Base And Facilities Officer

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF is therefore guided by the principles of neutrality and impartiality. These principles must apply to all MSF staff.

Main Purpose

Carrying out or supervising all maintenance logistics activities in the base (vehicles, fuel consumption, and local infrastructure) according to MSF standards and protocols in order to have the material, infrastructure and vehicles in optimal running conditions.

Accountabilities

• Planning vehicles movements, tracking individual trips, and ensuring implementation of security measures
• Tracking consumption of supplies, fuel, lubricants, used in different facilities (office, house, store, etc.).
• Checking the maintenance of the various open spaces (gardens, courtyards…) and ensuring that domestic waste is correctly discarded.
• Checking and ensuring the maintenance of MSF premises and facilities, as well as the general water supply, electrical, walls, ceilings etc. and security conditions. In this sense, making inspection visits to assess the rehabilitation needs of facilities.
• Performing maintenance of logistics equipment for cold chain, energy, IT and radio communications, in particular:
  • Inventories and the reallocation of equipment.
  • Renewing the authorization to use radio material with local authorities.
  • Checking the quality of the work carried out on generators and electrical installations
• Preparing orders for his sector activity, do the follow-up, and checking their proper reception and state.
• Carrying out local purchases and ensuring that the line manager is aware of any problems linked to the quality or availability of the items to be purchased.
• Participating in trainings at the request of the line manager

MSF Section/ Context Specific Accountabilities

• Knowledge in plumbing, electricity, and basic construction, to be responsible for minor maintenance of the Kimambi sub-base and within the health facility.
• Support the supply team in case of needs.
• Responsible for tracking the vehicles available at the Kimambi sub-base, ambulance and support vehicle.
• Responsible for security at the sub-base, in the dispensary and in village visits.
• Responsible for the correct operation of MSF equipment (Generator, communication equipment, laptops, others).
• Responsible for the follow-up of regular consumables in the sub-base (drinking water, fuel, small cleaning material, coffee break, among others) and keep track and inventory of equipment and furniture available.
• Schedule the departure and arrival times of the support vehicle that travels with the medical team to the communities/villages in Kimambi.
• Daily review of external vehicle conditions, handover report together with the driver and provide timely and accurate reporting of vehicle and safety related incidents.
• Support for waste management in the Kimambi Waste Zone. Waste management in intermediate burner, glass crusher and SBR.
• Participate in community visitation days to support the medical activities carried out.
• Share any relevant information received from the community to the line manager, particularly regarding MSF and suspected cholera cases in the dispensary or the community.
• Establish and maintain a good, professional relationship with village authorities and the chairman to ensure smooth operational support.
• Support MOH staff and the Watsan team in managing the waste zone by coordinating with the appropriate personnel.
• Assist the Watsan team in ensuring the provision of safe drinking water at the dispensary.
• Report context, security incidents reports, and 100% implementation of security protocols to ensure safety and security in the base.

MSF has been working intermittently in Tanzania since 1993, supporting MOH in a variety of areas, notably the provision of primary and secondary health care and the response to epidemics such as cholera, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. MSF’s latest intervention in the country started in May 2015 with an emergency response to a cholera outbreak affecting both the refugee and the host populations in Kigoma region. During the emergency phase MSF expanded medical and water/sanitation activities to all three refugee camps in the region.

Liwale project officially launched in December 2022, Liwale project is an integrated project supporting MoH in Community based, Primary and Secondary health care for mother and child under 5. MSF is currently supporting 7 health facilities including 4 secondary health care facilities (1 district hospital, 3 health centres) where CEmONC are offered and 3 primary health care where BEmONC are offered. This support includes facilitation for recruitment of 102 health care workers including 50 community health care workers, medical supply, empowerment of team (trainings, team management, quality of care improvement), referrals, Watsan activities and rehabilitations.

Minimum Educational Qualification:

Essential Secondary Education

Experience:

Desirable experience with other NGOs

Knowledge:

Computer literacy and radio equipment user-knowledge

Languages:

Good English and Kiswahili are essential.

Competencies:

• Basic People Management skill
• Results and Quality Orientation
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Behavioural Flexibility
• Commitment to MSF Principles
• Service Orientation
• Stress Management

Selected person must live in Kimambi and MSF will not provide any support for accommodation.

Residents in Kimambi will be given priority for consideration.

Women, or any person feeling like being part of a minority is encouraged to apply. MSF is dedicated to fostering a safe work environment with zero tolerance for any form of abuse.

Application Details

All interested candidates shall submit their motivation letter, CV and copy of relevant professional certificates not later than Friday, 03rd October 2025 at 9:00 AM. Please quote the job title on the email subject “BASE AND FACILITIES OFFICER KIMAMBI”.

Please send your application to the email address MSFCH-Tanzania-Recruitment@geneva.msf.org.

The applications can also be submitted at one of the following places:

• MSF Office situated at Uporoto Street, Plot No.74, House No.22, Ursino Estate, Victoria, Dar es Salaam
• MSF Office in Nduta Refugees Camp, Kibondo District
• MSF Guest House in Kibondo
• MSF Sub-base in Kimambi
• MSF Office situated in Liwale, Lindi.

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If you have any questions or requests, you can contact MSFCH-Tanzania-PAM@geneva.msf.org

At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas, and experiences work together for the social mission of MSF to create better outcomes for the patients and the communities we work with. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.

Please note that applying to MSF is free of charge, MSF does not charge applicants to consider their application.

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