Technical Officer (Prevention Of Unsafe Abortion)
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Switzerland, Geneva, Geneva
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Nonprofit/Community/Social Services/International Cooperation
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Other
Date of last update: 2026-04-08 (Expiry date: 2026-04-28)
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WHO began when our Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day. We are now more than 7000 people from more than 150 countries working in 150 country offices, in 6 regional offices and at our headquarters in Geneva.
Our primary role is to direct and coordinate international health within the United Nations system and our main areas of work are health systems; health through the life-course; noncommunicable and communicable diseases; preparedness, surveillance and response; and corporate services.
We support countries as they coordinate the efforts of governments and partners – including bi- and multilaterals, funds and foundations, civil society organizations and the private sector.
Working together, we attain health objectives by supporting national health policies and strategies.
WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.
Our goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.
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Essential:
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Essential:
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Join MSF OCG as a GIS Data Governance Specialist!
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MSF GIS Centre is looking for a Data Governance Specialist to join its Data Management Team. This new role will be tasked to establish and operationalize a robust data governance framework for geospatial and operational data.
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· Develop training materials and documentation to embed governance data management practices across the team.
· Report on governance maturity and guide continuous improvement in alignment with recognized frameworks .
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We are looking for passionate candidates ready to contribute to our humanitarian mission.
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Tasks & Responsibilities
- Lead and govern HQ Human Resources and HR Administration under delegation of the HRD, ensuring coherent policies, processes, service delivery and governance.
- Co-define, drive and implement HQ people strategy and HR priorities, aligned with MSF Switzerland / OCG strategic objectives.
- Shape and steer the organisational design and evolution of HQ HR and HR Administration, including transformation initiatives, resource allocation and budget oversight.
- Provide strategic guidance to HR departments in other OCG HQ locations with the aim of creating as much consistency as feasible while taking into account contextual specificities.
- Develop and drive an effective employee relations approach that supports wellbeing, motivation and a constructive working environment; act as employer's representative with staff bodies as relevant.
- Provide high-quality HR advice and support to directors, managers and employees, including conflict management, arbitration, grievances and disciplinary processes.
- Oversee the effectiveness, coherence, and compliance of HQ HR practicesincluding talent acquisition, onboarding, staff development, and performance managementensuring alignment with organisational priorities and Swiss legal requirements, in close collaboration with relevant units.
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Education
- University Master's degree in Human Resources (or related field) or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience..
Experience
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Languages
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Context & mission
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The Project Manager is responsible for leading and delivering a large-scale, TIC-funded, intersectional project to design a shared Information Governance blueprint and develop and test a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for digital content lifecycle management, archiving, and preservation solution across participating MSF entities.
The role ensures effective coordination between multiple Operational Directorates (OD Geneva, OD Amsterdam, OD Paris and others), IT stakeholders, Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) teams, end users from operational departments and external vendors. The Project Manager balances technical feasibility, operational realities, and governance requirements, while building consensus across diverse stakeholders and ensuring that project scope, priorities, and deliverables remain clear, realistic, and aligned. The project manager ensures that these existing efforts are taken into consideration in the new project, avoiding duplication and maximizing coherence and impact.
This position plays a critical role in enabling MSF to safeguard its institutional memory, improve operational efficiency, strengthen security and compliance, and prepare scalable digital solutions adaptable across the movement.
Tasks & Responsibilities
Project Leadership and Delivery
- Lead the project end-to-end, from initiation through delivery, testing, and handover, in line with TIC requirements, information management needs in the field and HQ offices and MSF project management standards.
- Develop and maintain a detailed project plan, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, decision gates, and resource allocation.
- Ensure delivery of the two core project outcomes:
- An adaptable Information Governance blueprint.
- A tested MVP for automated digital content lifecycle management, archiving, and preservation.
- Manage the project budget, timelines, reporting, and formal TIC governance processes.
- Prepare progress updates, steering committee materials, and final project reports.
Intersectional Coordination and Stakeholder Alignment
- Act as the central coordination point across participating Operational Directorates, IO functions, IKM working groups and other stakeholders, IT teams, regional IT support service (SITS) and external partners, ensuring clear communication and shared understanding.
- Facilitate structured, inclusive dialogue to surface operational needs, align expectations, priorities, and constraints, and bridge different operational realities across sections.
