Social Worker or Nurse
(National hiring based in Mexico City)
GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION:
As an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, the Social Worker (or Nurse) promotes and ensures access to essential services, primarily health, for vulnerable people of priority for the ICRC. He/she provides individual follow-up and/or supports the protection and/or health officer in accompanying beneficiaries with protection needs (e.g. victims of violence and sexual violence) in health, shelter or community structures. In coordination with the health, protection and other key departments, he/she works to develop a safe referral system and strengthens persuasion activities at the three levels of government and mobilization to meet the needs of beneficiaries in a coherent and timely manner.
The social worker (or nurse) supports and integrates into the different areas of the health department in order to ensure coherence between the different services/activities that interact and respond to the timely referral of individual cases at the field level.
JOB PROFILE:
- 3 to 5 years of professional experience in general.
- Minimum 3 years of professional experience working with vulnerable populations, or in an international humanitarian organization (would be an advantage).
- Experience in the area of ​​health and communities (essential).
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work or Nursing Degree.
- Basic intermediate English language, able to understand texts in English.
Technical knowledge in:
- Intermediate Office.
- Knowledge in the health system.
- Analysis and systematization/project cycle (mapping and needs analysis, monitoring).
Skills:
- Teamwork.
- Communication skills at all interdisciplinary levels.
- Resilient.
- Ethical commitment.
- Troubleshooting.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identifies, updates and maps networks of institutions and access to essential services – mainly health services – and maintains regular contact with health institutions at the three levels and other relevant institutions/organizations.
- Evaluates support for migrants, displaced persons, victims of violence, injured or sick, and relatives of missing persons, based on the institution’s internal programs and criteria.
- Manage strategic meetings with external stakeholders regarding access to health services.
- Documentation and development of protocols.
- Identification and support in the documentation of individual cases (migrants and displaced persons affected by violence and relatives of missing persons) in accordance with established criteria and in collaboration with health and protection officials.
- It develops an analysis of the problems and humanitarian consequences related to the lack of access to essential services for vulnerable people and the support that the ICRC provides to these individual cases.
- Responsible for the compilation and creation of confidential medical records for each Beneficiary.
- Responsible for submitting and completing audits of assistance provided.
- Responsible for the administrative and logistical organization of purchasing medical materials, donations, etc. related to the activities of the Health area programs
Job Details:
Workplace: Based in Mexico City
According to the ICRC salary scale, in accordance with the candidate’s qualifications and the requirements of the position. Benefits above those required by law
How to apply
HOW TO APPLY FOR THE POSITION?
Send your CV and cover letter in a single document on this platform:
Deadline for receiving applications: 9:00 p.m. March 6, 2025 Mexico City time
IMPORTANT
Foreign candidates must have a work permit in Mexico
Please include your gross financial expectations in your CV and the minimum time frame for being available.
The ICRC is firmly committed to diversity and inclusion, and its recruitment processes do not make distinctions based on race, gender, age, religion, and/or any other type. We encourage all persons who meet the requested professional profile to participate in our calls for applications.