Recrutement  JORDAN - Administrator Irak (Amman)

After a break due to the worsening safety conditions, MdM resumed activities since May 2006, - from Amman and Erbil, supporting local teams and Iraqi NGOs - implementing training programmes focusing on pre-hospital emergency care at community level. The continued deterioration of the Emergency Health Care services has led MDM to upscale its activities with special emphasis on pre-hospital emergency care, maternal & childcare and mental health.

The general objective of the program is to restore and improve access to emergency health services through a comprehensive and integrated community based approach in 7 governorates in Iraq with the following components: ­- Pre-hospital Emergency medical Care: Most of the time, wounded people arrive at emergency rooms without receiving any basic life support, which dramatically reduces their survival chances. The level of First Aid knowledge is very low within the Iraqi community, but also within the health workers groups who, for most of them never get such training in the past.

The first component of MDM programme consisted in training of trainers in Basic Life Support; they were then in charge of training the communities in 6 governorates in Iraq.
Then, MDM will implement a second phase to improve over a period of 24 months the emergency medical services: pre-hospital and hospital care in 6 governorates. MDM will provide technical assistance for the development of new procedures for health staff, necessary training and retraining of doctors, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians in pre hospital care.
- Reproductive Health: The needs are urgent to improve emergency obstetric care, given the bleak maternal mortality indicators. But as the violence has been extremely high in conflict areas, such as Dyiala governorate, it was until now impossible to reinforce emergency obstetrical care at hospital level. Indeed specialized doctors had to flee for security reasons. More other pregnant women could not reach maternal hospital at night and do not have any other choice than to deliver at home. To improve the capacities of birth attendant working at home, MDM is carrying on a programme of training cycles of community birth attendants in Kirkuk and Baquba governorates that will be possible extended to Baghdad peripheral areas and Salahdeen. 150 community birth attendants will be able to carry out deliveries at home and prenatal and postnatal care of the women and infants.
- Child Health: MDM is carrying on a programme to improve the emergency medical care for women and children in Mossul by organizing health professionals training sessions and equipment and medicine donations.

- Mental Health: In the current violence situation, about 20% of patients attending PHC Centers in Iraq have emotional problems. However, most of these disorders are cared as physical problems. In response to the stress, drug addiction is growing very quickly among young people. Diazepam is the most used medicine through Iraq.

To respond to this situation, MDM participates in a pilot project to integrate mental health care with primary health care through Iraq.

The Administrator manages and revises the administration and finance procedures of the mission, in support to the local administrator: h/she supervises the following points of the mission: Budget management, Accountancy, Treasury, Human Resources, Legal and administrative issues, Administrative management of the expatriate procedures, Logistics.

He/she will be based in Amman upon his arrival on the mission, in order to implement and follow up of the administrative and accountancy procedures of the mission. Depending on a funding decision regarding the development of MDM programmes in 2009, the position may be updated to an administrative coordination post, based in Erbil, in order to manage the opening of an office in Erbil (Kurdistan) and to coordinate the administration of the 2 bases, Amman and Erbil. Flexibility regarding the location of the position and the possible frequent travels between the two bases is then required.

Departure: 01/12/2008
Duration: 6 months
Status: volunteer
Monthly Allowance: 800 Euros + Daily subsistence
Profile:
- Knowledge and experience in Administration and financial management within a humanitarian programme is compulsory
- Experience in donor’s reporting
- Emergency and coordination experience are an asset
- Excellent communication skills
- Good organisation skills
- Understanding and interest in collaboration with national authorities
- Ability to work with and supervise a team
- Ability to work in tense situation with security issues
- Training skills is an asset
- Fluency in English, Arabic is an asset
- Computer literacy
- Good team member
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity
- Ability to manage priorities
- Capacity to work in stressful conditions and to respect security rules in an unstable security context.
- Good understanding of Middle East context is recommended, special focus on Iraq will be an asset
- Experience of remote management
- Readiness to listen to people, capacity to prioritize, to be flexible, open-mindedness