Mobile Implementation Officer : Technical Referent Infrastructures (m/f)

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES is an international non-governmental organization today working in 60 countries. Our volunteers provide assistance to populations in distress and victims of conflict, without any discrimination on the grounds of race, religion, philosophy or political affiliation.

To enhance our support from Brussels, the Logistics Department is looking for a: Mobile Implementation Officer : Technical Referent Infrastructures (m/f)

Contexte The Technical Referent contributes to the development – and is responsible for implementation – of policies and strategies related to Rehabilitation- Construction – Semi-permanent – of MSF-OCB shelters. His/her technical support to operations is done for the benefit of – and in close collaboration with – Logistics Operations.

Main tasks

Support to operations: He/she takes on responsibilities delegated by the Construction Technical Referent under his supervision: - The primary objective is to respond to technical needs of operations, in these ways: - He/she carries out technical feasibility studies on existing infrastructures and/or to be foreseen in collaboration with other departments (i.e. Med) - He/she assures attentive management and accompaniment of critical project cycle phases, - He/she responds promptly, pro-actively and even innovatively (as confirmed by the Construction Technical Referent) to operations requests for technical support, - He/she provides support to the missions during technical support visits in the field at the request of the cells. - He/she actively contributes to operational implementation of strategies related to Rehabilitation – Construction – Semi-permanent – MSF-OCB shelters activities. - He/she puts in place adequate resources and technical processes in the missions - He/she ensures support to project progress and teams (headquarters, coordination, project).

Technical Referent: He/she leads all technical aspects: Rehabilitation – Construction of sanitary and other structures, putting into place shelters and semi-permanent structures He/she encourages reflection on and contributes to strategy definition in this domain.
He/she is responsible for the implementation of defined policies and strategies. He/she participates in – and as needed – leads work meetings with other Technical Referents or Log cells in order to assure follow-up on the progress of the various technical priorities and to provide an accounting for interested third parties. He/she makes pertinent information accessible to the Logistics Department relative to the technical aspects of the various projects in which they are involved and assures its use in a format defined by the Construction Technical Referent. In collaboration with the Construction Technical Referent, he/she participates in the definition, recording (himself/herself of assigned to another), and the distribution of reference documents (policies, guidelines, manuals, etc.) of all technical aspects.

Training support + (de)briefing: He/she assures back-up of the Construction Technical Referent for providing training related to his area of expertise. He/she assures the distribution of information to key people involved

Profile • Architect, Construction engineer, or equivalent in level and experience. • Minimum 2 years experience with MSF on the field, with a variety of construction/rehabilitation experience (preferably health structures) • Familiar with specific building technical aspects: electricity, ventilation, plumbing, etc • Computer literate, ideally in use of AutoCAD (or equivalent) • Fluent written and spoken English and French • Ability to set priorities and organise his/her own work;

Conditions

Contract : Fixed-term contract 12 months Based in: about 70% of the time on the field / year, rest of the time in Brussels

Deadline for Application: 20 of July 2011

Interested candidates should send a Letter of Motivation, and Curriculum Vitae, by e-mail to sophie.dreyer@brussels.msf.org or by mail Sophie Dreyer, Logistics Department, Rue Dupré 94, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.