Education
MBBS degree recognized by the BMDC with 6 months post-graduation training (PGT) with 2 years’ work experience in clinical field Experience – Essential
Additional Requirements
Desirable
▪ Additional professional certificates: Certificates in relevant field will be an added advantage.
▪ Previous experience of NGO work in humanitarian settings.
▪ Experience supervising medical teams.
▪ Working knowledge of Rohinga and English
▪ Experience in other relevant area: general practice, general medicine, or nutrition
▪ Strong knowledge of Organization systems and ways of working
Skills & Competencies
Skills:
• Good knowledge of maternal health, antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), and essential newborn care.
• Ability to assess, diagnose, and manage common obstetric and maternity-related conditions.
• Knowledge of the identification and initial management of obstetric emergencies, including pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), obstructed labour, and maternal sepsis.
• Ability to monitor maternal and fetal well-being and identify high-risk pregnancies requiring referral.
• Knowledge of safe delivery practices, infection prevention and control (IPC), and respectful maternity care.
• Ability to provide appropriate clinical management, stabilize emergency cases, and arrange timely referral when required.
• Knowledge of family planning, breastfeeding counselling, and maternal health education.
• Ability to maintain accurate clinical records, patient registers, referral documents, and maternity reports.
• Knowledge of clinical protocols, national guidelines, and evidence-based maternity care practices.
• Ability to ensure patient safety, confidentiality, and appropriate use of medical equipment and supplies.
Communication & Interpersonal Skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills for effective interaction with pregnant women, mothers, newborns, caregivers, and colleagues.
• Ability to provide respectful, compassionate, and culturally sensitive maternity care.
• Ability to work collaboratively with midwives, nurses, medical assistants, and other healthcare professionals.
• Ability to communicate clinical findings, treatment plans, and referral decisions clearly.
• Ability to provide health education and counselling on pregnancy, childbirth, postnatal care, and newborn health.
• Ability to coordinate with referral facilities and relevant teams to ensure continuity of care.
Other Competencies
• Strong clinical judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure and respond promptly to obstetric and neonatal emergencies.
• Commitment to maintaining quality of care and adhering to established clinical protocols and standards.
• Strong attention to patient safety, infection prevention, and medical ethics.
• Honest, reliable, punctual, and professionally responsible.
• Ability to work flexible hours, shifts, weekends, public holidays, and during emergencies when required.
• Commitment to organizational policies, professional conduct, safeguarding, PSEA, confidentiality, and health and safety requirements.
• Ability to participate in clinical meetings, case reviews, audits, and continuous professional development activities.
Additional Job Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities outlined above are not exhaustive. The role holder may be required to undertake additional duties reasonably related to their qualifications, skills, and experience, based on programme and operational requirements.
Safeguarding
The post holder is required to perform all duties in accordance with the organization's safeguarding, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), child safeguarding, anti-harassment, code of conduct, and other relevant organizational policies and procedures.
Equal Opportunity
The organization is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from qualified candidates regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnicity, religion, or other status.
Health and Safety
The post holder is required to carry out all duties in accordance with organizational Health, Safety, Security, Infection Prevention and Control, laboratory biosafety, and other relevant policies and procedures.
Responsibilities & Context
Job Description: Medical Officer Maternity - Jointly operated by Save the Children & PHD Mother and Child Hospital (MCH).
Reports to: Senior Medical Officer Obst and gynae
Accountable to: Project Coordinator
Position Summary
S/he will be technical part of the Hospital Program, with special focus on Sexual Reproductive Health. S/he is responsible for delivering lifesaving medical services by providing emergency care, overseeing the provision of quality health care within the Health Facilities (HF), ensuring consultations and treatments are done in line with relevant clinical protocols, guidelines and prescribed best practices. S/he has direct involvement in routine ANC-PNC, Family planning, assessment of high-risk pregnancies and obstetric emergencies, OPD and General IPD, emergency ward including life-saving interventions as well as assessment and monitoring, management of the patient. The role emphasizes supervision, and saving interventional development of midwives, nurses, and allied health staff to build resilient teams and improve service delivery.
Key activities will include:
• Recognition and assist in management of obstetric complications (BEmONC and CEmONC)
• Assist in emergency / elective Obstetric and gynaecological surgery.
• Post-operative follow-up in conjunction with an anaesthetist and midwifery team.
• Provide routine ANC, PNC, Family planning, identify high-risk pregnancies and obstetric emergencies, including provide life-saving resuorganizationtation, support to GBV survivors.
• Provide support in SCANU, IPD and in patient management of SAM
Key Responsibilities
▪ To provide Gynae/ obstetric OPD, treatment, and follow up services according to accepted standards (MOHFW /World Health Organization/ Organization International) ensuring patients are treated in a dignified and caring manner.
▪ Competent at assessment, stabilization of all obstetrical emergencies and able to assist emergency obstetric surgeries.
