Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International is looking for an Author Coordinator to lead the critical revision and update of our Public Health Engineering in Precarious Situations (PHE) guideline. In this role, you will coordinate with internal and external experts to ensure the guideline is scientifically sound and operationally feasible for MSF's mission.
What You'll Do
- Coordinate and write the revision of the PHE guidelines, ensuring they are evidence-based and operationally feasible.
- Adapt and execute the proposed detailed revision plan for the PHE guidelines.
- Write new Technical Briefs and update existing ones, coordinating and incorporating stakeholder input.
- Participate in medical writing process improvement meetings.
- Manage the project plan and adjust as needed in coordination with stakeholders.
- Implement a plan for continuous collection of feedback from different stakeholders.
- Centralize documentation of feedback, revisions, and decisions.
- Ensure permissions are obtained and stored for all non-MSF illustrations, images, and photos.
- Archive documents, references, and decisions for future reference.
- Coordinate the input of MSF internal and external experts and facilitate consensus-seeking.
- Coordinate with other authors working on international guidelines for coherence.
- Disseminate findings of literature research and external guidelines reviews.
- Conduct proactive literature searches and external guideline reviews to support content.
- Write revisions in compliance with the 'Guide of Guidelines', integrating expert inputs, references, and illustrations.
- Coordinate closely with the IGP editor throughout the writing/revision process.
- Prepare discussion documents for the Medical Director when consensus cannot be reached.
- Finalize the text considering all feedback.
- Support the translation process by identifying French references.
- Track and ensure references are used and cited correctly.
What We're Looking For
- Master’s degree in public health engineering and/or environmental engineering.
- Demonstrated skills in capitalizing experience and/or conducting literature review, critically assessing and documenting scientific evidence.
- At least 3 years of project experience in WatSan/Environmental Health with MSF or other international organizations working in similar contexts.
- Project management experience.
- Editorial capacity.
- Quality driven with an eye for detail.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Excellent technical writing skills.
- Excellent English speaking and writing.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with different stakeholders remotely.
- Ability to work and report independently.
- IT literacy.
Nice to Have
- Experience in WatSan / WaSH guidelines production or editorial experience.
- French, Spanish, or Arabic language skills.
Team & Environment
This role is part of the MSF Intersectional WatSan Platform. You will report to the MSF WatSan Core Platform lead and work closely with key staff in all five Operational Centres, the MSF International Guidelines Publications manager, and members.
Work Mode
This is a home-based, global position. Candidates must be located within +/- 5 hours from CET time zone.
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
