MEDICAL/PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT
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Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva, Berne
Sector:
Nonprofit/Community/Social Services/International Cooperation
Role:
Other
Date of last update: 2026-03-05 (Expiry date: 2026-03-30)
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Die Schweizerische Stiftung Glückskette verkörpert seit über 75 Jahren den Solidaritätsreflex der Schweizer Bevölkerung. In Partnerschaft mit der SRG und privaten Medien mobilisiert die Glückskette die Bevölkerung und sammelt Spenden bei grossen Naturkatastrophen, Konflikten sowie für die Kinderhilfe und für verletzliche Menschen in der Schweiz.
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tasked with reviewing and assessing the health/medical aspects of funding applications for humanitarian aid projects.
Responsibilities
Provide analysis and comment on funding applications for humanitarian aid projects in the field of health or with substantial health-related components, in the form of written opinions and through participation at meetings of the Projects Commission. This commission plays an advisory role in informing funding decisions. The meetings are held in person in Berne or in Geneva, or exceptionally online.
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< 50%Will manage other people: No
Type of contract: Consultant
Education level: Master's degree
Education details: Health
Macro-area: Multiple
Level of experience: Senior Professional, more than 5 years
Area of work Definition: Health and Nutrition
Type of organisation: Foundations and Private Sector
Telecommute: Partially remote
Join date: 1.4.26
Skills required
Training
Academic training and qualifications in medicine and public health.
Experience
A minimum of 7 years' experience in the health sector (medical programmes, public health) in various humanitarian contexts, including substantial field experience. Responsibility for supervising or supporting project implementation or providing technical input in these areas.
Knowledge of the Swiss humanitarian environment and actors and of the standards and norms related to humanitarian aid.
Languages
The documents to be reviewed are written and discussions are held in English or French. Fluency in spoken and written English and French is required. An understanding of German is an asset.
Skills
Analytical skills and ability to draft and present clear, concise and structured opinions. Good communication skills.
Independence
No concurrent long-term collaboration with an NGO that is an accredited partner of la Chaîne du Bonheur.
Workload
The workload depends on the number of projects that are submitted in the concerned thematic field. The mandate covers a maximum of 10 days per year for project analysis (reviewing applications) and up to 7 days of in person or online meetings per year. Projects are assigned and experts are invited to the meetings as required. The actual number of days worked thus may be less than these indicative figures.
Depending on the needs of the foundation and the availability of the individual, the expert may also be commissioned by Swiss Solidarity to carry out field missions for technical assessments of projects.
Start and duration of mandate
Two-year term, with a possibility of renewal. Maximum of four two-year terms.
Desired start date: April 2026
Remuneration
CHF 840.-/day for independent experts (whose social security contributions are not covered by Swiss Solidarity) or CHF 735/day for experts who are not self-employed.
Travel expenses in Switzerland (public transport, 2nd class) are reimbursed upon presentation of receipts.
Applications
Please send your application (CV, cover letter) to <jobs@bonheur.ch> by 30 March 2025
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- He/she participates to the definition of EPREP logistics strategies in line with operational objectives.
- He/she is actively involved in the development of budgets and action plans.
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- Formalization and review of emergency preparedness plans (EPREP). This support is part of a collaboration between the RP/RMP and the Emergency unit.
- He /she guarantees a continuity of support to all cells. He/she the first-line backup of the RLO, of which it can take over – by delegation – all the responsibilities during absence, or only part of it.
- He /she is focal point concerning logistics practices within the emergency cell; contribute to closure intervention capitalization, E-cell logistics focal point for systems and tools, process and guidelines development, etc.
- He /she works on specific back-Office files, and he/she is the focal point for review of general logistics training content.
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- Opening of projects
- Logistical reinforcements during an emergency period
- Logistics evaluation
- Gap filling
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Education
- High school studies at minimum. A technical diploma is an advantage.
- Experience in technical project management and team management
Experience
- Successful Logistics Coordinator missions (LogCo), including several emergency missions.
- Minimum 3 years of mission with MSF in logistics positions of management / coordination.
- Experience as head of mission or field coordinator is highly recommended.
- At least one successful year within the emergency pool.
- Excellent knowledge of the response mechanisms to epidemics; displacement of populations and surgical and traumatic activities.
- Mastery of MSF OCG tools.
- Good knowledge of MSF Logistics Supply Centers.
- Mastery of logistics fundamentals.
Languages
- Proficient English speaking and be able to communicate in French, both oral and writing.
