MOBILE SUPPORT TECHNICIAN RECRUITER (TEMPORARY CONTRACT) at Médecins Sans Frontières

GENERAL CONTEXT

Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association.
Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF.

The MSF movement is built around five operational directorates supported by MSF’s 21 sections, 24 associations and other offices together worldwide. MSF OCBA is one of those directorates. The operations are implemented by field teams and the mission coordination teams; together with the organizational units based in Barcelona, Athens and decentralised in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations, including the Human Resourses Department.

CONTEXT AND GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE POST

This Mobile Support Technician recruiter will act as focal point in the mission(s) for recruitment strategies, ensuring customisation to each relevant context/mission needs/users. The MST Recruiter will have to contribute to capacity building of field HR staff through the application and transfer of technical know-how according to MSF protocols. In addition, the person selected will have to adjust & harmonize recruitment processes in all missions to MSF-OCBA standards.

PLACEMENT WITHIN THE ORGANISATIONAL CHART

The Mobile Support Technician Recruiter is hierarchically accountable to Recruitment Coordinator. While in mission in the field, he/she refers to Human Resources Coordinator of the missions, by keeping the communication with the Recruitment Coordinator as explained above. The field visits should normally not exceed 8 weeks. It must be noted that this is a position with a substantial proportion of the time spent in the field.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN TASKS

Request support with direct recruitment:

• Support for project openings to missions if requested.
• Drafting advertisements for open calls for applications to publicise vacancies externally, in coordination with the publishing agency.
• Managing publications and job offers on the various communication channels.
• Follow up calls for applications to ensure their quality.
• Take part in active recruiting activities.

Reinforcement of the recruitment knowledge and strategies at mission level:

• Help the mission to do a good analysis of the labour market opportunities.
• Build & standardize digital support on main policies and strategies to be disseminated at field level for further implementation.
• Identify the best platform/institution/work association to publish the mission vacancies.
• Train the mission in the main strategies to filtering candidates.
• Help them to identify the key aspects to be considered in one CV.
• Train the identified person in interviews strategies.
• Train to give negative and positive feedback.
• Train the identified person in the use of behavioural Questionnaire.
• Train the mission in the main DEI recruitment strategies and the most commune bias done during the recruitment process.

In between field visits:

• Provide punctual support related to her/his area of expertise as requested by the Hierarchical Manager and in coordination with the correspondent Functional Manager(s).

SELECTION CRITERIA

Education and experience

• Required profile: Proven Experience in selecting and recruiting in similar organizations.
• Proven experience in Competency based interview technique (STAR methodology).
• Previous field experience as HR technician with MSF as desirable.
• Fluent English and French are must. Spanish and Arabic will be considered as an added value. Good knowledge of IT tools and Web 2.0 software (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.).

COMPETENCIES

• Commitment to MSF Principles
• Cross-cultural awareness
• Behavioural flexibility
• Stress management
• Analytical Thinking
• Results and quality orientation
• Planning and Organising
• Service orientation
• Teamwork and cooperation

Others

• Willingness to travel at short notice to whatever context MSF is working in, for missions in principle not exceeding 2 months.

CONDITIONS

• Contract: Up to end 2022.
• Home based, with frequent field visits (up to 70% of the time).
• Full time work.
• Annual gross salary: L5 (divided into 12 monthly payments) + secondary benefits based on MSF OCBA-.
• Practical working conditions while in the field are as per the MSF-OCBA guideline.
• Starting date: Immediately.