Migration Project Manager - UniField

We are looking for passionate candidates ready to contribute to our humanitarian mission.

Below, you will find the job details and the qualifications we are looking for.

Inclusivity and Diversity at MSF

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At MSF OCG, we are committed to an inclusive culture that supports and amplifies 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 to advance MSF's social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

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We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.
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Context & mission

Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, people affected by natural or man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter).

The MSF movement is built around 5 operational centers supported by 24 sections and offices worldwide. MSF Operational Center Geneva (MSF OCG) is one of these centres.

Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has developed its own ERP system named UniField to cover its Finance and Supply activities and processes in the field. UniField's first deployments started in January 2015 and it is now deployed on
more than 400 locations and used by 5, soon to be 6 Operational Directorates (ODs) and by more than 4000 active users.

UniField was originally based on OpenERP (now called Odoo) and was significantly custom developed to meet the needs of MSF with the result that there has been a fork for over 10 years' worth of customization and since then UniField has been maintained separately from Odoo.

The project to migrate UniField back to the core frame of Odoo has been launched by the UniField Board with the aim to mitigate risks identified in the current set up as well as to ensure UniField remains fit-for-purpose for the medium/longer term.

The project covers multiple workstreams, those managed directly by the core team, and those to be managed internally within each OD and which are essential for the success of the project. This position will be focused on this 2nd workstream specifically supporting ODs in their coordination of the following activities:

• Selection, support and configuration to transition UniField servers to Linux Operating System
• Updating of existing training and user support materials and organization of any required training
• Updating API calls & testing for systems which interface directly with UniField

Reporting to the project owner, the UniField Head of ERP Support and Development, the Intersectional Migration Project Manager serves as a central point of coordination for the OD-owned project workstreams. The Intersectional Migration Project Manager is responsible for coordinating planning activities across multiple ODs and consolidating OD resources, plans, project, and risk information into a single integrated project plan.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Planning Coordination

• Communicate and cascade the UniField-Odoo Migration vision and plan to OD stakeholders through designated OD project managers, ensuring alignment and understanding across entities.
• Drive the change management linked to the execution of workstreams and alignment of entities including stakeholder readiness assessment with defined indicators reported to the project owner
• Engage directly with OD PMs and lead planning and review meetings, ensuring timely submission and updates of OD plans from the designated OD PMs for the sub workstreams (Linux adoption, Training/materials, API updates).
• Consolidate OD plans into a single organizational roadmap, maintaining a central planning repository with accurate and consistent data.
• Identify dependencies, overlaps, conflicts, and other constraints across ODs, and recommend planning adjustments to improve alignment and execution.

Risk Management & Reporting

• Establish, maintain, and oversee a centralized organizational risk register, ensuring risks are consistently documented, assessed, assigned, and regularly reviewed across ODs.
• Collect and consolidate risks from ODs, track mitigation actions and progress, and identify emerging cross-functional and organizational risks arising from dependencies, resource constraints, competing priorities, or project activity delays.
• Facilitate periodic risk review meetings, promote a proactive risk management culture, and escalate critical risks and issues to the project owner with recommendations for mitigation and resolution.

Reporting and Governance

• Provide project owner with visibility on status updates, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Monitor progress against agreed plans and escalate significant deviations when required.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong working relationships with OD project managers and key stakeholders.
• Act as a facilitator between ODs to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• Design and maintain a stakeholder communication plan tailored to each audience, translating progress and terminology into narratives relevant to non-SMEs stakeholders to support decision-making through clear communication

Your profile

Education

• Tertiary degree or equivalent professional experience in Project Management/Business Administration or related field experience

Experience

• At least +5 years of cumulative project/program management experience in complex multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience of ERP systems and migration and / or deployment management
• Change management/Organisational change experience

Languages

• English (strong oral and written skills)
• Fluent French a strong advantage

Skills/ Technical competencies

• Ability to understand MSF's organizational context and ways of collaborating
• Strong knowledge of project and programme management approaches (PMP certification, Scrum)
• Ability to set direction across multiple teams and motivate contributors without direct line management

Personal Abilities/Qualities

• Commitment to MSF Principles and Values including MSF Behavioural Commitments
• Excellent ability to work in a multicultural environment successfully and to demonstrate commitment and support for diversity, gender-responsive, inclusive, and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills
• Capacity to facilitate change management
• Change resilience: ability to sustain conviction and adapt the approach over a long development phase and variety of ways of working
• Analytical and critical thinking capabilities
• Ability to foster collaboration and integrate diverse perspectives across entities

Terms of employment

• Full-time position 100% (40h/week)
• Fixed-term contract : 2 years
• Working place: one of these Operational Centers: OC Amsterdam, OC Belgium, OC Geneva, OC Paris, OC WaCA, OC Ubuntu
• Ideal start date: As soon as possible

How to apply

Candidates are invited to submit their application exclusively through our recruitment platform, following these guidelines:

• CV (maximum 2 pages)
• Cover letter (maximum 1 page)
• Documents must be submitted in either English or French.

The application deadline is :
2026-09-06

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if we receive a sufficient number of quality applications.

All applications will be treated confidentially.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Please note that we do not wish to use the services of recruitment or placement agencies.