Skills/ Technical competencies
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- A good understanding of the political mechanisms of conflict and emergency situations.
- Very good communication skills.
- The ability to plan and implement appropriate and comprehensive logistics support.
- Experience required in team coaching.
- Experience in managing difficult security situations.
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Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva
Job Offer
(strictly no recruitment agencies)
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We are looking for passionate candidates ready to contribute to our humanitarian mission.
Below, you will find the job details and the qualifications we are looking for.
Inclusivity and Diversity at MSF
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We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
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The General Director appoints the departmental directors and leads the Management Team, fosters a culture of integrity, accountability, inclusion and performance, and ensures effective collaboration between headquarters, regional hubs and field operations. Within MSF's associative governance model, the General Director works closely with the Board of Directors, OCG Congress and President, ensuring coherence between associative governance and executive action while maintaining a clear separation between governance responsibilities and executive decision making. As a senior leader within the MSF Movement, the General Director contributes actively to global strategy and policy via participation ot the Core ExCom and other forums. He or she works closely with other Operational Centres and partner sections to strengthen coherence, complementarities and innovation across the movement.
The General Director represents MSF Switzerland / OCG externally with donors, Swiss authorities, international institutions, humanitarian partners and, when relevant, the media. The role carries a high level of visibility and responsibility, requiring strong ethical leadership, integrity of behavior and a sustained commitment to inclusion, duty of care and safeguarding.
Tasks & Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Provide overall strategic leadership to ensure the effective delivery of MSF Switzerland / OCG's social mission, in line with MSF's Charter, values and humanitarian principles.
- Ensure that medical-humanitarian priorities remain at the centre of all organisational decision
- Lead the development, implementation and monitoring of the multi-year strategic ambitions, in close collaboration with the President, Board of Directors, the OCG Congress and the Management Team.
- Maintain a permanent strategic reflection on the stakes, constraints and dilemmas of medical-humanitarian action in a rapidly evolving global environment.
- Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, ethical behaviour, innovation and learning, consistent with MSF Behavioral commitments and management values.
Executive management
- Ensure the overall management of the organisation, including operations, people and resources, to guarantee effectiveness, efficiency and coherence.
- Appoint, lead, coordinate and evaluate members of the Management Team, ensuring strong cohesion and collective responsibility.
- Provide strategic oversight to, and construcitve support and challenge the Director of Operations and Medical Director, contributing to the analysis of the operational portfolio and the definition of overarching operational and medical policies.
- Ensure effective coordination between headquarters, hubs and field operations, and the availability of relevant, high-quality information to support decision-making.
- Lead organisational risk analysis and ensure the definition and implementation of mitigation measures, particularly in relation to staff security, safety and critical incident management, in close coordination with operational and support leadership.
Governance, accountability and risk management
- Work in close collaboration with the Board of Directors, OCG Congress and President, providing timely, accurate and transparent informaiton to support governanance oversight, while retaining executive accountability.
- Ensure regular reporting on strategy implementation, organisational performance, risks and challenges.
- Ensure organisational oversight of risk analysis and mitigation, including safety and security risk management, critical incident governance and duty of care, with appropriate reporting to governance bodies.
- Ensure organisational compliance with legal, regulatory, statutory and MSF internal frameworks.
Financial Stewardship
- Ensure sound financial management, including budgeting, reporting, auditing and internal controls, in line with legal requirements and MSF rules.
- Integrate financial considerations and impact assessments into strategic and operational decision-making at all levels.
- Enable access to diverse and ethical funding sources, ensuring that private and institutional funds are used responsibly and in support of MSF's independence and social mission.
Movement Leadership, partnership and external representation
- Actively participate in the MSF Movement's Executive Committee (Core-ExCom) and other international executive fora, contributing to collective decision-making and implementation.
- Collaborate with General Directors of other Operational Centres, the International Secretary and partner sections to strengthen coherence, synergies and complementarities across the Movement.
- Represent OCG internationally and contribute to debates on humanitarian positioning and operational challenges, while safeguarding OCG's interests and promoting movement-wide strategic priorities.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with partner sections, ensuring OCG's full integration within the MSF Movement.
- Represent MSF Switzerland / OCG externally with donors, Swiss authorities, international institutions, humanitarian actors and, when relevant, the media, in line with associative positions and MSF principles.
People, culture, duty of care and inclusion
- Act as a role model for ethical leadership and integrity, setting clear expectations regarding professional behaviour, safeguarding, prevention of abuse and respect for MSF Behavioral commitments .
