The AlbertaTalent Insights™ – Our client, the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcarew working in close contact with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization).

A large majority of MSF staff, about 90 per cent, are locally hired in their country of residence, working for MSF assistance programmes in proximity with the people and communities we support, or in MSF offices around the world. About 10 per cent of people working for MSF are Internationally Mobile Staff, specialists or senior managers hired on fixed-term contracts to carry out assignments in countries of intervention.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Titles: Medical & Healthcare Professionals

Locations: Sokoto and Yobe
Employment Type: Full-time

Description 
To speed up all medical project collaborations with the African country’s Government Medical Ministries, they are calling for applications into the following:

• Neurology
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Ophthalmology
• Otolaryngology
• Psychiatry
• Anesthesiology
• Emergency Medicine
• Orthopaedic Surgery
• Pediatrics
• Radiation Oncology
• Medicine
• Neurosurgery
• Radiology
• Surgery
• Urology
• Cardiology Department
• Pathology
• Rehabilitation Department
• Dermatology
• Hematology
• Dietary Department
• Gastroenterology Department
• Geriatric Department
• Inpatient Department
• Pharmacist
• Registered Nurses
• Others.

Main Purpose

• In response to the alarming malnutrition crisis, MSF expanded its activities in 2022, working in 32 outpatient therapeutic feeding centers and 10 inpatient therapeutic feeding centers across Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states in the North West region.

Role

• The Medical Officers are specialist with expertise in several medical areas relevant to the MSF, such as, clinical medicine, occupational health, emergency medicine, travel and tropical medicine, radiation protection and medico-legal issues; and a promoter of a healthy and safe work environment.

Salary
USD2,300 – USD2,800 per month.

Application Closing Date
30th November, 2024.