MSF International
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Location: Any MSF office*
Contract: Permanent contract at 100%
Starting date: 01st of February 2027
Deadline to apply: 03rd of December 2026 - We reserve the right to close this position once suitable candidates have been identified.
Compensation and Benefits: MSF practice is to offer the compensation and benefits package in line with the MSF entity offering the contract
By default, the successful candidate will be offered a contract in the MSF office, able to issue a contract, of their country of residence at the time of application. If no MSF office exists in their country of residence, the successful candidate will be expected to relocate to a country where an MSF office can issue a contract, provided the local legislation allows for that.*
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
MSF is committed to preventing abuse, inappropriate behaviour, lack of integrity and financial misconduct in its work and care spaces. The successful candidate will be expected to comply with the organisation’s safeguarding policies and standards of professional behaviour.
We are committed to removing barriers for people with specific accessibility needs. If you need an adjustment to the recruitment process to be considered for the role, please let us know from the beginning of the selection process.
MSF International
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF International is the legal entity that binds MSF’s 26 sections, 28 associations and 16 branch offices together. Registered in Switzerland, MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF Movement, as well as implements international projects and initiatives as requested.
Context
MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF movement and implements international projects and initiatives as requested. In 2026, MSF began a new six-year strategic cycle — the Strategic Planning and Resource Cycle (SPARC) — which replaces the previous Resources-Sharing Agreement (RSA4). SPARC brings together movement-wide priorities, coordinated decision-making, shared accountability and collective investment stewardship across the MSF movement.
Within this framework, the Collective Portfolio is a core mechanism for translating SPARC ambitions into coherent, prioritised and monitorable movement-level investments. It brings together the Common Strategic Priorities Portfolio and other collective portfolio components, enabling the movement to assess strategic fit, sequencing, interdependencies, absorptive capacity, risk and value across a complex set of initiatives. The SPARC Interoperability priority in particular cuts across all other priorities and provides an enabling approach that shapes portfolio implementation and coherence.
The Collective Portfolio Manager is the senior role responsible for holding together the diverse components of the Collective Portfolio during SPARC implementation. The role enables collective ownership, strengthens evidence-based steering, and reinforces accountability for results, resource choices and delivery against SPARC Goals and Principles. It operates across MSF’s decentralised governance and executive environment, working closely with the International Office, Executive Committees, the SPARC Steering Committee, the Portfolio Committee, finance stakeholders, content owners and senior leaders across the movement.
As a member of the International Office management environment, the role also contributes to institutional coherence, organisational learning and SPARC-related change leadership.
Purpose of the job
The main purpose is to provide strategic leadership for SPARC’s Collective Portfolio to strengthen movement-wide accountability, prioritisation, effectiveness and alignment across collective investments.
The role ensures that the Collective Portfolio has robust decision-making and accountability mechanisms. This includes ensuring that portfolio composition, investment choices, delivery performance, risk monitoring and resource visibility are integrated into cross-cutting analysis and timely executive decision-making.
The role also leads management of the portfolio of work for the Common Strategic Priorities and advances portfolio, project and change management practice across the International Office and relevant executive platforms. This work involves paying particular attention to interoperability, absorption capacity, sequencing, implementation quality and organisational coherence.
Finally, this position also supports the functioning of the SPARC Steering Committee. It provides coordination, analysis and synthesis needed for the Committee to fulfil its oversight role on behalf of the Full ExCom. The role helps translate information emerging from the Collective Portfolio, SPARC Coordinating Mechanisms and related reporting processes into coherent cross-cutting insight on progress, risks, resource implications, interdependencies and emerging tensions.
Accountabilities
Expected result: The Portfolio Committee, relevant executive platforms and the Full ExCom have timely, relevant and decision-ready information on portfolio performance, integration, resourcing and risk.
Expected result: Initiatives and projects within the portfolio of work for the Common Strategic Priorities are strategically aligned, appropriately prioritised and collectively steered to optimise their contribution to SPARC goals and principles.
Expected result: Collective portfolio oversight decisions are supported by evidence, implementation follow-through is tangible, and the movement has stronger accountability for the results of collective investments.
Expected result: The International Office and relevant executive platforms apply stronger portfolio, project and change management practices, enabling more coherent delivery, organisational learning and implementation effectiveness.
Expected result: the Steering Committee is equipped with clear, integrated and decision-ready information that strengthens its ability to monitor SPARC implementation, identify and address cross-cutting challenges, and provide well-grounded advice and recommendations to the Full ExCom.
Autonomy, complexity
Autonomy to deliver results
Operates with a high degree of autonomy within the mandate of the role. Determines portfolio management approaches, governance rhythms, prioritisation processes, analytical frameworks and facilitation strategies required to strengthen collective investment steering, accountability and executive decision-making. Exercises independent judgement on complex organisational, strategic and implementation issues with movement-wide implications, while escalating matters requiring broader executive or governance authority.
Complexity of the environment
The role operates in a highly complex and decentralised international environment involving multiple governance and executive bodies, operational directorates, sections, finance stakeholders and strategic initiatives with intersecting priorities, timelines and resource implications. The role requires navigating ambiguity, influencing without formal authority, balancing strategic and operational considerations, and enabling collective choices where perspectives, incentives and institutional interests may differ. The position must synthesise diverse streams of information into coherent portfolio insight while supporting implementation discipline across a dynamic and evolving strategic cycle.
The incumbent commits to contribute to a safe, supportive, inclusive, equitable, diverse, respectful and healthy workplace, free from abuse and other misconduct. They will not engage in any form of abuse, including those detailed in the MSF Typologies of Abuse. When an employee suspects or observes abuse, they will report it, without investigating it, to protect others.
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