As a laboratory specialist working with Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will support existing government health structures (hospitals and clinics) or work within MSF health centres. You are responsible for: laboratory and staff management; implementation of locally hired staff laboratory training programs; ordering and distribution of laboratory supplies; data collection and quality control of laboratory testing.
Requirements
- Current medical laboratory technologist certification, with Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science and provincial license as required
- Minimum two years post-qualification work experience
- Experience or familiarity with: hematology, microbiology, parasitology, tuberculosis, blood banks, malaria, HIV and hepatitis testing, sexually transmitted infections
- Knowledge and ability in techniques of sample taking (blood, stool, sputum)
- Knowledge of all basic laboratory techniques
- Knowledge of laboratory testing quality control methods
- Excellent command of English, as well as French (level B2) or another language (Arabic, Spanish)
- Relevant travel or work experience in contexts similar to where MSF works (armed conflicts, disasters, public health emergencies or situations of healthcare exclusion)
- Available to work six to 12 months
Assets
- Experience using laboratory software packages, and carrying out surveys
MSF Core Competencies
- Behaviour flexibility: Level 2 Adapts behaviour to the needs of the situation
- Teamwork and cooperation: Level 2 Shares information and coordinates with team and others
- Result and quality orientation: Level 2 Works towards objectives, preserving established standards
- Commitment to MSF principles: Level 1 Demonstrates knowledge of and accepts MSF's principles
- People management: Level 2 Gives feedback and sets limits
- Cross-cultural awareness: Level 3 Demonstrates an integrating attitude
- Stress management: Level 2 Manages own stress
- Understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI): Level 1 Familiarity with EDI concepts and their application in a humanitarian context
