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Médecins Sans Frontières, association médicale humanitaire internationale, apporte une assistance médicale à des populations dont la vie est menacée.
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Médecins Sans Frontières, an international medical and humanitarian association founded in 1971, provides medical assistance to communities faced with crises endangering their survival. These crises typically take the form of armed conflict but also include epidemics, natural catastrophes and even exclusion from healthcare. The French section of MSF is present in some thirty countries worldwide.
For our projects, we are looking for:
Field Legal Advisors M/F
Opportunities are available throughout 2025 to support our missions in Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Niger, and Haiti.
The field legal advisor analyses administrative constraints on MSF’s operations in the field, and coordinates implementation of legal and political solutions.
Responsibilities:
The field legal advisor applies their legal skills to reduce administrative, financial and political blockages to MSF’s day-to-day activities, in areas typically including, among others:
The field legal advisor uses their organizational and management skills to coordinate implementation of identified strategies and legal tools by field teams.
In collaboration with legal advisors in the headquarters, the field legal advisor may be responsible for any of the following tasks:
1. Evaluate the applicable legal framework and practices of MSF field teams
2. Recommend legal and political solutions and develop implementation tools
3. Coordinate harmonized responses by different MSF sections
4. Manage compliance with administrative procedures
5. Carry out networking and negotiations with local authorities
Education: Law degree, ideally with a specialization in Labor Law; knowledge of tax and/or commercial law is an asset.
Experiences:
Languages: Advanced English (C1 level); Advanced French (C1 level).
Skills:
Availability: 9 to 12 months.
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