Med’EqualiTeam recruits 01 Health education and Volunteer coordinator

Med’EqualiTeam is a French non-profit organization, created in July 2018. Our aim is to provide free health care to displaced populations, who wouldn’t otherwise have access to it due to any kind of barriers or lack of physicians. We are a volunteer based NGO, with most of the staff coming for short period of term in order to support with their medical or translation skills.

We are running since December 2023 a project in Northern Greece, with mobile medical units reaching out to different centers to provide medical consultations. We also run a Health Education program with first aid trainings and sessions about health topics designed for the community.

Job description

This is a combined role of two coordination branches: Volunteer Coordination & Health Education Coordination.

1) Volunteer Coordination

Are you someone with great people skills, experience in the humanitarian sector, and a (academic/professional) background relevant to our medical project in Thessaloniki e.g., medicine, public health, psychology, social work, etc.?

Then you might be our next Volunteer Coordinator managing our volunteer team on the ground in Northern Greece! This role focuses on recruiting qualified volunteers, composing a compatible medical team, supervising volunteer wellbeing, and managing the project’s HR tasks. This role is a great opportunity to gain project management experience in the medical humanitarian field and further hone your leadership skills.

Job description:

• Advertise new positions with recruitment partners
• Implement existing processes for recruitment and on-boarding of new (medical) volunteers; registration and evaluation of applications, holding interviews, composing the volunteer team, organising travel and accommodation logistics, conducting volunteer inductions on the ground, conducting check-in and exit chats, etc.
• Gather and implement volunteer feedback
• Coordinate the recruitment and onboarding of community translators
• Organise volunteer schedules in collaboration with the Medical Coordinator and Field Coordinator
• Look out for the wellbeing of volunteers and coordinate wellbeing activities
• Ensure professional behaviour and respect of MET code of conduct by all volunteers
• Ensure the safe storage and confidentiality of all HR data and information according to MET’s processes
• Be the on-site coordinator and manage the reception for approximately 1-2 clinics a week: register patients, coordinate clinic translation and medical volunteers, and manage on-site safety

2) Health Education Coordination

Are you interested in improving the health of asylum seeker and refugee communities through education and empowerment? We are seeking a volunteer with an interest in training and education to coordinate the health education branch of our medical project in Northern Greece; where we provide first aid training sessions for NGO volunteers and health education sessions to displaced communities across Northern Greece. This role is a great opportunity to develop your coordination and education skills and use your medical experience to deliver preventative health measures.

Job description:

• Plan and coordinate first aid trainings and health education sessions with NGO partners across Northern Greece.
• Lead in developing and delivering sessions with support of the medical volunteer team; designing training materials (presentations, leaflets etc.), overseeing translations, conducting focus groups, etc.
• Work with the medical coordinator to shape the strategy of health education and training
• Implement service evaluation protocols by gathering and processing feedback from attendees of sessions to improve the service

 

As a key position, we ask for a minimum of 6 months commitment.The ideal starting date is beginning of June 2026

This is a volunteer position with a stipend – we cannot facilitate entry into Greece or obtain a visa.