Responsable Protection Unit Migration

MSF - M decins Sans Fronti res

Médecins Sans Frontières, an international humanitarian medical association created in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threatened: mainly in cases of armed conflict, but also epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters or exclusion from care.

The main objective of the Operations Department at the Paris Operational Center (OCP) is to improve the quality of MSF's operational response by formulating, supervising, and ensuring the effective implementation of its humanitarian medical activities. The Department is composed of 8 operational cells, cross-functional units, and project teams.

As part of the establishment of its new Migration unit, OCP is recruiting a Program Manager in charge of protection (low field).

OCP is developing a Migration Unit. This Unit will consist of a Cell (headquarters) and a Cross-Functional Coordination (Field). Within the Cross-Functional Coordination, the various Managers will be responsible for coordinating the activities in their area of ​​expertise for several missions undertaken in a common field (migration) .

Purpose of the migration unit

Following discussions within the operations department regarding the specific needs of humanitarian projects with migrant populations, OCP decided to establish a dedicated operational unit for the European migration route. This unit aims to directly manage programs within its portfolio (currently in France and Libya), to support and encourage projects for displaced populations conducted by other OCP operational units, and, where appropriate, to support initiatives within the movement, similar to what is being done with MSF WACA projects in Senegal and Mauritania.

The cross-cutting issues in these countries relate to the nature of operations requiring the development of expertise not widely available at MSF (protection, legal, social), to the legal and administrative complexity of the countries, and finally to the burdensome nature of interventions aimed at populations that are particularly complex to help.

Specifically, the migration unit aims to

• To develop knowledge and expertise in the field of Migration within MSF OCP,
• D. Develop and ensure systematic multidisciplinary work in defining strategies and implementing operations and rescue efforts
• Ensuring the integration of our projects into the landscape of aid and reception, including participation, coordination, the establishment of support, collaborations and partnerships.
• D. Develop/build an operating method adapted to the organizational model of this unit by defining roles and responsibilities between field teams and headquarters teams. The objective is to build an operating method adapted to the care of migrants, enabling missions to assume responsibility for the operational implementation of projects autonomously, within the strategic framework.

In Libya and France, there are two main pillars of intervention:

1) Develop multidisciplinarity centered on migrant people in difficult situations (on the street, in detention, victims of trafficking and torture, mobile and excluded), who have needs that must be covered holistically: medical, protection, social and legal.

2) To contribute to the improvement of practices, or where appropriate a change in policy, through communication and advocacy actions, particularly for France concerning unaccompanied minors and in Libya in terms of access to protection and humanitarian evacuations.

In France we have three projects

• In the Île-de-France region. Medical, psychological, social, and legal support for young women seeking recognition of their minority status (day care and accommodation); Mobile clinic with a team of volunteers.
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