Médecins Sans Frontières recrute Emergency Finance and HR Administrator to join our Emergency Pool

Context

To fulfill our mission of assistance to victims of conflicts, epidemics and natural disasters, MSF Switzerland requires an Emergency Administrator (able to be deployed at any time to all contexts, for short periods) capable of evaluating a situation, starting up or closing down a project or a mission and coordinating emergency or existing projects/missions in the field of Administration, HR and Finance.

The candidate is expected to work in all contexts set by the Emergency Desk and have the flexibility to work in different positions (whether both Finance and HR) such as Capital Coordinator and Field Administrator (depending on needs, context and set up) and fill gaps in regular missions, when needed.

Duty Station

In the field, in all countries where the Emergency Desk opens activities or has already some, which requires an urgent response. On call, the Emergency Administrator should be available within 48 hours for rapid and short (6 weeks to 3 months) interventions. She/He is part of a core group of medicals, para-medicals, logisticians and operational members deployable to respond, among others, to:

• Exploratory missions
• Epidemic outbreaks
• Nutritional crisis
• Displaced populations and/or refugee camps
• Conflict contexts
• Natural disasters
• Short gaps filling in the field on regular missions
• Assistance to Finance or HR department for specific dossiers at HQ in Geneva

Requirements

· An excellent technical working knowledge of SAGA, Homere and strong skills in information technology

· Excellent knowledge of Administration, HR and Finance – with a good knowledge in institutional funding mechanisms ;

· Capacity to open up a MSF office, implement administrative, financial and human resources management procedures according to OCG standards, including a regular reporting ;

· Set up, recruit and train a functional administrative team (HR & Finance) ;

· Capacity to identify priorities in an emergency context ;

· Proven skills in negotiation, diplomacy and decision making skills ;

· Proven capacity for coordination and organisation ;

· Capacity to work in a volatile, insecure context and deal with stress ;

· Ability to work as part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team ;

· Availability, flexibility, mobility ;

· Fluency in both French and English is essential ;

· Other languages represent an advantage: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese ;

· Significant experience in HR and Finance Coordination with MSF ;

· A medical clearance for missions is required.

Conditions

· During missions’ standby, the Emergency Administrator commits herself/himself to be available at any time in order to be deployed within 48 hours ; she/he must be reachable in all circumstances ;

· Field-based contract, fixed-term for one year, renewable ;

· Per-diem on the field during interventions ;

· The compensating rest between 2 missions (in addition to 25 days of legal paid leaves) will be negotiated each time of return with the Emergency Desk in Geneva, according to operational needs.

· Wages: between 3,500 and 4,500 CHF according to MSF field experience.