Location: Any MSF office*
Contract: Consultancy/ Fixed-term at 100%
Duration: until end of 2025
Starting date: asap
Deadline to apply: 07 July 2024
Compensation and benefits: MSF practice is to offer the C&B package current in the MSF entity establishing the contract.
*By default, the successful candidate will be offered a contract in the MSF office of their country of residence at the time of application.
I. MSF INTERNATIONAL
Médecins Sans Frontières (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 MSF’s 24 sections, 26 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
In 2022, the Full ExCom agreed that the next iteration of our planning and resourcing cycle would be integrating resource allocation and strategic planning. This process, known as the Strategic Planning and Resource Cycle (SPARC), aims to:
- Consolidate ongoing transformative projects
- Direct the movement’s collective strategic direction
- Develop mutual accountability in planning and resourcing
The SPARC 2026-2031 process will be constructed around, and built on current initiatives to propose Movement-wide priorities, focusing on implementation capacity, governance alignment, and collective accountability mechanisms.
The SPARC development process will design, propose and develop effective mechanisms to implement these directions via several workstreams (1. direction and commitments; 2a. enable and oversee (non-financial focus), 2b. enable and oversee (financial focus))
III. PLACE IN THE ORGANISATION
The SPARC Project Manager reports to the Secretary General and collaborates very closely with the Deputy SG and other with key stakeholders, including Core + GDs, the Transformational Portfolio Lead, and various executive and associative platforms (e.g. SPARC Steering Committee, Full ExCom, IB, OC and Section Boards).
IV. OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION
In close collaboration and with support from the Core+ GDs , and under the oversight of the Steering Committee, the SPARC Project Manager will coordinate all aspects of the SPARC project, ensuring the coherence and timely progress of multiple workstreams and stakeholder engagement. The PM will apply design processes across these workstreams to meet project deadlines and objectives.
V. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Coordination:
- Oversee all aspects of the SPARC development process – including macro and micro planning.
- Monitor and manage risks, implement, and track execution.
- Report to the SPARC Steering Committee on project status and deliverables.
- Manage the portfolio of all workstreams and related projects and initiatives
- Design and Implementation:
- Develop detailed processes, establish principles, and refine scope for work for each workstream.
- Gather perspectives from key MSF expert groups and different consultation processes.
- Analyse existing findings and identify current complementarity and overlap in content.
- Stakeholder Engagement:
- Lead the development and implementation of the communication and engagement strategy.
- Secure political buy-in and collective ownership across the movement.
- Reporting and Accountability:
- Design a monitoring framework for final outcomes.
- Regularly inform the sub-committee of progress and provide updates for guidance.
- Prepare materials to effectively communicate with the different stakeholders
- Ensure timely surfacing of implementation risks and facilitate effective risk mitigation strategies.
VI. JOB REQUIREMENT
Experience:
- In-depth knowledge of MSF functioning and structure.
- Extensive experience in managing projects with multiple stakeholders in a complex environment.
Skills:
- Strong organizational, strategic planning and project management skills.
- Robust understanding of stakeholder management and governance in a humanitarian organisation.
- Ability to understand the MSF political architecture, dynamics and drivers and to engage effectively across the organisation.
- Ability to develop, comprehend, effectively apply, and successfully communicate complex information to enable decision-making, commitment, and alignment.
- Well experienced in building and managing relationships within a complex stakeholder network.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and change management skills.
- Diplomacy and resilience, capacity to persuade.
- Ability to work in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment.
- Demonstrated excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Drive for improvement and innovation.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, displaying sound initiative and judgment.
- Problem solving, analysis and root cause identification skills.
- Expertise and knowledge of how to work in a virtual environment, skilled with use of new IT tools and apps.
- Fluently spoken and written English, other language is an asset.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
