Palliative Care Expert – Key Expert for Syrian Ministry of Health

About the role

NTU International is seeking a Key Expert – Palliative Care Expert (Category II) to provide technical assistance for a EU‑funded project strengthening the Syrian Ministry of Health. The role focuses on enhancing oncology clinical protocols, medication safety, multidisciplinary coordination, clinical training and quality monitoring to integrate palliative‑care considerations into health services.

Key responsibilities

• Support the development and harmonisation of national or institutional anti‑cancer therapy protocols, especially chemotherapy protocols.
• Design and implement pharmacovigilance and medication‑safety systems for chemotherapy, including adverse‑event reporting and safe‑handling procedures.
• Create structured clinical training programmes for oncology teams on protocol implementation, treatment sequencing and toxicity management.
• Develop monitoring and evaluation tools to track treatment adherence, clinical outcomes and safety indicators across multiple oncology centres.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary technical working groups involving oncology, primary care and nursing directorates.

Required profile

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Palliative Medicine, Nursing or related clinical field; medical degree with specialisation in palliative care strongly preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of clinical or technical experience in medical oncology, including protocol development.
• Familiarity with international cancer treatment guidelines (WHO Essential Medicines List, NCCN, ESMO) and adaptation to resource‑constrained settings.
• Experience working in the MENA region or in post‑conflict/early‑recovery health systems is a strong asset.
• Excellent English communication skills; working knowledge of Arabic is an advantage.

Required skills

• Oncology protocol development and harmonisation
• Pharmacovigilance and medication‑safety system design
• Clinical training design for multidisciplinary teams
• Monitoring and evaluation tool creation for oncology services
• Facilitation of multidisciplinary technical working groups