Job Description: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

MSF is an international, independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender, or political affiliation. Guided by neutrality and impartiality, these principles apply to all MSF staff.

Main Purpose

Performing autonomously, specific complex/advanced installation, maintenance works, and repairs depending on technician’s specialization (requiring special qualifications/training), according to supervisor’s instructions and MSF standards and procedures, ensuring proper functioning and maintenance of MSF equipment, installations, and infrastructures.

Main Accountabilities

• Performing autonomously all necessary complex/advanced installations, maintenance, and repairs as required by special qualifications/training according to the supervisor’s instructions.
• Making suggestions regarding any repair or maintenance work needed in MSF electrical installations, equipment, and/or vehicles; assisting logistics department for relative work.
• Managing the stock of consumable items, maintaining stock cards, carrying out physical inventories, executing necessary orders to renew stock, avoiding shortages.
• Responsible for equipment and tools maintenance, ensuring safe use, renewing them when necessary, keeping inventory updated.
• Maintaining a clean working area.
• Ensuring all record sheets and books related to logistical maintenance are completed; preparing needed reports before and after any repair or required maintenance.
• Immediately informing the line manager of any problems arising in the course of work, especially regarding damage, loss, theft, or attempted break-ins.
• Collaborating with other specialized technicians/workers as necessary or managing a small team of workers.

Context Specific Accountabilities (Energy)

• Carrying out all electricity works at premises requested by the line manager and any task identified by the employee approved by the line manager.
• Performing weekly maintenance procedures and safety checks of electrical installations across facilities in the project.
• Conducting monthly reviews of fire safety installation, proposing solutions to the line manager for faults.
• Regular maintenance of generators and cold chain equipment following a preventive maintenance plan.
• Diagnosing problems/deterioration in equipment and proposing solutions to the line manager/technical adviser.
• Identifying local technical actors, organizing their participation for training, establishing relations with local companies, contractors, suppliers, quotations, contracts, etc.
• Organizing the technical service responsible for electrical installations and equipment (technical teams, maintenance/reparation procedures, tooling, accessories, workshop, technical stock).
• Closely working with project mechanic on generators, fuel used in house and ETC, reporting weekly to line manager.
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• Managing the stock of electrical and generator maintenance consumable items together with Supply Supervisor; ensuring inventory management and security stocks.
• Maintaining and checking solar panels for efficiency and cleanliness periodically.
• Participating in energy policy.
• Performing biomed equipment maintenance, reporting issues/problems to supervisor, proposing solutions, documenting additional assistance needed.

Minimum Educational Qualification

Essential: Secondary school diploma and technical diploma in the assigned area (Energy and/or Biomed). Desirable: Diploma in civil engineering, environmental science.

Experience

• Demonstrating experience in technical area with a minimum of 2 years’ experience; essential at least two years previous working experience. Desirable in MSF or other NGOs.

Languages

Mission language (English) and local language (Sawhili) are essential.

Competencies

• Results and Quality Orientation, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioural Flexibility, Stress Management, Commitment to MSF Principles, Service Orientation.

Women, people living with a disability, or any person feeling like being part of a minority are 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 no later than Monday 19th January 2026 at 9 AM. Please quote the job title on the email subject "Specialized Technician."
Please send your application to MSFCH-Tanzania-Recruitment@geneva.msf.org.

Applications can also be submitted at MSF offices in various locations across Tanzania. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. If you receive no contact within 6 weeks, consider that you have not been pre-selected.

The protection of your personal data is important to MSF. By submitting your application, consent is given for using your data only for the recruitment process. Your data will be treated confidentially and is accessible only by those involved in the recruitment process. MSF does not sell your data under any circumstances.
For questions or requests: MSFCH-Tanzania-PAM@geneva.msf.org

At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture encouraging and supporting diverse voices. We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, ability statuses, and all other diversity characteristics.
MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation/abuse or any form of discrimination/harassment including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will undergo reference checks.

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