Applications will be received until 9:00am EDT on Friday, September 6, 2024.
A detailed job description is available HERE.
Salary Grade: Level 16 - $87,850 per year (pro-rated to contract length)
Position Status: 4 month contract
At the core of Doctors Without Borders/Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres (MSF) Canadaโs identity is a commitment to medical ethics, independence, neutrality, and impartiality. We go where peopleโs medical needs are greatest. These ideals have driven every aspect of our work โ from medical care and logistical coordination, to finance and communications โ since MSF was established in 1971.
The Advocacy & Strategic Advisor is a position with responsibilities for devising strategies for MSF Canadaโs humanitarian affairs advocacy and analysis, and for obtaining and managing institutional funding. Working as a member of the Humanitarian Affairs team, the Advocacy & Strategy Advisor works with MSF operational partners and senior management across the organization to identify, support, and strengthen MSF Canadaโs need for analysis, advocacy, and positioning on priority operational contexts and issues, the Canadian policy environment, and humanitarian funding mechanisms.
MSF Canada is looking for someone to join our Humanitarian Affairs team who will:
Ensure strategic communication of MSFโs analyses and positioning to the Canadian public and in private advocacy engagements Develop relationships and networks to support the strategic advocacy and public institutional funding work of the Humanitarian Affairs team Provide analyses of key events from operational contexts to inform reporting, advocacy, representation, and public communications Develop advocacy and representation strategies that speak to the Canadian context given current operational events and conditionsThe successful candidate will demonstrate:
a commitment to MSF's principles, including cross-cultural awareness, and service orientation fluency in English fluency in French (strong preference will be given) experience in the humanitarian sector with experience in advocacy, communications, and/or fundraising/institutional funding experience in a role with specific responsibilities in developing advocacy and/or communications strategies and actions within the field of humanitarian assistance knowledge of the Canadian policy environment as it relates to humanitarian assistance, foreign affairs, international assistance funding, and MSFโs work excellent strategic communication and advisory skills, preferably in a public advocacy environment diplomacy, with strong negotiation and communications skills an analytical approach with the ability to synthesize complex and sensitive material accurately the ability to translate complex issues into public-facing messagingNOTE: Any questions or concerns regarding accommodation and accessibility may be addressed to ask.hr@toronto.msf.org.