanitarian actors, and government, federal or local authorities mapping.
• Report/share all best practices and challenges to the NIMERT coordination.

Requirements
Education:

• Essential: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
• Training in public health will be an asset.

Experience:

• Essential: two (2) years working experience with MSF or other NGOs

Language:

• English and Hausa languages are mandatory; Fulani and Kanuri are recommendable.

Knowledge:

• Computer literacy.

Gross Monthly Salary
According to MSF National Salary Scale.

Application Closing Date
14th November, 2022.