Recruitment & HR Sourcing Assessment

Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Operational Centre Geneva (OCG)operations in Ukraine include a MH clinic in Vinnytsia, that provides treatment of severe and complex PTSD to people affected by the conflict, MSF’s coordination office in Kyiv OCG also has an emergency response readiness capacity covering scenarios of mass displacement of people, winterization and abandonment of institutionalized care.

MSF values a diverse workforce including locally hired and international staff. In this context, effective and context-sensitive recruitment is critical to ensure continuity of operations, quality of care, and adherence to MSF’s humanitarian principles.

The organization seeks to strengthen its recruitment approach to ensure the timely availability of a qualified, diverse, and motivated workforce, aligned with operational requirements and strategic priorities in a volatile humanitarian context.

This recruitment assessment aims to provide factual analysis and practical, context-adapted recommendations to support the revision of the mission’s recruitment strategy, with a particular focus on hard-to-fill positions. The assessment should provide concrete recommendations for new, improved and creative ways of doing recruitment for MSF OCG in Ukraine such as use of professional associations, digital tools and social media space, recruitment agencies, head hunting, diaspora, internships, graduate schemes, partnerships, consultancies, etc.

**2. Overall Objective**

To analyze MSF OCG’s current recruitment system and the Ukrainian labor market context in order to develop actionable, realistic, and equitable recommendations to strengthen recruitment outcomes in the humanitarian and emergency context.

**3. Specific Objectives**

The study should aim to:

1. Understand and describe the effectiveness and efficiency of HR sourcing processes in current MSF recruitment in Ukraine
2. Identify internal and external factors affecting recruitment, including labor market dynamics, legal co