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F. Key deliverables
• EmONC readiness assessment and recommendations for CMH Obock (week 3).
• Review SHR/maternal health protocol, including CMR protocol, with health personnel and relevant health actors to validate and support operationalization and functional referral pathways for Markazi–Obock–Tadjourah–Djibouti validated with the Ministry of Health (month 1).
• Monthly clinical and mentoring reports, including SRH indicators.
• End-of-mission report with transition and handover plan.
Qualifications and Skills Required:
Professional Certification & Education
● Medical Degree: Valid Doctor of Medicine (MD) or equivalent from a recognized institution.
● Specialization: Advanced degree or board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
● Licensing: Active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the home country, with the ability to obtain temporary registration in the host country.
Experience
● Clinical Practice: Minimum of 3 to 5 years of post-residency experience in active clinical
OB/GYN practice.
● Emergency/Humanitarian Contexts: Prior experience working in low-resource settings, disaster responses, conflict zones, or with international NGOs is highly preferred.
● Surgical Competence: Proven track record in performing emergency obstetric surgeries independently under challenging conditions.
Technical Skills & Knowledge
● MISP Guidelines: Deep understanding of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for sexual and reproductive health in crises.
● EmONC Standards: Comprehensive knowledge of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
(EmONC) signals and guidelines.
● Clinical Protocols: Familiarity with WHO, UNFPA, and international humanitarian health standards.
Language Skills
● Fluency in French (oral and written) is required, as it is the working language of the Djiboutian health system, clinical teams and Ministry of Health protocols. Working knowledge of Arabic is highly desirable to communicate directly with patients and survivors among the new arrivals from Yemen. Knowledge of Afar or Somali is an asset;
CANADEM and its partners have a no-tolerance policy for inaction to prevent, respond to and follow up on alleged cases of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH). For this reason, we adhere to all policies, procedures and training of the United Nations on The Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH). CANADEM mandates all deployees successfully complete the PSEA online course. This e-learning course is composed of a set of lessons designed to raise awareness about SEAH, become familiar with a range of measures to combat SEAH, understand the impact on victims and the consequences for UN Personnel who commit Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment.
UNFPA-OB/GYN-P3/P4-Obock, Djibouti (with regional travel)
Position Title: Obstetrician/Gynecologist
Receiving Agency: UNFPA
P Level: P3/P4
Location: Obock, Djibouti (with occasional travels to Tadjourah and Djibouti city for referrals and coordination)
Duration: 3 months
Language: Fluency in English and French required. Knowledge of Arabic an asset.
Receiving Agency: UNFPA
P Level: P3/P4
Location: Obock, Djibouti (with occasional travels to Tadjourah and Djibouti city for referrals and coordination)
Duration: 3 months
Language: Fluency in English and French required. Knowledge of Arabic an asset.
Background Description of Emergency / Justification for Request (Please provide a short paragraph outlining the prevailing humanitarian situation and context and why this justifies the role.)
As fighting along the West Coast of Yemen continues, new displacement within Yemen has sharply increased, with some people fleeing the country altogether. Since 10 September 2026, Djibouti has faced a growing influx of refugees crossing the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to the Obock coastline (Obock port, Moulhoulé, Khor Angar and Godoria). As of 2 October 2026, the Government of Djibouti had registered a total of 3,799 refugees in Obock, living in the Markazi village or with host families. Women and children make up 76.9% of this population, 50% are under 18 and 15% are under five; most fled shelling, air strikes and armed conflict in the Taizz (65.8%) and Al Hodeidah (14.2%) governorates. Arrivals have slowed but continue, and the Prefecture anticipates further movements as hostilities along the Yemeni coast evolve. In a town of around 30,000 residents, this sudden surge places severe pressure on the Obock region’s limited infrastructure and health services, which risk becoming overstretched for refugees and the host community alike unless local response capacities are strengthened.
