Access Executive Director

Access Executive Director

Médecins Sans Frontières International Vacant since : 29.07.2026 Number of jobs : 1 1202 Genève (GE) 100% Immediately Permanent

Location:

Strong preference to be based in one of the five MSF Access Regional Hubs (Rio de Janeiro, Dakar, Brussels, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur). Placement in associated strategic locations may be considered.

Duration: MSF office contract, minimum 3 years commitment, extendable by 3 years, according to MSF practice and subject to national labour laws

Compensation and benefits: MSF practice is to offer the C&B package current in the MSF entity establishing the contract.

Reporting to:
The MSF Access Executive Board

Start date:

Beginning of Q3 2026 preferred with some flexibility depending on individual circumstances

MSF INTERNATIONAL Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF International is the legal entity that binds MSF’s 24 sections, 28 associations and other offices together.

Based in Geneva, MSF International provides coordination, information and support to the MSF movement, and implements international projects and initiatives as requested. MSF is committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our employees. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, races, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.

POSITION BACKGROUND Ensuring access to key medical tools is critical to MSF's Social Mission. MSF has been engaged in a wide variety of ways to improve the access situation over the past decades through the vehicle of the Access Campaign. In 2023, MSF’s International General Assembly unanimously voted a Vision that is anchoring addressing Access to Products Healthcare as being integral to its Social Mission: "Over the coming decade, MSF will pursue and accentuate its activities aimed at delivering tangible improvements in Access to Products for Healthcare for people who are deprived of them.

Whilst our actions will be as specific to operational contexts as possible, they will also be as global as necessary to achieve the specific improvements sought. This work will expose and address problems faced by patients and by operational teams, will involve the mobilization of the entire movement towards common ambitions, and will leverage the potential of partnerships. It will also preserve space for innovation and reflect the multiple expressions of our social mission.

These activities will be in-depth, diverse in nature and adequately resourced, and we will learn from their successes and failures. These ambitions will be reflected in how we structure and govern this work." Médecins Sans Frontières works tirelessly to improve the accessibility, availability, affordability, appropriateness and quality of products for health care for the populations it assists and their communities.

While this is a collective effort across the organisation, the MSF Access team plays a central role as it identifies and implements a priority selection of access projects, offers expert support for access activities elsewhere in MSF, and brings together information and analysis relevant to MSF’s access work. The MSF Access team, overseen by an Executive Board, is based around five regional hubs:
Kuala Lumpur, Nairobi, Brussels, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro.

PLACE IN THE ORGANISATION The Executive Director (ED) will be accountable to the MSF Access Executive Board for the proper oversight and management of the MSF Access resources and the execution of MSF Access’s mandate.

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION The ED is responsible for the overall strategic, institutional, and representational leadership of MSF Access. The focus of the ED’s role will be on shepherding the vision, strategy, management, external engagement of MSF Access. Working closely with the Deputy…