We are looking for a forward thinking, experienced and enthusiastic candidate, inspired by MSF social mission, and eager to leverage digital technologies for enhancing humanitarian action.
Required qualifications and experiences
• Bachelor’s degree in visual studies, graphic design and/or motion graphics or equivalent
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere pro)
• Professional experience in graphic design and motion graphic
• Fluency in English and French
Personal characteristics/interpersonal skills
• Creativity, curiosity, a sense of initiative
• Cross-cultural awareness
• Service-oriented, good planner
• Highly flexible and dynamic
• Great Team Player
What can be a plus
• Experience working in the health sector
• Having experience in web-based interactive productions is an asset (Articulate, other)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides assistance in more than 60 countries to populations in distress, to victims of natural or manmade disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, without discrimination and irrespective of origin, religion, creed or political affiliation.
CONTEXT
Healthcare professionals – from community health workers and nursing staff to surgeons and medical coordinators – are MSF’s most valuable resource. And yet, MSF projects in many countries are confronted with failing health systems and a high dependency on external expertise. In 2016, MSF therefore decided to invest more, and more strategically, in the development of local healthcare workers through the creation of the MSF Academy for Healthcare.
Today, the MSF Academy for Healthcare offers continuous professional development and targeted on-the-job and bedside training in several countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Each program is tailored around local realities, resources and constraints, but all incorporate a blended learning approach, draw on a mix of resources and methods (short lectures or videos, bedside teaching, e-learning, etc.), and place a strong emphasis on the role of tutors and mentors. Partnerships with schools, universities and health authorities inside and outside Africa reinforce the theoretical backbone of the courses and provide participants with official recognition and certification of the competencies they acquire.
MSF Academy for Healthcare training programs are designed for MSF and Ministry of Health staff according to operational priorities identified by MSF. Six initiatives have been launched so far:
1) Hospital nursing;
2) Anaesthetics scholarship for certified nurses;
3) Post-Graduate Diploma in Infectious Diseases for medical doctors;
4) Master’s Course in Medical Humanitarian Action for present and future medical coordinators; 5) Outpatient care; 6) Antimicrobial Resistance learning.
The overall objective of the MSF Academy for Healthcare is to improve the quality of healthcare provided in MSF projects by means of professional, competency-based education and training for health staff working within or alongside the organisation. Based on the operational priorities identified by MSF, the MSF Academy for Healthcare focuses on medical and paramedical professionals such as doctors, nurses and clinical officers in low-income countries with the greatest health needs and disease-burdens, starting with the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone and South Sudan.
As well as improving the quality of healthcare provided in MSF projects, the innovative teaching methodologies and certified competency-based courses organised by the MSF Academy for Healthcare create more career paths for a variety of health workers and help strengthen local health systems.
More information can be found on our website www.msf.org/academy.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The MSF Academy for Healthcare has adopted an innovative pedagogical approach geared towards adult-learning, which imply blended and mixed learning methodologies and tools, to complete on-the-job teaching and mentoring sessions. Such tools include e-learning, videos, posters, games and various learning activities, etc.
Most concepts and procedures tackled within the curriculum require to be transformed into easy-to-convey and easy-to-retain graphs and visuals. MSF often works on complex issues or contexts which are sometimes tricky to translate into relevant communications. Thanks to its power of simplification, infographics (and motion design) can help us reach a large audience in a memorable way and help audiences understand a concept/technique/procedure in one moment.
The Graphist Illustrator will be producing and adapting infographics and visuals to accompany and illustrate our training curriculum, will be key to the creation of games and other learning activities, and may also, if the person has the skills required, design motion design, animation content. He/she will act as a team player in the team working mainly on design production but also giving a hand on other production when needed.
The Graphist Illustrator will work within the MSF Academy for Healthcare team, focusing mainly on the Nursing and Midwifery curricula to start with. The functional manager for this activity will be the Nursing Science referent of the MSF Academy, and the hierarchical manager will be the Deputy Director of the Academy. It is a full-time position (38 hour/week) based in Brussels.
The MSF Academy team in Brussels includes 2 project managers, a pedagogical referent, a nursing referent and a deputy, an e-learning technician, an administrator and a clinical MD referent.
The main activities of the MSF Academy Graphist Illustrator will include:
• Help translate concepts and create infographics for the Basic Nursing and Midwifery curricula and advanced nursing care curricula
• Adapt various infographics as required, and translate them
• Assist in creating and designing various pedagogical tools (posters, games, theorical dossiers, etc..) for learning activities
• Potentially supports in motion graphics, short animation, datavisualisation, maps, reports
• Ensure that the design productions are archived, web-ready and available in the MSF Academy database
• Organize and complete the design archives
CONDITIONS
• Expected starting date: From 1st of October 2021
• Contract type: open-ended contract (CDI), full-time
• Location: based in Brussels
• Salary according to MSF-OCB HQ grid – Hospital Insurance (DKV) – Pension Plan – 100% reimbursement for public transportation costs
• Adhere to the MSF principles and to our managerial values: Respect, Transparency, Integrity, Accountability, Trust and Empowerment
• Adhere to the MSF Behavioral Commitments
Deadline for applications: September 19th, 2021
How to apply?
Please, send your CV and cover letter to Caroline.Maes@brussels.msf.org and mention “Graphist Illustrator” in the subject of your email.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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