At MSF Switzerland, we are committed to an inclusive culture that supports and amplifies the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas, and experiences work together to advance MSF's social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

We understand that some people may hesitate to apply for employment if they don't meet all listed job requirements. Research shows that this is especially true for women. If you believe your profile is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply even if you don’t fulfil every listed qualification. 

We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics. 

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment.

MSF-Swiss is seeking to employ 1 (one) qualified candidate in the Umrakuba Project for the position of Nurse Team Supervisor.

Main Purpose of the position:

Plan, organize, and evaluate the activities concerning nursing and the team associated, according to MSF values, policies and protocols and universal health standards, in order to warrant the quality and continuity of the health care and the development of the plan of action.

Accountabilities:

• Carry out the functions and tasks associated to nursing i.e. perform as a nurse or anesthetist, whenever required or needed, in order to optimize the resources, contributing with his/her knowledge and experience. 
• Implement all the protocols and hygiene procedures, and supervise his/her team follow the same standards, in order to warrant the quality of the care and service in his/her speciality.
• Organize and coordinate the activities of his/her team (week’s schedule, annual leave, absences, etc.), evaluate their performance and define and ensure the needs for training of staff, in order to ensure the coverage of the human resources needs and maintain high standards of quality.
• Carry out and/or supervise the ( decentralized) pharmacy and medical equipment management (drugs orders, follow-up of the stock, storage conditions, inventories, follow-up of expired drugs and their destruction, drugs consumption, etc.)in his or her department, in order to satisfy the needs of material with efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensuring  that all staff  using medical devices are qualified and trained. Ensuring that cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols. Reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
• Carry-out and/or coordinate administrative (exit-paper, transfer-paper, etc.), information and data collection (patient files, forms, statistics, etc.) tasks, and elaborate regular reporting, in order to have updated and reliable information about the day-to-day activity in the project, output/ outcome and support decision-taking.
• Give feedback/ reports to medical focal point.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:

• Ensure technical and operational supervision of nursing activities across 3 PHCCs providing integrated primary healthcare services, including Paediatric OPD, MNCH (ANC/PNC/FP), wound care,EPI, laboratory RDTs, dispensary, and nutrition services (SAM, MAM, PLWs).
• Supervise implementation of integrated PHC package, ensuring continuity of care between curative, preventive, and community-based activities.
• Ensure proper triage, patient flow, and referral pathways from PHCCs to umrakuba hospital, with emphasis on paediatric emergencies, obstetric cases, and severe acute malnutrition cases with complications.
• Oversee clinical quality of care for MNCH services (ANC, PNC, family planning), ensuring adherence to MSF protocols and safe clinical practices.
• Supervise management of acute malnutrition (SAM/MAM) programs, ensuring correct admission, follow-up, medical management, and linkage with community-based nutrition activities.
• Ensure safe and rational use of medicines through supervision of dispensary activities, stock management, and adherence to MSF pharmacy protocols, in coordination with pharmacy teams.
• Monitor quality and availability of essential laboratory RDT services, ensuring proper use of test kits, infection prevention, and reporting of results.
• Ensure adherence to infection prevention and control (IPC) standards across all PHCC service points, including wound care, maternity services, and outpatient areas.
• Supervise and support nursing staff in wound care management, ensuring correct dressing techniques, follow-up, and referral of complicated cases.
• Strengthen integration of health promotion and community engagement activities with facility-based services, ensuring alignment of key messages with epidemiological priorities (nutrition, MNCH, disease prevention).
• Collaborate with community health teams to improve early case detection, referral, defaulter tracing, and treatment adherence, particularly for malnutrition and MNCH cases.
• Ensure proper functioning of patient data collection systems, including registers, tally sheets, and reporting tools across all service areas, ensuring data quality and timeliness.
• Support clinical staff through on-the-job coaching, mentoring, and supervision, with focus on quality improvement and adherence to MSF protocols.
• Monitor workload distribution and service capacity across the 3 PHCCs and propose operational adjustments to maintain continuity of care and service coverage.
• Timely submission of weekly and monthly data to data team and PMR for monthly Sitrep.
• Any other task assigned by line manager.

Requirements

Education: 

• Speciality (nurse or anesthetist) diploma essential

Experience: 

• Essential 2 years of previous experience. 
• Having worked in MSF or other NGO’s and in developing countries is desirable  

Language: 

• Essential: Arabic and English (written and oral)

Knowledge:

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet) 

Competencies:

• Results and Quality Orientation 
• Teamwork and Cooperation 
• Behavioural Flexibility 
• Commitment to MSF Principles 
• Stress Management 

All applications should at the minimum include:

• Complete CV, detailing the applicant’s education, professional experience
• Accurate contact information (candidate’s primary and secondary phone number)
• Cover letter detailing your motivation for this specific position
• Copy of the National identification document (National Number/national ID/Passport)
• Copies of relevant diplomas and certificates mentioned in the CV
• Contact information of previous employer(s) and other references

INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

The protection of your personal data is important to MSF. By submitting your application, you consent to MSF using your data only for the recruitment process, to have all the necessary information and documents to proceed with the recruitment, validate your application, and select the most suitable candidate. Your data will be treated confidentially and will be destroyed after 12 months. Only those involved in the recruitment process have access to it. MSF does not sell your data under any circumstances.

At MSF Switzerland, we are committed to an inclusive culture that supports and amplifies the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas, and experiences work together to advance MSF's social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with. We understand that some people may hesitate to apply for employment if they don't meet all listed job requirements. Research shows that this is especially true for women. If you believe your profile is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply even if you don’t fulfil every listed qualification. We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics. MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. In this recruitment process, candidates will have to pass a written test and an interview.