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About the Role

The Deputy Executive Director serves as the operational backbone of MSF Canada, ensuring strategy translates into action across all departments while maintaining organizational health, accountability, and cross-functional cohesion. This role bridges leadership, operations, risk, and governance, amplifying the Executive Director's capacity and strengthening MSF Canada's credibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations, driving organizational effectiveness through the planning and accountability cycle.
• Manage senior leaders, overseeing Finance and Administration, IT, Human Resources, Strategy and Planning, and building team capacity.
• Oversee risk and compliance, including critical incident preparedness, risk registry management, and data privacy obligations.
• Act as the Executive Director's strategic partner, ensuring alignment between internal operations and external priorities.
• Support the Executive Director in representing MSF Canada internally and externally, and connecting internal teams, the Association, and governance bodies.

Requirements

• Genuine interest in, understanding of, and commitment to the humanitarian principles and social mission of MSF.
• Demonstrated senior leadership experience in a complex, multi-stakeholder organization (nonprofit, humanitarian, or similarly mission-driven).
• Proven track record managing cross-functional teams and executive-level direct reports.
• Ability to lead and develop high-performing teams with a coaching and accountability-oriented approach.
• Extensive experience bridging departments and creating conditions for collaboration.
• Comfortable holding both strategic and operational responsibilities simultaneously.
• Strong organizational and process management skills, with experience running planning and reporting cycles.
• Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate organizational risk.
• Familiarity with financial oversight, IT governance, and/or legal and compliance functions.
• Good communicator in both internal leadership and public contexts.

Skills

• Proficiency in spoken and written English and French
• Culturally humble, equity-minded, and able to model inclusive leadership
• Coaching
• Accountability
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic thinking
• Operational management
• Risk assessment
• Risk mitigation
• Financial oversight
• IT governance
• Legal compliance
• Communication

Location

• Hybrid work model

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Fixed term contract (4 years with possibility to extend up to a maximum of 8 years)

Experience Level

• Senior leadership experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive group insurance (health, dental, life, AD&D, prescriptions, etc.)
• 5% RRSP contribution
• 4 weeks’ vacation annually
• Health Spending Accounts
• Flexible work hours
• Annual Professional Development budget
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Access to internal Psychosocial Care Unit Services

About the Company

• At the core of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada’s identity is a commitment to medical ethics, independence, neutrality, and impartiality.
• Our work is guided by the humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality, and independence, rooted in universal medical ethics.
• We bring these principles to life through the way we treat each other, work, and relate to the global MSF movement: Respect, Integrity, Inclusion – fostering a workplace grounded in equity and belonging; Discovery, Learning, Boldness – embracing curiosity, innovation, and courageous action; Impact, Transformation, Shared Responsibility – driving meaningful change and collective accountability.
• These values shape our culture and guide everything we do to uphold MSF’s social mission.

Equal Opportunity

• We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically screen or select candidates for interview. AI may be used in the hiring process to assist our recruitment team by: Summarizing recruiter or hiring manager notes, and Conducting limited keyword searches for specific job‑related criteria. However, every application is reviewed by a qualified human to assess transferable or similar experience, regardless of any AI‑assisted preliminaries.
• Any questions or concerns regarding accommodation and accessibility may be addressed to Human Resources.