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Deployement of the container with extendable solar panels in Ourang, in eastern Chad, where MSF teams are providing healthcare for the 50,000 refugees who fled violence in neighbouring Sudan.
Deployement of the container with extendable solar panels in Ourang, in eastern Chad, where MSF teams are providing healthcare for the 50,000 refugees who fled violence in neighbouring Sudan. Chad, November 2023.
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Deployement of the container with extendable solar panels in Ourang, in eastern Chad, where MSF teams are providing healthcare for the 50,000 refugees who fled violence in neighbouring Sudan. Chad, November 2023.
© Jan Bohm/MSF
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Electricians play a critical role in ensuring the proper functioning and safety of all electrical and energy systems across our facilities, including offices, health structures, and warehouses.

From carrying out advanced electrical installations to coordinating repairs and maintenance, Electricians maintain systems that are essential for our medical and humanitarian work.

This diverse role involves performing complex tasks, managing inventories, training local technical workers, and ensuring that all installations meet MSF standards. Electricians also provide vital support to our logistics and operational teams.

Joshua Halem Iorfa, Energy Specialist, "Being part of MSF’s transition to solar power at Ganjuwa Hospital has been a profound experience for me. From assessing the hospital's energy needs to sourcing specialized services for electrical design and solar panel installation, I saw MSF’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint firsthand. This initiative isn’t just about energy; it’s about ensuring we don’t add to the hardships faced by the communities we serve, which are already deeply impacted by climate change."
Joshua Halem Iorfa, Energy Specialist, "Being part of MSF’s transition to solar power at Ganjuwa hospital has been a profound experience for me. From assessing the hospital's energy needs to sourcing specialized services for electrical design and solar panel installation, I saw MSF’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint firsthand. This initiative isn’t just about energy; it’s about ensuring we don’t add to the hardships faced by the communities we serve, which are already deeply impacted by climate change." Nigeria, October 2024.
Miguel Godonou/MSF

Responsibilities:

  • Perform complex and advanced installation and maintenance of electrical and energy systems in all MSF facilities, including offices, health structures, and warehouses.
  • Ensure all electrical installations comply with MSF standards.
  • Autonomously carry out electrical installations, maintenance, and repairs as per supervisor’s instructions.
  • Execute critical rehabilitation tasks and corrective maintenance interventions.
  • Coordinate and install necessary electrical equipment for each project.
  • Prepare documentation for energy installation projects (plans, material lists, etc.).
  • Maintain and update the electrical installations inventory in MSF facilities.
  • Perform annual maintenance procedures and safety checks across all facilities.
  • Test electrical systems following any repairs or maintenance work.
  • Identify and coordinate local technical workers for training, contracting, and supply.
  • Provide suggestions and support for necessary repairs or maintenance.
  • Assist the logistics department with urgent electrical needs.
  • Manage stock of consumable items for electrical installations, ensuring proper inventory and preventing shortages.
  • Ensure safe use and maintenance of equipment and tools, including safety checks and renewals.
  • Keep the work area clean and tidy.
  • Complete and maintain all record sheets and books related to maintenance.
  • Prepare reports before and after repairs or required maintenance.

Requirements:

  • Essential Electrician diploma or recognised formal training.
  • Minimum two years’ working experience as an electrician.
  • Proficiency in both the local and mission languages.

Assets:

  • Competencies in:
  • Results and Quality Orientation.
  • Teamwork and Cooperation.
  • Behavioural Flexibility.
  • Commitment to MSF Principles.
  • Service Orientation.
  • Stress Management.

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Work with MSF

In 2024, 67,000 people worked with Médecins Sans Frontières and contributed to giving lifesaving medical assistance to people who would otherwise be denied access to healthcare, clean water and shelter.

A large majority of MSF staff, about 90 per cent, are locally hired in their country of residence, working for MSF assistance programmes in proximity with the people and communities we support, or in MSF offices around the world.  

About 10 per cent of people working for MSF are internationally mobile staff, specialists or senior managers hired on fixed-term contracts to carry out assignments in countries of intervention.  

MSF doesn’t employ only doctors and nurses. To fulfill our social mission, we recruit employees from a large range of professions in the medical, finance, logistics, IT, administration, human resources, and communications fields, and in other areas.  

If you would like to work with MSF, you will find information about our behaviour commitments, minimum requirements, our recruitment processes and our current international job vacancies.  

To know more about MSF’s remuneration policies, you can also visit msf.org/rewards.

MSF has section offices in 24 countries and 18 MSF branch offices. View the worldwide map of MSF offices.

Our behavioural commitments

The integrity of our organisation is upheld by the good conduct of each individual staff member, in any location, with full respect for the communities we serve.

When you join us, we expect you to commit to our social mission and Charter; helping to deliver medical assistance to populations in distress and to people affected by natural or man-made disasters. 

For us, this means not tolerating any behaviour from our staff that exploits the vulnerability of others, or of employees taking advantage of their position for personal gain. 

We do not tolerate any physical or psychological abuse against individuals, sexual harassment, sexual relations with minors, or any behaviour that does not respect human dignity. 

MSF promotes a working environment free of harassment and abuse. Our leadership has unequivocally committed to fight abuse and to reinforce mechanisms and procedures to prevent and address it. 

Depuis janvier 2014, MSF travaille dans le centre de santé de Mamadou M’Baiki - situé dans le quartier de PK5, à Bangui - où nous offrons des soins de santé primaire aux enfants âgés de moins de 15 ans. Pendant le pic annuel de paludisme, le centre de santé de Mamadou M’Baiki peut recevoir jusqu'à 800 enfants par semaine. En 2014, sur nos différents projets menés dans le quartier de PK5 (centre de santé + dispensaires mobiles à la grande mosquée et à Kpéténé), nous avons dispensé près de 40 000 consultations (29% de cas de paludisme). <br/> 

Since January 2014, MSF has been working in Mamadou M'Baiki health center - located in the PK5 district in Bangui - where we offer primary health care to children under 15. During the annual malaria peak, Mamadou M'Baiki health center can receive up to 800 children a week. In 2014, on our various projects in the PK5 area (health center + mobile clinics at the Grand Mosque and Kpéténé area) we have provided almost 40,000 consultations (29% for malaria cases).
 *** Local Caption *** En RCA, le contexte sanitaire  est catastrophique, les indicateurs particulièrement dégradés : le paludisme (1ère cause de morbidité et mortalité) est endémique, chaque enfant âgé de moins de 5 ans fait en moyenne deux crises par an. La couverture vaccinale est très basse. Le pays possède la plus haute prévalence de VIH-Sida des pays d’Afrique Centrale (entre 5 et 10% suivant les zones). Le système de santé offre un accès aux soins limité et coûteux, les ressources humaines qualifiées manquent, les problèmes d’approvisionnement en médicaments sont récurrents. Dans ce pays à l’Etat fantôme, les opérations menées par MSF se substituent à celles du ministère de la Santé.<br/>

In CAR, health situation is catastrophic, indicators particularly degraded: malaria (first cause of morbidity and mortality) is endemic, every child under 5 years has an average of two attacks per year. Vaccination coverage is very low. The country has the highest prevalence of HIV-AIDS among the countries of Central Africa (between 5 and 10% depending on the area). The health system offers limited and expensive access to care, skilled medical human resources are lacking, drug supply problems are recurrent. In this country without State, MSF operations substitute those of the MOH.
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