Coordinator of medical training in gynecology and obstetrics services - 50%

Company Description ##

With more than 13'000 employees representing 160 professions, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève are a reference institution at national and international levels. To learn more about our institution, take a few minutes to consult our 2025 retrospective by clicking here.

The position is attached to the Department of Women, Children and Adolescents, whose mission is to offer quality care adapted to the needs of women at every stage of their lives, and to the health problems faced by newborns, children and female and male adolescents from birth until the age of 16. It works towards the development of cutting-edge services and specialized competence centers.

The gynecology service of the HUG is one of the most important in Switzerland. It includes many specialties, notably in oncology, perineology or even reproductive medicine. The service also provides specialized consultations regarding the ovary and female genital mutilation. It provides care for women victims of aggression and violence, or those requesting a gynecological check-up, contraception or an interruption of pregnancy.

Our breast center and our endometriosis center are accredited, offering the guarantee of multidisciplinary, global and quality care.

Medical and nursing teams follow women, young girls and adolescents throughout their reproductive lives, during and after menopause, with maximum comfort and safety, and with respect for the privacy and values of each.

To ensure the best women's health care, it relies on high-performance emergency services, cutting-edge equipment, interdisciplinary care, and direct access for hospitalizations.

In addition to the monitoring and management of pregnancies until childbirth, the Obstetrics Service of the HUG is the regional reference center for high-risk pregnancies and foeto-maternal medicine. The Maternity collaborates closely with the neonatology unit where approximately 500 newborns are hospitalized each year and with whom teams rotate 24h/24 to provide them with care and close monitoring.

Job Description ##

As a coordinator, you are the privileged interlocutor for the actors involved in the implementation of postgraduate training activities intended for doctors.

You create the conditions that allow health professionals to train, exchange, and evolve their practices in a demanding and stimulating environment.

Thanks to your sense of organization and your ability to unite various interlocutors, you implement the needs expressed by medical managers into smooth, recognized, and updated training pathways. You coordinate all the steps necessary for the implementation of academic programs, from their annual planning to their administrative and financial monitoring.

You ensure that each session takes place under excellent conditions and provide doctors with logistical and operational support during their training days. Notably during BLOC courses which take place mainly on Saturdays, at a rate of approximately 10 to 20 days per year.

Your ability to anticipate needs, coordinate resources, and propose pragmatic solutions contributes directly to the success of teaching objectives. You efficiently manage the reservation of spaces, the welcome of speakers, the organization of travel, the management of technical equipment, catering, or videoconferencing solutions.

Thanks to your sense of contact and your reactivity, you facilitate collaborations, promote communication, and are capable of interacting with both specialist doctors and external providers.

You actively participate in the promotion of programs by ensuring their dissemination to the professionals concerned and by contributing to their visibility.

You also contribute to the sustainability of these projects by developing financial partnerships with sponsors in the health sector (pharmaceutical laboratories, pharmacies) and by maintaining a relationship of trust with them.

This function is intended for a person who wishes to go beyond simple administrative management and have a role as a true facilitator, capable of proposing innovative solutions and contributing actively to the dynamism and development of the updated knowledge of the medical community.

As part of its activities, the coordinator works in close collaboration with the Head of Administration and Finance of the Department, the chief physicians and heads of service, the accounting department, the training physicians, as well as with the various partners.

Qualifications ##

You hold a commercial or administrative training, such as the CFC of a commercial employee completed by obtaining the maturity or an equivalent diploma. You are certified in project management (IPMA, PMI, Hermès).

Confirmed experience in the medical field, training, coordination, events or fundraising constitutes an asset.

Your level of French is excellent orally and in writing and your good level of English constitutes an asset.

Demonstrating commitment and enthusiasm, you contribute to a positive atmosphere with patients, your colleagues and partners.

Additional Information ##

• Start date: as soon as possible, at the latest 01.01.2027
• Number of positions: 1
• Activity rate: 50%, i.e., 4 hours per day in person
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