[Job Opportunity] Board Support Officer - Brussels - MSF Belgium

Deadline for application: 31st July 2024

Organisation: Médecins Sans Frontières

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Duration: Open-ended contract

Job level: Junior

Short job description: 

MSF is a worldwide movement of 27 associations, 6 operational directorates, 24 sections and 18 Branch offices.  They are bound together in the MSF international association. MSF-Belgium is the legal hub for the operational center in Brussels (MSF-OCB) which is run by 9 MSF associations (Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, South Africa and Sweden) and two branch offices (Lebanon and Finland). The role of the MSF-B/OCB association is to ensure good governance and to safeguard the MSF identity and core principles.  

Being employed by MSF means adhering to MSF’s humanitarian principles: neutrality, impartiality and independence. The beneficiaries of MSF, the patients, are at the core of everything that MSF does. Medical ethics and voluntarism are part of the MSF spirit. 

Together with the President and the Association team (three employees), the Board Support Officer forms the Board and Association Team. The Board Support Officer will be supporting and assisting the Boards of MSF Belgium and OCB.  

You, as Board Support Officer, serve as a crucial link between the Boards and the Executive, especially in terms of planning and information sharing. Your role involves close collaboration with the Association Team, the President and the General Director (GD), as well as similar roles in other MSF sections, when needed. 

You are tasked to support the President and the Boards of Directors (BoD) as well as to be a liaison between the BoD and the Executive. Your role ensures that the President and the BoD have the required means to fulfill their respective mandates and roles effectively. As Board Support Officer, you provide administrative, logistical and governance support to the President, the Board and the Executive. Though the focus is on administrative support, the position is both administrative and strategic in nature. 

Link to additional info: here.