While sex- and age-disaggregated data is still being consolidated, displaced women and girls face heightened sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and protection risks. MISP calculator estimates indicate approximately 950 women of reproductive age and 80 pregnant women in the current caseload. Six deliveries have already been recorded among the new arrivals, at CMH Obock, Tadjourah regional hospital and Moulhoulé, and 156 pregnant and breastfeeding women are followed through nutrition screening. Newly delivered mothers and their babies are still accommodated in the overcrowded communal hangar or in shared tents, with a remaining gap of around 700 tents. The Markazi health post, run by CMH Obock, offers consultations in the morning only, backed by a 24/7 on-call service and an ambulance linked to the CMH. Referral of complicated cases to Tadjourah or Djibouti-ville is constrained by fuel and driver shortages and by military road closures on the Tadjourah–Obock axis. An outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease (27 cases on 1–2 October) adds to the risks for pregnant women and newborns, while overcrowding, tensions around distributions and the movement of migrants through the site maintain a high risk of gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation and abuse.
UNFPA is supporting the nationally led response, coordinated by the Prefecture of Obock and ONARS under the endorsed Inter-Agency Response Plan, alongside UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM, WHO, MSF, the ICRC and the Djiboutian Red Crescent. As a key actor in SRH and GBV, UNFPA provided the Obock Medical-Hospital Centre (CMH) with RH supplies for safe delivery, family planning commodities and essential medicines to address infections and maternal micronutrient deficiencies, along with 100 dignity kits, and has deployed a Regional Office team to assess GBV response capacities with IOM and UNICEF. Limited health service capacity in the Obock region nonetheless remains one of the key challenges identified by the inter-agency response.
Justification for request: With the local health system severely stretched, a high identified risk of GBV and critical needs for emergency obstetric care and the MISP, the deployment of a surge OB/GYN is urgently required. The OB/GYN will provide specialist obstetric capacity at CMH Obock and the Markazi site, ensure 24/7 comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) and clinical management of rape (CMR), secure the clinical side of the referral pathways being structured by IOM, UNHCR and partners, and reinforce frontline SRH services for refugee women and girls and the host community. The deployment strengthens the existing national system rather than creating a parallel service: it mentors national midwives and doctors so that capacities remain after the mission, and bridges the gap until a sustainable arrangement is agreed with the Ministry of Health, including the possible rotation of national OB/GYNs trained by UNFPA in Tadjourah and Dikhil.
Security Situation Summary in country and main threats: (i.e armed conflict, terrorism, crime, social unrest, hazard)
Djibouti is generally stable, but Obock’s position facing the Bab al-Mandeb Strait exposes the region to spillover from the conflict in Yemen, including maritime insecurity in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and to smuggling and trafficking networks operating along the migration route. Rising pressure on water, shelter and services in Obock town and at the Markazi site could generate tensions between population groups or with the host community. Other main threats are extreme heat, road travel on the Obock–Tadjourah–Djibouti axis, vector-borne diseases (including malaria and dengue) and limited medical facilities locally, with MEDEVAC requiring transfer to Djibouti-ville.
Role Description:
Under the overall supervision of the UNFPA Djibouti Head of Office and the direct supervision of the Head of Programmes, the OB/GYN will serve as UNFPA’s senior clinical SRH expert for the Obock response. The incumbent will work within CMH Obock as an integrated member of the facility team, under the day-to-day clinical coordination of the CMH Médecin-chef and in line with Ministry of Health protocols. The OB/GYN will ensure the availability of quality comprehensive EmONC and CMR services for new arrivals and the host community, strengthen the obstetric and CMR referral pathway between the Markazi site, CMH Obock, Tadjourah and Djibouti-ville, and build the skills of national midwives and doctors.
The OB/GYN will work closely with the Ministry of Health (Regional Health Directorate, CMH Obock and national referral hospitals), ONARS, the Ministry of Women and Family and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Solidarity, as well as UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, IOM, the ICRC, the Djiboutian Red Crescent and other health and protection partners present in Obock. Within UNFPA, the incumbent will work hand in hand with the GBV team to ensure that CMR is fully linked to case management, psychosocial support and the GBV referral pathway, and with the Supply and Operations teams on commodities and logistics.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: We ask Country offices to review the list of duties and responsibilities and make appropriate amendments where necessary.
The OB/GYN will support implementation of the MISP as well as monitor and report on progress; with strategies to include advocacy for RH services, ensuring quality of care for services offered through facilitation for capacity building, provision of emergency RH supplies, and monitoring of RH activities.
