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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 six operational directorates. 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 and decentralized in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

Within the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Unit (placed under OCBA’s general direction), the Intern will be involved in 2 main areas of activity:

Data analysis, organization and development

• To support the DEI Lead on the elaboration of a monitoring document/system (and its follow-up) for the Anti-racism indicators, in accordance with the discussions and indicators already developed by the Anti-Racism Committee.


• Support the Unit on discussions and reflections about social indicators related to the conception of a future survey and analysis in terms of DEI data, for MSF OCBA.


• To support the DEI Unit and the Medical department on a gender needs assessment for women patients, to evaluate our equity outcomes and the level of gender-sensitiveness of our programs, also considering an intersectional lens.


• To support the Unit on the conception of a survey focused on career barriers for locally hired women and men from low and middle-income countries.

Specific tasks:

• To create, fill in and follow-up a monitoring system for the anti-racism indicators.


• Participation in discussions and design of a DEI survey (tools, supporting internal reflections and meetings).


• Participation in the discussions and follow-up of a gender needs assessment.


• Participation in the discussions and design of a survey focused on career barriers, for women and men.

General support

• If possible, support the Unit on the translations (directly or with the support of professional online tools) for the DEI Unit’s Sharepoint, documents and tools.


• To support the DEI Lead with the analysis of the DEI learning content/ DEI modules and on how to improve it when/ if needed.


• To support the Lead on the follow-up of some decisions taken at international meetings and working groups (WG), as the DEI International WG, the DEI Leads WG and the Anti-Racism Committee.


• To support the DEI Unit on the follow-up of the Equality Plan and the organization of the annual final report.

Specific tasks:

• To update the DEI Unit’s Sharepoint with documents and new ideas or tools.


• To participate on meetings and internal reflections about DEI learning applied to the projects and to teams sitting in HQs.


• To follow-up the meetings from the DEI WGs.


• To organize the Equality Plan’s information and reports.


• Other administrative support needed by the team.

The candidate chosen will give support to the DEI Unit during all the period, mainly focus on the activities described above, but can also collaborate on other specific requests from the Unit.

The intern will report to the DEI Lead and will work (depending on topic) with all the members of the team (DEI HR and Culture Manager and DEI Mobile Support Technician).

SELECTION CRITERIA

Education and experience

• Currently studying sociology, social anthropology, data analysis applied to social sciences, or similar branches.


• Interest in Social Sciences and topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).


• Knowledge of social indicators (and ideally knowledge of R/ SPSS/ Python).


• Good level of Excel and other MS Office tools.


• Fluent in Spanish and good level of English.

CONDITIONS

• Based in any Barcelona or MSF-Spain office delegations (Sevilla, Bilbao, Madrid or Valencia).


• 20h/week (4h/day). 400 €/ month.


• Duration: 6 months.


• Conditions will be according to MSF internal “Internship policy” and will be formalized into an “Agreement” signed between MSF and the University detailing duties and obligations of each party.


• Starting date: June 2023.

HOW TO APPLY

• To apply, please, follow the link below and submit your CV and cover letter.


• Closing date: June 7, 2023, 23:59 CET (Central European Time).

SELECTION CRITERIA

Education and experience

• Currently studying sociology, social anthropology, data analysis applied to social sciences, or similar branches.


• Interest in Social Sciences and topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).


• Knowledge of social indicators (and ideally knowledge of R/ SPSS/ Python).


• Good level of Excel and other MS Office tools.


• Fluent in Spanish and good level of English.