Association Communications Officer

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian organization that provides impartial medical care to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care in over 70 countries. We welcome candidates who bring a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to join us in working toward MSF’s common mission.

Job Location

Job location is preferably in Philippines or Indonesia.

Job Purpose

MSF Hong Kong was established in 1994 and is now one of the 25 associations of the international movement. Since early 2000s, MSF HK has already been recruiting outside of the boundaries of Hong Kong and therefore regionalizing its HR pool and subsequently its association membership make-up. Consequently, MSF HK Association became the first regional association and is now one of six in the Movement.
Currently, MSF HK Association has members coming from 14 countries across Greater China and Southeast and East Asia, thus cultivation and engagement of association members is key to encourage the Association’s main responsibility to safeguard MSF identity and ensuring that executive activities and operation are aligned to MSF’s charter, principles, and social mission. The Association also has a formal function within MSF’s governance.
The position of Association Communications Officer (ACO) is critical in ensuring the interactivity of communication amongst our internal stakeholders and has shared responsibility with the Association Network and Engagement Officer (ANEO) on stimulating associative dynamics among members through direct and indirect exchange of topics relevant to MSF’s social missions. The ACO is part of the associative team of MSF-HK under the MSF-HK Board and supervised by the Regional Association Manager.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall content creation and circulation of association updates and communications and maintenance of associative presence on all relevant platforms in the Movement.
• Ensure coherence and synergy on internal associative communications between all stakeholders.
• Foster meaningful membership engagement that encourages members to take ownership of the Association through effective communications.
• Regular internal communication with members with the purpose of inspiring participation and contribution and establish communication links with and between members.
• Develop and implement all Associative communications related strategies and plans.
• Safeguard safe space for associative debates and discussions and proactively promote information transparency between the executives and the association.
• Jointly responsible for ensuring meaningful discussions through the organization and implementation of all associative events.
• Support the workings and strong connection that bridges the members, current and ex-MSF employees, the Association Team, the Associative Life Working Group (ALWG), the Board and the executives (MSF-HK offices and regional operations).
• Ensure that key activities, issues and development of the MSF Movement, MSF HK and regional/local community are kept track of by the Association and the Board.

The Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree
• Genuine interest in, understanding of and commitment to the humanitarian principles, social mission, operations, and challenges of MSF
• 3 years’ working experience preferably in communications, graphical design, event management, or relevant areas; preferably 1 year MSF or NGO experience
• Knowledge of, and interest in governance issues and the values of non-governmental organization
• Experience in event planning and/or project management
• Excellent communication skills including public speaking, networking, cross-cultural awareness and sound knowledge of using communication tools
• Proficient in the use of English and languages from the Southeast Asian region is required (either Bahasa or Tagalog)
• A self-starter with stress tolerance, flexibility ability to handle large volumes of work, and track multiple projects and support multiple groups or activities at any one time
• Flexibility to work additional/out of hours as necessary to fulfil the requirements of the role and willingness to undertake travel