MSF Eastern Africa is looking for a Deployment Officer – Single Data Entry (SDE) program
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Introduction
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organisation that provides assistance to people affected by conflicts, epidemics, and natural or human-made disasters and excluded from healthcare. We provide this assistance without discrimination, irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.
About MSF Eastern Africa
MSF Eastern Africa is the regional institutional office of MSF. It focuses on representation and networking, recruiting and supporting staff from the region, communications and fundraising, as well as working on other dossiers of importance to MSF such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Data Protection, mutualization, training, medical operational support and environmental health.
Rationale/Objective for Position
The Single Data Entry (SDE) project is a transformational initiative led by MSF to significantly improve the quality and efficiency of supply chain data entry in stock management processes (cargo reception, order preparation, stock count) across all OCs. The solution uses QR codes and OCR technologies to automate data capture and integrate with MSF’s existing supply chain tools. With planned deployment across over 120 countries, the SDE project is a complex, multi-OC endeavour requiring a dedicated Deployment Officer to lead and coordinate its successful field implementation.
Mission :
The Deployment Officer is responsible for ensuring the effective execution, training and reporting on the SDE solution’s deployment in all designated missions. He/she will ensure readiness checks are validated, conduct deployment with the end users et post deployment follow up, ensure stakeholder engagement, and effective user training. They will collect feedback from the users, monitor performance, and continuously improve deployment processes based on field experience and feedback.
The Deployment Officer, based in Nairobi, will conduct deployments in MSF missions and projects both in-person and remotely. The role requires frequent travel to field locations (up to 75% of the time). In addition to deployment coordination, the Deployment Officer plays a key role in enabling user adoption through user training and change management, acting as a bridge between the field and the SDE product team to ensure that user feedback is collected, and escalated for incorporation into the product as solutions adapted to mission realities. This role also demands strong political acumen to navigate the diverse cultures, organizational dynamics, and power structures across multiple OCs.
The Deployment Officer will also be involved in the facilitation of (TOT) workshops for end users in collaboration with multiple team members
This position will be hierarchically and functionally accountable to the SDE Deployment Manager.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Deployment Execution & Technical Readiness
- Send out, follow up on, and consolidate pre-deployment readiness checklists for target field missions and projects.
- Physically or remotely inspect site readiness based on specific location requirements (e.g., Pharmacies & Warehouses)
- Coordinate with field focal points to secure resource availability for upcoming deployment cycles
- Execute on-site deployment activities, including user onboarding, Go-Live support, and immediate troubleshooting
- Field Readiness & Stakeholder Engagement
- Ensure missions are fully deployment-ready by bridging coordination between field leadership, IT, and supply teams
- Facilitate local change management initiatives to actively drive stakeholder engagement and user buy-in
- Support capacity transfer to field teams to enable autonomous post-deployment troubleshooting, progressively reducing central support reliance
- Training Workshops & Capacity building
- Collaborate with training stakeholders to prepare localized training materials and pre-workshop checklists
- Conduct high-impact in-person training and interactive webinars for various trainee demographics
- Facilitate Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops to build autonomous, sustainable local capacity
- Go-Live, Adoption & Deployment Material Evolution
- Monitor user adoption metrics and address deployment resistance or localized blockers
- Track and report key deployment KPIs to the Deployment manager, including time-to-deploy, adoption rates, error reduction, and user satisfaction
- Capture lessons learned from field deployments and share with the Deployment manager for updates to the central deployment kit, tools, and user guidance
- Ensure all deployment materials remain adapted to local mission contexts, infrastructure, and user profiles (connectivity, language, literacy)
