Project Coordination

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Project coordinators are at the heart of our work, planning, managing and developing our field projects. They work to ensure that all departments work together to provide high quality care, whatever the needs.

Natural leaders with great diplomatic and organisational skills, project coordinators are often the glue that binds an MSF operation together.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF project coordinator, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

Trish Newport

Project Coordination

Ebola: “Unless change happens, the outbreak isn’t going to end”

One year since the start of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the epidemic not only still raging, it has become the second-worst in world history. Trish Newport, deputy coordinator of MSF’s Ebola response, reflects on the epidemic and the fight to contain it...

01 Aug 2019 / 7 minute read

The MSF team distribute essential items to people affected by the 2016 disasters

Ijaz Zarin

Project Coordination

Looking back : Responding the 2016 earthquake in Pakistan

In 2016 a double disaster struck the communities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northern Pakistan. Ijaz Zarin was part of the MSF team working to save lives after the district was hit by devastating flooding and then, just days later, an earthquake. He shares his experience...

11 Apr 2019 / 6 minute read

Sergio Scro

Project Coordination

Pakistan: Finding perspective in Chaman

Sergio is a project coordinator from Italy, currently working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Pakistan. After six months of unplanned “remote management” from a base in Islamabad, in this blog he finally arrives at his project in the town of Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan.

22 Nov 2018 / 3 minute read

Vincent Kimui Ndichu

Project Coordination

Karachi Biryani: A meal loved by everyone….

Our teams work incredibly hard to provide vital healthcare. In Pakistan, this important work is fueled by a desire to save lives, and one other key ingredient. Vincent blogs...

21 Nov 2018 / 6 minute read

Sergio Scro

Project Coordination

Pakistan: Remote management and future plans

An MSF project coordinator oversees everything from security to construction, allowing the medics to focus on saving lives. But what happens when a project coordinator can't reach their project? Sergio blogs...

29 Oct 2018 / 2 minute read

Tariq Khan

Project Coordination

Pakistan: “I am happy that I am somehow helping my people”

Tariq is a project coordinator assistant at a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Chaman, a town on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan. In this blog, he shares how he is proud to help the people of his hometown.

09 Oct 2018 / 2 minute read

Lucie Gueuning

Project Coordination

MSF REACH: The new project that could help MSF act faster in an emergency

Lucie Gueuning, from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)’s Emergency Support Unit, writes about an innovative new project that will help our teams rapidly respond to reach those in need.

05 Oct 2018 / 11 minute read

Sergio Scro

Project Coordination

Pakistan: One thousand kilometres from my project

Sergio is a project coordinator from Italy, currently working in Pakistan on his second assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). In this blog, he writes about how he tackles running a remote project on the other side of the country.

13 Sep 2018 / 3 minute read

Renate Sinke

Project Coordination

“I believe in miracles”: Treating casualties from the Syrian civil war

For more than four years, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have treated severely injured Syrian refugees arriving in Ramtha, Jordan. As our time in the city comes to a close, Renate Sinke, a project coordinator from the Netherlands, remembers saving lives and limbs as part of a remarkable surgical programme.

06 Jun 2018 / 4 minute read

Chris McAleer

Project Coordination

The empty gates of Bentiu town

"He took one look at the body then simply looked straight up at me, and without showing any emotion, told me it was his brother"

10 Apr 2018 / 7 minute read

Veronika Cernikova

Project Coordination

So, you want to work for an NGO?

First-time project coordinator Veronika on what you should know before you join a humanitarian organisation like Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) ...

06 Mar 2018 / 5 minute read

Trish Newport

Project Coordination

Iraq: Mahmoud and the mint plant

Trish blogs about a man whose devotion to his family kept the team grounded in war-torn Mosul...

04 Sep 2017 / 5 minute read

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