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Job description

Location: Any MSF Office

Contract: 12 months, renewable 50% contract

Deadline for application: 27 December 2020

Starting date: 20 January 2020

Reporting to: Medical Coordinator – Access Campaign


ACCESS CAMPAIGN

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

Created in 1999, the Access Campaign (AC) is an MSF Campaign entity guided by MSF’s charter, and dedicated to serve MSF’s social mission. Deeply rooted in MSF’s medical operations, the AC works to tackle barriers to people’s access to medical care, ensuring that quality products such as medicines, vaccines and diagnostics are available, affordable and adapted to people in MSF projects and beyond, now and for the future. The AC is hosted by MSF International, the legal entity that binds MSF’s 21 sections, 25 associations and other offices together. Based in Geneva, MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF movement, and implements international projects and initiatives as requested.

POSITION BACKGROUND

The MSF Access Campaign requires a referent Diagnostics Advisor (50% FTE) with a strong technical and access background to work on technical, access and advocacy issues pertaining to syndromic disease areas such as AMR/ABR, febrile illnesses (including NTDs on request) This polyvalent diagnostics advisor will also work closely with the ID (TB/HIV/HCV/COVID) diagnostics advisor.

The diagnostics team are also responsible to identify transversal issues in diagnostics affecting access, working with AC team more broadly to prioritise broader themes for AC input. Areas could include:

• Access to essential diagnostics


• Market dynamics


• Multi- vs single-disease platforms


• Regulatory issues


• R&D and business models; financing models for ex-works price reduction


• Intellectual property, know-how, trade-secrets and tech transfer

POSITION WITHIN THE ORGANISATION

The Diagnostics Advisor reports to the Medical Coordinator of the MSF Access Campaign based in Geneva and is also expected to work in close collaboration with the medical and policy teams of the AC and with MSF more broadly, including the MSF Laboratory WG members.

OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION

Referent diagnostics advisor (50%)

Technical AC diagnostics referent for AMR/ABR, including host biomarkers , febrile illnesses, , including:

1. Tracking pipeline and novel products, informing the LWG and other relevant groups in MSF and helping to translate this into addressing diagnostic gaps for MSF and beyond


2. Tracking new developments, studies, publications and other useful updates from important stakeholders, informing relevant people in MSF and working on next steps, where necessary, to effect change


3. Liaising with manufacturers to advocate for addressing needs


4. Gathering feedback from MSF more broadly to contribute to target product profiles or other pre-market work


5. Attending and contributing to internal and external meetings if requested where access issues will be covered;


6. Working closely with disease ambassadors and lab referents for the AC Dx areas listed above


7. Technical diagnostics expertise addressing unanticipated relevant and important requests from the LWG or other operational entities in MSF that may require AC support within bounds of capacity


8. Document preparation (issue briefs, reports, peer-reviewed publications) to document important work and make publicly available, including for advocacy purposes. Document review, where relevant, of influential publications produced by global diagnostics community upon request (e.g. advocacy material for CSOs, RFPs, proposals, guidelines, landscapes, methodologies, opinion pieces, peer-reviewed publications, decision-making reports, for example, by Unitaid as part of the board meetings)


9. This 50% polyvalent position requires some flexibility to support other themes according to capacity, demand and opportunities that may arise within the broader AC portfolio (includes TB, COVID, HIV, HCV, NCD, NTD)

Job requirements

Core competencies:

• >10 years of experience working in the field of diagnostics; experience working in field of ABR, febrile illness and ID diagnostics is an asset.


• Strong technical background and experience in managing laboratory programs, ideally in developing countries, with a good understanding of the infrastructure related to the various healthcare level;


• Ph.D or M.Sc. in biomedical sciences, laboratory medicine or similar field;


• Strong skills in writing technical documents and/or scientific publication;


• General understanding of the IVD market sector and main actors involved;


• Project leadership, strategic thinking, ability to work independently and planning ability are strong pre-requisites;


• Confident public speaker;


• Flexibility and creativity in overcoming internal and external barriers; Excellent communication and team working skills.


• Excellent skills in oral and written English language.

Desirable:

• Experience in the field of diagnostics R&D;


• Work experience with MSF is an asset;


• Ability to read and speak French a considerable asset;


• Experience with working in a multidisciplinary international team is an advantage.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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.

