Détails de l'annonce
Organisation : Médecins Sans Frontières - Artsen Zonder Grenzen
Site web : http://msf-azg.be/fr/job/coordinator-operational-risk-advice-unit-m-f
Adresse email : Recruit-HQ-Operations@brussels.msf.org
Lieu de l'emploi : Brussels + field /
Type d'emploi : Contrat à durée indéterminée
Type de contrat : Temps plein
Fonction : Coordination
Date de publication : 30/05/2017
Date limite : 20/06/2017
Profil
Candidate profile
- MSF experiences at a senior level of responsibilities in the field
- Expertise in security/risk management
- Experience in management of significant crisis
- Fluent in English
- Fluent French and/or Arabic are an asset
- Positive team spirit and motivated
- Good capacity to work under stress
- Good capacity to work in networks and inclusively
- Good capacity to integrate digitalization/new technologies in risk management
- Good capacity to synthetize and retransmit lessons learnt
Conditions
- Open-ended contract, full-time, based in Brussels or any MSF OCB Partner Section - with field visits/work
- For Brussels-based contract : Hospital Insurance (DKV) – Pension Plan – Canteen - 100% reimbursement for public transport costs
- Starting date : 01/09/2017
Deadline for applications: 21th June 2017
Interested candidates should send a letter of motivation and curriculum vitae in pdf by e-mail to Delphine Evrard, Recruit-HQ-Operations@brussels.msf.org, with the following reference: “Coordinator Operational Risk Advice Unit” indicating the name of the channel where you found this vacancy.
Description
Context
The principle on which humanitarian action is based is to preserve the lives and dignity of populations in distress. This action cannot be achieved without safeguarding our human and material resources.
Due to MSF’s explicit choice to intervene in conflict areas and often resource poor environments with significant financial and material assets, combined with our commitment to the most vulnerable populations often contravenes the interests of those who perpetrate the violence, the provision of humanitarian aid often entails physical and mental risks to our staff. These factors, among others, define MSF as a risk-taking organization.
Historically, the environment in which MSF works has always been dangerous and we have regularly been confronted with violence against our patients, staff and assets.
The responsibility for operational risk management lies first and foremost with the individual members of staff within an operational risk management framework under the responsibility of the operational line/hierarchy (FieldCo-HoM-CO-DO). The role of the Operational Risk Advice Unit, is to support operations in managing this operational risk management framework with field support/visit, training, tools and systems that are updated with the latest findings in the humanitarian risk management expertise world. This requires notably a permanent lessons learnt feedback loop from live experiences in the operations to the Unit and from the Unit to the operations. Another key responsibility, it is to maintain with the support of the director committee, a crisis management capacity.
This Unit is inside the Operations Department under the directors of operations.
Job Profile
Direct field support
- Her/his team gives a mirror effect to the field and supports them with technical tools, trainings and advise.
- Ad hoc context follow-up in high risk environments where significant threats exist against MSF staff such as abduction and targeted killing
Documents
- Develops and maintains Crisis Management handbooks
- Maintains the Abduction Guideline
- Develops and maintains necessary documents on how to manage operational risk and shares them on the appropriate platforms
- Garantees that the project risk analysis and risk reduction matrixes as well as other relevant documents are regularly updated on the field and up to the standard defined.
Trainings
- Reviews regularly the Operational Risks Modules given during the MSF trainings together with the Learning Unit, the Anaysis Department and the Operations Department
- Encourages and formalizes OperationalRisks trainings at the field level.
- Gives when possible these OperationalRisks Modules during the trainings
- Maintains fully trained HQ teams to be CMT/IMT members
- Organizes periodical training (with or without external facilitators/expert) for the All identified potential IMT and CMT members.
Compilation of Operational Incidents, reports and audit documents
- Responsible of the revision and the implementation of the OCB Incident Data Base,
- Retroactively integrates the past significant security, safety and legal incidents in the database,
- Compiles the existing documents related to Operational Risks within the MSF movement and in the humanitarian world and understand where are the common points and overlaps.
- Liaises and works with the Finance Compliance and Control Unit(focus mainly on how MSF uses resources and the risk attached to it), the Staff Health Unit and the Legal Department, to assure that there is a common vision and strategy on how to manage risk globally.
Analysis of Security Incidents
- Performs systematic analysis of the relevant security incidents and extracts the potential lessons learned from them.
- Works together with the Stockholm Evaluation Unit to write TOR for evaluations after a crisis.
- Develops an analysis on the evolution of the operational risks MSF is facing on the field across the contexts to identify main trends.
- Carries out security audits either upon request of a mission/cell or if felt as direct need to do so.
- Make sure that Lessons Learnt from critical incidents managed by other OCs are shared and included into our operational risk management framework.
Working Group
- Liaises and works together with his colleagues of other MSF sections and International Office.
- Be part of different Operational Risk working groups outside MSF (European Interagency Security Forum, etc)
Briefings
- In liaison with the HR department and COs, works on a more specific briefing process for high risk contexts
Direct Support to Ops
- Plays a mirror effect to the CMT leader on the functioning of the team and use of tools and frameworks.
- When we are two or more sections in the same geographic field of intervention, helps the CO to design the best security management agreement.
- Diffusion of the lessons learned from passed incidents to the relevant missions,
- Takes part in CoPro’s when projects are developed in an high insecurity context,
- Can advise and alert Operations Department on operational risks in a field/mission,
- Coordination and diffusion of the information and processes linked to the operationsl risks between the departments,
- Provides support on the context analysis at the request of the CO/HoM,
- Encourages and participate on discussions and debates on operational risks at HQ level.
