Cancer Treatment Protocols Expert

About the role

The Key Expert – Cancer Treatment Protocols will support the Syrian Ministry of Health in strengthening institutional capacity and governance for cancer care. The role focuses on developing, harmonising and implementing evidence‑based systemic anti‑cancer therapy protocols, especially chemotherapy, across multiple oncology centres.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and harmonise national or institutional chemotherapy protocols in line with WHO, NCCN and ESMO guidelines.
• Facilitate consensus‑building among clinicians, pharmacists and nurses on standardised treatment pathways.
• Design and implement pharmacovigilance and medication‑safety systems for chemotherapy, including adverse‑event reporting and dose‑verification procedures.
• Create structured clinical training programmes for oncology teams on protocol implementation, treatment sequencing and toxicity management.
• Develop monitoring and evaluation tools to track protocol adherence, clinical outcomes and safety indicators across dispersed oncology centres.

Required profile

• Medical degree with board certification in Clinical Oncology, Medical Oncology, Haematology‑Oncology or Clinical Pharmacology.
• Minimum 10 years of clinical or technical experience in medical oncology, with substantial work on chemotherapy protocol development or revision.
• Experience supporting ministries of health or national cancer‑control programmes in post‑conflict or early‑recovery settings is strongly preferred.
• Excellent English (written and spoken); working knowledge of Arabic is a strong asset.

Required skills

• Chemotherapy protocol development and harmonisation.
• Pharmacovigilance and medication‑safety systems for oncology.
• Familiarity with WHO Essential Medicines List for cancer, NCCN and ESMO guidelines.
• Adverse‑event reporting, dose‑verification and safe‑handling procedures.
• Design of clinical training programmes for physicians, pharmacists and nursing staff.
• Monitoring and evaluation tool creation for treatment adherence and safety indicators.