Senior Clinical Lead

About the role

The Senior Clinical Lead will provide senior clinical leadership for safe, effective and context‑appropriate case management, infection prevention and control, and clinical system readiness during infectious‑disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain adaptable clinical readiness standards, toolkits, referral‑pathway templates, IPC checklists and quality indicators.
• Conduct rapid clinical and facility‑readiness assessments within the first 72 hours of activation.
• Advise national authorities on case definitions, triage, patient flow, isolation, referral, case management and discharge.
• Lead IPC assessments, occupational health measures, PPE use and exposure management.
• Coordinate with public‑health, laboratory, logistics, RCCE, nutrition and psychosocial functions within a unified response plan.

Required profile

• Medical degree with current registration; specialist qualification strongly desirable.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive clinical and emergency‑health experience, including substantial infectious‑disease outbreak work.
• Proven leadership in multiple outbreak or humanitarian‑health deployments, preferably with high‑consequence pathogens.
• Fluent professional French and sufficient English; DRC nationality or African regional nationality required.

Required skills

• Clinical case management in outbreak settings.
• Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) implementation.
• Development of clinical readiness toolkits and quality indicators.
• Mentoring of multidisciplinary clinical teams.