Under the direct management of the medical referent of the NGO, the medical coordinator organizes and ensures an efficient implementation of the medical activities and supervise all related aspects:

• Ensure smooth integration of medical volunteers
• Is the focal point for
  • Medical questions and safety during the clinics
  • Patients follow-up
  • Medical processes and interventions
• Ensure the respect by every member of the medical procedures
• Ensure quality of practices
  • Regular update of medical processes
  • Propose improvement and development of processes
• Ensure the management and capacity building of the medical team
• Support for Health Education, in coordination with the designated coordinator
• Main focal point for the pharmacy stock and orders
• Partnerships and external links :
  • Regular contact with other medical or psychosocial NGOs
  • Liaison with the local health centers
  • Update and develop patient referral circuits to external medical and psycho-social services

As a key position, we ask for a minimum of 4 months commitment, ideally 6 months. The start of the mission is by mid-May 2025

• Medical Doctor, Midwife or Nurse/Nurse practitioner, with at least 2 years of work experience
• Experience working in low resources environments
• Fluency in English
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience in multidisciplinary team management

• Knowledge of Greek, Arabic or Farsi is a plus
• Ability to work under pressure with a high level of personal organization and flexibility
• Strong communication and reporting skills
• Commitment to humanitarian principles
• Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills
• Proactive, hardworking and conscientious

Benefits:

• Accommodation, transport costs and health insurance covered
• Stipend to cover local living costs

Send CV and recommendation letter to recruitment@medequali.team

Your main role will be to undertake primary healthcare consultations in different settings each day. Your main tasks will be managing acute health issues and a whole other range of healthcare needs. As of today, chronic diseases is not part of our scope so we refer patients with diabetes and high blood pressure, but a knowledge of management is helpful to assess and explain the patient.

Throughout your stay with us, you will have to be flexible and adaptable as we are constantly adapting our services to refugee needs. You will also be required to help with other tasks to keep the operation going, such as restocking the mobile units and other support tasks.

• Ideally at least 2 years of experience in a broad speciality such as general practice, paediatrics, internal medicine or emergency medicine.
• Interest and knowledge of primary health care.
• Capable of adapting to a low resource setting, knowing how to deal with the frustrations that come with work in this kind of setting.
• Fluency in English.
• Availability of at least 2 full working weeks, ideally more. Preference will be given to applications with longer stays.

• Previous experience with working with displaced people.
• A driving licence and experience driving a manual car.
• Knowledge of locally relevant languages (Greek, Arabic, Farsi, French).

25% of our consultations are paediatric, with 10% of those consultations involving children under the age of 4 years old. Having a pediatrician on our team makes a big difference in the specialised care that we can offer the children in our clinics! Your main role will be to undertake consultations for children, in a different setting each day. You will be managing their diagnosis and treatment.

• Ideally at least 2 years of experience in paediatrics - people in a Paediatric Training Program such as Paediatric Intern or Registrar, or Consultant
• Capable of adapting to a low resource setting, knowing how to deal with the frustrations that come with work in this kind of setting.
• Fluency in English.
• Availability of at least 2 full working weeks, ideally more. Preference will be given to applicants available for longer periods

• Previous experience in working with displaced people.
• A driving licence and experience driving a manual car.
• Knowledge of locally relevant languages (Greek, Arabic, Farsi, French).

Nurses can be expected to undertake vital signs and observations, wound care, triage, pharmacy roles, health promotion and many other roles that may be required.

• Experience in or knowledge of primary health care (Nurse Practitioner welcomed to apply).
• Experience in wound dressing or experience in assessing patients on your own in order to adequately triage them.
• Capable of working independently, while knowing your professional limits and asking for help if needed.
• Fluency in English.

• Previous experience with working with displaced people.
• Knowledge of locally relevant languages (Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto)

Understand that this is an intense job where a lot of patience, flexibility, creativity and team work will be asked of you!

As a medical student you will be expected to work closely with the team of doctors and support them with various tasks. Depending on your experience, you may undertake a large part of the consultation yourself, and then consult with the doctor and discuss the patient, especially for medical students in the later stages of their training.

Throughout your stay with us, you will have to be flexible and adaptable as we are constantly adapting our services to refugee needs. You will also be required to help with other tasks to keep the operation going, such as restocking the mobile units and other support tasks.

• You are in the last years of your medical studies, having completed a significant part of your medical internships. You know how to assess a patient on your own and present a patient to your supervisor. You can recognize an acutely sick patient.
• Fluency in English.
• Capable of adapting to a low resource setting, knowing how to deal with the frustrations that come with work in this kind of setting.
• Availability of at least 3 full working weeks, ideally more. Preference will be given to applications with longer stays.

• Experience with working with people from displaced populations
• Knowledge of locally relevant language (Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto)
• A driving licence and experience driving a manual car

You can apply with us as part of your internship in your medical studies.

