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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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This structure is based on a principle of solidarity and social utility: its management is democratic and participative, and its profit-making potential is limited. It may be an association, cooperative, foundation, mutual or ESUS company.
Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, people affected by natural or man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter).
We are looking for a: Head of ERP support and development - Unifield.
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has developed its own ERP system named UniField to cover its Finance and Supply activities and processes in the field (operations in 60 countries).
UniField’s first deployments started in January 2015 and is now deployed on more than 400 locations and is used by more than 3800 active users.
UniField is a fully functional ERP relying on both:
MSF has put in place a structure “UniField Intersection Application Management Team” commonly called the Core Team, to provide operations support and to ensure the maintenance and the evolution of the application for all the MSF sections using the ERP for their field of operations (currently 4 MSF sections)
Reporting to the UniField Board, the Head of ERP Support and Development UniField is responsible for the management of the Intersection Application Management Team and the services provided to the MSF client sections.
Responsabilities :
Ensure an effective service delivery to all MSF client sections related to the support, maintenance and development of the customized UniField ERP tool regarding Finance, Supply Chain and IT business domains
Define the overall support and development strategy
Represent the Application Management Team in all intersectional platforms
Manage and support projects
Manage the UniField Application Management Team
Act as the IT Manager
Budget Management
Documentation knowledge management
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This position implicates the capacity to analyse, synthetise and model the requirements of a large IS project, to coordinate the needs of the 4 MSF operational centers (OC) at an organisational and functional level, to design and develop complex information systems, to develop an innovative vision and anticipate future needs.
This project is particularly important for the MSF movement: the 4 Operational Centers (Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva and Paris) cooperate intersectionally in order to develop common IS tools to support their operations. These new generation tools will be designed to have a life expectancy of over 15 years.
The situation requires a particular engagement from the person in charge, given the complexity of the project, the expectancy of the various MSF Intersectional platforms and of the users (operations), the implications of this project for the administrative management of the operations of the whole MSF movement.
Furthermore, this position requires specific communications skills and a high commitment to represent the Support Team in the various OCs, at an MSF Intersectional level and with all stakeholders.
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