Project Coordinators
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Project Coordinator
MSF project coordinators plan, manage, and develop MSF projects, ensuring all departments work together to provide high-quality care, regardless of the needs.
Responsibilities
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
- Significant professional experience in team and project management within humanitarian organizations
- Demonstrated experience in supervising, managing, coaching, and training others in multicultural and multidisciplinary contexts
- Experience in security management, preferably in conflict zones or emergency settings
- Excellent negotiation, diplomacy, and problem-solving skills
- Flexibility and ability to work under stress in unstable environments
- Excellent command of English, as well as French (level B2) or another language (Arabic, Spanish).
- Availability of 9 to 12 months and willingness to commit to MSF for several assignments
Assets
- Relevant diploma, preferably a university degree
- International humanitarian or healthcare, medical management
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. There are numerous opportunities for professional advancement within the organization, including medical, non-medical, and coordination roles.
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."
MSF-USA is dedicated to creating a diverse, impartial, and inclusive workforce. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences as per applicable laws. We also provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage individuals from underrepresented communities in the Humanitarian Aid sector to apply.
If you have a disability and require accommodations to use our website for applying for a position, please get in touch with Human Resources at employment.msfusa@newyork.msf.org. We consider reasonable accommodation requests on a case-by-case basis.
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