As a midwife with MSF your experience in both complicated and normal deliveries will be essential. From visiting expectant mums deep in the jungle to carrying out ante-natal checks, to training birth attendants in busy maternity departments in big hospital settings, MSF midwives are a vital part of most project teams.
Responsibilities 
Our midwives often have a dual responsibility; working in health centres and conducting outreach work in the community. No matter what the context - whether working in natural disasters, conflicts or poverty-affected communities - babies will continue to be born and midwives will always be needed. 

It's a challenging and rewarding role and you will be responsible for some or all of the following: 

Pre and post-delivery care 
Deliveries, often complicated 
Care of survivors of sexual violence 
Setting up maternity departments in new health centres or hospitals 
Working with community birth attendants to ensure safe community birthing practices 
Running awareness programs in the community 
Training local midwives 
On-call care, often 24 hours 

Requirements

Valid registration 
Two year's post-qualification experience 
Experience in supervising, managing and training others 
Experience of obstetric emergencies/complicated deliveries, termination of pregnancy, sexual violence 
Willingness to be regularly on call for difficult and complicated deliveries 
Over three months experience of working in a low resource settings 
Willingness to work in unstable areas 
Available for six to nine months
Adaptable and able to work in a multi-cultural team 
Flexible and able to manage stress 
Fluency in English  
Please note that in order to work with MSF as a midwife, it is not necessary to also be qualified as a nurse. 

Qualifications

Tropical nursing diploma 
Knowledge of STDs/HIV/AIDS 
Family planning experience 
Community midwifery experience 
Good level of French or Arabic