Médecins Sans Frontières en Suisse
Field-based position with visits to the headquarters in Geneva
Context
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to populations in need, to people affected by natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, without discrimination and regardless of their race, religion, belief or political affiliation (MSF Charter). The MSF movement is built around 5 operational centers supported by 24 sections and offices worldwide. The French section is present in about thirty countries.
GIS at MSF has been developed as a service to MSF operations since 2013 and is, since January 2021 an Intersectional Centre of Expertise & Services serving the full Movement. GIS core mission is to support informed decision making through better spatial comprehension, enhancing the focus of health services around patients, and increasing the impact and efficiency of MSF’s regular and emergency interventions. GIS service team aims to provide an intersectional operational support system, thanks to a framework of dedicated tools and services, that is reliable, agile, adapted to emergency contexts and needs, timely, and efficient.
Mission
The Flying GIS applies his/her expertise into field Projects and Coordinations for the countries of intervention of the Emergency Desk. He/she provides strategic technical support to coordination and field according to MSF GIS Centre policies, guidelines, and procedures in order to support the broad operational objectives of the missions.
He/she is deployed for short missions to respond within short deadlines to identified GIS needs, mostly focusing on Support to Emergency response, Explos or other support to Emergency projects, adopting whenever possible the GIS centre ways of working the Emergency Response (Rapid Map, Explo Kit, Scenario response maps kit, etc…)
He/she performs background tasks during standby periods.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Objective 1: GIS Products and map production supporting projects and eprep (prospective and surge capacity)
- Ensuring GIS needs are covered within the countries of allocation. This includes maps, GeoApp and dynamic products, mobile data collection, earth observation products, data etc..
- Providing support to missions for emergency preparedness plan
- Liaising with GIS Advisor and GIS Centre about potential uncovered needs and for specialized support such as GeoApps, data processes and EO.
Objective 2: Responsible for the integration, cleaning and sharing of geodata within the countries of interventions.
- Maintenance and cleaning of the core geographic layers and integration in the GIS Centre global master data base
- Technical support for GIS data collection and GIS data cleaning in the country where he/she intervenes
Objective 3: GIS Learning and development for the EDESK and the EPOOL
- Providing technical support and capacity building to the MSF staff members, with help from the GIS Advisor and the GIS Centre when needed
- Coaching and training toward non-GIS staff within the countries of intervention or at cell level
- In case of Cell recruitment of a long-term GIS staff, ensure capacity building and training
- Facilitate exchanges and communication with GIS relays (MSF staff with GIS knowledge)
- Promote/inform about GIS and MSF GIS approach toward missions in the region
Objective 4: background tasks
- While not on missions working remotely to background tasks, GIS production for the Ecell and regular cells (in liaison with GIS Centre) covering other cell needs, GIS advisor backup
- Ensure maintenance overtime of developed products, decommission GeoApps as the crisis is over, cleaning space in AGOL/Portal, archiving products from the GeoMSF platform if needed
Your Profile
Education
- Mastering ArcGIS Pro software
- Good knowledge of QGIS
- Qualifications in subjects such as business/management sciences, engineering, geography, GIS, cartography, surveying, geology, computer science/studies, town planning, information technology or software/computer engineering
Experience
- MSF Experience is essential
- Various Field Experiences is a strong asset
Languages
- English and French B2 level is compulsory
- Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese is a strong asset
Personal Abilities & Skills
- Strong problem solving
- Project management, analytical, organizational, and time management
- Interpersonal-cultural sensitivity
- Leadership and communication skills
- Willingess to travel to high insecure contexts is necessary
Terms of Employment
- 2 vacancies for a Fixed-term contract of 12 months
- Part-time annualised, 80%
- Working place : Field-based position with visits to the headquarters in Geneva
- Practical working conditions in the field are in accordance with the MSF OCG volunteer manual.
- Ideal start date: March 13th, 2023
- Gross monthly salary: CHF 5’500.- based on 100%
- Benefits: Health insurance and living expenses in the countries of intervention and at headquarters, paid according to internal regulations.
How to apply
Candidates submit their application following the requirements: CV 2 p. max. – letter of motivation 1p. max. – in French or English.
Deadline for application is March 5th, 2023. Nevertheless, we reserve the right to close the position early if we consider the number and quality of applications received to be sufficient.
The applications will be treated confidentially.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together for the social mission of MSF to create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.
We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.