Program Manager

Côte d'Ivoire + 3 more

• Médecins Sans Frontières

Posted 4 Mar 2026 Closing date 25 Mar 2026

The MSF Academy for Healthcare is a MSF intersectional initiative that has been created with the aim to increase the quality of healthcare in health care services directed or supported by MSF by strengthening the skills and competencies of healthcare workers through structured, competency-based and recognized or accredited learning programs. The Academy has a growing portfolio of learning programmes addressing specific learning needs and objectives for different categories of healthcare staff in MSF managed or supported healthcare services.

All these projects are chosen in line with overall MSF medical operational priorities.

A large focus is on MSF’s national staff but increasingly includes also staff of ministries of health, especially in the countries with the largest gaps in human resources for health (HRH) capacity. Presently, a lot of effort goes to nursing care and maternity care staff in MSF hospitals or MSF supported hospitals and to staff working in out‑patient care in primary healthcare facilities.

The Academy develops adapted comprehensive curricula and invests a great deal in clinical mentorship in the healthcare services of practice. Beyond MSF projects, the Academy connects also to health authorities to work on recognition of its learning programmes and organises occasionally also financial, organisational and pedagogical support (through e.g. sponsoring scholarships) to existing schools for training of healthcare workers.

Discover more about it on MSF Academy for Healthcare.

We have a growing “global team”, composed of the director, deputy director, resource manager, MEAL manager (Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning), communication and information officer, project managers, training coordinators as well as a strong technical team comprising of medical experts and learning science experts to support our projects, as well as a group of distance‑learning clinical mentors for the AMR programme (Antimicrobial Resistance) and tutors for PGDIP courses (Postgraduate Diploma).

In the countries where a training program is implemented, strong country teams are present. The global team counts around 30 staff, and the program-based teams have around 70 staff.

As Programme Manager you lead the implementation of the MSF Academy for Healthcare learning programmes across assigned countries, ensuring high quality delivery aligned with MSF’s humanitarian principles and the Academy’s strategic plan. You report to the MSF Academy Directors, and you supervise the country teams in their portfolio, and you manage at least one “distance‑learning” academic course programme. Portfolios may be reshuffled and are not tied to specific countries or learning programmes.

• Define and adapt the implementation strategy for MSF Academy learning programmes in each country, in collaboration with global and country teams
• Oversee the implementation and rollout of in‑person programmes across assigned countries, ensuring progress, quality, and compliance with MSF Academy standards and internal controls
• Lead the management of one or two postgraduate diploma or online courses, ensuring, among others, the selection process together with Learning and Development (L&D) referents and pool managers of each operational centre
• Contribute to the Academy’s overall strategy, organisational development and decision‑making as member of the Management Team
• Promote cross‑functional collaboration to strengthen operational support and programme coherence

• Manage country teams through their country representatives, pedagogical managers, or clinical mentors according to the set up in the assigned countries
• Supervise coordinators in their management or directly manage tutors or mentors involved in assigned postgraduate diploma or online courses
• Participate in the recruitments (or matching in collaboration with pool managers from all operational centres), the onboarding and offboarding of coordinators, tutors or…