# Medical Associate

**Company**: International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
**Location**: Port-au-Prince
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Medical Associate to support the implementation of activities aimed at improving the health of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and migrants assisted by IOM in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

The Medical Associate will work under the overall supervision of the Protection Coordinator and direct supervision of the Senior Medical Assistant (G6), with technical support from the National Medical Officer.

Key responsibilities include:

- Accompanying and providing daily follow-up to identified IDPs and migrants who are sick or injured during medical consultations;

- Organising and ensuring the identification of IDPs and migrants who are sick or injured (in sites and upon arrival at entry points), including triage of urgent cases;

- Participating in assessments of medical needs of people living in IDP sites and contributing to analysis of needs;

- Organising referrals of individuals with specific or severe medical needs to appropriate structures and partners, monitoring referrals, and updating the mapping of available health services;

- Coordinating with protection, mental health, and psychosocial support teams (psychosocial assistant) and GBV teams on case management requiring psychosocial support and survivors of violence, while maintaining confidentiality;

- Supporting the management of medical supplies and consumables under the supervision of the Senior Medical Assistant: ordering according to needs, regular inventories, controlling expiration dates, preparing documents for finance;

- Entering and verifying data in the IOM database and compiling weekly and monthly statistics;

- Drafting narrative reports, meeting minutes, and contributions to donor reports on project medical activities;

- Liaising with health structures and partners for referrals and participating in coordination meetings as requested by the supervisor;

- Participating in beneficiary awareness-raising and community agent training (first aid, hygiene, referral);

- Reporting any health alerts, suspected epidemics, or serious incidents involving beneficiaries to the supervisor immediately;

- Performing other assigned tasks.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A university degree in nursing sciences, medicine, public health, or a related field, issued by a recognized institution, with at least three years of relevant professional experience; or

- A secondary school diploma complemented by a higher education diploma in health technology, nursing, or medical assistance, with at least five years of relevant professional experience;

- Experience in a hospital, health centre, or mobile clinic setting, including triage and primary health care;

- Experience in humanitarian or emergency contexts with IDPs or migrants, with an international NGO or UN agency;

- Experience in patient orientation and referral follow-up;

- Experience in managing medical supplies is desirable;

- Experience in collecting and analysing health data and writing reports.

Required skills include:

- Excellent written and oral communication;

- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team;

- Ability to meet deadlines and achieve objectives in difficult and stressful emergency situations;

- Interpersonal skills and ability to adapt to a multicultural team;

- Strict respect for medical ethics and confidentiality;

- Strong analytical, synthesising, and classification abilities;

- Good mastery of MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook);

- Attention to detail and accuracy.

Language requirements include:

- Fluency in French and Haitian Creole (oral and written);

- Knowledge of English is desirable.

## Skills

### Required
- MS Office
- medical knowledge
- communication skills
- teamwork
- analytical skills
- French
- Haitian Creole

### Nice to have
- English
- experience in humanitarian context
- experience in patient orientation and referral follow-up

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