- Foster an organisational culture grounded in inclusion, integrity, empowerment, respect, accountability, and collaboration.
- Ensure HR policies and practices support fair and socially responsible working conditions, staff wellbeing and professional development at all levels.
- Ensure the existence, independence and effective functioning of mechanisms to prevent, report and respond to abuse, discrimination and misconduct, including safeguarding concerns, in line with MSF standards and duty of care.
Your profile
Education
- Advanced university degree in medicine, public health, humanitarian affairs, political sciences, management or a related field, or equivalent senior-level professional experience.
- A medical or health-related background, or a demonstrated and sustained engagement with medical-humanitarian action, is a strong asset.
- Strong alignment with MSF's social mission, charter and humanitarian principles, including a patient-centred approach.
Experience
- Extensive senior leadership experience in a complex and large international non for profit organisation, in the humanitarian or medical-humanitarian sector. Solid understanding of the mechanimsm and processes relevant to organizations, such as human resources, operations, finance etc.
- MSF experience is a major asset.
- Experience in executive or senior management roles, including General/Executive Director or Director of a major organizational function.
- Demonstrated experience engaging with and overseeing medical-humanitarian operations with the ability to operate in highly insecure working environment.
- Exposure to ethical, access and security dilemmas.
- Experience working within associative or multi-layered governance structures.
- Demonstrated experience leading organisational change, transformation or strategic reform.
- Strong background engaging with external stakeholders (donors, governments, UN agencies, partners) in politically sensitive environments.
Languages
- Fluency in English and French. Swiss German (or German) and or Italian an asset. Additional languages are an advantage.
Skills/ Technical competencies
- Excellent leadership and organisational skills, with the ability to lead inclusively and decisively in complex, high-pressure environments.
- Strong strategic planning, execution and organisational performance management skills.
- Proven operational leadership, including process optimisation, resource allocation and cross-functional coordination.
- Solid understanding of governance, compliance and risk management frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a Board of Directors, respecting the specificities of associative and executive roles and ensuring constructive complementarity and clear accountability.
- Strong financial literacy at management level, including budget oversight.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including at senior external representation level and in cross-cultural contexts.
- Ability to motivate, coordinate and lead large and diverse teams, including through participatory, empowering and accountable leadership parctices.
- Strong listening skills and sound judgement.
- Capacity to delegate, empower and hold teams accountable, fostering ownership and leadership at all levels.
- Demonstrated commitment to high ethical standards, integrity and accountability, aligned with MSF' Behavioral Commitments and Management Values.
Terms of employment
- Full-time position 100% (40h/week)
- Open-ended contract (mandated position, 3 years, renewable once)
- Working place: Geneva, Switzerland
- Ideal start date: August 2026
- Gross annual salary (for 100%): from CHF 176'436 to CHF 188'052 (salary commensurate with equivalent experience and internal salary grid)
- Paid vacation: 25 days per year, prorate temporis, plus any Swiss public holidays falling within the contract period.
- Pension plan: pension contribution covered 3/4 by MSF, 1/4 by staff member.
- Relocation package if moving from a different country to Switzerland.
Specific requirements for this position
- Frequent international travel, including field visits to conflict zones. This could be adapted depending on the personal circumstances and reasonable accommodation.
- The position requires high availability and flexibility, balanced with responsible leadership of personal well being and role modelling of sustainable working practice.
- Given the highly visible nature of the role, the GD is expected to demonstrate exemplary personal and professional conduct, full aligned with MSF's behavioral commitments and management values.
How to apply
Candidates are invited to submit their application exclusively through our recruitment platform, following these guidelines:
- CV (maximum 2 pages)
- Cover letter (maximum 1 page)
- Documents must be submitted in either English or French.
The application deadline is 22nd of March
[APPLY](https://medecinssansfrontieressuisse.recruitee.com/o/general-director)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if we receive a sufficient number of quality applications.
All applications will be treated confidentially.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please note that we do not wish to use the services of recruitment or placement agencies.
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2026-02-23 2026-03-22
L&D Unit Intern
Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva
OFFRE DE STAGE
Join MSF OCG as a L&D Unit Intern!
We are looking for passionate candidates ready to contribute to our humanitarian mission.
Below, you will find the job details and the qualifications we are looking for.
