As a health promoter with Doctors Without Border/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will assess, define, implement, and supervise all health promotion and community engagement activities in the project area. These activities aim to collaborate with the community to increase their knowledge of health and health risks, improve current health practices, promote MSF services, and support preventive activities.

This will be achieved through outreach activities bridging the project and targeted communities, respecting their culture and practices, and thereby creating the most relevant and effective information, education, and communication strategies. Your responsibilities will also include developing and adapting our health promotion material to ensure relevance, accuracy, and comprehension. As this is a supervisory role, other crucial elements include recruitment, training, evaluation, and development of the project’s health promotion staff.

Requirements

As a project coordinator with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you plan, manage, and develop our medical projects by ensuring all departments work together to provide high-quality care. Your responsibilities include operational management, human resources management, financial management, communications, and representing MSF when liaising with local authorities.

The nature of MSF work involves inherent risk due to our commitment to people affected by conflict or in precarious situations – as project coordinator, you are ultimately responsible for safety and security at the project level.

You will play a key role in ensuring the quality and appropriateness of project activities and the implementation of MSF programs in-country. From conducting exploration into potential medical interventions, to overseeing teams of hundreds of staff, the role of project coordinators is incredibly varied and challenging.

Requirements

As a legal advisor working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), responsibilities include:

• Centralizing legal issues and providing legal advice
• Providing reasoned legal opinions – and practical solutions, adapted to MSF specificities, particularly in the areas of social law, contract law, fiscal law and administrative law applicable to NGOs.

• Referring request related to legal areas not covered by the Intersectional Legal Advisor to the relevant ILD advisor.

• Drafting/ Revising Mission’s HR Documents, Contracts and Correspondence

• Promoting and when necessary adapting the templates developed by the ILD according to the applicable local requirements.

• Ensuring the Follow-Up of Litigation Files

• Ensuring that the proposed strategy is in the best interest of MSF, assesses the risks and proposes alternatives solutions

• Reporting to his/her superiors and to the HR or Finance teams on the progress of the cases

• Managing Individual Risk (ILD Unit 3)

• Providing legal support to HR teams and providing updates to the coordination teams

• Coordinating the liaison among sections or directly liaises with relevant authorities like Labor Office/Ministry of Labor, MOH partner and Medical Order

• Managing Legal and Administrative Framework Related Risks (ILD Unit 4)

• appropriate support to follow-up registration/operational licenses of all MSF sections and providing legal advice on framework and project MOU

• Providing legal support to ensure the facilitation of administrative procedures, ensuring consistency between sections present in the country

• Preparing a risk analysis including all the legal and administrative blockages that MSF could face

• Training / Project Visits

• Reporting

• Providing regular activity reports to superiors

• Providing a complete end of mission report

• Management (when applicable): Responsible for the recruitment and supervision of legal officers and legal assistants, when applicable

• At least 4 years’ experience as an in-house lawyer or as an attorney, including an experience in an NGO.
• Experience with MSF or other international NGOs in lower-income countries
• Lawyer (law degree), ideally with a specialization in Labor Law; knowledge of tax and/or commercial law is an asset.
• Fluent in English and French (MSF working languages)
• Commitment to MSF’s guiding principles and values
• Able to cope with high levels of stress/able to work in stressful environments
• Strong team player
• Ability to work within a diverse team

As a water and sanitation specialist with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), your objective will be to prevent and control diseases transmitted by contaminated water or by poor sanitation or hygiene, both within and beyond the health facilities we run or support. This may include being responsible for an entire refugee camp's water and sanitation provisions.

Your job will involve maintaining a reliable water supply, constructing or upgrading sanitary facilities, supporting the promotion of hygiene, and organizing appropriate medical waste disposal. You will work closely with medical and non-medical staff on the project team and will also train and supervise other team members.

