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 five operational directorates supported by MSF’s 21 sections, 24 associations and other offices together worldwide. 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, Athens and decentralised in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations, including the Human Resources Department.

JOB GENERAL OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT

Within the Human resources Department, the Intern will be involved with 2 of its units: the Pool Management team and the Recruitment team. The Recruitment team is mainly in charge of attracting and processing applicants for MSF OCBA’s international field missions. The candidates recruited then become part of MSF OCBA’s pool. The Pool management team is in charge of the recruited people, their field assignments and career development. 

The Recruitment team also facilitates Headquarters (HQ) recruitment processes.

The candidate chosen will give support to the recruitment unit during all the selection processes. S/he will mainly focus on field recruitment processes but will also collaborate on headquarter positions and pool management service when needed.

The internship will report to the Recruitment Coordinator and will work (depending on topic) with all the members of the team (recruiters).

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

Although, we will prioritize initiatives depending on importance and workload of the position, the main tasks to be in charge of during the scholarship are:

In terms of Recruitment (90% of the time)

Publication of job offers for both field and HQ positions, ad hoc active search on LinkedIn of certain profiles

Management of reception of applications, and other routine communication with candidates

Participation in designing active recruitment initiatives when needed

Maintenance of database (SAP), its updates, running reports

Support to the team in the organization of assessment centres

Active or passive involvement in all stages of the recruitment process depending on necessities

In terms of Pool Management (10% of the time)

Entering CVs in SAP on request of Pool Managers

Other administrative support needed by the team

Education and experience

Currently studying Human Resources, Psychology or similar branches

Interest for the Humanitarian Action sector

Interest in Recruitment

Interest in digital technologies and their use in recruitment

Good level of Excel and other MS Office tools

Fluent in English & Spanish. French will be highly considered

Competences

Commitment to MSF’s Principles

Teamwork and Cooperation

Cross-cultural Awareness

Behavioural Flexibility

Stress Management

We are looking for a proactive person, with high orientation on quality of the results of her/his work and availability to provide polyvalent support to the team while being very independent on processing routine and repetitive tasks.