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Location: DRC based/home based for DRC nationals Position Type: Consultancy (40 hours per week) Length of contract: 3 months with possibility of extension Compensation: Rates competitive for DRC Start Date : ASAP Background Global Outbreak Response Support (GORS) delivered by Global Emergency Group, Inc. (GEG), under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD), provides rapid activation, surge response, and transition support enabling countries to detect, contain, and recover from infectious disease outbreaks. GEG leads GORS as the prime recipient, building on its ongoing role as Field Programs Support lead for Team Credence on the Humanitarian Assistance Support Contract (HASC). Founded in 2007, GEG delivers GORS through a global network of regional response hubs, a pre-vetted surge roster, and embedded in-country teams that mobilize within hours of an authorized outbreak response. The Senior Clinical Lead is responsible for the clinical outbreak response domain with GEG programming and operations relating to GORS and works within the host-government-led incident-management structure.
The Senior Clinical Lead reports operationally to the Senior Technical Director and during activation to the Response Team Leader. Scope of Work Position Description The Senior Clinical Lead will provide senior clinical leadership for safe, effective and context-appropriate case management, infection prevention and control, patient referral pathways, clinical workforce protection and clinical-system readiness during infectious-disease outbreaks. The Senior Clinical Lead will: Maintain adaptable clinical readiness standards, toolkits, referral-pathway templates, IPC checklists and clinical-quality indicators. Participate in roster validation, simulations, technical reviews and pre-deployment briefings. Conduct or lead rapid clinical and facility-readiness assessments within the first 72 hours of arrival or remote activation. Advise national authorities and facilities on clinical case definitions, triage, patient flow, isolation, referral, case management, discharge and follow-up. Lead or support IPC assessment and improvement, including occupational health, PPE use, exposure management and healthcare-worker safety. Advise on therapeutics, vaccines, oxygen, critical care, supportive care and essential commodities within approved national and program scope. Coordinate with public-health, laboratory, logistics, RCCE, nutrition and psychosocial functions within one response plan. Embed psychosocial care, fatigue management, peer support and referral pathways for patients, families and responders as relevant. Mentor designated national clinical counterparts and define transition benchmarks at the start of the assignment. Identify clinical ethics, safeguarding, equity and no-harm concerns and escalate them appropriately. Contribute to SITREPs, technical briefs, reviews, AARs and handover documentation. Required Position Qualifications Medical degree with current or recent professional registration; relevant specialist qualification strongly desirable.
At least 15 years of progressively responsible clinical and emergency-health experience, including substantial infectious-disease outbreak work. Demonstrated leadership in multiple outbreak or humanitarian-health deployments, preferably including high-consequence pathogens or fragile settings. Strong experience in case management, IPC, referral systems, clinical quality and healthcare-worker protection. Experience advising ministries of health, emergency operations centres, WHO, EMTs or comparable mechanisms. Ability to mentor multidisciplinary teams and deploy on short notice subject to security, medical, visa and availability requirements. Fluent professional French, with English sufficient for coordination and reporting; additional relevant languages are assets. DRC nationality or a nationality from the African region is a prerequisite. Competencies/Performance Criteria Adheres to and promotes the GEG Way Travel Frequency The Senior Clinical Lead will undertake travel within DRC according to operational needs, including planned travel, or surge or emergency activations when required Working Conditions The Senior Clinical Lead will work from their home base in the DRC if a DRC national or will be based in the DRC if a national from a country within the region. Working hours will be scheduled within the contracted 40-hour weekly allocation, with hours aligned to DRC operations and agreed overlap across relevant time zones. Emergency support will follow agreed activation and backup arrangements. The Senior Clinical Lead adheres to GEG security management directives and policies. Benefits As personnel dedicated to GORS delivery, the Senior Clinical Lead will have access to those Global Emergency Group benefits available in DRC. About Global Emergency Group Founded in 2007, GEG is a benefit corporation that supports vulnerable people affected by crisis in more than 52 countries by providing a broad range of humanitarian support services to a wide range of organizations, including the United Nations, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, donor governments, companies, major international and national NGO’s and local communities. Every day, these organizations and communities rely on GEG’s emergency response expertise, and on the combined capabilities and dedication of its people to implement strategies, find solutions and seize opportunities to assist the world’s most vulnerable people. Global Emergency Group is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and recruiting people of diverse backgrounds and experiences. GEG does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or belief, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, age, medical condition, disability, ancestry, national origin or ethnic group. All recruitment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
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Level : FS 5 Job Network : Science Job Family : Medical Department/Office : United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Duty Station : BENI Posted Date : 09/01/2026 00:00:00 AM (New York time) Deadline : 09/14/2026 23:59:59 PM (New York time)
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