- Proactively identify divergences in needs, maturity, or constraints between ODs and support the identification of workable compromises. Ensure alignment in terms or resources and availability.
- Ensure that existing information management initiatives and systems are clearly understood, considered and coherently articulated with the project's activities and deliverables, avoiding duplication.
- Clarify, document, and continuously adjust project scope based on evolving needs and feedback, to maintain alignment and avoid scope creep while preserving inter-sectional buy-in.
- Build and sustain trust-based relationships with senior, technical, and operational stakeholders across the movement.
Technical Oversight and IT Coordination
- Provide strong leadership on the technical dimensions of the project, ensuring coherence between governance frameworks and technical solutions.
- Coordinate and oversee the requirements definition for the MVP, covering the full information lifecycle management, including content management, archiving, preservation, security, retention, and compliance.
- Work closely with IT teams (SITS – MSF Shared IT Services team, Application Managers) to ensure solutions are compatible with MSF's Microsoft 365 environment and broader IT architecture.
- Lead and coordinate vendor selection processes (RFP, PoC, evaluation) and manage relationships with external providers and consultants.
- Ensure that proposed technical solutions align with relevant international standards (e.g. OAIS, ISO 15489), MSF information security policies, and data protection requirements.
Information Governance Blueprint Development
- Coordinate the review, mapping and consolidation of existing information management governance practices, policies, and tools across participating ODs.
- Coordinate the development of a practical, modular Information Governance blueprint that defines core building blocks while allowing for local adaptation and phased adoption.
- Ensure the blueprint is grounded in operational realities and align with legal, compliance and information security requirements, as well as technical feasibility.
- Facilitate validation of the blueprint with participating ODs and advisory groups, documenting decisions and areas requiring future iteration.
Vendor and MVP Management
- Lead interactions with external vendors and consultants responsible for the governance design and the technical MVP development.
- Coordinate the MVP design, development, testing, refinement, and validation phases, ensuring alignment with agreed requirements.
- Ensure MVP testing reflects real operational use cases and supports scalability to additional ODs.
- Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and consolidate feedback into prioritised, actionable improvements.
- Ensure delivery of complete technical documentation, deployment guidelines, and knowledge transfer materials, to support future scaling.
Change Management, Communication, and Transition to BAU
- Contribute to the definition and execution of a proportionate change management and communication approach tailored to impacted stakeholders.
- Support stakeholder readiness and adoption through clear, timely communication, structured engagement activities, and accessible documentation.
- Capture and document lessons learned, risks, and recommendations to inform future phases and scaling.
- Support planning for the transition to business-as-usual (BAU), including handover to designated governance, IKM, and IT owners.
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Education
- Master's degree or equivalent in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Management, Digital Transformation, Project Management, or a related field.
- Formal project management certification or training (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile) is an asset.
Experience
- Minimum 7 years' experience in project or program management within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Proven experience managing IT or digital transformation projects, preferably involving enterprise platforms or information systems.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating across multiple organizational entities, departments, or sections with shared but non-identical objectives.
- Experience working with external vendors, consultants, and procurement processes (RFPs, PoCs, contracts).
- Experience within MSF or a comparable international humanitarian or non-profit organization is a strong asset.
Languages
- Fluency in English and French (written and spoken) are mandatory: heavy coordination are expected between our Operational Directorates where language could become a barrier.
- Additional languages are an advantage.
Skills/ Technical competencies
- Strong understanding of IT systems, digital platforms, and enterprise information environments.
- Solid knowledge of information lifecycle management, digital archiving, records management, and data governance principles.
- Demonstrated expertise with Microsoft 365 environments (SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive) and related governance challenges.
- Understanding of information security, data protection, compliance, and retention concepts.
- Ability to translate technical complexity into clear, actionable decisions for non-technical stakeholders.
Behavioral & Managerial Competencies
- Consensus-building: Demonstrated ability to facilitate agreement among diverse stakeholders with differing priorities.
- Diplomacy and negotiation: Able to navigate sensitive inter-sectional dynamics and broker workable compromises.
- Strategic clarity: Ability to continuously clarify scope, priorities, and trade-offs in a complex environment.
- Technical credibility: Comfortable engaging with IT experts, vendors, and architects while remaining focused on business outcomes.
