MIDWIFE SUPERVISOR (Khartoum) – MSF Belgium

Job Description:

Organization	Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium
Job Title	MIDWIFE SUPERVISOR
Location	Khartoum
Section/Unit	Medical and Paramedical
No. of Posts	2
Grade Level	8
Supervisor	Midwife Activity Manager/Medical Activity Manager
Closing Date	15 Oct 2026

Supervising the clinical activities and guaranteeing the quality of midwifery care in the department, according to MSF protocols, values and universal hygiene standards in order to provide a high quality Mother and Child Health (MCH) care to the population

Duties and Responsibilities:

Accountabilities

• Supervising, supporting and evaluating the team under his/her responsibility, particularly midwives, community midwives, midwife assistants and other related staff in her team.
• Planning and organizing their work (areas, days, absences, visits, holidays, etc.) and coaching them in their work, with special focus on following all appropriate protocols and procedures
• Ensuring teamwork and a professional relationship between maternity and other departments.
• Supervising the clinical activities in all the maternity departments and activities such as antenatal consultations, delivery and after delivery follow-up, postnatal consultations, family planning consultations, newborn vaccinations and liaising with the Medical Doctor about the patients who need special care times, visiting hours, etc.
• Ensuring that the staff on duty know, implement, and follow at all times the universal hygiene standards, precautions, biohazard prevention, and infection control in the medical premises, ensuring high standards of hygiene in the working environment
• Ensuring that all staff using medical devices are qualified and trained, and that cleaning and minor maintenance tasks are performed according to the protocols, reporting any malfunction to the project biomedical service.
• Being responsible for the department-related pharmacy activities (stock and consumption monitoring) as well as maintenance of the medical equipment
• Being responsible for ensuring that all the administrative procedures, patients’ data, documents, and maternity registers are filled in correctly and registered for compiling monthly reports reflecting the activity in the department.
• Responsible for ensuring that the maternity staff is able to identify, receive, and provide care to the victims of SGBV in collaboration with the MD and following the protocols
• To ensure and monitor proper referral of patients to a higher facility (every referral case to be accompanied by a midwife or nurse, giving proper handover)

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

Work hand in hand with BTH matron on midwives’ and nurses’ maternity rosters

Be flexible to work and cover night duty

Monitor the gaps in the midwives’ clinical skills and come up with capacity-building plans

·Support the data team in ensuring that all data collection points (patient files, registers, forms) are well filled by the staff, and that data is in line with MSF project indicators. Ensure good collaboration with BTH management in the promotion of quality care in maternity

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience Required:

Education · Diploma of Midwife (or any Diploma recognized in the country and /or the Ministry of Health to practice as such)

Experience · Minimum 2 years’ experience as a midwife · Essential: good spoken and written English.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply online or submit their application directly at the HAC office. Applications must include a CV, cover letter and copy of the relevant diploma.

NOTE: Please note that MSF will Only accept applications and CVs submitted in the English language. Only shortlisted candidates will be called.