**REGIONAL EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR**: ES Full Time Operations **GENERAL CONTEXT** Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF. **GENERAL OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT OF THE POST** The Emergency Communication Coordinator (ECC) is member of the emergency team or pool assigned to a communication position of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Operational Centre Barcelona Athens (OCBA) aimed at supporting emergency responses either led by the the Emergency Unit (EU) or any of those done by other operational cells. It is a senior all-round communications specialist that is hierarchically placed under the Head of the Emergency Unit and has a functional line with the Communications Advisor (CA) of the EU. This position covers all countries/interventions within the EU. This person will be part of the coordination teams of each mission (MCT) and will work in close coordination with the HOM, Medco, FCs and PMRs especially. The ECC will also be integrated as part of the operational communications team to ensure peer knowledge sharing, support and back up through regular engagement in key meetings and discussions. This position is on-call for immediate response and travel to operational locations according to the needs and scale of operations, acts as back-up for the HQ opscoms team or for field-based teams, offering continuous support to MSF operational contexts. Upon request of the Head of the EU and in coordination with the EU Communication Advisor, she/he takes any specific project, prioritizing deployments to field locations (up to 70% of the time) with an agreed timeframe of assignment that can be extended if needed. The prioritization of the assignments follows the below criteria: - New emergencies and/or ongoing emergency interventions run by the EU that require timely substantial comms support; - Significant emergency responses run by other operational cells in regular missions and, on ad hoc basis, from other MSF sections present in the context of deployment; - Gap filling (including crisis management) in the field OCBA-led and/or intersectional coms set ups of strategic importance - Back up for coms adviser of EU portfolio. MSF OCBA’s EU leads and manages interventions in contexts with acute humanitarian needs at the outset of crises and when an immediate and often massive response is needed. Its teams can intervene following outbreaks of conflicts, diseases or natural disasters, or reinforce existing missions facing a steep increase in activities. In these crucial moments, MSF needs to reinforce public communication in support of operations. The ECC is expected to be deployed as soon as possible to meet communications needs aimed at alerting on the impact on the people we are assisting and their needs, sharing information and explaining our response and/or as needed mobilizing the various relevant stakeholders (at local, national & international levels, communities, donors) to facilitate access to populations and support humanitarian assistance. **RESPONSIBILITIES AND MAIN TASKS** **1. Communication Strategy & Crisis Communications** - Working with the EU Coms Advisor (or the CA of another cell), support the development and implementation of a communications actions relevant to MSF’s emergency response or any other intervention, (including the preparation of a Terms of Reference (ToR) with specific objectives and expected outputs ahead of any deployment to the field when working outside the EU team). - Working with the Emergency Coordination Team and under the supervision of the HoM / EmCo to respond to the identified public communication needs. She/he will also work with operational, medical and advocacy colleagues in field missions to understand comms needs, challenges and opportunities. - Work with Emergency Coordination Team and OCBA’s digital advisor in developing and implementing digital engagement for emergency missions as needed. - Identify proactively topics of interest for communications products and activities as well as issues/risks that will require to be mitigated reactively. - Contribute to providing guidance to the movement and relevant content on the emergency response (crisis info, talking points, media guidelines, content for dissemination). - Act as part of crisis management teams as required. - When gap-filling, undertake the role and responsibilities of an OCBA Coms Adviser at HQ level, including participating at key o