Ward Supervisor curriculum Content Developer (m/f/x) – Brussels, Nairobi or Dakar – MSF Academy At Médecins Sans Frontières

CONTEXT

The MSF Academy for Healthcare(Médecins Sans Frontières Academy)is an intersectional training initiative that focuses on strengthening the skills and competencies of frontline healthcare workers, with the will to have a long-term impact on the quality of care provided in the countries where MSF intervenes. The specificity of the approach adopted by the MSF Academy lies in its focus on supporting the learners while on the job: our team members in countries of intervention are solely dedicated to learning and competency development of the learners. Our objective is to maintain a uniform educational approach in all our projects: competency-based learning; on-the-job training with the presence of strong tutors or clinical mentors; while striving to achieve appropriate accreditations for all trainings, often in collaboration with partner teaching institutes.

The programme is managed by a global team composed of 5 project managers, 10 technical experts (in nursing sciences, pedagogy, clinical mentoring, clinical medicine, and administration) and additional ad hoc resources (e.g., technical expertise and training content writers). The team also consists of tutors for the individual support of participants in our e-learning programmes. The teams working on our projects in Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Mali, South Sudan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Yemen are composed of representatives, pedagogical managers and clinical mentors. They are responsible for developing project-specific strategies, ensuring successful implementation of our learning programs and networking with the concerned MSF projects and other stakeholders. We have a growing portfolio of projects addressing specific learning objectives for different categories of healthcare professions in MSF. All these projects are chosen in line with overall MSF operational and medical priorities.

The Medical Directors’ Platform has recently tasked the Academy to develop a training curriculum to strengthen the competencies of Hospital Ward Supervisors by reinforcing their autonomy on the global overview and management of the wards. This includes among others, strengthening their management skills, interprofessional collaboration abilities, coaching and bedside supervision skills, data collection and analyses, problem-solving abilities, time management and HR management. A needs assessment is currently being finalised along with a mapping of all potential beneficiaries of such a program.

As MSF Academy Ward Supervisor curriculum Content Developer, you are in charge of developing material and adapting existing ones to build a comprehensive-competency-based modular curriculum on ward supervision, including tools to facilitate the delivery of the programme in the different targeted contexts. The training program’s objective is to improve the quality of supervision in MSF-supported hospital wards through the strengthening of the ward supervisors’ (mainly nurses and midwives) competencies.

You report to the Deputy Director of the MSF Academy, and both the Nursing and the Midwifery referents are your functional managers. You are in close interaction with the pedagogical experts of the Academy, with the various Hospital Management Units (HMUs) of the different Operational Centres (OCs), as well as with the Nursing Care Working Groups (NCWG) and the SRHWG (Sexual and Reproductive Health Working Groups).

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Finalise the competencies framework of the Ward supervisor curriculum taking into account the input of the various stakeholders
• Analyse existing training material and identify what could be used within this program
• Content development for the curriculum
  • Define learning pathways
  • Identify contents that require adaptation of pre-existing material or that require creation from scratch
  • Adapt and/or create theoretical dossiers and learning activities that would facilitate the learning of our African and Middle Eastern staff with low-education levels
  • Elaborate training sessions plans that will guide the facilitators in delivering the content
• Accompany the validation process that is yet to be defined
• Create an evaluation process that will help assess the progression of the learners (formative assessments) and the impact of the training (Competency Gap Assessment for learners, etc.)
• Define mentoring strategies and adapted tools together with the referents and the pedagogical experts, based on the findings of the needs assessment

Participate in developing the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) frame for the roll out of this specific training program in line with the global M&E frame of the MSF Academy within the timeframe

REQUIREMENTS

Education & Experience

• Bachelor in nursing or midwifery degree or master/specialisation (example: hospital management)
• At least 5 years of hospital nursing/midwifery experience with significant clinical exposure
• At least 2 years’ experience in a supervisor or managerial position of which 2 missions with MSF, preferably in Africa or Middle East
• Experience in hands-on clinical mentorship / preceptorship
• Pedagogical experience is a strong asset

Competencies

• Ability to develop structured documents
• Meticulous and precise
• Capacity to work within agreed timeline and ability to prioritize activities/tasks
• Creative and able to offer active methodology that promotes learning for adults
• Ability to work autonomously
• Highly pragmatic, results- and solutions-oriented
• Good computer skills

Languages

• Fluency in both English and French (oral and written), excellent command of English is mandatory

CONDITIONS

• Expected starting date: As soon as possible
• Locations***: Brussels (Belgium), Dakar (Senegal) or Nairobi (Kenya)
• Contract type: Fixed term contract – Full time
• Contract duration: Estimated at 8 months
• The contractual terms, conditions and salary will be established according to the place of work and in respect of MSF standard function and salary grids
• Adhere to the MSF principles and to our managerial values: Respect, Transparency, Integrity, Accountability, Trust and Empowerment
• Adhere to the MSF Behavioural Commitments

*Other location/s where there is an MSF entity could be exceptionally discussed. The final outcome depends on the residency of the candidate, the local legal limitations (residency, work permit, etc.) and on agreement with the hosting MSF entity of these locations

*Due to administrative constraints linked to the duration of the contract, for some of the mentioned locations, candidates must already have a permanent right to work in the location

Deadline for applications: 24th of March 2024