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- Autonomy and accountability: Able to work independently, take initiative, and deliver results within defined constraints.
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- Resilience and adaptability: Comfortable managing ambiguity, evolving requirements, and iterative delivery.
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- CV (maximum 2 pages)
- Cover letter (maximum 1 page)
- Documents must be submitted in either English or French.
The application deadline is April 19th, 2026.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if we receive a sufficient number of quality applications.
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Cell 4 Intern
Geneva, Geneva - médecins sans frontières suisse
OFFRE DE STAGE
Join MSF OCG as a Cell 4 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%
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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.
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The Cell Intern provides operational and administrative support to the Cell Team with an additional objective of working on at least one Medico-Operational dossier during the period of employment. The Cell Intern function can be part of an academic course or a federal program on professional integration. For this reason, placements as Cell Intern require a 3-party convention with the academic institute concerned.
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The responsibilities of the Cell Intern are split as follow: 40% of time dedicated to Operational Support, 40% of time dedicated to HR and Administrative Support and 20% dedicated to Medico-Operational Dossiers:
- Operational Support
- Supports the cell in the organization of meetings (i.e. the weekly cell meeting (Mini Desk), Plan of Action discussions with field teams) including the preparation of agendas, taking minutes and the archiving of meeting documentation.
- Supports the cell in the management of information such as cell archiving, is the focal point for the online platforms such as Kompas and Share Point and manages the key tools for the organization of the cell (i.e. presence, field visit preparation).
- Supports the preparation of key Operational documents and Presentations for either internal or external use.
- Provides support to the RLO (Logistic Referent) of the cell: follow up of material to be sent to missions, ordering of maps via the GIS center.
- Provides support to the FINOP (Finance Referent) to prepare Power of Attorney for mission teams, follow up of contracts and partnership agreements, and the management of information related to audits.
- Provides adhoc support to the Directorate of Operations such as management of meetings, minute taking and the coordination of operational and planning documents (portfolio reviews, emergency updates).
- Monitors the news update and different reports on the context of the countries followed by the cell.
- By delegation from the RP can be asked to provide operational updates to the HQ (Point Info).
2. HR and Administrative Support
- Ensures the updating of the international staff tracking table (HR Update) (mission dates, job openings, obtaining documents)
- Follows up with international staff on documents required for their departure (informed consents (BIC), proof of life)
- Organizes briefings/debriefings of international staff with the cell members
- Consolidates, monitors and updates pre-departure briefing materials for international staff
- Welcome international staff on departure, introduce them to current operations and ensure they have the necessary documents
- Compiles a table of the cell's mission positions to be opened, on a weekly basis
- Participates in monthly meetings to open positions and present the cell's operational news
- Files the job descriptions of international staff as soon as a position is required by the unit's missions
- Files documents for anticipated returns
- Follows up on other specific HR procedures as needed
- Develops HR statistics with the assistance of the RHOP
3. Medico Operational Dossiers
- Each Cell Intern, during the period of employment (from 6 months to 9 months) is expected to work on a Medico Operational Dossier. The dossier selected should combine (a) the operational needs of the Cell / Missions (b) academic requirements such as the need to complete a thesis and (c) if possible a link to the future career of the Cell Intern.
- The topic needs to be selected within the first month of employment and agreed with the RP, ensuring that there is a clear deliverable (written report, thesis, ...).
Your profile
- Have a tripartite internship agreement
- Fluent English and French (written and spoken)
- Enrolled in a Master's degree in Social Sciences, Political Science, Humanitarian or Development Studies, or other relevant degree
- Capacity of analysis and synthesis
- Planning and organization
- Knowledge of key issues of the humanitarian environment;
- Excellent writing skills
- Excellent knowledge of the MO environment (Powerpoint, Excel, Word)
- Team player; ability to coordinate with numerous stakeholders
- Ability to work autonomously
- Pro-active and solution-oriented
- Flexibility and capacity to adapt quickly
Terms of employment
- A tripartite internship agreement is mandatory
- 6 to 9 months, according to internship agreement
- Full time (40h/week)
- Based in Geneva, Switzerland
- Ideal start date: 18th of May 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 April 12th 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/cell-4-intern-msf)
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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2026-03-24 2026-04-12
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