Ostetrica Tutor

Medical Advisor-Sanità

Descrizione

Founded in 1950, Doctors with Africa CUAMM was the first NGO focused on healthcare to be recognized by the Italian government. It is now one of the leading organization working to protect and improve the well-being and health of vulnerable communities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The NGO promotes long-term health cooperation projects, intervening also in emergencies to ensure that services are available to all.

Doctors with Africa CUAMM is currently active in 9 Sub-Saharan countries: Angola, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

The NGO supports public and non-profit hospitals, local districts, schools of nursing and midwifery, university faculties of medicine.

CUAMM’s action focuses on health system strengthening and targets the weakest population groups, particularly women and children. Interventions include prevention, screening and treatment programmes; development or strengthening of referral systems at community level; training of health staff; management support and technical assistance to local health institutions; field research.

CUAMM's international and national staff work together on the front line to strengthen local health systems, in resource-limited contexts where the commitment and contribution of the individual can make a real difference.

Which is why we always need skilled and motivated people who are ready to join us to collaborate on our projects 'with Africa'.

Start date: mid-end June 2025

Job position: Midwife tutor

Location: Lui, Mundri East County, Western Equatoria State, South Sudan

Duration: 12 months

Family duty station: NO

Purpose of the role

The midwife tutor is called upon to contribute to Lui Health Science Institute (LHSI) regular running for the provision of quality training activities.

Key duties:

• Maintain regular communication with LHSI management staff, organizing meetings for activity planning, updates, and joint decision-making
  
• Guarantee efficient organization and management - in cooperation with Principal Tutor - of all the supported services ensuring students and teaching personnel proper working and living conditions
  
• Participate in the recruitment, management and supervision of LHSI technical and support staff, in cooperation with LHSI Management
  
• Monitor LHSI infrastructures, equipment, materials, consumables status and availability, timely notifying eventual gaps and eventual solutions
  
• Manage the material/financial resources available for the implementation of activities in the absence of Principal of the School
  
• When the Principal of the School is absent, elaborate reports - according to the Donor and NGO guidelines, format and schedule - to be accompanied with the needed supporting documents and data collection.
  

Under the supervision of the LHSI Principal and specifically for Midwifery Courses:

• Support in organizing teaching activities - both theoretical and practical - in line with the National Curriculum.
  
• Support in organizing students’ clinical placement at Lui Hospital
  
• Contribute - in case of need - to lectures and to students’ supervision during clinical placement
  
• Supervise LHSI teaching personnel engaged in the students’ clinical placement follow up to guarantee the quality of training and the compliance with the National Curriculum
  
• Organize inception and regular meetings with teaching staff and hospital based supervisors
  
• Support teaching staff and ward supervisors in student regular appraisal
  
• Organize regular meetings with students
  
• Monitor training material availability and guarantee its continuous updating
  
• Guarantee all documents needed to track students’ performance and curriculum implementation are available and properly filled
  
• To be available in case of obstetrical emergencies when students are in the clinical placements, in rotation with the other tutors of the School and with the senior midwife of the hospital.

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

https://www.mediciconlafrica.org/candidatura

Due to the high number of applications, please note that our recruiting team will contact only short-listed candidates.

The selection process is based on non-discrimination criteria and candidates are taken into consideration without distinction of ethnicity, gender, political orientation, religion, personal opinions, sexual orientation.

Doctors with Africa CUAMM does not tolerate any abuse, exploitation or violence against vulnerable children and adults, nor other behaviour that does not respect human dignity from its own staff, partner staff or other staff associated with the NGO.

All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to the mission and values of the organization, nondiscrimination policies and safeguarding principles.