▪ Competent in supporting wider reproductive health services e.g. family planning (including post-partum family planning), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) treatment, Post Abortion Care (PAC), CMR & GBV cases etc.
▪ Provide screening, triage, high quality care for patients based on their history, appropriate physical examination, available laboratory test, imaging tests, and formulary for treatment of acute and chronic conditions.
▪ Utilizing appropriate checklists and ensuring adequate pre-operative and post-operative care for emergency surgeries.
▪ In the Inpatient unit such as Maternity, SCANU ,general IPD ,attend daily rounds on patients, case discussions, monitor and document patient progress with any changes in management and prognosis and ensure adequate handover, write discharge certificate, birth certificate, death certificate
▪ Provides emergency care prior to stabilisation and ensure identification and facilitation of referral pathways, including safe patient transfer, accurate documentation and patient follow up, adhered to Organization protocols.
▪ Ensure notifiable disease reporting and follow-up system is used if required.
▪ Ensure clinical governance systems are in place.
▪ Utilize data collection tools and ensure patients records and clinic registers are completed according to both Organization international and Ministry of Health requirements.
▪ Complete standardized internal reporting as required.
▪ Provides medical support and mentorship to other clinical staff and on-the-job training as needed.
▪ Maintain coordination with different component of the facility like Logistics, Pharmacy, WASH, IPC & Maternity etc.
▪ Maintain good collaboration with Community Health team to encourage referral from community and follow-up of the patient’s received treatment from SC Health facility
▪ Conducts ultrasonogram (USGs) for referred cases including pregnant women with complications and other obstetric and gynaecological cases and advise accordingly.
▪ Always being available to attend and assess obstetrics and gynaecological, newborn emergencies
▪ Actively participate in the Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Surveillance and Reporting Committee (MPMSR). Review and present cases of near misses and mortality
General:
▪ Ensure the timely, complete, and quality collection of the required reporting requests by the MEAL team, including support with any patient feedback mechanisms, audits, and quality of care checklists.
▪ Ensures patient data protection and confidentiality of patient data.
▪ Actively participate in any internal meetings and any other relevant external meetings as required.
▪ Adhere to and report any medical incident through the Organization DATIX reporting system.
▪ Be informed and sensitize within team about Maternal Perinatal Mortality Surveillance and Reporting (MPMSR) Committee.
▪ Carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects Organization's commitment to safeguarding children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy.
▪ Commitment to the aims and principles of Organization. A good understanding of the Organization’s mandate and child focus.
▪ Understanding what we mean by risk, and by identifying, reporting, and managing the risks associated with your role; and
▪ Operating within the policies, procedures and controls set out by Organization.
4. Qualifications and Experience
▪ Minimum of 6 months experience practising as medical officer in Obs /Gynae.
▪ Up to date evidence of current licence and registration to practice.
▪ Minimum of three months’ work/volunteering in Field hospital or Low resource setting.
▪ Ability and willingness to travel to remote and insecure locations and unstable areas.
▪ Previous experience of managing obstetric complications often associated with humanitarian emergencies e.g. management of infectious diseases in pregnancy, clinical management of rape etc.
▪ Familiar with the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for reproductive health in humanitarian settings.
▪ Advanced life support, paediatric life support and neonatal life support trained or their equivalents.
Job related Knowledge: Sound knowledge on the Bangladesh health system and humanitarian context.
5. Required Skills and Competencies
▪ Strong communication skills, with an excellent level of spoken and written English.
▪ Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
▪ Ability to work and maintain a positive team dynamic in an insecure environment.
▪ Proven capacity to supervise, train and coach staff
▪ Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both inside and outside the organization.
▪ Ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions independently under difficult conditions.
▪ Flexible and able to manage stress.
▪ Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources
▪ Ability to reflect and learn from personal and program performance and act on lessons learned
▪ Problem solving and decision making,
▪ Applying technical and professional expertise,
▪ Working effectively with others,
▪ Communicating with impact,
▪ Networking
6. Safeguarding and Accountability
The position holder must comply with Save the Children’s safeguarding policies, Child Safeguarding Policy, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) requirements, Code of Conduct, and applicable organizational procedures. Any safeguarding concern, suspected abuse, exploitation, or serious misconduct must be reported through established reporting mechanisms.
7. General Responsibilities
• Comply with organizational policies, procedures, health and safety standards, and applicable laws.
• Maintain confidentiality and behave professionally while working in clinical and non-clinical areas.
• Protect organizational assets, tools, equipment, and infrastructure.
• Perform other relevant duties assigned by the supervisor in line with the purpose of the position.
Job Other Benifits
Monthly Gross Salary: BDT122,727 /= (Only)
Bonus and other benefits: 10% of the monthly gross salary.
Other Benefits: Office hours, annual leave, increments, will be provided as per the organizational policy and Recruitment & Human Resource Management Policy of Partners in Health and Development (PHD), subject to project budget availability.