Senior Humanitarian Affairs Advisor in The Arhp - Colombia, Huila - Médecins Sans Frontierès

Médecins Sans Frontierès

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Colombia, Huila

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Carolina González

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SENIOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS ADVISOR IN THE ARHP - HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS UNIT (BASED IN ANY OCBA HUB):

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Full Time
Operations

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.

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

As part of the ARHP team, contribute to MSF OCBA's analysis of and positioning on humanitarian crises, primarily linked to operations in the Sahel (although not only) and the access of populations to assistance.

The main objective of this position is to support OCBA teams at mission and department level with analysis, engagement, positioning, and advocacy on identified issues of concern.

MSF OCBA's portfolio centers on populations in contexts of conflict and violence and provides medical -humanitarian aid to alleviate the consequences of conflict and violence on populations.

OCBA's analysis and positioning will be frequently linked to questions of access and security, humanitarian space, patterns of violence and displacement, and protection of the population at project and population level, as well as broader response effectiveness.

ARHP's purpose is two-fold: internally it aims to feed identified lessons learned back into operations as well as to support engagement and advocacy efforts, while externally it seeks to give visibility to practical and operational constraints in humanitarian practice and, when relevant, how MSF has addressed them.

PLACEMENT WITHIN THE ORGANISATION
This position will be hierarchically under the Head of the ARHP. Effective partnerships with field coordination teams and operational cells are essential.

REPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN FUNCTIONS

Maintain an overview of humanitarian issues for specific contexts with OCBA operations, so to identify needs and specific challenges that should be overcome to improve the access of populations impacted by conflict / violence to essential services (e.g. attacks on health care, malnutrition causes, displacement consequences and conditions, gaps in humanitarian response, obstacles to vaccination). Identify meaningful opportunities for MSF to share its medical humanitarian analysis. Generally, provide support for advocacy so to improve the situation of the affected population.
In line with the OCBA strategy and operational priorities, support select missions (coordination and field teams) with sparring, analysis, and engaging to ensure timely positioning and advocacy on events/trends related to violence, humanitarian access, and health consequences. This would include the drafting of briefing papers, reports, talking points, advice and notes on framing specific challenges, etc.
Develop reflection processes (e.g. papers, workshops, exchanges) on specific thematic that are important for addressing humanitarian access challenges, situations of acute violence and IHL violations, and/or linked to humanitarian principles. This could include supporting field teams to understand fully the impact on access of criminalization of populations and antihumanitarian narratives.
Support with engagement strategies, at country and regional level to develop further MSF networks. Contribute to overall MSF efforts in making connections with influential networks in the region to support maintaining and improving humanitarian access. Based on engagement strategies, assist to inform communication and other relevant strategies.
Provide technical support to Humanitarian Affairs Officer/Advocacy Managers in the field and work closely with them to define priorities and ensure smooth implementation.
Liaise with relevant Humanitarian Affairs colleagues in other sections and MSF HRT network, so to exchange and inform on key humanitarian issues and advocacy plans.
Maintain and build external contacts with NGOs, UN, think tanks, analysts, and other relevant organizations related to specific files.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Strong writing skills and excellent research / analytical skills
Field humanitarian experience in contexts of conflict, displacement, resourcepoor environments is essential;
Good understanding of current humanitarian debates and dilemmas of modern humanitarian interventions;
Proven experience supporting operational field teams to design and implement engagement/advocacy strategies to support humanitarian operations
Experience of protection programming is desirable
Previous MSF experience is highly desirable;
Bilingual French and English mandatory
Essent