Overview
Responsible for the setup, strategic leadership, coordination, and oversight of emergency prevention, preparedness, and response activities. Ensures timely, effective, community-involved humanitarian medical responses to crises.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and lead emergency preparedness and response strategy.
- Ensure community involvement, people centeredness, and climate scanning in emergency responses.
- Ensure emergency preparedness and response policies, systems, and tools are in place.
- Define emergency scenario stocks and supplies.
- Lead building capacity on specific areas.
- Lead exploratory assignments and support program opening/closing.
- Coordinate responses to emergencies, epidemics, conflicts, and other crises.
- Provide strategic and technical guidance to emergency team members and country program teams.
- Support decision-making on activation, scale-up, adaptation, or exit of emergency interventions.
- Develop a "vulnerability" approach to emergency response.
- Ensure emergency responses meet MSF medical, operational, ethical, safeguarding standards.
- Promote integration of medical, logistical, human resources, and security considerations.
- Embed a strong learning culture via AARs and post-intervention evaluations.
- Line-manage and support Emergency team members.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and learning.
- Identify training and development needs.
- Contribute to the development of emergency pool and surge mechanisms.
- Build a new way of working for MSF in the emergency team.
- Coordinate closely with other MSF entities, operational centres, and departments.
- Represent MSF Ubuntu in internal emergency coordination platforms and external humanitarian forums.
- Support alignment and collaboration with medical, operational, and support departments.
- Promote systematic learning from emergency responses.
- Support evaluations, documentation, and dissemination of lessons learned.
- Encourage innovation and adaptation to improve emergency response effectiveness.
Required Experience
- At least 8+ years of field/programs experience in medical humanitarian aid and working in senior management role.
- MSF experience as Emergency coordinator/Emergency Manager desirable.
- Commitment to and experience of advancing multicultural collaboration, learning, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Qualifications
• A master’s degree in social or political sciences or public health, (or) in logistics, business administration, or similar field is desirable, but not essential.
