Medical Doctor - Staff Health Unit

Provide medical expertise and technical leadership to safeguard and strengthen the physical health of MSF staff across OCBA operations through preventive health systems, case management support, and the development of decentralized staff health strategies, ensuring safe, effective, and consistent staff health practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide preventive health guidance and medical support to international mobile staff to ensure fitness for assignment and safe deployment.
• Advise missions and operational teams on staff health management practices to strengthen quality, consistency, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Assess complex staff health situations and facilitate access to specialized medical expertise to support appropriate clinical decision-making.
• Coordinate medical evacuations and post-evacuation follow-up to ensure continuity of care and staff well-being.
• Lead the implementation and continuous development of OCBA’s decentralized physical staff health strategy to enhance access, effectiveness, and operational impact.
• Support and mentor Physical Staff Health Focal Points and relevant stakeholders to strengthen staff health capacity across decentralized hubs.
• Develop and update staff health policies, guidelines, protocols, training materials, and operational standards to promote evidence-based practice.
• Monitor and analyze staff health activities and contribute to planning, reporting, budgeting, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen staff health services.
• Provide technical medical support for both international and locally hired staff health management.
• Participate in staff health emergency response mechanisms, including on-call support for critical incidents.
• Collaborate closely with psychosocial support resources and multidisciplinary stakeholders in the management of complex cases.
• Promote harmonization and collaboration with other MSF Operational Centres regarding staff health practices.
• Contribute to staff health training, awareness, prevention, and health promotion initiatives.
• Support organizational efforts to strengthen duty of care and staff well-being across diverse operational contexts.

Requirements

• Medical Degree (MD) and valid professional qualification to practice medicine.
• Previous MSF experience in a field-based medical or medical coordination role within a humanitarian setting.
• Essential: English (C1) and French (C1). Desirable: Spanish working proficiency.
• Staff health management and preventive health approaches.
• Medical risk assessment and fitness-for-work evaluation.
• Emergency medical response and medical evacuation processes.
• Humanitarian health operations and MSF contexts.

Skills

• Medical Practice
• Field-based Medical Coordination
• Humanitarian Operations Management
• Staff Health Management
• Preventive Health Approaches
• Medical Risk Assessment
• Fitness-for-Work Evaluations
• Medical Emergency Response
• Medical Evacuation Processes
• Case Management
• Decentralized Staff Health Strategies

Languages

English, French, Spanish