Save the Children,Midwife Jobs in Rwanda

POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENT
Rwanda
Country Programme, Kigali Rwanda
BACKGROUND:
Save
the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children. We
work in 120 countries. We work together, with partners, to inspire
breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to ac

hieve immediate and
lasting change in their lives. Save the Children works in thirteen districts in
Rwanda with a current staff complement of approximately 180 staff.

SC
Rwanda Country Office seeks to hire qualified, committed and experienced National
to fill the following position: 
Position: Midwife
Place
of Work:
 Kirehe
Reports
to:
Staff
directly reporting to this
post:
Time
frame: 
Tentative
start date:
 
                               
                                     
Youth
Health Coordinator
None
Open
Ended
 ASAP
CHILD
SAFEGUARDING:
Level
3- The responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular
contact with or access to children or young people.
PURPOSE
OF POSITION:
The
Midwife will work to contribute to an improvement in the overall health of the
targeted refugee population of Mahama Camp through the provision of quality
Reproductive health services.
KEY
AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Objective
1; Provide comprehensive Antenatal care to pregnant women attending ANC
services
  • Welcoming
    all the pregnant women coming for the ANC services into Youth Friendly
    Space (YFS) & health facilities.
  • Conduct
    screening for all pregnant women in accordance with the Sudan ANC protocol
    and other guidelines.
  • Provide
    all services given in ANC including protocol drugs and screening for all
    mothers.
  • Identify
    all Risk factors associated with the pregnancy and refer appropriately and
    take actions.
  • Provide
    Iron supplementation, and ensure the mothers are immunized with TT toxoid
    as per the protocol.
  • Provide
    Health education and nutrition education for all women attending ANC
    services.
  • Register
    all the required information on the ANC Registers and ANC cards as per
    protocol.
Objective
2; Provide Postnatal care as per the protocols to all women attending PNC
clinic and YFS.
  • Conduct
    screening for all lactating women attending Post- Natal care in accordance
    with the protocol and other guidelines.
  • Provide
    Vitamin A, medical supplements and other protocol drugs as per protocol to
    lactating women.
  • Provide
    and Reproductive health and Nutrition counselling and health education on
    importance of lactation.
  • Send
    the caretaker to EPI department for immunization.
Objective
3; Family planning and STI management.
  • Provide
    FP service as per protocol to all adolescents and young people attending
    the YFS
  • Operate
    Family planning clinic as per protocols and Rwandan guidelines.
  • Explain
    to the FP clients all the methods available and allow them to make
    personal choices.
  • Screening
    all the FP clients for STI and other medical complications.
  • Manage
    patients with sexually transmitted infections (STI) in line with the
    Syndromic guidelines and protocols.
Objective
4; Delivery Room and Emergency Obstetric Care.
  • Conduct
    Normal and complicated deliveries in line with all guidelines.
  • Monitor
    labour using pantograph and in Line with all guidelines provided to
    monitor deliveries.
  • Respond
    to all cases of Obstetric emergencies in line with the protocols in
    consultation with the doctor and other medical staff.
  • Identify,
    stabilize and refer all cases of emergency obstetric complications with
    the help of the doctors and other medical staff.
Objective
5; infection control and universal precautions.
  • Adhere
    to international standards in infection control and waste management.
  • Ensure
    aseptic techniques in provision of RH services.
  • Sterilize
    and disinfect all the instruments used during delivery and other obstetric
    services.
Objective
5; Health Education.
  • Providing
    health education at the reproductive health waiting area and at all levels
    of RH care.
  • Participate
    in provision of one to one  health education to all patients during
    consultation and services delivery
Objective
6: Supervision of community outreach activities
  • Conduct
    field visit at community level to the project volunteers During outreach
    activities
  • Provide
    a feedback for better improvement to the volunteers
  • Strengthen
    youth  clubs to provide health messages
Objective
7; other roles.
  • Provide
    support and supervision to other staff when called upon to by the PHC
    supervisor
  • Conduct
    on-job training to other junior staff during service delivery when
    requested to do so.
  • Conduct
    any other role provided by the line manager.
CORE
BEHAVIOURS
Understanding
humanitarian contexts and application of humanitarian principles:
  • Able
    to assess and analyse key issues in the humanitarian situation and
    formulate actions around them
  • Actively
    engages in disaster coordination mechanisms and interagency cooperation
  • Leads
    on the development of an organisational response based on an understanding
