Climate, Environment & Health Engagement and Advocacy Lead
Role Summary
Join Médecins Sans Frontières as the Climate, Environment & Health Engagement and Advocacy Lead, driving climate action in humanitarian contexts.
Key Responsibilities
Accountable for ensuring the effective coordination, functioning, and follow-up of the CEH Intersectional Advocacy & Positioning Group.
Accountable for supporting inclusive and structured engagement across MSF to build alignment on CEH and PoE-related dossiers.
Accountable for coordinating the development of coherent CEH positioning and supporting MSF’s engagement in relevant advocacy spaces.
Accountable for ensuring clear, consistent, and accessible communication on CEH-related work across MSF.
Accountable for improving access to CEH knowledge and supporting institutional learning across MSF.
Accountable for ensuring timely administrative and organisational support for CEH-related coordination, advocacy, and events.
- Plan, convene, and facilitate regular IAPG meetings, including agenda-setting and follow-up.
- Ensure clear workplans, priorities, decision-making processes, and tracking of agreed actions.
- Maintain information flow between the IAPG, Steering Committee, International Office, and relevant MSF platforms.
- Coordinate sub-groups or task teams when needed.
- Map and engage relevant internal stakeholders across sections, Operational Directorates, platforms, and field structures.
- Design and facilitate consultation processes to gather input and identify areas of convergence or divergence.
- Support dialogue and alignment between operational, advocacy, medical, logistical, and governance stakeholders.
- Escalate key issues or unresolved divergences to the appropriate decision-making bodies.
- Coordinate the development of position papers, key messages, briefing notes, and advocacy materials.
- Support preparation for MSF engagement in relevant international fora, including UNFCCC and other global policy spaces.
- Ensure advocacy positions are informed by operational realities and aligned across relevant MSF stakeholders.
- Monitor key external developments and identify implications for MSF positioning and engagement.
- Develop internal communication plans and products adapted to different MSF audiences.
- Coordinate the production of briefings, presentations, webinars, talking points, and other engagement materials.
- Ensure consistency and quality of messaging across CEH-related communication outputs.
- Organize and support internal debates, workshops, or information sessions when required
- Curate and maintain CEH resources, tools, documents, and lessons learned.
- Facilitate learning initiatives, webinars, reflection spaces, and capacity-building activities.
- Ensure key documents, decisions, and outputs are properly documented and accessible.
- Identify knowledge gaps and propose practical ways to address them.
- Coordinate administrative follow-up for CEH-related processes, including UNFCCC participation where relevant.
- Support the organisation of meetings, workshops, webinars, and advocacy-related events.
- Track key deadlines, required inputs, and follow-up actions.
Minimum Requirements
The incumbent commits to contribute to a safe, supportive, inclusive, equitable, diverse, respectful, and healthy workplace, free from abuse and other misconduct. They will not engage in any form of abuse including those detailed in MSF Typologies of Abuse and when an employee suspects or observes abuse, they will report it (without investigating it) to protect others.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility for this position is unclear, and applicants should inquire about work authorizations.
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