MSF Access Campaign Officer

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders) 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 is composed of 24 national or regional Sections, who work together through six Operational Directorates. At any given time, its teams will support populations in need of medical and humanitarian assistance in around 70 countries worldwide.

• MSF Access is part of MSF International. Médecins Sans Frontières works tirelessly to improve the accessibility, availability, affordability, appropriateness and quality of products for health care for the populations it assists and their communities. While this is a collective effort across the organisation, the MSF Access team plays a central role as it identifies and implements a priority selection of access projects, offers expert support for access activities elsewhere in MSF, and brings together information and analysis relevant to MSF’s access work. The MSF Access team, overseen by an Executive Board, is based in the following five regional hubs:

• Dakar, Senegal: covering West and Central Africa

• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: covering the Americas

• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: covering Asia and Oceania

• Nairobi, Kenya: covering Eastern and Southern Africa

• Brussels, Belgium: covering Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa

The work of MSF Access is rooted in MSF’s medical humanitarian work and aims to improve access to medicines and healthcare products for people in the greatest need by bringing down barriers that keep people from getting the treatment they need to stay alive and healthy.  

To do this, we advocate for the most effective medicines and health products to be available, affordable, and equitably accessible for the people we care for, and beyond.  

The MSF Access team has the following responsibilities:

• Gather input for MSF’s Common Priorities on access to products of healthcare (Access).

• Design and implement Access Analysis & Advocacy activities to respond to the agreed Common Priorities.

• Provide, facilitate, support on Access files outside the Common Priorities to MSF entities that request it.

• Maintain an overview of Access initiatives across MSF and report on them annually.

• Research, and stay informed of, the Access landscape globally and regionally to inform the MSF Movement of opportunities and threats.

We are looking for a passionate Campaign Officer with experience to design the development and implementation of an international public-facing campaign to improve access to health products for people living with diabetes. The role will require coordination across regional teams as well as external partners. The successful applicant will project manage and work with a committed core team of technical, advocacy , policy and communication colleagues.

• Develop a robust strategy and timeline and select appropriate tools to facilitate an international, regional, and multi-country level campaign

• Coordinate campaign activities across regions with relevant teams

• In collaboration with the communications team, develop and define key messages campaign materials, and actions, including a campaign look-and-feel

• Support the collection and analysis of data for briefing papers, talking points, and reports to inform positioning and advocacy efforts in regions and countries

• Contribute to stakeholder engagement and partnership coordination

• Build and maintain internal and external relationships to advance activities and mobilization

• Monitor campaign deliverables, timelines and outputs

• In coordination with the communications team, support digital and public engagement activities

• Support resource planning

• Commitment to MSF principles

• Degree in communication, political science or equivalent

• 3–5 years of experience in developing and executing campaigns, advocacy strategies preferably at global level in the not-for-profit sector

• Strategic thinking and planning ability, demonstrated track record of problem solving and seeking solutions to challenges, and creative thinking

• Strong facilitation skills

• Proven ability to work across regions and multicultural teams

• Strong project coordination and stakeholder management skills

• Experience in liaising with external actors

• Proficiency in English

• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced international environment

• Additional languages (French, Arabic) considered an advantage