Location: Brussels, Belgium.
Contract: Fixed term, full time
Yearly Gross Salary range: from EUR 75โ670 to EUR 96โ335.
Please note the final salary is calculated considering relevant professional experience and upon submission of work/consultancy certificates.
Benefits: based on MSF Belgium policies and practices.
Duration: Three years, with a possible three-years extension.
Starting date: As soon as possible, no later than March 2025.
Deadline to apply: 28.11.2024
I. MSF INTERNATIONAL
Mรฉdecins Sans Frontiรจres (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.
MSF International is the legal entity that binds MSFโs 24 sections, 27 associations and 18 branch offices together. Registered in Switzerland, MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF Movement, as well as implements international projects and initiatives as requested.
II. POSITION BACKGROUND
Access to Products for Healthcare (APH) refers to the accessibility, availability, affordability, appropriateness, and quality of products for healthcare for the populations MSF assists and their communities.
Building on its successes in improving APH during the past 20 years, MSF is undertaking a step change in how it organises its work in this area. Part of the organisational model is a new structure that replaces MSFโs Access Campaign, with a different and broader scope of work. Most of the structureโs staff will be based in five regional hubs:
- Dakar, Senegal: covers West and Central Africa
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: covers the Americas
- Nairobi, Kenya: covers Eastern and Southern Africa
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: covers Asia and Oceania
- Brussels, Belgium: covers Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa
The new structure has the following responsibilities:
Gather input for common priorities for APH and propose them to the MSF movementDesign and implement APH initiatives to respond to the agreed common prioritiesProvide, or help to find, support on APH matters to MSF entities that request itMaintain an overview of APH initiatives across MSF, and report on them annuallyResearch, and stay informed of, the APH landscape globally
III. PLACE IN THE ORGANISATION
The Regional Coordinators report to the Executive Director of the APH Structure. They are members of the Management Team. They implement MSFโs APH agenda in their region and oversee activities of APH Structure staff in their locations. They are strongly connected with MSFโs medical teams and offices in the region.
IV. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
The role of the Regional Coordinators is:
a) to contribute to MSFโs global approach to improving APH, and specifically within their hubโs geographical area,
b) to monitor and connect with parties in their region that can contribute to MSFโs agenda for APH,
c) to lead the management of APH Structure initiatives in their region, and
d) to ensure MSF programme teams and offices are supported when they initiate their own APH-related activities.
Strategy, vision and leadership
- Participate as a member of the APH Structureโs management team
- Provide a regional perspective when contributing to the development, review and implementation of the APH Structureโs multi-year strategic plan and annual plans
- Contribute to the development of APH projects for the MSF movement and their implementation
- Contribute to the development and review of the APH Structureโs internal policies
Within the region
- Manage all region-specific transnational and national APH Structure projects
- Respond to requests for support from field teams, coordination teams and sections
- Make available information on APH related initiatives, expertise or processes
- Identify issues relating to APH and propose them to MSFโs global agenda
- Provide analysis of APH problems and opportunities
- Help design strategies and activities to address problems relating to access to products for health and leverage opportunities for solutions
- Implement agreed APH strategies and initiatives
External communication, representation and advocacy
- Translate global change objectives into regional contributions
- Work on representation activities with MSFโs humanitarian representation secretariat and network
- Support communication staff in the region on APH-related opportunities and needs
Monitoring and analysis
- Maintain an overview of MSF APH initiatives, plans and outcomes within the region
- Consolidate analysis on trends, opportunities and threats in relation to APH across the region
- Build and maintain a regional network outside MSF that contributes to APH objectives
Hub management
- Maintain effective ways of working between the APH regional hub and its MSF host entity
- In collaboration with heads of global departments (Analysis, Advocacy, Resources), appoint and co-manage staff members based in the hub
- Ensure clarity on deliverables for each individual staff member
- Actively support the motivation and well-being of staff
- In the first year, in collaboration with the Head of Resources and the MSF entity hosting the hub, develop agreements to:
set-up the physical office and any other necessary staff facilitiesensure clarity on the division of roles and responsibilities regarding administration for and support to staff in the hubensure clarity on the management and follow-up of the hubโs budget