This internship is part of an academic training program, a professional training program, or a socio-professional integration program, and must comply with the [conditions](https://www.ge.ch/engager-personne-stage/stages-formation-insertion-reconnus) set by the Employment Market Supervisory Council (CSME). The duration of the internship, as defined by the tripartite agreement, is 6 to 12 months at 100%
Inclusivity and Diversity at MSF
Do your qualifications and experience not exactly match all requirements of the job?
At MSF OCG, we are committed to an inclusive culture that supports and amplifies 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 to advance MSF's social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.
We understand that some people may hesitate to apply for employment if they don't meet all listed job requirements. Research shows that this is especially true for women. If you believe your profile is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply even if you don't fulfil every listed qualification.
We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, 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 undergo reference checks.
Context & mission
Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, people affected by natural or man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter).
The L&D Unit Intern provides organizational, administrative and communication support to the unit. The Intern will learn and support the team in the organisation and the deployment of learning activities. In addition to the recurrent tasks, the Intern will lead specific dossiers or projects. The Intern function can be part of an academic course or a federal program on professional integration. For this reason, most placements as Intern require a 3-party convention with the academic institute concerned.
Tasks and responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Intern are split as follow: 60% of time dedicated to Organisational & administrative support, 30% of time dedicated to ad hoc support. Under the supervision of the Head of L&D and the L&D support coordinator the Intern supports the unit as follows:
- Organisational & administrative support (60%)
The intern will learn office processes through supporting the current administration team in the following tasks. The person will have the opportunity to contribute to improvements in administrative ways of working in a dynamic, internationally dispersed unit comprising of around 40 people.
Trainings and learning events support:
- Learn and support teams in the organisation and deployment of learning actions such as virtual classes support or face to face (catering, room booking, pedagogical material printing and laminating, communication with participants and facilitators)
- Provides support to the trainers for material ordering (specific, pedagogical or generic such as stationary)
- Ensures the updating of the international mobile staff learner in the HR Database (D635)
HR/Administrative follow-up:
- Provide support in the organization of recruitment & Administrative HR follow-up
- Provides support to the team to edit and follow up of contracts (team and providers), forms (IT, recruitment forms, etc.) and partnership agreements
- Ensures the updating of the L&D staff tracking table (HR Update)
- Organizes briefings and onboarding for new L&D members
- Follows up on other specific HR procedures as needed
Support of the Unit
- Supports the unit in the organization of meetings (i.e. the different weekly meeting or specific pillar meeting) including the preparation of agendas, taking minutes, the archiving of meeting documentation and follow up.
- Supports the unit in the management of information for the online knowledge management platforms such as Kompas and Share Point and manages the key tools for the organization of the unit
- Supports the preparation of documents and Presentations for either internal or external use (Edit and update specific communication tools such as the L&D Offer, L&D activity report)
- Update and maintain tags and search bar to improve learners' access to the different training offerings.
2. Ad hoc support (30%)
- Upon request validated by manager, needs and interest the intern will be delegated specific tasks or dossier that he or she will manage.
Your profile
- Have a tripartite internship agreement
- Fluent English and French (written and spoken).
- Enrolled in an Administration degree, Humanitarian or Development Studies, social studies, Organisation's Management, Adult Learning / Adult Education other relevant degree
- No specific requirements in terms of work experience but having has some form of employment in the past is considered an advantage.
- Demonstrated commitment to humanitarian / development / charity work or volunteering" is an advantage
- Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
- Data management
- Planning and organization.
- Good command of MS Office (especially Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel) and collaborative Tools (Sharepoint, Zoom, Mural...)
- Knowledge of graphic editing tools
- Knowledge of digital communication tools
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and information simultaneously
- Team player; ability to coordinate with numerous stakeholders.
- Ability to work autonomously
- Pro-active and solution-oriented
- Flexible and capacity to adapt quickly
- Attention to detail, rigorous
- Time management
Terms of employment
- A tripartite internship agreement is mandatory
- 6 months, according to internship agreement
- Full time (40h/week)
- Based in Geneva, Switzerland
- Ideal start date: July 2026
- Gross monthly remuneration 2'000.- CHF
How to apply
Candidates are invited to submit their application exclusively through our recruitment platform, following these guidelines:
- CV (maximum 2 pages)
- Cover letter (maximum 1 page)
- Documents must be submitted in either English or French.
The application deadline is March 15th 2026.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if we receive a sufficient number of quality applications.
[APPLY HERE](https://medecinssansfrontieressuisse.recruitee.com/o/l-and-d-unit-intern)
All applications will be treated confidentially.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please note that we do not wish to use the services of recruitment or placement agencies.
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2026-02-19 2026-03-15
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