Nursing And Nutrition Teaching & Learning Advisor

**About MSF**
Doctors without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation committed to two objectives:
providing medical assistance to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, natural and man-made disasters;
and speaking out about the plight of the populations assisted. MSF offers assistance too people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Today, MSF is present in more than 70 countries, where thousands of MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, and other medical and non-medical professionals work together to bring essential health services to people caught in humanitarian crises.
**Background**
**Scope of Responsibilities**
- The focus of this position is therefore around the following three axes of activities_
- Support of the development of training initiatives within the scope of SAMU’s activities
- The more detailed analysis of learning needs in the fields of nursing care and nutrition, in both hospital and primary care.
- Where feasible, the development of and contribution to or delivery of training in nursing and nutrition
**RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE FUNCTION**
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Evaluate learning needs in the realms of nursing and nutrition and where feasible, contribute to the actual implementation of such trainings in the filed or in Cape Town**
- In collaboration with other SAMU learning unit colleagues and SAMU country HIV/TB advisers and/or field project staff:
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- Perform detailed evaluations of the learning needs in nursing and nutrition in the SAMU-supported projects, especially in West and Central Africa
- Contribute to the delivery of field-based training initiatives in nursing and nutrition
2.** Design and develop SAMU HIV/TB clinical training materials**- Contribute to the development of training initiatives within the scope of SAMU’s activities
- Provide teaching and learning advice to colleagues for training interventions within the scope of SAMU’s activities, both face-to face and online
- Support the development of the corresponding training materials in French, as needed It is anticipated that most of this category 2 in the job description will happen in the home base in Cape Town
3. **Other Activities**
Administrative functions, including:
- Contributing to attending to the practical and administrative issues required in preparation for training interventions.
- Providing the corresponding documents for planning and reporting on SAMU mentoring activities, in collaboration with SAMU LU team. It is anticipated that most of this category 3 in the job description will happen in the home base in Cape Town.
**Recruitment Criteria**
**Professional qualifications**
- Professional nurse
- Education qualification is a bonus
- Training in clinical nutrition is a bonus
**Professional competencies:
Know-how**
Clinical experience as a professional nurse is essential
Experience and skills in teaching and learning is essential
- ability to analyse learning needs
- design and development of education courses
- mentoring experience is a definite bonus.
Experience in low-resource health settings and in humanitarian work is preferred
Experience in the management of clinical nutrition is a definite bonus
**Personal qualities**
- Autonomous
- Diplomatic dynamic and flexible a capacity for taking the initiative and making decisions
- Capacity for analysis and summarising
- Ability to prioritise;
ease with public speaking,
- Good interpersonal skills. Capacity to adapt his/her support to varying field contexts.
**Languages**
- Ideally comfortably bilingual, English and French (level C1 or 2) but lesser levels of language competence will still be considered
- Portuguese language competence would be an additional bonus (The detail of these(the C1 and C2 language categories are explained in the language knowledge table attached)
NB:
Please note the contract is for 12-month, fixed contract with possibility of renewal.