Jobbeschreibung
Head of Advisory Unit Human Resources Management (f/m/d)
- Location Berlin
- Start Date 01.03.2026
- Permanent
- Full-time 100% (40h / week)
- Application Deadline 04.01.2026
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a private, non-governmental, humanitarian organisation that provides medical aid in over 70 countries worldwide. Our head office is in Berlin. Here, you will work with over 350 employees in various departments every day to support people in need. Our organisational culture is based on diversity, cooperation and accountability - regardless of ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, physical and mental abilities, religion and ideology, age, sexual orientation and social background or marital status.
BE PART OF THE TEAM
The purpose of the Head of Unit position is to provide leadership and managerial direction to the unit within its given mandate and to actively contribute to the leadership of the organisation. Together with the other Heads of Units, the Head of Advisory Unit and the Head of Department, the incumbent forms the Department Management Team responsible for planning and achieving our social mission contribution and the departmental strategic goals as effectively and efficiently as possible.
As a team member, you will support our projects on site - without actually being there. You will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Contribute in developing and implementing the department's strategy, setting annual objectives, plans, budgets, and resource allocations to align with MSF's strategic goals
- Help to drive innovation, and develop strategies leveraging new methods, technologies, and approaches
- Lead projects with strategic impliations within the department and/or across the organisation
- Drive the transition towards data-informed HR practices, developing and maintaining systems, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms that provide actionable insights for strategic workforce planning and organisational decision-making
- Optimise processes, knowledge management and info sharing, oversee development of needs assessment framework for operational units
- Give strategic guidance and supervise the further improvement of HR policies and changes with high impact for MSF-Gernany offices
- Develop the skills of employees through regular feedback, conduct development dialogues and annual employee appraisals
- Create a healthy working atmosphere in the team through your leadership behaviour
The following professional qualifications and personal qualities are important to us:
- Significant experience within the area human resources, change management and/or project management
- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar position with leading teams, and guiding and providing support services to peer group units
- Experience supporting strategy development, its revision as well as translation into annual plans and concrete measures
- Ability to implement and advance process and knowledge management and appreciation of existing structures and achievements, while driving their further development
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with proficient communication in either English or German
- Good understanding how process and information and knowledge management can be implemented to advance services to be efficient and effective
- Good understanding of digitalization processes or interfaces of different systems, experience with IT projects is an asset
- Affintiy to work with data, experience in HR controlling is an advantage
Hard facts
- From 4.740 € to max. 5.999 € starting salary (for full-time employment) + 13th monthly salary
- 30 days holiday plus days off on 24. and 31.12.
Life Balance
- Flexible working hours and part-time model
- Mobile working with presence in our office depending on work requirements incl. technical equipment
- Work from another European country for up to 6 weeks a year
- Sabbatical
Nice to have
- Office: kitchens, fruit/snacks, drinks, modern equipment
- Job ticket or Deutschlandticket subsidy
- Urban Sports Membership
- Bicycle cellar
- and much more
Trainings
- Choice of various further training opportunities
- Access to e-learning platforms
- Offers/topic weeks on mental health, well-being and EDI
- Coaching