    of the contexts
Achieving
results effectively:
  • Ensures
    beneficiary and partner feedback is incorporated into programme design,
    planning and learning
  • Demonstrates
    flexibility to adapt plans and make decisions in rapidly changing
    environments
  • Actively
    manages risk and takes action to reduce risk
  • Makes
    changes to improve performance as a result of information received
  • Documents
    lessons learned and applies them to future projects
Maintaining
and developing collaborative relationships:
  • Develops
    strategies for teams to work across traditional boundaries, working in
    diverse environments
  • Establishes
    clear objectives with teams and individuals and monitors progress and
    performance
  • Fosters
    collaborative, transparent and accountable relationships through partners
  • Uses
    negotiation and conflict resolution skills to support positive outcomes
Operating
safely and securely:
  • Demonstrates
    an understanding of wider UN/NGO security coordination and how the
    organisation can benefit from, and contribute to, those mechanisms
  • Undertakes
    effective risk assessments and develops contingency plans
  • Takes
    appropriate, coordinated and consistent action to handle situations of
    personal risk and risk for others
  • Reduces
    vulnerability by complying with safety and security protocols set by the
    organisation
Managing
yourself in a pressured and changing environment:
  • Helps
    team members to practise stress management through prioritisation of
    workloads and modelling of appropriate self-care
  • Remains
    focused on the objectives and goals in a rapidly changing environment
  • Remains
    effective and retains perspective in the face of difficult or demanding
    situations
SKILLS
AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
  • Holds
    self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently,
    achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
  • Holds
    the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities –
    giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing
    the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate
    consequences when results are not achieved
  • Creates
    a managerial environment across the Region to lead, enable and
    maintain our culture of child safeguarding
Ambition:
  • Sets
    ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes
    responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their
    team to do the same
  • Future
    orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
  • Approachable,
    good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective
    relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
  • Values
    diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work
    cross-culturally.
Creativity:
  • Develops
    and encourages new and innovative solutions
Integrity:
  • honest,
    encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
  • displays
    consistent excellent judgement
QUALIFICATIONS
AND EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES
Qualifications
  • A
    qualified Registered Midwife with 2 years’ experience, registered /
    licensed by medical practitioners board
  • Experience
    working with international NGO.
  • Excellent
    liaison abilities and good communication skills (French, Kiswahili and
    English preferred).
  • Willingness
    to work in resource poor environment and be culturally sensitive.
  • Ability
    to produce basic reports in English
  • Ability
    to work in a remote area and in context of insecurity issues.
  • Ability
    to work with adolescent youth
  • Experience
    managing  Referral of patients  from Primary Health Care centers
    to secondary level facilities
Desirable
  • Language
    skills in Kinyarwanda,  French, English and Kirundi
  • An
    area of particular expertise within humanitarian health
  • Experience
    of working on PMTCT programmes
CHILD
SAFEGUARING POLICY
:
Any
employee, consultant, contractor or the supplier undertaking an activity on
behalf of SCI must sign the Child Safeguarding – Declaration of
Acceptance  Form
] and comply with the SCIs Child Safeguarding
Policy which is a statement of SCI’s commitment to preventing abuse and
protecting children with whom it comes into contact. 
  • This
    extends not only to children with whom SCI and its partners work directly,
    but also includes children whom staff are responsible for.  SCI
    believes that the situation of children must be improved through the
    promotion of their rights supported and demonstrated by all members of
    staff. Save the Children International’s Code of Conduct sets out the
    standards which all staff members must adhere to.
Interested
candidates should send an application letter plus updated Curriculum Vitae in
English, including 3 names of professional referees to HR-Rwanda@savethechildren.org. The deadline for
receiving applications is 6th February 2017.
            
Please mention Midwife as subject of your mail.
                                 
*Note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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