Working area: Oversea

Introduction：Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organisation. Every year, over 40,000 medical and non-medical professionals work in more than 70 countries.

International mobile staff (IMS) offers their professional expertise for projects including primary health care, nutrition, chronic diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and HIV/AIDS, also responding to emergencies. Non-medical activities such as construction, water and sanitation, supply chain, human resources and finance, as well as training are also important aspects of IMS work.

Short description:

Our logisticians will make sure our projects are equipped with everything that's needed to deal with an emergency. They are 'the behind the scenes' people that ensure everything runs smoothly, no matter what happens.

As a logistician, you will provide daily technical support to all activities in our medical facilities, including vehicle maintenance and planning of movements. Construction, framing, fitting, and maintaining medical facilities, offices, and staff accommodations could also be part of your duties. You might set up, manage, and maintain the water supply and hygiene/sanitary facilities. In charge of the electricity supply and supervise the installation and maintenance of related equipment such as generators, solar panels, and batteries. You will hire and manage technical staff and contractors, and oversee their work.

Responsibilities:

- Monitoring the implementation of logistics/technical/supply activities ensuring compliance to MSF standards, protocols and procedures.

- In close collaboration with the HR department, participating in the recruitment, training, briefing/debriefing and performance evaluation of the logistics staff in the mission in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required. Implementing all these related activities to the logistics staff under his/her direct responsibility.

- Ensuring technical reference for all logistics/technical issues in the mission and provides coaching to logistics staff.

- Ensuring installation and maintenance of functional office space(s) and lodging facilities in an adequate living condition as well as all the equipment required.

- Monitoring and implementing the technical aspects of the risk reduction rules: transport, communication, protection, identification and preparation of the technical aspects of the mission security plan, evacuation plan and other contingency plans.

- Ensuring communication means in the mission (including numbers frequencies), allowing permanent communication between capital, projects, bases and HQ. Ensures all staff in the mission benefits from proper training on how to use communications equipment available in the Mission (e.g. satellite phones, HF/VHF radios, computers, etc.)

Requirement:

- Two years of relevant experience showing a capacity to organize and maintain a multidisciplinary activity

- Any type of training, diploma / academic level will be considered

- Solution oriented

- Agile, responsive and adaptation capacity

- NGO experience is an asset (in developing countries)

- Willingness to work in unstable environments

- Fluency in English and/or French, written and spoken

- Availability of at least 6 - 12 months per assignment

- Adhere to our Behavioral Commitment and MSF Charter.

MSF Package

-           Monthly indemnity

-           Field per diem allowance in local currency of assignment location

-           Health and travel insurance

-           Transport to and from mission country

-           Accommodation during mission

To apply: Please submit your application via https://msf.hk/en/content/general-logistician or via https://msf.org.cn/参与前线救援Please note that all your submitted personal information, CV and cover letter shall be in English.