Hospital Administrative Assistant

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is looking for a suitable candidate to fill the vacancies below.

Job Title:  Hospital Administrative Assistant


Main Responsibilities:

• Initiates and justifies requisition orders, liaises and co-ordinates with the ICRC medical logistician in regards to medical orders and deliveries and manages medical / emergency stock in the hospital.
• Ensures proper storage of medication, monthly (imprest) consumption, participates in the monthly stocks inventory and ordering
• Directly responsible for the proper functioning of non-medical support services in the hospital, including pharmacy, Laundry and kitchen department
• Co-ordinates attendance, Venue and other logistical considerations following planned ICRC training programs
• Compiles Hospital clinical data

Required Qualifications:

• Health professional with 2-3 years of experience in hospital administration and medical logistics
• Proven ability to work with people of varied cultural and social backgrounds
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Proven team leading skills
• Excellent analysis and problem solving skills

Personal Attributes:

• Very good communication skills, especially when it comes to speaking and listening
• Emotional stability and to be able to work in stressful and traumatic situations, while keeping empathy towards patients
• Flexibility and quick response capacity to endure recurrent changes in working schedule, to be able to work for long hours and act swiftly in emergencies.
• Great interpersonal skills, to be able to work well with a variety of situation with different people.
• Good physical endurance and to be able to perform frequent physical tasks, standing for long time while maintaining good energy
• Good problem solving skills and to be able to think quickly and address problems as/or before they arise.
• Be able to maintain respect to his/her patients, colleagues and profession/duty in different circumstances

The deadline for the submission of applications will be 19/02/2016. Late application will not be considered

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

However, ICRC will not request for any monetary payments from applicants at any stage of the recruitment process.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance.

For more information about the ICRC, please visit our website www.icrc.org