Under the technical direction of the Humanitarian Emergency Coordinator and in close collaboration with the GBV coordinator at field level and at CO level, the Coordinator will carry out the following duties and responsibilities:
A. Specialist obstetric and gynaecological care (comprehensive EmONC)
1. Provide specialist obstetric and gynaecological care at CMH Obock in line with Ministry of Health protocols and WHO/IAWG standards, including the management of high-risk pregnancies and obstetric emergencies (postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, obstructed or prolonged labour, sepsis, ectopic pregnancy and complications of abortion).
2. Perform caesarean sections and other emergency obstetric and gynaecological surgery (e.g. laparotomy for uterine rupture or ectopic pregnancy, emergency hysterectomy where indicated), and work with the CMH team to ensure that safe anaesthesia and blood transfusion, the other two comprehensive EmONC signal functions, are available around the clock.
3. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota agreed with CMH for obstetric and CMR emergencies; conduct ward rounds, pre-operative assessments, outpatient consultations and discharges with clear follow-up instructions.
4. Provide antenatal and postnatal care, screening of high-risk pregnancies, post-abortion care and respectful maternity care, adhering to infection prevention and control and standard precautions.
5. Diagnose and manage complications of female genital mutilation, including deinfibulation where clinically indicated, in line with WHO guidelines and with respect for the patient’s informed consent.
6. Provide contraceptive counselling and services, including postpartum family planning, long-acting reversible contraception (implants, IUDs) and emergency contraception; provide syndromic management of STIs and ensure access to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
B. MISP implementation and outreach to the Markazi site
7. Provide clinical oversight and regular outreach to the health point at the Markazi site:
identification and follow-up of pregnant women, recognition of danger signs, clean and safe delivery, distribution of clean delivery kits to visibly pregnant women and timely referral to CMH.
8. Together with the Ministry of Health, UNHCR (ambulance), ONARS and the
Djiboutian Red Crescent, formalise a 24/7 obstetric and CMR referral pathway Markazi
→ CMH Obock → Tadjourah → Djibouti -ville, with clear referral criteria, communication means, accompaniment and counter-referral.
C. Clinical management of rape and intimate partner violence (CMR-IPV)
9. Ensure the 24/7 availability of confidential, survivor-centred CMR-IPV services at CMH Obock in line with the WHO/UNHCR/UNFPA guidance: first-line support (LIVES),
examination and documentation of injuries, treatment, emergency contraception within 120
hours, PEP within 72 hours, presumptive STI treatment, tetanus and hepatitis B prevention, and follow-up care.
10. Support CMH and the Ministry of Health to adapt and apply a CMR protocol, including medico-legal documentation and forensic evidence collection in accordance with Djiboutian law and only with the survivor’s informed consent; ensure a private examination space, safe and confidential record keeping, and availability of IARH kit 3 and related supplies.
11. Ensure that every survivor is offered a safe referral to GBV case management, psychosocial support and protection services through the agreed GBV referral pathway, in close coordination with the UNFPA GBV team; no survivor information is to be shared outside agreed protocols.
12. Train and mentor CMH doctors, midwives and nurses on CMR-IPV, LIVES and the survivor-centred approach, so that a trained provider, including a female provider wherever possible, is available on every shift; use the CMR-IPV health assessment tool to monitor quality of care.
D. Capacity strengthening and quality of care
13. Provide structured on-the-job mentoring to CMH midwives and general practitioners on BEmONC signal functions, use of the partograph and emergency drills (PPH, eclampsia,
newborn resuscitation in coordination with UNICEF), with the goal that the CMH team can manage the most frequent obstetric emergencies autonomously.
14. Support the Ministry of Health to review every maternal death, maternal near-miss and perinatal death at CMH Obock in line with the national maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) system.
15. Supervise and teach medical students, interns and other health personnel attached to
CMH where appropriate.
E. Supplies, data, coordination and transition
16. Within the first two weeks, assess the EmONC readiness of CMH Obock (signal functions, operating theatre, anaesthesia, blood supply, equipment, staffing) and
recommend priority actions to UNFPA and the Ministry of Health.
17. Forecast needs and monitor the use of IARH kits, medicines and SRH commodities
(including the cold chain for oxytocin), and alert UNFPA early to any risk of stock-out.
18. Collect and report key inter-agency SRH indicators (deliveries, caesarean section rate, maternal and neonatal deaths, referrals, CMR coverage including EC and PEP within the recommended timeframes), disaggregated by age, sex and population group, through the national health information system; provide weekly inputs to UNFPA situation reports.
