PROGRAM RESPONSIBLE E-CELL
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Role Summary
Join Médecins Sans Frontières as a Program Responsible E-Cell in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and contribute to crucial humanitarian efforts with a dynamic and diverse team.
About the Organisation
You are preparing to become a member of the MSF family, with over 50 years of emergency medical action that earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
We are an inclusive organization that considers social and professional well-being a right for all and provides an environment that considers the diversity of each member.
- *MSF WaCA claims an African anchorage that considers the local expertise with which it contributes to the implementation of its activities and makes each member, a key actor of the new dynamics of the humanitarian action in the world.
Key Responsibilities
He/she will be in charge of the following responsibilities:
- In accordance with the Pluriannual Strategic Orientation 2026-2031 of MSF WaCA and the subsequent operational road map ensures the overall relevance, timeliness and quality of the Emergency programs.
- Monitor contexts in Africa and the rest of the world to anticipate emergency responses.
- Supervises, advises, supports and evaluates the E.Team (HQ Support and Mobile Teams) in the fulfilment of their responsibilities. In this perspective, delivers them all useful information, visits the programs and ensures an individual capacity building plan.
- Is responsible to steer the program’s cycle, ensuring the compliance with MSF WaCA policies and procedures and that human and financial resources are adequately mobilized.
- Makes sure the key operational medical and/or humanitarian indicators are set-up and followed during the response, allowing a proper monitoring & evaluation mechanism
- Review on an annual basis of the pluriannual E.Cell strategic plan according to MSF WaCA orientations, integrating operational innovation. Is accountable to the E.Cell budget consumption and forecast. Develop and maintain a network of relevant political, humanitarian, medical, academic partners involved in emergency response (UN, African Union Organizations, International/National NGOs, etc…). Ensure the participation of MSF WaCA E.Cell into the movement Emergency Interdesk: participate to the relevant platforms in a collaborative and information sharing spirit.
- Monitors the level of exposure to risk affecting teams in the field and validates the security frame proposed by the FC/EmCo for each project; in collaboration with regular HoM when relevant.
- Support the regular missions according to their needs in terms of capacity building and the development of emergency response strategies in Defining E.prep plan and Implementing emergency response
- Aims at constantly improve MSF’s medical assistance by – directly or through delegation – evaluating and capitalizing on results achieved, participating to thematic working groups on intervention strategies, supporting operational research projects.
- Organize the Copro (comité de projet) following explo and concept note to be validated with the DO
- Ensure proposer community engagement during emergency responses
- Systematically integrate protection, safeguarding, and the “Do No Harm” principle into the design, implementation, and monitoring of emergency responses, while ensuring safe feedback and complaint mechanisms
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have the legal right to work in Côte d'Ivoire, as the position requires a fixed-term contract under Ivorian law.
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