Médecins Sans Frontières, an international humanitarian medical association created in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threatened: mainly in the event of armed conflicts, but also epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters or even exclusion of care.
The France mission is looking for a Medical Activities Manager for its projects on the North Coast.
CONTEXT
Médecins Sans Frontières works in France with exiled people faced with the health, psychological and social consequences of violence linked to migratory routes and breakdowns in protection. Mission France combines care, protection and testimony to meet the needs of the most vulnerable people.
Today it focuses its action on the Northern Littoral and Île-de-France, while maintaining a capacity for rapid response to emergency situations. Supported by multidisciplinary teams, it develops medical, psychological, social and advocacy activities in a constantly evolving context.
In a context of high vulnerability of people exiled to the Franco-British border, the Littoral Nord project aims to improve access to care and protection for the most exposed populations, while documenting the health, psychological and social impacts of policies migratory. It constitutes a strategic axis of Mission France, at the interface between relief operations and advocacy.
MISSION
Under the responsibility of the Migration Medical Referent, you ensure the coordination, supervision and monitoring of the project’s medical activities on the Northern Coast.
You supervise nurses, midwives and volunteers involved in medical activities. You ensure the quality of care, the continuity of care and the adaptation of interventions to the needs identified in the field.
In close collaboration with other center managers, you contribute to developing a multidisciplinary approach to care, improving orientation pathways and developing activities according to the needs of the people supported.
Your role combines team management, medical coordination, operational management and contribution to the strategic orientations of the project.
Your main responsibilities
1. Coordinate medical activities and guarantee quality of care
- Organize, supervise and evaluate the project’s medical activities, particularly in terms of somatic health and sexual and reproductive health.
- Guarantee the application of MSF protocols and procedures as well as the recommendations of the competent health authorities.
- Ensure the quality, safety and continuity of care, in particular compliance with protocols and the relevance of medical prescriptions.
- Participate, with the Migration Medical Referent, in the development, updating and review of medical protocols and tools.
- Supervise patient monitoring procedures and ensure proper maintenance of records and monitoring tools.
- Contribute to reflection on the management of complex and priority medical situations and ensure the progress of care, in coordination with other managers concerned.
- Participate occasionally in outbound activities at the various project intervention sites, in order to promote continuity and consistency of care.
2. Manage, support and develop team skills
- Supervise nurses, midwives and volunteers involved in medical activities.
- Organize and coordinate team activities between consultations, marauding, collective interventions and other project activities.
- Plan staffing, schedules, leave and absences to ensure business continuity.
- Participate in the recruitment, integration and evaluation processes of professionals, in collaboration with the human resources department.
- Identify training needs and develop a skills development plan combining training, support, coaching and sharing of practices.
- Participate, in collaboration with the human resources department, in the recruitment and evaluation of health and intercultural mediator profiles.
- Promote internal communication, cooperation and collective dynamics within the team.
3. Strengthen the coordination of care pathways and partnerships
- Guarantee close collaboration between medical, mental health, social work and mediation teams in order to promote comprehensive care adapted to people’s needs.
- Participate in coordination meetings between division managers and contribute to collective reflection on complex individual situations.
- Develop and maintain, in conjunction with the Migration Medical Referent, relations with health institutions, associative partners and health professionals in the region.
- Contribute to the development of referral mechanisms towards appropriate medical services and facilitate the monitoring of patients in their care pathway.
- Ensure coordination with other medical representatives of partner organizations.
- Identify difficulties in accessing care and contribute to improving orientation and care pathways.
4. Analyze needs and contribute to project directions
- Participate in rapid assessments of medical needs and analyze health issues identified by the teams.
- Analyze the difficulties encountered by medical teams in order to propose adaptations and improvements to activities and treatment methods.
- Supervise the collection, compilation and analysis of project medical data, ensuring their reliability and respect for confidentiality.
- Develop regular reports on activities, results and challenges encountered to inform operational decisions.
- Contribute to strategic and operational discussions as well as annual planning of medical activities.
- Document restrictions on access to health services and contribute, in conjunction with the Migration Medical Referent, to the collection of information and testimonies fueling MSF’s communication and advocacy actions.
5. Ensure the proper management of medical and operational resources
- Supervise the management of pharmacy, medicines, devices and medical equipment, ensuring their availability and rational use.
- Anticipate equipment and consumable needs and prepare the necessary orders in collaboration with the teams concerned.
- Supervise, in conjunction with the biomedical manager of the project, the proper use of medical devices and anticipate future needs.
- Identify the logistical and organizational needs essential to the proper functioning of medical activities.
- Contribute to annual planning, budget preparation and monitoring of financial and material resources within its scope, in conjunction with the support departments.
- Ensure the efficient use of resources and report difficulties likely to affect the operation or quality of activities.
Profile sought
Training and experience
- Medical diploma or state nursing diploma essential, with compulsory registration with the corresponding professional order.
- At least two years of experience in medical team management.
- Experience within MSF, another NGO or an association is desired.
- Experience in the field of migration is an asset.
Skills and qualities
- Strong skills in coordinating medical activities and team management.
- Ability to organize priorities, analyze needs and make decisions adapted to the context.
- Ability to support teams, develop their skills and promote their autonomy.
- Sense of responsibility, professional rigor and demand for quality.
- Ability to work in a team and in multidisciplinarity.
- Flexibility, stress management and ability to adapt to difficult and changing environments, including during nighttime activities.
- Adherence to the principles and values of Médecins Sans Frontières.
- B license desired.
Languages and tools:
- Fluent command of French essential.
- Fluency in oral English.
- Knowledge of other languages is strongly desired.
- Good command of common computer tools: Word, Excel and Internet.
Terms of employment
Mobility required on the Northern Coast between Calais and Dunkirk
Status: 12-month fixed-term contract.
Remuneration and benefits:
- 3,503.28 € gross monthly over 13 months
- 22 days of RTT per year
- Supplementary health insurance 100% covered by MSF
- 12€ meal vouchers (60% MSF support)
- 50% coverage of public transport or kilometers by bike
Position to be filled: January 4, 2027
How to apply
Please send your application with CV, cover letter and copies of compulsory diplomas before December 4, 2026, by email with the following reference in the subject: RESPONSIBLE FOR MEDICAL ACTIVITIES – NORTH COAST_NAME_FIRST NAME to [email protected]
Only candidates(s) whose applications have been selected will be contacted(es).
Link to ad: Mission France – Responsible for medical activities – Littoral Nord F/M | Doctors Without Borders