19. Participate in health/SRH and GBV coordination meetings in Obock, provide technical advice to the UNFPA Country Office on MISP implementation and the transition to comprehensive SRH services, and contribute to resource mobilisation and reporting.
20. Prepare a transition plan with the Ministry of Health from month 4 onwards so that services continue after the deployment ends, including the possible rotation of national OB/GYNs.
As fighting along the West Coast of Yemen continues, new displacement within Yemen has sharply increased, with some people fleeing the country altogether. Since 10 September 2026, Djibouti has faced a growing influx of refugees crossing the Bab al-Mandeb Strait to the Obock coastline (Obock port, Moulhoulé, Khor Angar and Godoria). As of 2 October 2026, the Government of Djibouti had registered a total of 3,799 refugees in Obock, living in the Markazi village or with host families. Women and children make up 76.9% of this population, 50% are under 18 and 15% are under five; most fled shelling, air strikes and armed conflict in the Taizz (65.8%) and Al Hodeidah (14.2%) governorates. Arrivals have slowed but continue, and the Prefecture anticipates further movements as hostilities along the Yemeni coast evolve. In a town of around 30,000 residents, this sudden surge places severe pressure on the Obock region’s limited infrastructure and health services, which risk becoming overstretched for refugees and the host community alike unless local response capacities are strengthened.
While sex- and age-disaggregated data is still being consolidated, displaced women and girls face heightened sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and protection risks. MISP calculator estimates indicate approximately 950 women of reproductive age and 80 pregnant women in the current caseload. Six deliveries have already been recorded among the new arrivals, at CMH Obock, Tadjourah regional hospital and Moulhoulé, and 156 pregnant and breastfeeding women are followed through nutrition screening. Newly delivered mothers and their babies are still accommodated in the overcrowded communal hangar or in shared tents, with a remaining gap of around 700 tents. The Markazi health post, run by CMH Obock, offers consultations in the morning only, backed by a 24/7 on-call service and an ambulance linked to the CMH. Referral of complicated cases to Tadjourah or Djibouti-ville is constrained by fuel and driver shortages and by military road closures on the Tadjourah–Obock axis. An outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease (27 cases on 1–2 October) adds to the risks for pregnant women and newborns, while overcrowding, tensions around distributions and the movement of migrants through the site maintain a high risk of gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation and abuse.
UNFPA is supporting the nationally led response, coordinated by the Prefecture of Obock and ONARS under the endorsed Inter-Agency Response Plan, alongside UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM, WHO, MSF, the ICRC and the Djiboutian Red Crescent. As a key actor in SRH and GBV, UNFPA provided the Obock Medical-Hospital Centre (CMH) with RH supplies for safe delivery, family planning commodities and essential medicines to address infections and maternal micronutrient deficiencies, along with 100 dignity kits, and has deployed a Regional Office team to assess GBV response capacities with IOM and UNICEF. Limited health service capacity in the Obock region nonetheless remains one of the key challenges identified by the inter-agency response.
Justification for request: With the local health system severely stretched, a high identified risk of GBV and critical needs for emergency obstetric care and the MISP, the deployment of a surge OB/GYN is urgently required. The OB/GYN will provide specialist obstetric capacity at CMH Obock and the Markazi site, ensure 24/7 comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) and clinical management of rape (CMR), secure the clinical side of the referral pathways being structured by IOM, UNHCR and partners, and reinforce frontline SRH services for refugee women and girls and the host community. The deployment strengthens the existing national system rather than creating a parallel service: it mentors national midwives and doctors so that capacities remain after the mission, and bridges the gap until a sustainable arrangement is agreed with the Ministry of Health, including the possible rotation of national OB/GYNs trained by UNFPA in Tadjourah and Dikhil.
Security Situation Summary in country and main threats: (i.e armed conflict, terrorism, crime, social unrest, hazard)
Djibouti is generally stable, but Obock’s position facing the Bab al-Mandeb Strait exposes the region to spillover from the conflict in Yemen, including maritime insecurity in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and to smuggling and trafficking networks operating along the migration route. Rising pressure on water, shelter and services in Obock town and at the Markazi site could generate tensions between population groups or with the host community. Other main threats are extreme heat, road travel on the Obock–Tadjourah–Djibouti axis, vector-borne diseases (including malaria and dengue) and limited medical facilities locally, with MEDEVAC requiring transfer to Djibouti-ville.