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Location: Any MSF Office

Contract: 12 months, renewable 50% contract

Deadline for application: 27 December 2020

Starting date: 20 January 2020

Reporting to: Medical Coordinator – Access Campaign


ACCESS CAMPAIGN

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

Created in 1999, the Access Campaign (AC) is an MSF Campaign entity guided by MSF’s charter, and dedicated to serve MSF’s social mission. Deeply rooted in MSF’s medical operations, the AC works to tackle barriers to people’s access to medical care, ensuring that quality products such as medicines, vaccines and diagnostics are available, affordable and adapted to people in MSF projects and beyond, now and for the future. The AC is hosted by MSF International, the legal entity that binds MSF’s 21 sections, 25 associations and other offices together. Based in Geneva, MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF movement, and implements international projects and initiatives as requested.

POSITION BACKGROUND

The MSF Access Campaign requires a referent Diagnostics Advisor (50% FTE) with a strong technical and access background to work on technical, access and advocacy issues pertaining to syndromic disease areas such as AMR/ABR, febrile illnesses (including NTDs on request) This polyvalent diagnostics advisor will also work closely with the ID (TB/HIV/HCV/COVID) diagnostics advisor.

The diagnostics team are also responsible to identify transversal issues in diagnostics affecting access, working with AC team more broadly to prioritise broader themes for AC input. Areas could include:

• Access to essential diagnostics


• Market dynamics


• Multi- vs single-disease platforms


• Regulatory issues


• R&D and business models; financing models for ex-works price reduction


• Intellectual property, know-how, trade-secrets and tech transfer

POSITION WITHIN THE ORGANISATION

The Diagnostics Advisor reports to the Medical Coordinator of the MSF Access Campaign based in Geneva and is also expected to work in close collaboration with the medical and policy teams of the AC and with MSF more broadly, including the MSF Laboratory WG members.

OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION

Referent diagnostics advisor (50%)

Technical AC diagnostics referent for AMR/ABR, including host biomarkers , febrile illnesses, , including:

1. Tracking pipeline and novel products, informing the LWG and other relevant groups in MSF and helping to translate this into addressing diagnostic gaps for MSF and beyond


2. Tracking new developments, studies, publications and other useful updates from important stakeholders, informing relevant people in MSF and working on next steps, where necessary, to effect change


3. Liaising with manufacturers to advocate for addressing needs


4. Gathering feedback from MSF more broadly to contribute to target product profiles or other pre-market work


5. Attending and contributing to internal and external meetings if requested where access issues will be covered;


6. Working closely with disease ambassadors and lab referents for the AC Dx areas listed above


7. Technical diagnostics expertise addressing unanticipated relevant and important requests from the LWG or other operational entities in MSF that may require AC support within bounds of capacity


8. Document preparation (issue briefs, reports, peer-reviewed publications) to document important work and make publicly available, including for advocacy purposes. Document review, where relevant, of influential publications produced by global diagnostics community upon request (e.g. advocacy material for CSOs, RFPs, proposals, guidelines, landscapes, methodologies, opinion pieces, peer-reviewed publications, decision-making reports, for example, by Unitaid as part of the board meetings)


9. This 50% polyvalent position requires some flexibility to support other themes according to capacity, demand and opportunities that may arise within the broader AC portfolio (includes TB, COVID, HIV, HCV, NCD, NTD)

Core competencies:

• >10 years of experience working in the field of diagnostics; experience working in field of ABR, febrile illness and ID diagnostics is an asset.


• Strong technical background and experience in managing laboratory programs, ideally in developing countries, with a good understanding of the infrastructure related to the various healthcare level;


• Ph.D or M.Sc. in biomedical sciences, laboratory medicine or similar field;


• Strong skills in writing technical documents and/or scientific publication;


• General understanding of the IVD market sector and main actors involved;


• Project leadership, strategic thinking, ability to work independently and planning ability are strong pre-requisites;


• Confident public speaker;


• Flexibility and creativity in overcoming internal and external barriers; Excellent communication and team working skills.


• Excellent skills in oral and written English language.

Desirable:

• Experience in the field of diagnostics R&D;


• Work experience with MSF is an asset;


• Ability to read and speak French a considerable asset;


• Experience with working in a multidisciplinary international team is an advantage.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

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.