Mobile Implementing Officer (MIO) W/M - Food security and nutrition

Profile:

Education/Experience

• Nurse or Doctor experienced in nutrition
• Experience 2 years with MSF or in a Humanitarian Medical Organization.
• At least 12 months' experience on a project with a child malnutrition component.
• To have an MSF experience is an asset.
• MSF experience including work with outpatient and inpatient nutrition/pediatrics activities. Person-centered approach essential.

Competencies & skills

• Knowledge of food insecurity environment, capacity to detect, describe and define adequate actions. Knowledge of acute malnutrition environment, capacity to understand the ins and outs of humanitarian response and tailor the analysis to the specific project’s problematics.
• Strong knowledge and experience of acute malnutrition in highly food insecure areas, marasmus and kwashiorkor, from screening to management, from the organizationnal point of view and from medical-paramedical point of view. Capacity to identify rapidly the medical strength and constraints of a potential or an existing nutritional program, ambulatory and inpatients.
• Capacity to deploy, implement, support and monitor nutritional activities. Capacity to developpe and implement actions that promote the best response to the needs of the population. Capacity to make complex plans and how to implement them.
• Strategical vision combining long term perspectives to the constraints of the urgent needs. Detection of long-term opportunities and consideration of their impact. Ability to formulate it and challenges the strategies of the organization, and to synthetize complex problematics.
• Person-centered approach: Capacity to orientate work by considering perspectives from community members, patients, caregivers, staff, and other stakeholders.
• Planification and organization: Capacity to plan and prioritize its own action plan and providing support to ensure that everyone in the team is able to do so. Planification of actions to be carried out with a medium-long term perspective, taking other team members into consideration. Organization of work according to the constraints. Involving the team in discussions on planning to increase efficiency.
• Pro-activity and reactivity. Utilizing existing tools that are proved to be efficient before coming up with new tools.
• Team work and cooperation: Capacity to Build team spirit within the organization, to act by example, to adapt to levels of responsibility, to coach team members, to provide a reference model for the team, and ability to remove obstacles. Ability to work not only with other specialists, but also as part of a team with field and head office staff, to mobilize people by transmitting a convincing future vision, promoting motivation and commitment towards future objectives.
• Innovation: Capacity to look for innovative solutions, promoting participatory spaces and tools to enhance creative thinking.
• Negociation: Ability to seek for mutual benefit, to identify resistance and adaptability.
• Results and quality orientation: Ability to challenge objectives and management indicators.
• Capacity to understand and adapt the strategies to the security context.
• Capacity to Strenghen networking, interaction between MSF and its environment and to facilitate a sustainable network.  
• Good command of Excel, Word and Praxis. Basic knowledge of DHIS, ability to adapt to specific statistic and epidemiological tools.

Languages

• Mandatory level C1: English level C1
• C1 level essential, one of the 2 following languages: Hausa or French
• Fluency in other languages is an asset.

Specificities of the position:

• 12-month fixed-term contract - Full-time.
• Position: 75% of the time is spent in the field on projects and 25% based in a country with MSF representation, with the possibility to work according to CET time zone and ability to travel to the field.
• Field contract, according to MSF field salary scale, based on seniority and experience
• Payment of accommodation, travel and per diem during visits and stays at headquarters.

Position to be filled: May 2025

A MSF, nous valorisons la diversité et cherchons à avoir un environnement de travail inclusif et accessible. Nous encourageons toutes les personnes qui possèdent les qualifications requises à postuler, indépendamment de leur origine ethnique, nationale ou culturelle, de leur âge, de leur sexe, de leur orientation sexuelle, de leurs convictions, de leur handicap ou d'autres aspects de leur identité.