Médecins Sans Frontières, an international humanitarian medical association founded in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threatened: primarily in cases of armed conflict, but also epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters, and even exclusion from healthcare.
This position is open as a replacement.
Context
Since 2017, Médecins Sans Frontières has been running a Day Centre in Pantin (93) for Unaccompanied Minors, which has only taken in young girls since January 2025, and provides support through three areas of activity: socio-legal, somatic health and mental health.
This operational program is supplemented by an accommodation system, called “Passerelle” and located in Montreuil (93), and a Mobile Clinic operating in Ile de France.
Assignment
As part of a multidisciplinary team and under the responsibility of the Head of the Socio-Legal Department, participate in the social activities of the Ile de France project.
Carry out all activities involving social support for individual patients/survivors, including promoting their access to care and rights and providing referrals to other relevant support services and wider communities, in accordance with MSF principles and guidelines. Improve the social conditions of the target population.
Main responsibilities
- Identify the social needs of unaccompanied minors included in the program through a social assessment in individual interviews.
- Inform and guide young girls to enable them to access basic needs (food distribution points, showers, etc.) through group information workshops or individual interviews. Ensure that information regarding the various locations is up to date.
- Support the unaccompanied minors in the program in their legal access procedures (domiciliation, AME) and ensure permanent access to the rights of the unaccompanied minor public outside the walls
- Promote family ties for the young girls supported according to their needs (access to international telephone calls, collaboration with the Red Cross family links restoration services).
- Promote social ties and break the isolation of young girls through activities within the Pantin center or referrals to partner associations offering educational, cultural and sporting activities.
- Research and offer all types of suitable accommodation (SIAO requests and other accommodation solution approaches).
- Participate in the identification of unaccompanied minors in vulnerable situations, and develop social certificates/notes supporting the social care needs of young girls (requests for shelter, hearing before the Children’s Judge, etc.).
- Monitor the services offered (benefits, timetables, etc.), in particular by participating in association meetings related to the social support of unaccompanied minors.
- Identify and regularly update the list of social partners in order to improve the quality of guidance and support.
- Promote reorientations towards identified social partners.
- Ensure the confidentiality of information relating to young girls and ensure their consent if information sharing is necessary.
- Record and update the data necessary for monitoring unaccompanied minors in the MSF database, according to the established protocol.
- Participate in weekly team meetings and contribute to the multidisciplinary approach with the perspective of the social division and in close collaboration with the accommodation division.
- In collaboration with the multidisciplinary team: inform young people leaving the program about their rights and their future path through individual interviews or information workshops.
- Participate in data collection related to advocacy or internal reporting activities (Sitrep).
- Participate in the activities of the mission’s Mobile Clinic, for the reception and social orientation of people in precarious situations encountered (orientations, appointment booking, etc.) and regular updating of orientations.
Desired profile
Required diploma: State Diploma of Social Worker, CES, Specialized Educator or Educational Monitor.
Experience :
- Knowledge of social protection, child protection, immigration law, reception and care systems for unaccompanied minors.
- Experience in interviewing and conducting social assessments with populations in precarious and vulnerable situations.
- Experience with an audience of teenage girls or young adults.
LANGUAGES :
- French required.
- English desirable.
- Mastery of any foreign language spoken by the program’s patients is a plus (Lingala, Portuguese, Dioula, Bambara, Soninke, Fulani).
Skills and abilities:
- Adaptability
- Sense of quality
- Sense of service
- Teamwork and cooperation
- Proficiency in computer tools
- Rigor in file management
- Adherence to MSF principles
Status and conditions:
- Fixed-term contract (CDD) 12 months, renewable.
- €2,931.93 gross monthly over 13 months.
- 22 days of RTT per year. Supplementary health insurance covered 100% by Médecins Sans Frontières. Meal vouchers with a face value of €12.00 (60% covered by MSF). 50% coverage of public transport tickets or equivalent.
Position to be filled: mid-August 2025
How to apply
TO APPLY
Please send your application (cover letter, CV and copy of diploma required) by email until July 8, 2025 inclusive with the following reference in the subject line:
AST SOCIAL_IDF_NOM_PRENOM
to: msff-france-recrutement@paris.msf.org
No application submitted through any other channel will be considered and only complete files will be studied.