Our translators are the crucial bridge between our patients and medical staff, enabling communication between refugees and English-speaking volunteers. Interpreters are responsible for translating the patient’s reason for visiting the clinic as well as questions from the medical staff designed to elicit the full range and extent of the patient’s symptoms. In the course of a consultation, the translator facilitates understanding the patient’s problems and concerns, basic, physical examinations, communicating the doctor’s medical opinion, treatment, and providing next steps.

You do not need any previous experience as a translator, and it is not expected that you have prior medical knowledge. There are several tools to assist you in using the most appropriate vocabulary to translate the doctor’s questions and the patient’s responses.

• Fluency in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu or Pashto.
• Good spoken skills in English.

• Previous experience with working with displaced people.
• Previous experience with interpreting, especially for medical consultations.
• Knowledge of health problems in patients with a refugee background.
• Spoken Greek language.

We are looking for someone to support our clinical team by fulfilling various tasks

1) The largest part of this position will focus on social media management for which the following tasks are included:

• Animation and creation of posts and visuals on social networks
• Collecting visual material from the field (pictures, videos..)
• Developing and maintaining the post schedule
• Improving the visibility of posts
• Designing and managing a crowdfunding campaign
• Newsletter management
  

2) Support patient registration at clinic receptions - managing waiting lists and navigating patient allocation between triage and consultations

3) Supporting the medical team by different ways when possible: driving to and from clinic sites, small admin or logistics support, etc

• High level of written and spoken English (C1)
• Previous experience working with Canva
• At least some experience or strong interest in managing social networks
• Interest in working in a multicultural team
• Interest in working in a medical setting
  

• Driving licence B
• Additional languages spoken such as Greek, Arabic, Farsi or French
• Previous experience working in humanitarian settings
• Photography, videography and editing skills

We have guidelines regarding social media and visual content gathering, which will be explained to you. A handover with the previous person handling the social media will be organised as well.

Regarding the reception tasks, a proper safety and induction training will be insured after your arrival. You will never be left alone in doing this job, doctors and coordinators are always present. Most of the time, a translator will be present to help mediate patient interactions.

This is a joint role involving two branches: Volunteer Co-ordination and Health Education Co-ordination. Combining these creates a full post, with a more or less equal division of time between the two functions, but requiring a great deal of flexibility and adaptability!

1) Volunteer Coordination

Are you someone with great people skills, experience in the humanitarian sector, and a (academic/professional) background relevant to our medical project in Northern Greece e.g., medicine, public health, psychology, social work, etc.?

Then you might be Volunteer Coordinator we seek to manage our medical volunteer team on the ground in Northern Greece! This role focuses on recruiting qualified volunteers, composing a compatible medical team, supervising volunteer wellbeing in the humanitarian field, and managing the project’s HR tasks. This role is a great opportunity to gain project management experience in the medical humanitarian field and further hone your leadership skills.

2) Health Education Coordination

Are you interested in improving the health of asylum seeker and refugee communities through education and empowerment? We are seeking a person with an interest in training and education to coordinate the health education branch of our medical project in Northern Greece; where we provide first aid training sessions for NGO volunteers and health education sessions to displaced communities across Northern Greece. This role is a great opportunity to develop your coordination and education skills and use your experience to deliver preventative health measures.

As a key position, we ask for a minimum of 3 months commitment, ideally 6 months. The start of the mission is by mid-April 2025

Job description:

Volunteer Coordination

• Advertise new positions with recruitment partners
• Implement existing processes for recruitment and on-boarding of new volunteers; registration and evaluation of applications, holding interviews, composing the volunteer team, organising travel and accommodation logistics, conducting volunteer inductions on the ground, evaluate trial periods, conduct check-in chats and exit chats, etc.
• Look out for the well-being and functioning of all our volunteers
• In liaison with Medical Coordinator and Field Coordinator, organise volunteer schedules
• Ensure professional behaviour and respect of MET code of conduct by all volunteers
• Ensure the confidentiality of all HR data and information according to MET’s processes

Health Education Coordination

• Plan and coordinate first aid trainings and health education sessions with NGO partners across Northern Greece.
• Lead in developing and delivering sessions with support of the medical volunteer team; designing of training materials (presentations, leaflets etc.), overseeing translations, conducting focus groups, etc.
• Work with the medical coordinator to shape the strategy of health education and training
• Implement service evaluation protocols by gathering and processing feedback from attendees of sessions to improve the service

• Fluency in English
• A high level of personal organization, flexibility and resilience
• Strong interest in public health
• Strong communication and reporting skills
• Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and to MET’s mandate
• Proficiency on computer (Office pack, PowerPoint, Canva)

• Experience in HR and in working with volunteers
• Healthcare professional (or student in a health field)
• Previous experience working or volunteering with displaced or vulnerable people
• Previous work experience in NGOs/INGOs
• Experience providing education/training sessions
• Experience with planning or partnership working
• Experience working in multicultural settings
• A driving licence and experience driving a manual car.
• Knowledge of locally relevant languages (Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish).

Benefits:

• Transport costs and health insurance covered
• Accommodation in a single room in a shared volunteer flat
• Stipend to cover local living costs
  

If interested, please send cover letter and CV to recruitment@medequali.team