**SUPPLY CHAIN IS PROJECT MANAGER (POSITION BASED IN ANY MSF OCBA HUB)**: ES Full Time Projects & IT **GENERAL CONTEXT** Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF. The MSF movement is built around five operational directorates supported by MSF’s 21 sections, 24 associations and other offices together worldwide. MSF OCBA is one of those directorates. The operations are implemented by field teams and the mission coordination teams; together with the organizational units based in Barcelona, Athens and decentralized in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 5 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations. **CONTEXT AND GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION** MSF OCBA is launching in 2020 the initial phase of a project which objective is to implement a new technological ecosystem that supports the full cycle of Supply Chain Management processes in field operations and headquarters, integrated as well with systems supporting other key processes in the organization. The initial phase of this project will face the analysis of needs and processes in the organization and the solutions that could potentially deliver the expected benefits of the project, defining the technological landscape of the future supply chain information systems, defining the project delivery strategy and delivering a complete business case that allows the organization to decide on a go-no go for a technical implementation and deployment. In this context, the Supply Chain Information Systems (IS) Project Manager will be initially responsible for the successful delivery of the initial phase of the project. In the case that MSF OCBA decides to go for the subsequent implementation and deployment based on the results this initial phase, the SCMIS Project Manager could potentially lead and manage the full cycle project. **PLACEMENT WITHIN THE ORGANISATIONAL CHART** The SCMIS Project Manager will work within the Projects & IT team, and initially s/he will be hierarchically and functionally accountable to the Projects & IT Lead. The SCMIS Project Manager will report to the Project Steering Committee for governance and key decision making, and more specifically to the Logistics & Supply Chain Director as project sponsor. The stakeholders s/he will work with during the project lifecycle are: - The project team s/he will manage and/or coordinate (small-sized in the initial phase). - The Logistics & Supply Chain Department at large, and more specifically the Supply Chain Unit. - Other key departmental stakeholders involved in the project: Operations Department, Medical department, Finance Department, etc. - MSF field operations - The different relevant Projects & IT teams, and particularly: - The Applications & Projects unit team. - Infrastructure, communications & systems teams. - The rest of the Projects & IT team. **RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN TASKS** **General responsibilities and tasks** 1. To coordinate the project activities in close collaboration with the Projects & IT team and the Logistics & Supply Chain Department. 2. To understand the broad lines of the social, economic and technological context where our field staff is operating, as well as the main processes of the MSF OCBA Supply Chain and their connection with other processes in the organization (finance, medical, operations), and to identify the main barriers and enablers for potential new technologies that could support the supply chain management processes. It will also include the analysis of field missions’ enterprise architecture and infrastructure / communications necessary to support new information systems. 3. To manage the project on a day-to-day basis to deliver the required products within the agreed constraints. 4. To successfully manage the project in all its relevant areas: scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, communications, risks, procurement and stakeholders. - To plan the scope management, collect requirements and to define, validate and control the scope of the project. - To plan the schedule management, define and sequence activities and estimate their durations, and to overall develop and control the schedule of the project in its different phases. - To plan cost management, estimate and control costs and estimate the required project budget. - To plan, manage and control quality of the different project products. - To plan,