About This Role
This role blends hands-on clinical nursing with team leadership in a humanitarian medical mission. As a Nursing Team Supervisor with Médecins Sans Frontières (Switzerland), you will not only oversee daily nursing operations but also step in as a frontline nurse or anesthetist when needed. It suits experienced nurses who thrive in resource-limited, rural settings like Begi, West Wellega, and are comfortable balancing administrative duties—such as scheduling, protocol enforcement, and quality assurance—with direct patient care. MSF’s reputation for rapid, principled emergency response means you’ll work under pressure with a multicultural team, prioritizing flexibility and resilience over a predictable routine.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The listed experience level (3–5 years) suggests MSF seeks a nurse who has moved beyond basic competence into confident, independent practice—someone who can mentor others without needing constant supervision. The emphasis on implementing protocols and hygiene standards implies a need for meticulous attention to infection control, a critical factor in low-resource health settings. The requirement to “perform as a nurse or anesthetist” indicates you should hold dual competencies or be willing to expand your skills, as MSF often requires staff to cover multiple roles due to staffing constraints. This profile values adaptability, clinical rigor, and the ability to enforce standards diplomatically among a local team.
How to Approach This Application
Focus your application on concrete examples of leading a nursing team in challenging environments—highlight how you maintained quality care despite limited supplies or staffing gaps. MSF will prioritize candidates who can demonstrate adherence to strict protocols, so mention specific instances where you enforced hygiene or safety standards under pressure. If you have prior experience in rural or conflict-affected settings, or with anesthetist duties, lead with that. Emphasize your willingness to work in a remote area like Begi and your ability to train or supervise junior staff without formal authority. Avoid generic nursing terms; instead, frame your experience around operational problem-solving in field conditions.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for experienced nurses with a humanitarian mindset who are ready to work in a high-stakes, low-resource environment—competition is moderate but selective, as MSF values both clinical skill and cultural adaptability.
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.
Function responsibilities include:
- 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
Specific Accountabilities
Location: based in Begi, West Wellega, Oromia Region / hard-to-reach place, volatile security context.
In collaboration with MOH
- Implement Infection prevention control (IPC) measures in the facility
- Assess the learning needs
- Plan for capacity building based on the identified needs and conduct formal and onjob trainings to improve the quality of care
- Coordinate with NAM and PMR on outreach activities
- In collaboration with NAM and MR implement measures to ensure quality of care in the facility and in the outreach
- Data management
No. of positions: | 1 |
Place of work: | MSF- Switzerland - Begi, West Wellega, Oromia |
Position holder report to (direct supervisor): | Nurse Activity Manager |
Length of contract: | Until 31 December 2026 |
Education
Essential nursing diploma for general or specialized health services (bachelor’s in science of nursing Desirable)
Specialization or training in tropical medicine would be an asset
Valid license to practice as a nurse in Ethiopia, issued by the Ministry of Health
Experience
Essential working experience of at least two years in nursing activities related jobs.
Desirable working experience in MSF or other NGO’s in developing countries
Languages
High level command oral and written English; Afan Oromo highly desirable
Knowledge
Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
Excellent understanding of MSF’s principles and values
Knowledge of and interest in humanitarian issues
High level of knowledge of local culture and customs
How To Apply
Interested applicants can submit their CV and application letter including photocopies of all supporting documents via www.ethiojobs.net. please be informed that we do not accept applications in other forms.
Please Note that we only contact short-listed candidates and only short-listed candidates with the required documents are allowed to attend further assessment.
Sincerity of Declarations and Documents Submitted to MSF
Use of false documents to gain employment with MSF will lead to automatic cancelation from the recruitment process and if found after employment it will lead to termination.
We strive to promote, create, and maintain a safe organizational culture for all people who work for and with MSF OCG, including our partners. Moreover, we ensure that the workplace, wherever staff are located, is built on respect, tolerance, diversity, and inclusion that delivers a safe and respectful environment.
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
By submitting your application, you consent to MSF staff using your data only for the recruitment process to have all the information and documents necessary to proceed with the recruitment, validation of your application and selection of the most suitable candidate
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