Logistic Manager (Mobile Staff)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / أطباء بلا حدود is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people in more than 70 countries who are affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation and our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of neutrality and impartiality.

What are MSF Activities:

• We offer basic healthcare, perform surgery, fight epidemics, rehabilitate and run hospitals and clinics, carry out vaccination campaigns, operate nutrition centers, and provide mental healthcare. Our activities include the treatment of injuries and disease, maternal care and the provision of humanitarian aid. Where necessary, we set up sanitation systems, supply safe drinking water, and distribute relief to assist survival.

What Mobile Staff Means:

• Being part of MSF Mobile Staff Pool means that you will go to work on projects in any of the countries where MSF works. Each project you go to will require a certain period of commitment (6 to 12 months). It also means that you are flexible, committed, and made your personal choice to be part of projects that may be located in the most remote places in the world, often in a tough environment or circumstances with limited resources and amenities.

Main Purpose

Planning, coordinating and monitoring all logistics related activities in the project or capital and providing support to medical assistance activities, according to MSF protocols and standards in order to ensure an optimal running of the project

Accountabilities

• Assisting the Project Coordinator or Logistics Coordinator in the definition and follow-up of logistics activities in the project or capital, in conjunction with other medical project managers in order to identify and give a response to the needs of the targeted population
• Ensuring and monitoring the implementation of logistics/technical activities in the project / capital including the following:
• Logistics: (construction, transport of goods and staff, communications, water and sanitation, vehicles and engines, equipment/installation and infrastructures, communications, installation and maintenance of functional office space(s) and lodging facilities for international staff in adequate living conditions)
• WHS: implementation of water, health and sanitation activities
• Supply: implementation and maintenance of an appropriate supply chain for the project
• Implementing all administrative related activities linked to logistics (orders, insurances, vehicle contracts, etc.).
• Participating in the planning and implementation, together with the Logistics Coordinator, the Project Coordinator and the HR Coordinator, the HR associated processes (recruitment, training, briefing/debriefing, evaluation, detection of potential, development and communication) of the logistics staff in the project / capital in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required to correctly perform all logistics activities.
• Ensuring technical reference for all logistics/technical issues in the project and providing coaching to logistics staff under his/her responsibility. Ensuring all staff in the Project is properly briefed about use of communication tools (handsets, HF/VHF, etc.).
• Defining and monitoring technical aspects of the project risk reduction policy, transport, communication, protection, identification and preparation of the technical aspects of the project security policy and guidelines, evacuation plan and contingency plan, performing day-to day monitoring of the application of security rules and reporting to the Project Coordinator any problem that may arise. For this purpose, the Project Logistics Manager will have to create an appropriate environment to facilitate security exchange of information.
• Participating in monthly reports according to guidelines

Education : Essential university or technical school diploma, desirable Business, construction or engineering related studies.

Languages : Essential : English, French

added Value : Spanish , Portuguese

Competencies :Commitment to MSF’s Principles, Behavioral Flexibility, Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, People Management and Development.