Role Description:
Under the overall supervision of the UNFPA Djibouti Head of Office and the direct supervision of the Head of Programmes, the OB/GYN will serve as UNFPA’s senior clinical SRH expert for the Obock response. The incumbent will work within CMH Obock as an integrated member of the facility team, under the day-to-day clinical coordination of the CMH Médecin-chef and in line with Ministry of Health protocols. The OB/GYN will ensure the availability of quality comprehensive EmONC and CMR services for new arrivals and the host community, strengthen the obstetric and CMR referral pathway between the Markazi site, CMH Obock, Tadjourah and Djibouti-ville, and build the skills of national midwives and doctors.
The OB/GYN will work closely with the Ministry of Health (Regional Health Directorate, CMH Obock and national referral hospitals), ONARS, the Ministry of Women and Family and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Solidarity, as well as UNHCR, UNICEF, WHO, IOM, the ICRC, the Djiboutian Red Crescent and other health and protection partners present in Obock. Within UNFPA, the incumbent will work hand in hand with the GBV team to ensure that CMR is fully linked to case management, psychosocial support and the GBV referral pathway, and with the Supply and Operations teams on commodities and logistics.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: We ask Country offices to review the list of duties and responsibilities and make appropriate amendments where necessary.
The OB/GYN will support implementation of the MISP as well as monitor and report on progress; with strategies to include advocacy for RH services, ensuring quality of care for services offered through facilitation for capacity building, provision of emergency RH supplies, and monitoring of RH activities.
Under the technical direction of the Humanitarian Emergency Coordinator and in close collaboration with the GBV coordinator at field level and at CO level, the Coordinator will carry out the following duties and responsibilities:
A. Specialist obstetric and gynaecological care (comprehensive EmONC)
1. Provide specialist obstetric and gynaecological care at CMH Obock in line with Ministry of Health protocols and WHO/IAWG standards, including the management of high-risk pregnancies and obstetric emergencies (postpartum haemorrhage, pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, obstructed or prolonged labour, sepsis, ectopic pregnancy and complications of abortion).
2. Perform caesarean sections and other emergency obstetric and gynaecological surgery (e.g. laparotomy for uterine rupture or ectopic pregnancy, emergency hysterectomy where indicated), and work with the CMH team to ensure that safe anaesthesia and blood transfusion, the other two comprehensive EmONC signal functions, are available around the clock.
3. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rota agreed with CMH for obstetric and CMR emergencies; conduct ward rounds, pre-operative assessments, outpatient consultations and discharges with clear follow-up instructions.
4. Provide antenatal and postnatal care, screening of high-risk pregnancies, post-abortion care and respectful maternity care, adhering to infection prevention and control and standard precautions.
5. Diagnose and manage complications of female genital mutilation, including deinfibulation where clinically indicated, in line with WHO guidelines and with respect for the patient’s informed consent.
6. Provide contraceptive counselling and services, including postpartum family planning, long-acting reversible contraception (implants, IUDs) and emergency contraception; provide syndromic management of STIs and ensure access to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
B. MISP implementation and outreach to the Markazi site
7. Provide clinical oversight and regular outreach to the health point at the Markazi site:
identification and follow-up of pregnant women, recognition of danger signs, clean and safe delivery, distribution of clean delivery kits to visibly pregnant women and timely referral to CMH.
8. Together with the Ministry of Health, UNHCR (ambulance), ONARS and the
Djiboutian Red Crescent, formalise a 24/7 obstetric and CMR referral pathway Markazi
→ CMH Obock → Tadjourah → Djibouti -ville, with clear referral criteria, communication means, accompaniment and counter-referral.
C. Clinical management of rape and intimate partner violence (CMR-IPV)
9. Ensure the 24/7 availability of confidential, survivor-centred CMR-IPV services at CMH Obock in line with the WHO/UNHCR/UNFPA guidance: first-line support (LIVES),
examination and documentation of injuries, treatment, emergency contraception within 120
hours, PEP within 72 hours, presumptive STI treatment, tetanus and hepatitis B prevention, and follow-up care.
10. Support CMH and the Ministry of Health to adapt and apply a CMR protocol, including medico-legal documentation and forensic evidence collection in accordance with Djiboutian law and only with the survivor’s informed consent; ensure a private examination space, safe and confidential record keeping, and availability of IARH kit 3 and related supplies.
