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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.
At its core, MSF is a civil society initiative, bringing together individuals committed to assisting other human beings in crisis. Each individual working with MSF does so out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF. The global MSF movement is built around six operational directorates supported by more than 25 sections and offices worldwide.
MAIN PURPOSE
The role of the communication advisor (CA) is to provide strategic advice on MSF's public positioning and high-stakes public communications, coordinate and drive validation of contents, based on an in-depth understanding of the context, MSF's operations and the dynamics of the communications environment relevant to the portfolio. The CA acts as a first responder in case of emergency,



leads on crisis communications and supports country communication teams to develop and implementing communication strategies aimed at achieving operational priorities and objectives. The CA validates a regular flow of information on MSF response to humanitarian crises, both within MSF-OCBA, the MSF movement and externally, and liaises with international media.
JOB OVERVIEW
The CA is responsible for defining and supervising MSF's communication strategies in the portfolio of operational Cell 3 (including CAR, Chad and DRC), as well as other contexts to be defined according to MSF-OCBA's needs and priorities. As referent for communications within the cell, the CA :
Provides strategic advice on public positioning and high-stakes communications;
Acts as senior content manager: designs, conceptualizes, coordinates and drives validation of content;
Be a first responder in case of Emergencies and leads on Crisis Communications;
Support, manage and build capacity of field communications resources;
Liaise with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including MSF's heads of programmes, directors of communications or international media.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN TASKS
Senior advice on public positioning & communication
In coordination with operations and country communications teams, assesses communication needs and priorities,



including digital communications needs in coordination with the MSF-OCBA digital advisor;
Provides strategic advice on public positioning and high-stakes communications, contributing to bearing witness (témoignage), drawing attention, alerting, mobilizing and/or denouncing on situations and conditions of populations we are assisting, at local, regional and global levels;
Define and proposes the strategic communication objectives and messaging and based on the targeted audience, propose the format and channel to ensure the relevance and impact of the communication;
Advises and supports country communication teams in implementing and assessing impact of communications;
Coordinates with CAs from other Operational Centres and works in collaboration with Advocacy Managers/Humanitarian Affairs Officers (HAOs) to support advocacy efforts on topics and issues at stake in the countries covered according to the needs;
Works in collaboration with MSF partner sections and offices to identify opportunities of media and digital engagement at international, regional and local levels and reinforce overall the implementation and impact of the communication strategies defined for the countries of the portfolio.
Senior role in analysis
Provides analysis, contributing inputs about positioning, advice on tactics as well as identifying messages and powerful tools for the relevant portfolio of countries and themes;
Ensures with the support of the country communication resources, digital advisor and regional communication hubs as needed that the communication landscape is integrated in the context analysis of the country and is regularly updated (e.g. CCF, digital assessments);
Ensures with the support of the country communication reso

📌 Communication Advisor (Málaga)
🏢 Médecins Sans Frontierès
📍 Málaga