Requirements

• Available for a minimum of 9 to 12 month international assignments
• Previous experience in a low resource setting (priority given to those with experience working in a humanitarian context)
• Qualification in either hydrology, chemistry, civil engineering, geology or land, and water management
• Minimum of two years experience in building wells and boreholes, water quality monitoring, pollution, waste management, and vector control
• Professional experience supervising, managing, or training staff

As a communications manager working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will help bring the world’s attention to the communities we work with and the medical humanitarian needs of the people we assist. To do so, you will develop and implement operational communication strategies and materials, while building MSF visibility and acceptance. You will identify communication opportunities and objectives that assist the project’s goal, construct relevant content, identify audiences and utilize effective communication tools.

You will convey MSF communications and advocacy messages to local and international audiences through relevant communications channels. You will help MSF’s project teams manage MSF communications and reputation with communities, patients, colleagues and other key stakeholders; maintain close contact with key local and foreign media; facilitate media visits to projects and act as a spokesperson; produce reports on the local media landscape; manage, develop and supervise locally hired colleagues.

• Previous working experience of at least four years in communications or journalism
• One year of experience in lower-income countries and/or unstable contexts
• Previous working experience in producing communications content
• Experience with MSF or other international NGOs in lower-income countries
• Experience working in an international environment
• Social media knowledge and skills (including community management)
• Basic audiovisual skills (photo, video, editing)
• Fluent in English and French (MSF working languages)
• Self-driven with the ability to take initiative
• People management skills
• Commitment to MSF’s guiding principles and values
• A flexible approach
• Able to cope with high levels of stress/able to work in stressful environments
• Strong team player
• Negotiation skills and a diplomatic approach
• Ability to work within a diverse team

Assets

As a human resources (HR) and finance administrator, you will deliver support to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s logistical and medical teams by providing sound administrative management. You will oversee project personnel records and participate in the hiring, training and supervision of locally hired staff. You are responsible for implementing HR policies within the project and for the effective administrative management of all employees, including locally hired and internationally hired staff. You are also required to coordinate and supervise the implementation of financial tools and procedures and to ensure the appropriate use of financial resources for the project, based on MSF protocols, standards and procedures.

As HR and finance administrator, you will supervise the project’s financial operations, with particular emphasis on bookkeeping, budget development and monthly reporting. You ensure compliance with local labor laws and manage human resources, specifically hiring and payroll services while supervising and training administrative staff.

• College or university degree in finance, management (business, HR) or administration
• Minimum of two years experience related to the position’s responsibilities
• Experience in HR management, especially in recruitment, training, evaluation & professional development
• Experience in Finance management, especially in supervision of payroll procedures, bookkeeping, and budget management
• Experience in managing staff in a multicultural team (supervision and training)
• Relevant travel or work experience in contexts similar to where MSF works (armed conflicts, disasters, public health emergencies or situations of healthcare exclusion)
• Available to work 9 to 12 months

Assets

As a supply logistician with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will be responsible for the daily supply activities of an MSF project, following standard operating procedures. You will participate in the planning of supply activities, ensure efficient and effective local purchase management. You will be responsible for the warehouse and stock management. You will also communicate with internal and external stakeholders about issues including expired drugs, risk of shortages, stock reports and lead times (pipeline planning etc.). You will ensure efficient supply administration and implementation of standards supply tools.

You will supervise the supply team and make the project team and coordination team aware of supply issues that may have an impact on project planning. You will present monthly reports and provide support (training and coaching) and evaluate staff under your responsibility.

• Available to work for a minimum of 9 to 12 months on international assignments
• Previous experience in a low resource setting (priority given to those with experience working in a humanitarian context)
• Minimum of two years professional experience in supply chain management, e.g. needs assessment, order management, purchasing, stock management, freight management, transport and customs, and warehousing
• Professional experience supervising, managing, or training staff
• Experience with organization and set-up of supply administration and related supply procedures
• Familiarity with cold chain maintenance and procedures
• Experience with contract writing, budgeting, and reporting
• Ability to work within a diverse team

Assets

Before you apply

As you consider applying to undertake an MSF assignment, it is essential that you have a well-informed and realistic personal reflection. Assignments often mean long hours with a heavy workload, basic living conditions, and working and living in often chaotic and volatile environments.