11. Ensure that every survivor is offered a safe referral to GBV case management, psychosocial support and protection services through the agreed GBV referral pathway, in close coordination with the UNFPA GBV team; no survivor information is to be shared outside agreed protocols.
12. Train and mentor CMH doctors, midwives and nurses on CMR-IPV, LIVES and the survivor-centred approach, so that a trained provider, including a female provider wherever possible, is available on every shift; use the CMR-IPV health assessment tool to monitor quality of care.
D. Capacity strengthening and quality of care
13. Provide structured on-the-job mentoring to CMH midwives and general practitioners on BEmONC signal functions, use of the partograph and emergency drills (PPH, eclampsia,
newborn resuscitation in coordination with UNICEF), with the goal that the CMH team can manage the most frequent obstetric emergencies autonomously.
14. Support the Ministry of Health to review every maternal death, maternal near-miss and perinatal death at CMH Obock in line with the national maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) system.
15. Supervise and teach medical students, interns and other health personnel attached to
CMH where appropriate.
E. Supplies, data, coordination and transition
16. Within the first two weeks, assess the EmONC readiness of CMH Obock (signal functions, operating theatre, anaesthesia, blood supply, equipment, staffing) and
recommend priority actions to UNFPA and the Ministry of Health.
17. Forecast needs and monitor the use of IARH kits, medicines and SRH commodities
(including the cold chain for oxytocin), and alert UNFPA early to any risk of stock-out.
18. Collect and report key inter-agency SRH indicators (deliveries, caesarean section rate, maternal and neonatal deaths, referrals, CMR coverage including EC and PEP within the recommended timeframes), disaggregated by age, sex and population group, through the national health information system; provide weekly inputs to UNFPA situation reports.
19. Participate in health/SRH and GBV coordination meetings in Obock, provide technical advice to the UNFPA Country Office on MISP implementation and the transition to comprehensive SRH services, and contribute to resource mobilisation and reporting.
20. Prepare a transition plan with the Ministry of Health from month 4 onwards so that services continue after the deployment ends, including the possible rotation of national OB/GYNs.
F. Key deliverables
• EmONC readiness assessment and recommendations for CMH Obock (week 3).
• Review SHR/maternal health protocol, including CMR protocol, with health personnel and relevant health actors to validate and support operationalization and functional referral pathways for Markazi–Obock–Tadjourah–Djibouti validated with the Ministry of Health (month 1).
• Monthly clinical and mentoring reports, including SRH indicators.
• End-of-mission report with transition and handover plan.
Qualifications and Skills Required:
Professional Certification & Education
● Medical Degree: Valid Doctor of Medicine (MD) or equivalent from a recognized institution.
● Specialization: Advanced degree or board certification in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
● Licensing: Active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the home country, with the ability to obtain temporary registration in the host country.
Experience
● Clinical Practice: Minimum of 3 to 5 years of post-residency experience in active clinical
OB/GYN practice.
● Emergency/Humanitarian Contexts: Prior experience working in low-resource settings, disaster responses, conflict zones, or with international NGOs is highly preferred.
● Surgical Competence: Proven track record in performing emergency obstetric surgeries independently under challenging conditions.
Technical Skills & Knowledge
● MISP Guidelines: Deep understanding of the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for sexual and reproductive health in crises.
● EmONC Standards: Comprehensive knowledge of Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care
(EmONC) signals and guidelines.
● Clinical Protocols: Familiarity with WHO, UNFPA, and international humanitarian health standards.
Language Skills
● Fluency in French (oral and written) is required, as it is the working language of the Djiboutian health system, clinical teams and Ministry of Health protocols. Working knowledge of Arabic is highly desirable to communicate directly with patients and survivors among the new arrivals from Yemen. Knowledge of Afar or Somali is an asset;
CANADEM and its partners have a no-tolerance policy for inaction to prevent, respond to and follow up on alleged cases of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (SEAH). For this reason, we adhere to all policies, procedures and training of the United Nations on The Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment (PSEAH). CANADEM mandates all deployees successfully complete the PSEA online course. This e-learning course is composed of a set of lessons designed to raise awareness about SEAH, become familiar with a range of measures to combat SEAH, understand the impact on victims and the consequences for UN Personnel who commit Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment.