MEDICAL OFFICER / INTENSIVE CARE PHYSICIAN DURING AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAK

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 22 years old. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

Description of task

Within delegated authority, the Medical Officer will be responsible for the following clinical duties:

• Case evaluation and early supportive management of UN staff needing hospitalization for COVID-19;
• Collaboration in the transport of cases to the isolation ward and in the MEDEVAC of UN staff to appropriate facilities;
• Overall supervision, management, coordination clinical operations of the Isolation ward during the outbreak/pandemic;
• Follow up and tracking of the positive cases and direct contacts;
• Follow-up and report on status of patient with related UN agency;
• Other related duties as required.

Qualifications/Requirements Required degree level: Doctoral degree Education - Additional Comments:

Doctorate (MD) or equivalent in medicine, including residency/internship in one of the medical specialties, preferably ICU, internal medicine with relevant experience in emergency room.

Required experience: 36 Months Experience remark: Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise: General human medicine (with clinical experience) Area of expertise details:

• A minimum of three years of progressively responsible clinical experience in emergency medicine. Proven experience of a minimum of six month at an ICU in the past 5 years is highly desirable.

Driving license: Yes Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?
First register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup.
Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.

* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?
First update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.

Application deadline: 06-Apr-2020 - 23:59hrs, Germany time

This is a national UN Volunteer assignment, therefore only Haitian nationals and legal residents in Haiti with a residency permit, the status of refugee or with the status of being stateless are eligible to apply.
Please remember to indicate in your UNV profile that you are interested in serving as a national volunteer.