Security and Safety

Because Doctors Without Borders’ purpose is to bring medical assistance to people in distress, the work may occur in settings of active conflict, or in post-conflict environments, in which there are inherent risks, potential danger and ongoing threats to safety and security. MSF acknowledges that it is impossible to exclude all risks, but it does its utmost as an organization to mitigate and manage these risks through strict and comprehensive security protocols.

International staff will be fully informed of the risk associated with a potential assignment before accepting a particular posting. Working for MSF is a deeply personal choice; individuals must determine for themselves the level of risk and the circumstances in which they feel comfortable, based on a full and transparent understanding of the possibilities they may face. Once in the assignment, all MSF staff must strictly observe security rules and regulations; failure to do so may result in dismissal.

Terms of Employment

MSF staff are employees with a salary and benefits. 

MSF encourages the completion of multiple assignments. In the medical, non-medical, and coordination streams, there are many possibilities for professional growth within the organization. 

Final Thoughts

As you consider applying to undertake an MSF assignment, is it essential that you have a well-informed and realistic personal reflection. Assignments often mean long hours with a heavy workload, basic living conditions, and working and living in often chaotic and volatile environments.

Despite such challenges, thousands of people have worked with MSF over the years and found their experiences in the field to be deeply rewarding, even life-changing. More than anything else, being an MSF international worker means acting in solidarity with people facing unimaginable medical challenges. Your presence alongside people in times of need sends a profoundly meaningful and human message: “You are not forgotten.”

As a humanitarian affairs officer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will help MSF expose and advocate about the impact conflict and neglect have on the communities we work with and the people we assist. You will likely be based in the capital city with frequent travel to MSF projects and be responsible for gathering information from various stakeholders, including communities, patients and staff. You will provide strategic advice on how MSF can best communicate our voice and our principles to deliver critical humanitarian medical care. You will also advise on how MSF operates and communicates in situations where access to provide medical assistance to communities in need is threatened.

Your primary role will be to use the ‘witnessing’ component of MSF’s mandate to advocate with and for people MSF works with and assists. You will do this by gathering testimonies and stories, using them to document the human impact of disasters and conflicts. The information you gather will be collated, analyzed and used to draw up unbiased reports on a wide variety of issues. These may include: the efficacy of the response of humanitarian actors to a crisis, speaking out about war crimes committed against civilians by armed actors or collecting testimonies from women who have experienced sexual violence due to poor security in displacement camps.

The role of a humanitarian affairs officer is incredibly varied, ranging from carefully building a sensitive advocacy strategy to writing reports on the exclusion of certain communities from medical care.

Requirements

As a technical logistician with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will contribute to the functioning of MSF’s programs. Your work varies widely, depending on the assignment, and you can find yourself in charge of managing locally and internationally hired MSF staff accommodation, supervising the construction of infrastructures, fixing electricity in the hospital, or training staff on how to maintain the vehicle fleet.

MSF’s technical logisticians come from various backgrounds and have skills in electricity, mechanics, construction, and plumbing. As such, you will train, supervise and manage a logistics team, while building staff capacity and ensuring safe and fair working conditions. In some projects, you will be responsible for the maintenance and renovation of infrastructures (such as hospitals, clinics, offices, and team accommodation) and the setup of mobile clinics.

You will organize the transport of supplies, oversee the maintenance of vehicles and communication systems, as well as ensure the reliability of the project’s power supply. You will also manage administration of the logistic department and oversee the implementation of security protocols.

• Previous experience in a low resource setting (priority given to those with experience working in a humanitarian context)
• Ability to work within a diverse team
• Minimum of two years relevant professional experience post-training
• Professional experience supervising, managing, or training staff
• Basic engineering skills
• Experience with contract writing, budgeting, reporting
• Technical proficiency in at least one of the following areas:
  -  Construction
  -  Energy and electricity
  -  General mechanics
• Available for 9 to 12 month international assignments

Assets

• French or Arabic language (B2 or above)
• Degree in engineering or vocational training
• Experience in any of the following:
  -  Basic water and sanitation systems
  -  Computer equipment
  -  Pump and generator maintenance
  -  Radio and communications equipment
  -  Vehicle mechanics