Vacancy at Alliance for International Medical Action For Head of Mission Assistant 

The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA) is an international medical organization, founded in 2009. ALIMA’s aim is to provide a high standard of healthcare in situations of emergency or medical disaster and to improve the practice of humanitarian medicine by developing innovative projects associated with medical research. The specific feature of the association is to base its operating methods mainly on partnership with national medical players. By pooling and capitalizing on their skills, ALIMA and its partners give as many people as possible access to a high standard of treatment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Mission Assistant
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Mission and Main Activities
• The Head of Mission Assistant provides support to the mission by assisting the Head of Mission in the administrative part of coordination tasks, ensuring a smooth relation with local and national authorities, contributing to the context analysis and follow-up, providing translations and interpreting in order to facilitate coordination tasks in the mission.
• The Head of Mission Assistant reports directly to the Head of Mission. He/She:
• Compiles and submits for HOM’s clearance regular updates of the ongoing activities and plans of NGO’s, UN, ICRC, donors, authorities and other actors on lobby, policy and operational plans and initiatives in order to adequate ALIMA’s activities and objectives;
• Ensures smooth working relationship with local authorities, other NGO’s, local communities and other actors, in order to facilitate ALIMA teams a better access to the population and improve ALIMA activities’ coordination with third parties ;
• Participates in the elaboration and updating of the Country Risk Analysis.
• Assists the HoM in the context analysis, disseminate relevant context information to the coordination team, regularly inform them on key issues, update general information on the context for ALIMA internal documents ;
• Keep good knowledge of counterparts in different administrations and file field contacts (other NGO’s, UN agencies, local authorities…) verifying that they are easily accessible in order to facilitate contacts and meetings ;
• At the request of the HoM, represents ALIMA in meetings (NGO, official bodies, administration…);
• At the request of the HoM, prepare and conduct an information briefing focusing on the country context for ALIMA Staff ;
• Supports the Head of Mission in the preparation of project proposals and project reports for donors ;
• Performs data collection and research concerning local and international context, with regards to security, medical, nutritional and humanitarian issues, in order to provide reliable information for further decision-making ;
• Supports the Head of Mission and field coordinators in the analysis of the data collected, in order to better orientate the projects, to provide an optimal response to population needs


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