MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES UK



Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides life-saving emergency relief and longer-term medical care to some of the most vulnerable and excluded communities around the world. As an independent medical humanitarian organisation, we deliver care based only on need, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, religion or political affiliation.

MSF relies on donations from private individuals and organisations for the majority of its income. This private funding gives MSF the freedom to respond where needs are greatest and to speak out publicly, free from any political interference.

MSF has around 63,000 local and international staff working in over 70 countries, in some of the most challenging places in the world. Our medical humanitarian projects are supported by offices in 44 countries, including the UK and Ireland. These teams recruit staff, organise fundraising, and raise awareness on the humanitarian crises our colleagues are witnessing, as well as running different and diverse support activities. MSF offices are spread across Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

At MSF UK/IE, we support MSF's operations by building relationships with our supporters, increasing awareness of our work, raising funds, providing specialist medical expertise, ensuring MSF staff have access to relevant higher education programmes, catalysing change on medical humanitarian issues, and recruiting field staff. MSF UK/IE personnel are dynamic, hard-working, enthusiastic and committed to MSF's values and aims. In addition MSF continues to build upon its presence in Ireland to become a widely recognised, accepted and respected humanitarian organisation among Irish audiences, and within the Irish humanitarian and political sector.

Background

MSF programmes are increasingly seeing the effects of climate change and environmental degradation on vulnerable populations in places where we work. Negatively impacting health and wellbeing in a myriad of ways and undermining many social determinants for good health. The negative impacts of these disproportionately affect people living in precarious situations often with poorer health outcomes.

MSF’s Operational Centre Amsterdam (OCA) has committed to adapt context analyses, operational programming, and develop alliances with relevant stakeholders to deepen our understanding, and close gaps in neglected areas in global health, humanitarian (and climate) systems for vulnerable people—through programming with related operational research and/or policy and advocacy initiatives.

Gap analysis/Assessment of current need

MSF is looking to improve our development of country profiles regarding Climate, Environment, Health, and Vulnerability (CEHV). To date, there hasn’t been a standard methodology / mechanism to identify risks and vulnerable populations.

We need to identify operational priorities and make timely action plans – to aid this, we need to develop assessment tools to identify risks, vulnerabilities, and priorities for action.

The deadline for the project is 30 September 2023.

Please download the TOR for full details.

Profile of consultant:

• Masters or higher degree in public health, with experience working on issues of climate change and planetary health in humanitarian contexts.
• Experience working with Médecins Sans Frontières or similar humanitarian organisation.
• Demonstrable analytical skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and proven ability to meet deadline and to plan individual workload and tasks.
• Strong ability to stick to deadlines.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with different stakeholders (remotely).
• Ability to work and report independently.

In your proposal, we ask you to submit:

• Proposed methodology.
• A high-level plan of how you would achieve the deliverables within the stated timelines.
• What you see as being in/out of scope.
• Assumptions made, questions or areas of uncertainty.
• Examples of previous work- give a summary of similar work that you have developed and delivered before- what worked well? what lessons you learnt?
• CVs of the people involved in the delivery of the project.
• Total fee proposal.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We are a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive organisation. MSF UK thrives when everyone feels comfortable bringing their best self to work. We celebrate difference, whilst striving to create an environment where colleagues feel respected and valued for their unique potential. We are committed to our values on equity, diversity, and inclusion. Please read our Equality & Diversity policy for more information.

MSF UK is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees and stakeholders. We encourage applications from all sections of our diverse community.

Safeguarding

MSF UK/IE is dedicated to safeguarding everyone who comes into contact with the organisation, for whatever reason and however brief. All posts are subject to safer recruitment process which include robust reference requests, scrutiny of employment history and where applicable criminal record and barring checks.

Our safeguarding commitment is underpinned by policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the organisation. On joining MSF UK/IE you will be required to attend safeguarding training to ensure responsibility for and maintaining safe working practice and to safeguard our teams, beneficiaries, and communities.

HOW TO APPLY

Please apply on our website by submitting your proposal by the closing date. Please check that you have included the following in your application:

• Your proposal based on the above guidelines.

Recruitment timetable:

• Closing date for applications: 30 April 2023, 11.59pm (BST)

Accessibility

We are committed to removing barriers for people with specific accessibility needs. If you need an adjustment to the recruitment process to be considered for the role, please let us know by contacting [email protected]

Examples of adjustments we can make:

• offering you an alternative if you are unable to use our online application system
• providing necessary information, such as the TOR or assessment materials, in an alternate format
• allowing you to have someone with you during an interview for example, a Sign Language interpreter.

For questions, issues or further information, please contact [email protected].

For further information about the role please contact [email protected]

We look forward to receiving your application!