What skills, experience and personal qualities are needed for the role?
You’ll have technical experience in medical equipment maintenance or be a qualified biomedical engineer. Ideally you will have mentored or practically trained apprentices and have experience of setting up training programmes and workshops. You’ll need good communications skills, in order to build strong relationships with hospital staff. You’ll need to be flexible, as often the equipment, or the techniques to fix the equipment may be dated and take longer than you may be used to in the UK. You’ll also need to be adventurous and willing to integrate into a new African way of life! A willingness to learn the basics of Ethiopia’s national language, Amharic, will be well received by your colleagues. And the rest Jimma is one of the largest towns in the Oromia Region of Western Ethiopia. It’s a busy town with a bustling market and people from a wide variety of ethnic groups. The town is surrounded by thick forests, which are inhabited by many species of monkey. The area is unspoilt with lus
