Role Description

Provide life-saving, limb-saving, and function-restoring surgical care in conflict-affected, disaster, or low-resource settings. The role emphasizes trauma, burns, infection, and complex soft-tissue reconstruction under significant resource constraints, while contributing to local capacity-building and sustainable surgical systems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Clinical Care
  • Perform emergency and elective reconstructive procedures, including trauma reconstruction, burn excision and coverage, infection control, and complex wound management.
  • Apply damage-control and staged reconstructive principles appropriate to unstable patients and limited resources.
  • Manage perioperative and postoperative care with strong emphasis on infection prevention and complication mitigation.
  • Participate in triage and prioritization during mass-casualty or surge events.
• Teaching & Capacity Building
  • Train, mentor, and supervise local surgeons, residents, nurses, and allied staff.
  • Contribute to development of locally appropriate surgical protocols and clinical guidelines.
  • Support task-sharing and skills transfer within multidisciplinary teams.
• Systems & Collaboration
  • Work closely with anesthesia, nursing, rehabilitation, logistics, and leadership teams.
  • Adapt surgical plans to available infrastructure, supplies, and staffing.
  • Maintain accurate, ethical, and program-relevant clinical documentation.
  • Uphold humanitarian principles, patient dignity, and culturally responsive care.

Perform other duties as assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and not necessarily all inclusive.

Qualifications

• Board-certified Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon.
• Demonstrated experience in trauma, burns, infection, and soft-tissue reconstruction.
• Strong surgical judgment in resource-limited environments.
• Proven ability to teach and mentor across cultures and training levels.
• High adaptability, resilience, and collaborative mindset.

Requirements

• Prior humanitarian, global surgery, or low-resource clinical experience.
• Experience in burn centers, safety-net hospitals, or high-volume trauma systems.
• Familiarity with staged reconstruction, external fixation interfaces, and wound-care improvisation.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary humanitarian teams.