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Emergency Response Global Roster

Members of Americares Emergency Response Global Roster are among the first on the ground after a major disaster, delivering essential health services to survivors and communities in need — professionals who share our mission of saving lives and improving health for those affected by poverty or disaster. Joining the Global Roster is not an immediate commitment, so you have time to prepare for a possible deployment long before we ask you to deploy! Acceptance to the Global Roster pre-qualifies you to work with us in a future response.

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Respond

Americares responds to more than 30 disasters each year. We cannot do it without the dedicated and talented Roster members of our Emergency Response Team.

The members on our Roster are qualified individuals who are trained in Americares Emergency Response programming and policy and whom Americares trusts to deploy. They are subject-matter experts in their field who can provide essential health services in disaster-affected communities. More than anything else, they are working hard to help those who have been affected by disaster by improving their access to health care.

Americares is now recruiting and reviewing applications for our Global Roster, so apply today! Americares recruits for medical, logistical, and programmatic support positions to help us save lives in the aftermath of disaster.

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Take a look at the types of roles we deploy in times of crisis:

Medical Providers

Physician (MD/DO)

Americares Physicians (General Practitioners, Primary Care, OB/GYNs, and Pediatricians) will provide quality emergency care. Practitioners should be experienced in areas such as initial assessment and triage, patient stabilization, basic wound care, fracture management, and emergency pediatric and obstetric care.  The person filling this position must be a licensed and currently certified Physician with a minimum of three years post graduate work in their field.

Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner / Registered Nurse / EMT / Paramedic

Americares Physician’s Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, and EMT/Paramedics will provide quality emergency care. Practitioners should be experienced in areas such as initial assessment and triage, patient stabilization, basic wound care, fracture management, and emergency pediatric and obstetric care.  The person filling this position must be a licensed and currently certified Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Registered Nurse, EMT, or Paramedic with a minimum of three years post graduate work in their field.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) professional will work closely with medical team to assess and treat the mental health needs of patients while also meeting the needs of roster members during deployment.

Pharmacist

The Pharmacist will work with the medical and logistics teams on the ground to support the management of the team’s supply chain and to oversee patient prescriptions. The person filling this position must be a licensed and currently certified Pharmacist with a minimum of three years post graduate work in their field.

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Logistics and Program Support

Logistics

Logistics is responsible for the management of all programmatic support infrastructure – staff transportation and accommodations, coordination with partners, and supply chain, including customs clearance, inventory management, and local procurement.

Public Health/Wash

Public health and WASH professionals will oversee water, sanitation, and hygiene activities in the aftermath of a disaster to both support fellow Americares team members and affected-communities. The person filling this position must have a minimum of three years’ experience working in public health and/or WASH in an international, non-profit setting.

Join the Americares Global Roster. Apply today!

Program Support

Our response teams need all the same components to run as we do at Headquarters, so program support is essential. Whether overseeing the management of a grant, coordinating activities of a program, implementing monitoring and evaluation activities, or fostering important relationships with relevant stakeholders, our program support personnel keep the program running smoothly

Administration

We are also looking for administrative professionals with experience in humanitarian programming to support the human resources and finance needs during a response. Administrative personnel will oversee onboarding and offboarding, budgeting, expense reporting, and other duties to support personnel and programming.

Communications

Communications is responsible for liaising between Americares HQ and the team to provide content that captures the impact of the response for organizational marketing materials and donor updates. A key component to this role will also be to handle media opportunities.

Disaster Response Volunteer: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

The role of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Roster Member will vary depending on the nature and length of response but will likely include a combination of coordinating community-level psychosocial support, providing direct MHPSS services to patients and facilitating staff care efforts.

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Targeted Recruitment: Nurses and Midwives (US Only)Medical Providers

Nurses (US Only)

Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses and LPN/LVNs will provide quality emergency care. Practitioners should be experienced in areas such as initial assessment and triage, patient stabilization, basic wound care, fracture management, and emergency pediatric and obstetric care. The person filling this position must be a licensed and currently certified to work in the US as a Nurse Practitioner, Registered Nurse or LVN/LPN with a minimum of three years clinical work in their field.”

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Midwives (US Only)

Certified Nurse Midwives will provide quality care and support relating to pre/postnatal care as well as deliveries if needed. Candidates should be experienced in areas such as initial assessments, pre/postnatal care, labor and delivery, patient stabilization, basic and emergency obstetric/newborn care, breastfeeding support and support referral process as needed. Candidates must be licenses/certified to work in the US as a Certified Nurse Midwife with a minimum of five years clinical work in their field.

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Steps to Deploy

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Apply

The application process begins with an online application leading to a combination of phone and in-person interviews. If you are selected, we request a few forms of additional information for our records.

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Train

Trainings are essential to the successful deployment and responses of our team. During the onboarding process, a mandatory in-person training and several online trainings are required for deployment.

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Respond

This is where your boots hit the ground as part of Americares response. Individual deployments can range from two weeks to six months.

40+

Years Responding to People in Need

$22 Billion

in Humanitarian Aid

>30

Emergency Responses Each Year

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