STAFF HEALTH UNIT INTERN

🎓 Are you a student or recent graduate in Côte d’Ivoire looking to gain hands-on experience in the humanitarian sector ? Join the MSF WaCA NextGen Talent Program and take the first step toward a meaningful and impactful career!

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – West and Central Africa (WaCA) is part of a global medical humanitarian movement. We provide emergency medical care to people affected by crises. As the first MSF HQ based in Africa, MSF WaCA values local talent, innovation, and proactive engagement.

About the WaCA NextGen Talent Program

This program offers students and recent graduates in Côte d’Ivoire a chance to contribute to MSF WaCA’s mission through structured internships at our Abidjan HQ. You'll work alongside experienced professionals, receive mentorship, and be part of real humanitarian projects.

👉 Why Join ?

•          Gain practical experience in an international humanitarian organization

•          Receive coaching and mentorship

•          Work in a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive environment

•          Receive a monthly allowance and insurance coverage

We Are Looking for: STAFF HEALTH UNIT INTERN

Department/Unit: Staff Health Unit

Direct Manager: Head of Staff Health Unit

Assigned Mentor: Staff Health Unit Referent

Working %: 100%

Position Based in: Abidjan, HQ

Type of Contract: Fixed-Term Internship Contract under Ivorian law; (3) months Renewable

Position to be filled: As soon as possible

Your Role in the team

Mission & Internship Objectives

•          The intern will support the Staff Health in the delivery of quality support to the health and wellbeing of MSF employees and :

•          Learn the mechanics of running a staff health unit in a humanitarian aid organization.

•          Learn and/or suggest improvements in good practice in staff health management

•          Depending on the intern’s learning ability and his/her background, additional responsibilities and activities may be assigned

•          During the internship period and in agreement with the SHU Manager, the intern may identify and work on a specific topic related to her/his academic background, competencies and interest.

•          Monitoring the SHU activities is a key component that will inform the team on making decisions, priorities and needed adjustments.

Tasks and responsibilities

In relation to briefings and debriefings

•          Ensure that all MSF staff going or coming back to a field mission have access to quality mental health preventative and curative services: by dispatching and follow-up of briefings and debriefings of international and mobile staff, to the SHU psychologist or to the external consultants according to the defined criteria.

Monitoring of the SHU activities

•          Support developing and maintaining a monitoring system to keep track the SHU activities (numbers of briefings/debriefings/referrals for support and other activities).

•          Support the SHU in the gradual uploading of information of its data base.

•          Ensure that fitness certificates of staff going to the field are transferred to the pertinent person in the Administration team, or duly filled in the SHU data base (data base under development).

Administrative tasks

•          In charge of invoices follow-up from external consultants and other service providers, linking with the Accounting Unit.

•          Provide support to the SHU whenever needed, in order to arrange medical or psychological appointments for MSF staff who need medical care, when pertinent.

•          Support the unit with the diffusion/uploading of updated documents into the knowledge management platform.

•          Internal communications upon delegation of the SHU Manager

Other activities

•          Participate in the weekly team meetings.

•          Participate in other MSF internal meetings – workshops, webinars, according on pertinence and availability/workload.

•          Depending on the competencies of the intern, and in agreement with the SHU Manager, additional tasks can be arranged.

Who can apply ?

•          Final-year undergraduate or graduate students based in Côte d’Ivoire.

•          Recent graduates (within the past year) Students based in Cote d’Ivoire.

Qualifications & Professional experience required

•          Higher education diploma in health services management, or in an equivalent field related exclusively to the health sector.

Your Superpowers

•          Experience in statistics or data management, an asset

•          Planning and organizational skills

•          Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office environment

•          Excellent ability to succesfully work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate commitment and support for diversity, gender-responsive, inclusive, and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.

•          Cultural sensitivity

•          Flexible and approachable

•          Open listening, high empathy capacity

•          Proactive and solution oriented.

•          High degree of discretion and respect for confidentiality

•          Fluent in French and English oral and written (Preferable)

At MSF, every talent matters!
We offer internship opportunities that are fair and inclusive, with no discrimination based on gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, geographical origin, disability, or any other factor.

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Female candidates who meet the requirements are strongly encouraged to apply.
Because diversity is our strength, and inclusion drives everything we do.

Deadline: 29th August 2025 18:00 GMT
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.