Human Resources

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Human Resources

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) HR/ finance administrators work closely with staff across all departments, ensuring day-to-day operations run like clockwork.
From payroll to recruitment, they play a big administrative role, managing both staff and the budget to keep things in check.
Long hours and hard work make HR/finance administrators a hardy bunch, with rare insight into what’s happening across all departments.
Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF HR/Finance administrator, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

Hello Iraq

What's it like to work for a humanitarian organisation behind the scenes? As he begins a new assignment in Iraq, Eben shares his experience...

31 Jul 2019 / 4 minute read

Some of the team at Sadar District Hospital

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

Bangladesh: Stopping infection and doing the laundry

Eben is in Bangladesh, where an MSF team is helping local hospital staff save lives by controlling infection

04 Apr 2019 / 4 minute read

A cow grazes in the old Waste Zone at the hospital

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

Bangladesh: Tackling a huge waste problem

Saving lives doesn't always mean medicine. Eben blogs about a Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team that's not afraid to get its hands dirty in order to fight infection...

02 Jan 2019 / 7 minute read

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

“The enduring human spirit”: My visit to a Rohingya refugee camp

In August 2017, South African HR manager Eben Van Tonder watched the Rohingya refugee crisis unfold on the news. One year on, he found himself in Bangladesh to experience the vastness of this “human tragedy” for himself.

19 Oct 2018 / 6 minute read

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

Good Bye Pakistan!

Eben looks back on an eventful posting with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders in Pakistan

14 Apr 2018 / 4 minute read

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

Pakistan: The true spirit of MSF

HR specialist Eben is in Pakistan, where he's working to ensure that the MSF/Doctors Without Borders project in Timergara has the staff it needs to continue its vital work. Here he blogs about the quest for a female gynaecologist, and about life in the team...

24 Dec 2017 / 5 minute read

Eben van Tonder

Human Resources

"Just human beings" - Joining the team in Pakistan

South African lawyer Eben has just started his first posting with MSF, in Pakistan. He shares his first impressions...

09 Nov 2017 / 6 minute read

Applicants sit an MSF aptitude test in Timergara, Pakistan

Stine Block Jensen

Human Resources

Pakistan: Unseen Bajaur and me

MSF doesn't just need doctors. Stine blogs about her work as an HR manager in Pakistan, where she's helping to manage a project remotely, in an area with huge medical needs.

28 Mar 2017 / 4 minute read