Midwife (Managed by Nairobi)

As a midwife with MSF your experience in both complicated and normal deliveries will be essential. From visiting expectant mums deep in the jungle to carrying out ante-natal checks, to training birth attendants in busy maternity departments in big hospital settings, MSF midwives are a vital part of most project teams.

Responsibilities 

Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context - whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities - babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed. 
It's a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following: 

• Pre and post-delivery care 
• Deliveries, often complicated 
• Care of survivors of sexual violence 
• Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals 
• Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices 
• Running awareness programs in the community 
• Training local midwives 
• On-call care, often 24 hours 

Requirements

• Valid registration 
• Two year's post-qualification experience 
• Experience in supervising, managing and training others 
• Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence 
• Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries 
• Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings 
• Willingness to work in unstable areas 
• Available for six to nine months
• Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team 
• Flexible and able to manage stress 
• Fluency in English  
• Please note that in order to work with MSF as a midwife, it is not necessary to also be qualified as a nurse. 

Qualifications

• Tropical nursing diploma 
• Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS 
• Family planning experience 
• Community midwifery experience 
• Good level of French or Arabic