International Organization for Migration (IOM) Clinical Nurse Job Vacancy in Uganda

ent with the IOM Medical Officers working for various resettlement
countries and other visa applicants;
•          Implements migration health
related activities such as filling personal/applicant details, history taking,
organizing medical files including laboratory results and x-rays, and
performing medical follow up as requested by the IOM Medical Officers;
•          Conducts all vaccination for
migrants as prescribed by the IOM Medical Officers, evaluates applicants for
contraindications, updates vaccination data, maintains cold chain and ensures
safekeeping of the vaccines, submit timely vaccines order request;
•          Travel to the refugees
settlements as required and administer second dose of vaccines in the field,
complete required documentation and update vaccination records;
•          Identifies migrant for true and
likeness appearance and perform blood collection, urine and sputum specimen collections,
and x-ray procedures;
•          Proactively coordinates and
liaise with x-ray department, laboratory units, clinics and referral hospitals
and sets appointments for various follow up;
•          Informs IOM Medical Officers
that the migrant has completed treatment(s) prescribed, and ensures that
required reports are provided to the appropriate parties as well as coordinate
and maintain precise tracking records of all medical reviews;
•          Coordinates with IOM Medical
Officers about fitness to travel of migrants and conduct pre departure checks,
de-worming and anti-malarial treatments; report this information to the IOM
Medical Officer;
•          Compiles and submits monthly
reports for all cases cleared to travel and those on medical hold with
projected dates of clearance;
•          Initiates anti -TB treatment
for eligible migrants as per the panel physician’s recommendation, provide
directly observed therapy (DOT) for patients at
•          IOM TB clinic, monitor
treatment progress and drugs side effects, conduct monthly evaluation, observe
DOT’s during the weekend, perform home visits and contact tracing, provide
Health Education and counseling for TB patients and contacts;
•          Ensures safekeeping and
monitoring of TB drug inventory and tracking of expiry date, request of
supplementary feeding for patients and other medical items on timely manner;
•          Compiles required reports and
timely submission to the National TB Program and IOM Regional Office;
•          Travels to camps and other
field missions with the mobile team as required by the Medical Officer, and
perform all activities requested by the supervisor;
•          Encodes data on spreadsheet,
compile monthly statistical reports as required and ensure appropriate filing
system for all reports and records;
•          Safekeeping, monitoring and
organization of medical stock and inventory especially tracking of expiry date.
Consolidates and places quarterly medical orders for supplies;
•          Perform local and international
medical escort duties as required;
•          Perform any other tasks as may
be assigned by the Head of Mission and the
•          Medical Officer.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

•          The ideal candidate should
possess a Diploma in Nursing
•          A minimum of four years’
clinical experience in a clinic or hospital in the areas of: expanded
immunization programme, TB Programs, VCT, migration health, disease control and
international public health; Training and experience in EPI, TB, VCT,
communicable diseases and migration health is a requirement.
•          Prior work experience with an
international organization and NGOs dealing with refugees would be an advantage
•          Past training and experience in
EPI, TB, STDs, other communicable diseases and migration health is considered
an asset.
•          Computer literacy skills i.e.
proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access.
•          The candidate should have the
capacity to work independently; able to carry out tasks with attention to
detail; and demonstrated ability to maintain accuracy and confidentiality;
•          Available at short notice to
travel within the country and to other countries;
•          Language Proficiency: Fluency
in both written and spoken English.
•          Knowledge of 2 or 3 local
languages will be highly advantageous

Personal Competencies:
Behavioural Competencies:
•          Integrity – absolute adherence
to professional and administrative standards of conduct. Actively participates
in measures to support a zero tolerance to corruption and malpractice within
their own work and within the work of the mission.
•          Accountability – accepts and
gives constructive criticism; follows all relevant procedures, processes, and
policies; meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs; monitors
own work to correct errors; takes responsibility for meeting commitments and
for any shortcomings.
•          Client Orientation – identifies
the immediate and peripheral clients of own work; establishes and maintains
effective working relationships with clients;
•          Identifies and monitors changes
in the needs of clients, including donors;
•          governments, and project
beneficiaries.
•          Continuous Learning –
contributes to colleagues’ learning; demonstrates interest in improving
relevant skills; demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other
functional areas;
•          Keeps abreast of developments
in own professional area.
•          Communication – actively shares
relevant information; clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on,
changing priorities and procedures; writes clearly and effectively, adapting
wording and style to the intended audience; listens effectively and
communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience.
•          Creativity and Initiative –
proactively develops new ways to resolve problems
•          Leadership and Negotiation –
convinces others to share resources; presents goals as shared interests.
•          Performance Management –
provides constructive feedback to colleagues; provides fair, accurate, timely,
and constructive staff evaluations; uses staff evaluations appropriately in
recruitment and other relevant HR procedures.
•          Planning and Organizing – sets
clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and
others; identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others;
organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers;
identifies risks and makes contingency plans.
•          Professionalism – masters
subject matter related to responsibilities; identifies issues, opportunities,
and risks central to responsibilities; incorporates gender-related needs,
perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal gender participation;
persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress; treats all
colleagues with respect and dignity; works effectively with people from
different cultures by adapting to relevant cultural contexts; knowledgeable
about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration solutions
•          Teamwork – actively contributes
to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment; contributes to, and
follows team objectives; gives credit where credit is due; seeks input and
feedback from others; delegates tasks and responsibilities as appropriate;
actively supports and implements final group decisions; takes joint
responsibility for team’s work.
•          Technological Awareness –
learns about developments in available technology; proactively identifies and
advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions; understands applicability
and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it toappropriate work.
•          Technical Effectively applies
knowledge of health issues in execution of responsibilities at appropriate
level; maintains confidentiality and discretion in appropriate areas of work

How to Apply:

All those interested in working with the United Nations’ International
Organisation for Migration (IOM) should send a cover letter and CV with
detailed relevant work experience to IOM HR department via E-mail to:
hruganda@iom.int.