Salary Grade: A local salary compensation package based on experience and internal salary grid is offered for this role and will be discussed during the selection phase.
Status: Must be legally entitled to work in the country where a contract would be issued.
Location: Adjacent to an MSF office for hybrid work dynamic. To ensure an easy collaborative work with the Executive Director’s Office, location between UTC -7 (Pacific Time) and UTC -3 (Atlantic Daylight Time) will be favoured.
Key Responsibilities
- Continuing to build and nurture a competent, motivated, and professionally diverse HACE team, regional Focal points, and links with colleagues who share objectives with HACE
- Continuing to build, nurture and maintain strong internal and external networks and collaborations
- Promoting and helping integrate HACE operational research and its findings, identifying and managing additional research/operational projects that help operational teams integrate a CEH approach
- Playing a thought-leadership role on MSF’s advocacy and public positioning related to CEH especially on adaptation
- Playing a reduced though still supportive role towards the movement’s efforts to reduce its environmental footprint
- Being MSF Canada’s champion and subject matter expert (SME) related to CEH particularly on adaptation including anticipation
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Core Competencies
- Commitment to MSF’s Principles, Level 1: Commits to MSF and takes actions to influence and develop MSF’s Principles
- Cross-cultural Awareness, Level 3: Demonstrates an integrating attitude
- Initiative and Innovation, Level 4: Promotes an innovation culture for MSF
- Analytical Thinking, Level 4: Makes Complex Plans and/or Analyses
- Planning and Organizing, Level 4: Enables others to organize and plan ahead
- Leadership, Level 3: Encourages, Engages and Motivates People
- Results and Quality Orientation, Level 4: Seeks excellence in their field by challenging objectives and management indicators
Knowledge and Experience
- Demonstrable knowledge in issues and practices related to humanitarian response, environment and/or climate change, climate adaptation, international development, public health
- Familiarity with contemporary approaches and frameworks to climate action (e.g. Planetary Health, climate change adaptation, anticipation, resilience-building, Loss & Damages)
- Demonstrable experience in research, analysis, data analysis, synthesis, writing, speaking
- Demonstrable experience engaging people across MSF and disciplines, and with multi stakeholders in and out of MSF, managing multiple partnerships, complex coordination and diplomacy, and working transversally and cross-sectoral on interdisciplinary issues
- Direct experience with general budgetary control, budget forecasting and tracking, and data analysis
- Strong demonstration of personal and public communication in writing and speaking
- Computer software skills (Microsoft 365, Zoom etc.)
Education, Certifications, and Languages
- Fluency in written and spoken English is essential
- Fluency in written and spoken French a strong asset
- Spanish and other languages are an asset
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Application
Interested candidates are invited to apply by providing their resume and responding to the online application questions (in lieu of providing a cover letter). The deadline for applications is Thursday, 27 April 2023, 9:00am EDT. Only electronic applications will be accepted.
NOTE: Any questions or concerns regarding accommodation and accessibility may be addressed to ask.hr@toronto.msf.org.
