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  • Posted: Jul 2, 2022
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    Médecins sans frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization (NGO) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases.
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    Strategic Officer to the International Medical Secretariat

    MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

    Strategic Planning and Coordination of the Medical Operational Platform and Projects

    MedOp Meetings: Coordination to optimise the Medical Operational (MedOp) platform’s role and responsibilities. This includes: drafting the multi-year and annual plans, drafting and disseminating agendas, preparing the session structure, content and background documents with the IMS and relevant stakeholders, minuting the MedOp meetings, documenting and ensuring the follow-up of decisions to achieve expected outcomes and action points.

    MedOp Projects: The Strategic Officer undertakes the following tasks for the delivery of Medical Operational-related topics:

    • Autonomously researches, analysis, investigates and evaluates issues and trends to inform decision-making and the development of strategic plans;
    • Prepares and presents findings in the form of reports, presentations, briefing papers, identifying risks, opportunities for improvement, strategic planning and project development;
    • Plan, coordinate, evaluate and report on assigned projects and activities to provide advice on the progress against plans, goals and expectations;
    • Responding to challenges which may impede effective delivery against strategic objectives, including identifying mechanisms to mitigate these risks;
    • Balancing competing demands and stakeholder requirements to ensure key deliverables are met within the required timeframes and budgets;
    • Assesses information submitted to the IMS, briefs the IMS, and makes other recommendations as needed;
    • Follows up on decisions of international platforms, identifies potential subjects of interest and analysis;
    • Establishes a continuous and constructive dialogue with the IMS as well as other departments and groups within the Movement to elicit new ideas or to test and consolidate opinions.

    The Strategic Officer proactively manages information and communication on MedOp meetings and projects, and manages, organizes and structures information on other topics upon request.

    Mutual Accountability Process

    The Strategic Officer actively contributes to the Mutual Accountability Process, a MSF movement-wide, qualitative/quantitative monitoring and evaluation process with a humanitarian, operational, medical lens.

    The process needs to be consolidated and monitored in order to make sure that transparency, reciprocal trust and good practices of information sharing are preserved. The Strategy Officer ’s role can include:

    • Coordination of the Mutual Accountability Process;
    • Coordination of the Operations Reflection Day;
    • Coordination of the development of the Mutual Accountability Report in close cooperation with the IMS.

    Support MSF External Representation

    The Strategic Officer will proactively help prepare the IMS in her/his external representative role with the aim to communicate and advocate MSF’s views on agreed medical operational priorities, policies and positions.

    The Strategic Officer ’s responsibilities can include:

    • Coordination with other MSF offices and colleagues for the development of talking points, briefings, speeches, articles, presentations, etc. to support external engagement;
    • Anticipation of forthcoming external engagements (conferences, high-level meetings etc.) and internal processes (platform meetings, programmes of work etc.), planning ahead to ensure the IMS is well briefed and prepared for all tasks.

    The Strategic Officer leads and/or participates in other dossiers as requested by the IMS.

    Job requirements

    • Qualifications and work experience
    • Graduate degree in public health, social sciences, humanitarian studies, international law or other related field;
    • Public Health governance knowledge;
    • Minimum 5 years experience working in the humanitarian/global health sector;
    • Field experience with MSF is a significant asset.

    Specific requirements

    • Genuine commitment to the humanitarian principles and the social mission of MSF;
    • Strong team player, empathic and practiced listener;
    • Strong strategic, analytical and critical thinking capacity;
    • Able to cope with pressure and handle changing priorities;
    • Autonomous, self-organized, possessing a spirit of initiative and foresight;
    • Capable to organize and structure complex information, analyse it and report the findings in accurate and cogent form;
    • Attention to detail;
    • Strong writing and editing skills;
    • Oral and written fluency in English. Other languages are a plus, particularly French;
    • Strong computer literacy, including experience utilising Office 360 and SharePoint.

    Deadline for application: 24th July 2022

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on msf.or.ke to apply

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