Career Manager/development Advisor

**About MSF**

Doctors without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa is a global network of principled professionals who specialise in medical humanitarian work driven by our common humanity and guided by medical ethics. We work together in teams, small and large, to respond to the medical needs of people affected by conflict, disasters, epidemics, and those excluded from healthcare.

Doctors Without Borders team members are on the ground, working directly, every day. We bear witness and describe what is happening, to raise awareness about the experiences of the people we assist and the situations where we work. We alert the public to emerging crises, acute emergencies, and serious challenges, such as lack of access and exclusion from healthcare and to mobilise support for MSF’s work and social mission, provoking change.

Today, MSF is present in more than 70 countries, where thousands of MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians, water and sanitation experts, and other medical and non-medical professionals work together to bring essential health services to people caught in humanitarian crises. MSF South Africa is in Johannesburg with an office in Cape Town too. MSF SA is governed by the MSF Southern Africa Association, which is made up of more than 300 members from seven countries in the region.

**Job Overview**

The main function of the position is to build and manage a strong pool of International mobile staff (IMS) from the Southern African region to answer to immediate and future operational, sectional and movement HR needs. This is done by liaising with various operation centres, missions and MSF offices to place IMS in various MSF positions, develop their skills through coaching & mentoring, and recommend available training opportunities to ensure growth and retention. The position entails balance between the operational and IMS demands to contribute the required quantity and quality.

**Key Tasks & Responsibilities**

**Recruitment**:

- Follows up yearly targets setting and monthly monitoring with the OCs, cognisant of MSF SnA HR market pool and the field needs.

**Placement**:

- Work with MSF missions regional HR development officers to target, select and fast-track Locally Hired staff within the region. This can be done through detachments and/or local deployment of locally hired staff to cover gaps or short emergency missions.
- Organizes and update IMS files (availability, evaluation form, profile sheet, competencies and skills) in the HR database. Shares reference proactively.
- Implements and updates statistics files of departures, analysing main trends and needs on demand.

**Development/Retention**:

- Developing career path, ensuring the match between the operational needs in terms of actual/future skills required for the different profiles/pools and the individual development of the IMS.
- Is the reference point for all IMS for issues concerning their professional progress within MSF, maintains regular contact with IMS before, during and after missions and supplies them with adequate support and advice.
- Receives and processes end-of-mission evaluations.
- Prepares briefings and de-briefings in liaison with HR Officer.
- Debriefs IMS returning from a mission, highlighting the skills acquired and those needing improvement, offering advice for future progress.

**Representation, awareness raising and labour market communication**:

- Organizes and hosts experience sharing/info evenings (face to face or online) with returned IMS in their respective home societies.
- Provides information to the web editor for HR website updates.

**Operational familiarity**:

- Ensures continuous contact with the different mission contexts and is available to travel to the field for short periods.
- Regularly updates his/her knowledge of the different operational projects, through existing platforms and tools.

**Management**:

- Supervision of staff.
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
- Budgeting, monitoring and control.

**Requirements**:
**Knowledge and skills**:

- **People management experience and skills.**:

- **Relevant Medical, non-medical or other university degrees preferably in social sciences.**:

- **2 years MSF field experience is an advantage.**:

- At least 2 years’ professional experience in management in an international organisation is an added benefit.
- Thorough knowledge of English. Portuguese and/or French is an added advantage.

**Required competence**:

- Strong listening and communication skills
- Good negotiation and marketing skills.
- Good analytical and synthesis skills.
- Able to work as part of a team and cross functionally.
- Ability to work in a structured way in a fast-paced environment.

**Terms and Conditions of Employment**:

- Open-ended contract.
- Position Level: 8
- Monthly Salary**:R48 209.76**:

- 13th Cheque in November.
- 10% additional pension contribution.
- 100% Medical Aid Contribution.
- Transport allowance.
- Cell phone allowance.

**Expected Start date: 01 Decemb