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Working with MSF: Essential Criteria Deep Dive
Gain a clear understanding of what it takes to work as international staff with MSF.
Working with MSF requires meeting a set of essential, non-negotiable criteria that ensure our teams can deliver medical and humanitarian assistance in some of the world’s most challenging contexts.
In this session, we will be joined by highly experienced international staff from Australia and New Zealand to discuss the skills and experience MSF looks for in all international staff, and why these criteria are essential to work overseas with us. There will also be an opportunity for you to ask questions directly after the discussion.
The following essential criteria will be discussed in detail during the webinar:
- Experience supervising and training others
- Experience in low resource, low tech and remote settings
- Second language skills (other than English) or willingness to learn
This session will help you:
- Understand whether you are currently ready to apply to work with MSF
- Gain insight into what it is like working as international staff for MSF
-Identify your skill gaps and areas of experience that you need to develop
About the panel:
Lucy Butler is a human resources and finance professional who joined Médecins Sans Frontieres in 2020 after seven years working with the Southern District Health Board in New Zealand. Lucy has completed assignments in countries including Kenya, Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also spent two years attached to an emergency team responding to crises such as rising acute malnutrition, infectious disease outbreaks, and the escalating war in Ukraine.
Sam Templeman is a registered nurse who first joined Médecins Sans Frontieres from Australia in 2014 in a health promotion and community engagement role in South Sudan. Since then Sam has completed 13 assignments as a nursing activity manager, project medical referent and medical coordinator, including three stints on a mobile emergency team. Sam is currently based in Bangkok as medical coordinator for projects in Myanmar.
Alexandra Brown is medical communications advisor at Médecins Sans Frontieres Australia with a focus on women’s health, paediatrics and newborn care, and sexual violence care. She joined the Communications department in 2007 and has undertaken field communications assignments in Afghanistan, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Alexandra holds a Masters of International Public Health from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
For more information about applying to work with MSF overseas, check those links below:
- Application process: https://msf.org.au/join-our-team/work-overseas/application-process
- How to be a successful candidate: https://msf.org.nz/article/stories-patients-staff/five-tips-to-be-a-successful-candidate?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2603+NZ+IHR+Essential+Criteria+Webinar+-+Post&utm_term=how+to+be+a+successful+candidate&utm_id=17936&sfmc_id=1989179