RECRUITMENT & MOBILITY MANAGER

Médecins Sans Frontières, founded in 1971, is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from health care. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of medical professionals, logistics, administrative and various other professions, all guided by our medical ethics and our principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality.

MSF WaCA, created in 2019, is the first MSF headquarters in Africa, and responds to the desire to reinvent the MSF movement after 50 years of humanitarian actions in the world, for more access to care, more reactivity and proactivity for greater medical coverage of affected populations in the world.

Why join us?

You are preparing to become a member of the MSF family, with over 50 years of emergency medical action that earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

We are an inclusive organization that considers social and professional well-being a right for all and provides an environment that considers the diversity of each member.

MSF WaCA claims an African anchorage that considers the local expertise with which it contributes to the implementation of its activities and makes each member, a key actor of the new dynamics of the humanitarian action in the world.

We Are Looking for: RECRUITMENT & MOBILITY MANAGER

Department: Human Resources

Direct Manager: Head of Recruitment & Pool Management

Working %: 100%

Position Based in: Abidjan, HQ

Mobility: In the region for HR marketing activities and recruitment campaigns.

Type of Contract: Fixed-Term Contract under Ivorian law; Renewable

Position to be filled: As Soon As Possible

Objectives

Develop and implement effective recruitment processes and optimized talent pool management to support MSF WaCA’s activities by adapting recruitment strategies to the targeted profiles, ensuring a structured pool management and follow-up to retain and develop members' skills, and designing individualized career paths for International Mobile Staff (IMS) based on the organization’s operational needs

Main responsibilities

1.        Understanding and formulating field HR forecast.

§  In collaboration with the HR Ops teams, collect the operational HR needs for the fields to be able to propose the appropriate profiles and help define the recruitment criteria

§  Work closely with the technical referent to ensure an optimal technical validation

§  Ensure continuous contact with the pool manager to understand the state of the pool

§  Work towards sourcing the future talent

2.        Implementation of recruitment processes

§  Guarantee the application of recruitment procedures and process.

§  Ensure and conduct the recruitment of international field staff and mobile national staff with a view to building a pool of people ready for deployment according to WaCA operational needs:

§  Support the definition of WaCA recruitment strategy adapted to the position and implement measures to achieve the objectives related to recruitment;

§  Ensure creation and publication of job advertisements,

§  Coordinate and manage the recruitment process and the link with technical referent

§  Study and evaluate new recruitment channels, identify new potential sources to attract candidates, including through the support to the creation of partnerships and mutualization

§  Identify interesting profiles via platforms such as LinkedIn, impactpool and ensure active Research of candidates;

§  Develop and contribute to projects and initiatives to optimise the Recruitment service;

§  Promote WaCA via participation in mouvement conferences, seminars and meetings

§  Organize, lead and facilitate information sessions for the public in person or via webinar

§  Facilitate WtMSF sessions in person or via webinars

3.        Managing the international mobility (Expatriate and detachment)

§  Know the pool members, their career paths and their wishes.

§  Deploy communication tools whether they are between mission or on assignment, in order to maintain a dynamic of potential employment and active career path monitoring;

§  Accompany pool members on their journey with WaCA;

§  Share the profiles and competences of pool members with the Cells

§  Ensure an updated recording of the IMS path (IP sheet) into the HR database;

§  Organize and lead meetings to monitor IMS career paths with the relevant technical referents in order to share and cross-reference information, improve monitoring, detect specific talents, make decisions;

§  Collaborate fully with the Cells’ members

4.        Other

§  Ensure reporting on quantitative and qualitative statistical data on the activity

§  Participate in the unit team meetings and all events related to recruitment and mobility

§  Collaborate and guide the HR assistant

§  Can represent the Unit in HQ working groups,

§  Can support the field team in specific recruitment such as coordo/manager positions, bulk recruitment

§  Provide insights on recruitment and pool management matters to the Head of Unit to support informed decision-making, and promptly report any sensitive issues.

Education

The candidate must hold at least a Bac + 3 degree in Human Resources, Management, Administration and experience in bulk recruitment and manager recruitment.

Competencies

§  Autonomy, professional rigor and ability to manage own stress

§  Good interpersonal abilities, flexibility and cultural awareness

§  Good communication and easy public speaking skills

§  Analytical thinking and synthesis ability

§  Strong organizational skills

§  Commitment for association and humanitarian action

§  Proactivity and to be solution oriented

§  Ability to think out of the box and to be creative

Professional experience required

§  Demonstrated experience in a similar position (2 years) or equivalent experience;

§  Good knowledge of recruitment procedure and process

§  Experience in an international organization, humanitarian and/or multicultural environment is an asset

Languages Skills

·       Working proficiency in English and French

Computer Skills

·       MS Office suite (mainly MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint)

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MSF offers equal recruitment and development opportunities without any form of discrimination based on gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, geographical origin, physical disability or any other discriminatory ground.

Female candidates who meet the requirements are strongly encouraged to apply.

Les femmes répondant aux critères sont vivement encouragées à candidater.

N.B.: This job description provides a framework for the main responsibilities and primary activities of the position. It is not exhaustive. Therefore, the responsibilities and activities of the position may differ from those described in this job description due to organizational and operational needs.

N.B. : Cette description de poste fournit un cadre pour les principales responsabilités et les principales activités du poste. Elle n'est pas exhaustive. Par conséquent, les responsabilités et les activités du poste peuvent différer de celles décrites dans cette description de poste en raison des besoins organisationnels et opérationnels.

Deadline: 1st March 2025 18:00 GMT
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.