Human Resources Coordinator

Whether going out to the projects to provide training and support for the HR field staff or working in the capital developing a national staff HR policy, HRCOs provide the essential technical expertise to ensure that our national and international staff enjoy a safe and fair workplace and build successful careers with MSF.

It’s a diverse and stimulating role and you would be responsible for some or all of the following:

• Working with senior management team in country, providing HR advice on a wide variety of HR issues
• Working closely with HR teams in HQ to ensure resourcing needs for medical programmes in country are met (both national and international staff)
• Creating and reviewing HR policies and processes and overseeing their implementation across all projects
• Supporting and advising on learning and development of staff
• Ensuring MSF operates within local labour laws in the project country
• Managing, training and supervising locally recruited HR staff
• Supporting proper management of HR across the board and assuming full responsibility of all administration and legal issues in the mission

• completed vocational training and expertise in the area of human resources
• knowledge of human resources management including labour law, benchmarking, payroll, recruitment, employee development.
• Ability to adapt HR practices to very different working environments
• Good interpersonal skills, particularly listening, persuading, influencing and motivating; flair for building and maintaining good relationships
• Good time management combined with strong organisational skills, and ability to multi-task and work under pressure
• Ability to demonstrate creative solutions to problems and effectively manage change
• Demonstrable experience in conflict management
• Experience in training, coaching, mentoring and supervising