Détails de l'annonce
Organisation : Médecins Sans Frontières - Artsen Zonder Grenzen
Site web : https://www.msf-azg.be/nl/job/programme-manager-fieldrecentralisation-fm
Adresse email : caroline.maes@brussels.msf.org
Lieu de l'emploi : Brussels /
Type d'emploi : Contrat à durée déterminée
Type de contrat : Temps plein
Fonction : Direction
Date de publication : 15/01/2019
Date limite : 29/01/2019
Profil
CANDIDATE PROFILE
- Academic level with strategic vision and decision capacity
- Experience in project management and change management
- Knowledge in project management methodology
- Result and quality oriented: perseverance, energy, voluntarism, pragmatism, performance oriented, consistency, be able to take initiatives
- Capacity to represent, negotiate and influence: to manage resistances, be inclusive, have empathy and create buy-in; to be able to arbitrate
- Proven experience in inclusive management style
- Agrees in the principles which lay at the basis of this new managerial model
- Able to develop relations and a network
- Fluent in English, French is an asset
- 5 years of MSF or international NGO experience in a management position, preferably in both field and HQ
- Adhere to the MSF principles and to our managerial values: Respect, Transparency, Integrity, Accountability, Trust and Empowerment
CONDITIONS
- Initial fixed-term contract until end of year (may turn in open-ended contract) - Full-time - based in Brussels with (ir)regular travels
- Hospital Insurance (DKV) - Pension plan – Canteen at democratic price - 100% reimbursement for public transportation costs
- Starting position as soon as possible
CV + cover letter to be sent before 30/01/2019, to General Direction-Sarah Laevens, via e-mail : Recruit-HQ-DG@brussels.msf.org
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Description
CONTEXT
After a study and workshop organised in 2018, MSF OCB launches a programme to increase decisional power closer to the gravity and reality of our field work and to design an adapted operational support.
For the last 20 years, the world in which we work has become more complex, MSF grew rapidly in volume and the size of some projects became equivalent of what used to be the size of missions.
In response to the growing complexity of the organisation’s external environment and the requirements to improve the quality of its operational management and response, MSF developed its operational support by concentrating experience and expertise mainly at headquarters. This de facto generated an increase in internal complexity, with fragmentation of more & more specialised expertise, duplication of validation processes, the research for more and more innovative solutions and the development of highly technical tools.
The “field recentralisation” programme will work through learning by doing, starting with a purposely sought bottom up approach in projects of the OCB Southern Africa portfolio, but may include other operational contexts soon after. Solutions will be specific depending on contextual realities, needs, objectives, and future perspectives. These solutions will evolve through experimenting but also along the evolution of the operational portfolio.
Core principles of the new managerial culture - with the field projects in the centre - which we want to develop are laid out in a roadmap and are based on the following principles:
- a more stimulating, less bureaucratic and more agile and efficient management: responsibilising field managers, including the role of medical staff in operational decision-making
- an adapted operational support which contributes to becoming a more diverse and global organisation
JOB PROFILE
The candidate will be responsible to lead the operational translation of the output & recommendations of the consultant’s report into the Southern African (SA) region and beyond. This report can be obtained on request by DG-office.
(S)he will be responsible for the designing & guiding the practical translation of this road map at the level of each pillar and set objectives, timelines, priorities and define deliverables & outcomes, resulting in a project document with a project charter and a “dynamic” project follow up dashboard.
(S)he will identify the key actors of change at field, HQ & MSF SA level; organise working groups and meetings (ad hoc & quarterly progress monitoring meetings); identify and manage necessary support.
(S)he will create buy-in; organise internal communication through capitalisation on the experience, building of success stories;, etc.
(S)he works in an inclusive manner; identify blockages, regulate tensions created by the change, facilitate the resolution of complex problems, foster a positive dynamic. (Change management)
(S)he will monitor progress and budget consequences, analyse risks and suggest solutions. Regular presentations of progress update and difficulties to the Steering Committee (Programme management)
(S)he will feed the organizational model through the experiences and look for examples out of OCB in the MSF movement and beyond. (Strategical organizational reflection)
(S)he will be the focal point for this programme at OCB, will be available to explain key concepts to other (OC-Departments & operational cells) and act as an advisor to guide them into similar paths, if requested
The programme manager will have to be able to travel within Europe and to/in the Southern African region and beyond, whenever needed or requested.
The Programme manager falls under the OCB DG department and reports to the Programme Steering Committee.