Palliative Care Expert
Role Overview
Key Expert – Palliative Care Expert, Category II, for an EU-funded technical-assistance project supporting Syria's Ministry of Health.
The project aims to strengthen institutional capacity and governance, evidence-based decision-making, accountability, and sustainable capacity development.
The assignment is listed for Damascus, Syria, with an indicative start date of 9 December 2026 and a 14-month implementation period ending indicatively on 9 February 2028.
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Project and assignment
Key Expert – Palliative Care Expert, Category II, for an EU-funded technical-assistance project supporting Syria's Ministry of Health.
The project aims to strengthen institutional capacity and governance, evidence-based decision-making, accountability, and sustainable capacity development.
The assignment is listed for Damascus, Syria, with an indicative start date of 9 December 2026 and a 14-month implementation period ending indicatively on 9 February 2028.
Assignment focus
- Strengthen oncology-related clinical protocols, medication safety, multidisciplinary coordination, clinical training, and quality monitoring.
- Contribute to patient-centred care and integration of palliative-care considerations into health services.
- Support protocol development and adaptation, chemotherapy safety systems, oncology-team training, and service monitoring across multiple centres.
- Convene technical working groups across oncology, primary care, and nursing directorates.
Education and experience
- A master's degree in Public Health, Palliative Medicine, Nursing, or a related clinical field is required.
- A medical degree with palliative-care specialization or advanced training is strongly preferred.
- At least 10 years of clinical or technical medical-oncology experience, including substantial direct experience with systemic anti-cancer therapy protocols, particularly chemotherapy protocols.
- Familiarity with international cancer-treatment guidelines and adapting them to resource-constrained or fragile health systems.
- Experience with chemotherapy pharmacovigilance, medication safety, adverse-event reporting, dose verification, and safe handling.
- Experience designing oncology-team training and monitoring and evaluation tools, and convening multidisciplinary working groups.
Languages and additional assets
- Excellent written and spoken English is mandatory.
- Working knowledge of Arabic is a strong asset.
- Cross-cultural communication and sensitivity to the ethical and psychosocial dimensions of end-of-life care are sought.
- MENA-region experience or experience in post-conflict or early-recovery health systems is a strong asset.
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