Deputy general coordinator in charge of support services (F/M)

For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde (MdM), a campaigning medical organisation committed to international solidarity, has been caring for the most vulnerable populations here and abroad. It has continued to bear witness to obstacles that exist in accessing healthcare and has secured sustainable improvements in health-for-all policies.

Those working for this independent organisation do not solely dispense care and treatment but condemn violations of human dignity and rights and fight to improve matters for populations living in precarious situations.

MdM France currently works in 30 countries across all continents to facilitate access to healthcare through 6 political battles:

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
• Migration, Exile, Human Rights and Health
• Harm Reduction
• Environment and Health
• Humanitarian Space
• Healthcare systems and rights

MdM in Yemen

Yemen remains one of the world’s most complex and severe humanitarian crises, driven by years of protracted conflict, economic collapse, climate-related shocks, political fragmentation, and persistent access constraints. An estimated 19.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 11.5 million who require urgent, life-saving aid. The healthcare system is under immense strain, with approximately 15 million people lacking access to adequate medical services, compounded by widespread cholera outbreaks and systemic challenges across the health sector.

The operational context remains volatile, where localized tensions, service disruptions, and economic pressures, such as currency depreciation and delayed public sector salaries, contribute to periodic unrest and operational constraints.

MdM’s strategy in Yemen is structured around :  

• Providing primary healthcare services, including OPD, vaccination, nutritional care, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in 3  directly supported health facilities.   

• Ensuring a community-based approach to provide an equal access to healthcares.

About the role

The deputy general coordinator in charge of support services (DGCSS) is responsible for the overall management of logistics, human resources (HR) and finance departments in the MdM Yemen mission. You coordinate the mission’s support departments: finance, HR and logistics, who receive technical support from the technical advisors in Paris, to ensure compliance with MdM and donor procedures, national policies and legislations and budgets.  

Your main role is to ensure the deployment of MdM frameworks, policies and procedures. You also ensure alignment with MdM strategies and mission policies and leads the implementation of MdM projects related to support services at mission level by integrating it into a socio-political context.

What you will do

Under the line management of the general coordinator, and the technical management of the desk manager, you will:

• Coordinate and align support teams (HR, finance, logistics) with program teams and external partners to ensure smooth operational delivery.
• Manage resources—human, material, and financial—to ensure they match programmatic needs and organizational requirements.
• Establish and maintain coordination mechanisms (meetings, shared tools, processes) to support inter‑team collaboration.
• Ensure compliance with internal procedures, donor rules, local legislation, and audit recommendations across HR, finance, and logistics.
• Support HR leadership in structuring the mission’s workforce, ensuring legal compliance, and onboarding senior staff.
• Support finance leadership in designing proposals, preparing annual budgets, and ensuring financial monitoring, control, and optimization.
• Support logistics leadership in maintaining supply chain efficiency, enforcing procedures, and ensuring availability of goods and equipment.
• Identify, mitigate, and manage financial, compliance, corruption, and fraud risks; ensure proper reporting and investigation processes.
• Lead the application of anti-corruption, anti-fraud, and resource‑control policies across the mission.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the country strategy and yearly action plans, ensuring full integration of support functions.
• Lead, mentor, and structure the support coordination team, ensuring capacity building, workload balance, and performance monitoring.
• Facilitate alignment between support departments and program objectives, ensuring timely deliverables, quality inputs, and strategic coherence.

Who you’ll work with

You will directly manage the coordinators respectively in charge of HR, finance and logistics. You will work closely with the deputy general coordinator in charge of programs, the HARA advisor, the grants team, the MEAL coordinator and field coordinators at mission level. At HQ level, you collaborate with referents for logistics, HR, finance, audit, legal and IT.

What you’ll gain

• Strategic leadership experience overseeing finance, HR, and logistics in one of the most complex humanitarian missions worldwide, with direct influence on mission-wide decision‑making
• High‑level professional development, including team management of senior coordinators, donor compliance, risk mitigation, and contribution to country strategy
• Career‑enhancing exposure to large‑scale emergency operations in Yemen, strengthening crisis management, negotiation, and coordination skills highly valued for senior humanitarian roles