Responsibilities:

• Meeting requirements for your own medical license (including your continuous education) and registration with local health authorities
• Serving the local staff through on-the-job training, providing continuous education, and building strong team spirit as a co-worker
• Participate in community outreach, Bible studies and other activities for discipleship and evangelism
• Discipling and mentoring the medical staff
• Being an active member of the Senegalese national association of Christian health care workers

Required Qualifications:

• Completion of Alliance Polity course
• Completion of the World Perspectives Mission Course (minimum of Certificate level) or equivalent
• A minimum Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) score of 40

Preferred Qualifications:

• Oversees medical experience
• Experience in community health
• Experience in training/ health care education

Biblical Characteristics Desired:

• Kingdom-minded
• Biblically grounded
• Spirit-dependent 
• Competently skilled
• Self-aware
• Self-disciplined

Timeline for Deployment:

Summer/fall of 2024. Following appointment, and once fundraising goals and other qualifications are met, the appointee is required to attend a cross-cultural and language-acquisition program and pre-field orientation prior to deploying.

General Information:

The people group in the community where the clinic is located are the second largest people group in Senegal, and they spread across the Sahel region of Africa. Most of them are nomadic herdsmen, and almost all follow the majority religion. The clinic is located in a relatively remote area where the weather is generally hot. Adaptation to different food and clothing is required. The Alliance is currently moving towards IWs living in the ministry location, but most team members are in the capital city, about four hours away.

CIA World Factbook – Senegal
Joshua Project – Senegal

Language Expectations:

Language is an essential part of ministry. The successful applicant(s) will receive one year of intense language study followed by ongoing language and cultural acquisition. The goal will be to speak, read, and write the language at a functional level in order to mentor, teach, and train others.

Fluent French is required to communicate well with health care professionals and to teach. Learning the basics of the local language is highly recommended to be able to communicate with patients. A six- to 12-month period of language and culture orientation will be scheduled at arrival.

Health Considerations:

The ministry location has high temperature (80–115ºF) and occasional dust storms. The capital city has a milder climate than interior regions, though it does experience high temperatures and humidity from August–October. There are high levels of air pollution at times, which can affect those with respiratory issues. There are very few expats/IWs in the village. High quality health-care institutions are present in the capital.  

Expectations for Spouse:

The medical facility provides several opportunities (medical and non-medical) for a spouse’s involvement. This ministry is a part of a larger team with other work in urban church planting, reaching urban professionals through business and leadership training, medical ministry, and music and media ministry (production, training, and events). A spouse could also serve in any of these areas.

Children’s Educational Plan and Options:

There are no schooling possibilities at the ministry location. Home schooling or boarding school in the capital city should be considered. For team members living in the capital, some of their children attend private, bilingual French schools that use the French system. Most of the children’s classmates are the children of people from Africa and Europe, as well as local children. Other members’ children attend an international Christian international pre-K–12 school following the American system with all courses in English and taught mostly by Americans, as well as some foreign English speakers. The latter also offers boarding school and has a location about one hour outside of the capital.