Getting involved with Médecins du Monde

GETTING INVOLVED with

MéDECINS DU MONDE caring & & witnessing

MéDECINS DU MONDE (MdM) – DOCTORS OF THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MEDICAL ORGANISATION PROVIDING CARE & BEARING WITNESS For more than 30 years, MdM, a campaigning medical organisation committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad. It has continued to highlight obstacles that exist in accessing health care and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies. Those working for this independent organisation do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.

HOME & ABROAD MdM currently works in 46 countries across all continents where it focuses on 4 priority areas: caring for the health of migrants and displaced persons, promoting sexual and reproductive health, combating HIV and reducing the harm and risks associated with drug use, crises and conflicts.

In France, MdM works for the most vulnerable people: migrants, drug users, sex workers, Roma communities,etc) with 20 healthcare, advice and referral clinics, and outreach activities.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR DIFFERENT COMMITMENTS The MdM associative way of operating relies on a community of actors with various commitments: volunteers, donors, full members, associative managers, volunteers of international solidarity, employees and interns. Regardless its status, each people takes part to implementation of the programmes.

MdM stands up for the professionnal integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

Why joining Médecins du Monde: — To join a campaigning organisation with a human scale — To become actor of social change supported by the organisation advocacy — To support innovative programs based on a known expertise in public health — To be a part of the associative life of the NGO — To get involved according to your skills, your availability and your mobility — To get a HR policy which puts emphasis on integration, support and skills development of each actors without distinction of status or nationality — To acquire a valuable experience — To build a path thanks to internal mobility and various possibilities of assignements or development as an associative manager (head of mission, elected official in a joined entity)

Médecins du Monde seeks for: — A strong agreement to MdM’s values as an organisation — An important motivation for the campaigning and its non-profit model — Committed actors — The knowledge of foreign languages is prefered or mandatory (English, Spanish, Arabic, Romanian,…)

— A 6 months to 1 year availability (not including emergency operations) is required for most of the expatriate positions

• surgeons International: involvement in all types of assignment as care providers or trainers, especially for Opération Sourire.

•M IDWIVES International: mainly provide training and health education related to sexual and reproductive health.

In France: provide healthcare, health education and prevention activities related to sexual and reproductive health.

At headquarters: support projects with methodology, planning and implementation.

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•N URSES International: mainly provide training and health education as well as primary healthcare, mental healthcare, vaccinations, pharmacy management.

MEDICAL & PARAMEDICAL positions • MEDICAL DOCTORS International: mainly provide training and supervision as well as health education and occasionally primary healthcare consultations.

In France: provide general and specialist medical consultations (obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, dermatology...) and carry out prevention activities.

At headquarters: support projects with methodology, planning and implementation.

On occasion, specialisms are sought: public health, community health, tropical diseases, psychiatry, management, operating theatre, anaesthetics, gynaecology-obstetrics and paediatrics…

In France: provide care and prevention activities.

At headquarters: support projects with methodology, planning and implementation.

•C LINICAL-PSYCHOLOGISTS International: usually involved with post emergency situations and mainly working on psychological trauma, their role is to train and mentor local health professionals.

In France: provide consultations, manage and monitor adoption cases.

• PH ARMACISTS International: ensure the establishment and correct operation of a stock of medicines and medical material by supporting or training local staff.

In France: organise and supervise the management of the project’s pharmacy.

At headquarters: Ensure the quality of medical purchases and the organisation of the project’s pharmacy.

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NON-MEDICAL positions • ADMINISTRATORS

• SECRETARIES

Supervise, organise and manage the project’s HR, finance, accountancy, budgetary and administrative components.

Carry out various secretarial tasks to ensure the administrative, financial and organisational follow-up.

• LOGISTICIans

• TRANSLATORS

Organise living quarters and working conditions of the team, carry out logistical programmes (building, restoration, sanitation) and participate in the definition and implementation of safety regulations.

Support the teams and work directly with patients, using their foreign language skills to assist with the care of patients.

• RECEPTION STAFF Welcome, prioritise, inform, guide and conduct prevention activities.

• SOCIAL WORKERS Support the reception teams in their guidance activity and ensure that users are able to exercise their rights.

• MANAGEMENT TEAMS AT THE HEADQUARTERS Strategy definition, coordination and implement all the project’s activities, team management, internal and external communication in operational and support functions Department.

• ALL SUPPORT SERVICES Project monitoring and management, advocacy, communications / marketing, finance, accounting, IT, legal, human resources...

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coordination POSITIONS

• GENERAL

COORDINATORS / FIELD COORDINATORS International: as Head of the Mission, supervise and implement all the project’s activities in the country or in a region: management of team, project planning and management, negotiation, representation to various partners and donors, contextual analysis and security of assets and people.

In France: ensure the implementation and operational management of programmes with respect to administration, finance, HR and organisation.

• MEDICAL COORDINATORS International: in partnership with local stakeholders, ensure the design, implementation and operational management of access to healthcare programmes; they have the technical responsibility for the medical activities of a project or a program.

At headquarters : conduct evaluations of existing programmes, research and recommendations for future programmes, set up new missions and support the teams.

• ADMINISTRATIVE AND LOGISTICS

COORDINATORS, PROGRAM COORDINATORS International and in France: oversee and implement all the activities of a specific program or in their field of expertise: team management, project management and planning, negotiation and representation.

Coordinators can also work as flying coordinators on emergency or long-term operations. They are regularly assigned in the international field for short and specified missions.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED? TO GET INVOLVED IN France (HEALTHCARE, ADVICE AND REFERRAL CLINICS & OUTREACH ACTIVITIES) OR AT THE HEADQUARTERS As volunteer: — Application for French programmes: you must contact the regional delegation to your home (contact details on the website).

— Application for the headquarters: apply to recrutement.benevoles@medecinsdumonde.net — Several offers for volunteering are available on the website www.medecinsdumonde.org As employee: — Job vacancies: available on the website www.medecinsdumonde.org — Speculative application: apply on www.medecinsdumonde.org

As employee under national contract: — Recruitment is in charge of our mission locally.

To support MéDECINS DU MONDE Over half of MdM’s resources comes from donors’ generosity which allows us to intervene in a completely independent way. Médecins du Monde, declared of public utility, has the ability to receive bequests and life insurances and is exempted from all duties.

An information meeting, which is open to the public, takes place on the first Thursday of every month from 6pm to 8pm at our headquarters, situated at 62 rue Marcadet – Paris 18th.

Médecins du Monde

62 rue Marcadet 75011 Paris

PHONE 33 (0) 1 44 92 15 15

fax 33 (0) 1 44 92 99 99

www.medecinsdumonde.org

Twitter @MdmFrance_jobs

Cover photo © Nadia Berg

TO GET INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS As expatriate: You will be volunteer for international solidarity (VSI – French status) or employee under French law (100% of the coordination positions).

— Job vacancies: available on the website www.medecinsdumonde.org — Speculative application: apply on www.medecinsdumonde.org

Publication: Médecins du Monde, march 2014

As intern: — Internship vacancies: available on the website www.medecinsdumonde.org — Speculative application for the headquarters: apply to secretariat.rh@medecinsdumonde.net — Speculative application for French programmes: you must contact the regional delegation to your home (contact details on the website).