Consultants International Responsible Pédagogique MCM– Formation sur la Gestion des Incidents à Victimes Multiples

The consultant will prepare Cameroon's health facilities for better management of mass casualty incidents by training local trainers and health personnel, coordinating and evaluating the training program, and ensuring sustainable follow-up. The role involves delivering a hybrid training program combining mandatory e-learning and in-person sessions, and establishing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Prepare health facilities in Cameroon for better management of mass casualty incidents through training and capacity building
• Train local trainers on mass casualty management according to WHO Academy approach, combining mandatory e-learning and in-person training
• Strengthen capacity of health facility management teams on mass casualty incident management
• Support health facilities to develop and test their mass casualty management plans through table-top exercises and simulations
• Ensure sustainability of the training program through structured follow-up of trainers and hospitals at 3 and 6 months post-training
• Establish monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to measure knowledge acquisition, satisfaction, and organizational impact of the training program
• Coordinate full-scale simulation exercises
• Manage the entire training cycle from needs analysis, curriculum design, delivery, debriefing to post-training follow-up

Requirements

• Master degree in Public Health, specialising in Health Training Engineering
• Complementary academic background reinforcing programme and stakeholder management (desirable)
• Over 5 years as MCM Programme Coordinator/Training Engineering Consultant for the WHO Academy, covering the full training cycle end-to-end: needs analysis, curriculum design, hybrid delivery (mandatory e-learning, in-person training, full-scale simulation), debriefing and post-training follow-up
• Direct, hands-on experience designing, coordinating and delivering the WHO Academy's flagship MCM programme internationally (Belgium, Ukraine, Palestine and Egypt)
• Proven track record scaling a centralised, in-person training model (Lyon) into sustainable Training-of-Trainers (ToT) mechanisms adapted to resource-constrained settings
• Established monitoring & evaluation (M&E) practice for health training schemes, combining pre/post-test knowledge assessments, criteria-based observation grids during simulations, structured debriefing (RETEX/AAR), and 3- and 6-month post-training follow-up per hospital
• Coordination of full-scale simulation exercises
• Direct prior engagement with the Cameroon health system
• Sustained technical collaboration with WHO Headquarters emergency leadership, having worked in direct tandem with Professor Lee Wallis, Head of the Emergency Unit (desirable)
• Operational interfacing experience across WHO country offices, ministries of health, participating hospitals, WHO Headquarters and donors, including activity planning, budget tracking and progress reporting across multiple simultaneous deployments (desirable)
• Broader institutional communications and advocacy background (desirable)
• Demonstrated capacity for remote facilitation via videoconference and LMS platforms and in-person delivery: managed content deployment and learner analytics on the WHO Academy's e-learning platform, enforced mandatory e-learning completion ahead of in-person sessions, and ran weekly progress monitoring
• Skilled trainer-of-trainers: trained local trainers in scenario design, facilitation techniques and structured debriefing to build sustainable training capacity
• Rigorous multi-stakeholder coordination and programme management skills, including needs analysis, indicator monitoring and evaluation, documentation structuring and knowledge capitalisation
• Multilingual and multicultural working capacity suited to Francophone coordination with MINSANTE and WHO Cameroon
• Digital platform and content management skills, plus experience organising seminars, workshops, webinars and meetings (desirable)
• Institutional and scientific outreach communication skills, having produced press releases, briefing notes and advocacy materials for organisations including WHO (desirable)
• Expert knowledge of French
• Intermediate knowledge of English
• Expert in other UN languages (desirable)

Skills

• Health Training Engineering
• Programme Coordination
• Training Needs Assessment
• Curriculum Design
• Hybrid Training Delivery
• E-learning Platform Management
• In-person Training Delivery
• Full-scale Simulation Coordination
• Training-of-Trainers
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Knowledge Assessment
• Simulation Observation
• Structured Debriefing
• Post-Training Follow-Up
• Financial Tracking
• Progress Reporting
• Remote Facilitation
• LMS Platform Management
• Scenario Design
• Facilitation Skills
• Multilingual Translation Coordination

Languages

French, English