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.

The MSF movement is built around five operational directorates supported by MSF’s 21 sections, 24 associationsand other offices together worldwide. MSF OCBA is one of those directorates. The operations are implemented byfield teams and the mission coordination teams; together with the organizational units based in Barcelona, Athensand decentralised in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 OperationalCells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations.

MAIN OBJECTIVE
Being responsible for MSF’s operational response in the Mission. In collaboration with the operational cell, defining
the mission operational strategy. Coordinating MSF’s program execution, identifying humanitarian challenges, representing MSF’s interests before third parties. Ensuring compliance to MSF’s charter, ethical standards and policies aswell as international and national laws and regulations, in order to realize organizational objectives and reach quality targets for the Mission.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
We are looking for two Heads of Mission working as tandem for Yemen mission during 2 years:

• taking turns of 6 months inside the mission & 6 months outside the mission
• when working outside of the mission: working from home or from Amman

The main objectives for the position of HoM in the mission are:

• Move forward with AP 2025 implementation, and prepare for Annual Plan 2026, continues with orientation
  for Mother and Child in Abs, with the focus on handover for >15 Years (Adult ER), and Laboratory Comanagement transition, consolidation of Al Qanawis CEMONC component and expansion of NN Department construction.
• Continue with popularization and reinforce of a comprehensive safeguarding strategy with the mission with the support of Behavior and empowerment of safeguarding supervisor.
• Keep the necessary level of networking with relevant counterparts, especially with MOFAE Ministry, MOHMinistry and National security, to ensure safeguard of MSF principles and humanitarian space especially inproject locations; and with other humanitarian actors to share humanitarian needs observed on the groundand advocate for a more consistent and principled humanitarian response in Yemen (intersectional approach).
• Collaborate closely with other Operational Centers on the multiple administrative (principle and sub agreements processes, importation requirements etc.) and financial (new fees, audits, new taxes rates, currency) requests from the authorities, ensuring a joint MSF approach and defense of the humanitarian nature of the organization and its principles. In particular on social security, Income tax and audits’ results requests.
• Support the HR department in strengthening consistent (over time) and transparent policies, as well as close monitoring of behavioral commitments. Enhance growth initiative for Yemeni colleagues as much as possible including capacity building and empowering MOH Staffs /administration.

When working outside of the mission, the objectives are:

• sparring with the HoM inside & being aligned on major issues
• to support mission HoM dossiers that do not require physical presence in the mission

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Initiating and leading the mission-wide operational strategy; including country policy, annual plan, budget and policy frameworks. Leading the management team translating the strategic objectives into operational activities. Monitoring developments in MSF’s general policies and strategies and adapting the annual plan of the mission accordingly.
• Monitoring and analyzing the political, humanitarian and medical situation in the country and in the region. Identifying potential fields of intervention and determining response strategies especially on emergency responses.
• Representing MSF towards external actors (national authorities, NGO’s, donors, military organizations, media, etc.) to create commitment and negotiate terms and conditions for field operations.
• Integrating an internal and external communication policy for the mission to advocate for change.
• Leading the implementation of medical-humanitarian activities in the mission.
• Coordinating with other MSF sections to initiate, coordinate and develop short- and long-term strategies incountry.
• Evaluating the progress and outcomes of activities to ensure that objectives are achieved and reporting to Headquarters
• Being responsible for the planning and coordination of all human resources, material and financial resources to
  ensure the overall performance of the mission
• Leading the mission and its staff, providing a clear vision for the direction of the mission and bringing staff together across functional and geographical lines to achieve the mission’s objectives
• Managing, coaching and developing direct reports in line with human resource policies
• Implementing Human Resources-policy and ensuring that MSF acts as a responsible employer in terms of working conditions and reduction of security and health risks.
• Ensuring staff and management team are aware of mission strategies, ambitions and implementation plans
• Ensuring the associative character of MSF is reflected in the briefing of all MSF staff.
• Ensuring the internal and external flow of information.
• keeping staff and HQ informed and updated of context and security related issues.
• producing all required planning and program performance reports in line with the HQ reporting cycle.
• Being responsible for all security aspects of the mission.
• Defining and ensuring the implementation of the security framework in the country, in order to ensure safety of staff and visitors across the mission.
• Ensuring the implementation of the Inter-operational directorate Security Agreement (ISA) in the mission, both in spirit and letter, promoting a culture of pro-active information sharing and collaboration