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Work in the Field

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recruits medical and non-medical personnel to provide aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

Learn how you can join MSF

The MSF recruitment process is competitive and MSF seeks individuals who go beyond the minimum essential requirements and embody the principles of independent and impartial humanitarian aid.

 
Voice from the Field

Nurse Laura Cobey in Uganda
 
 
PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS?

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is in urgent need of field staff to provide assistance for MSF programs in French-speaking countries such as Niger, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast and Haiti.

Prospective field staff for these countries need to be able to hold a conversation comfortably in French.

 
Benefits Offered to MSF Field Staff
  • Starting gross monthly salary of $1404
  • Per diem during assignment in local currency
  • Round-trip transportation
  • Room and board in project country
  • Comprehensive medical, disability and life insurance coverage
  • Emergency evacuation insurance
  • Reimbursement of mission-specific vaccinations
  • Accommodation in New York City and Europe during briefings and debriefings
  • Letter of support for student loan deferment
  • Payment of interest on student loans after first field assignment and for six months thereafter
  • Employee Assistance program