Applications will be accepted until 09:00am EDT on Friday, 31 July 2026The Deputy Executive Director (Deputy) serves as the operational backbone of MSF Canada, ensuring that strategy translates into action across all departments while maintaining the organizational health, accountability, and cross-functional cohesion needed to deliver on MSF Canada's mission.By bridging leadership, operations, risk, and governance, this role amplifies the Executive Director's capacity and keeps the organization running with clarity and purpose. Internally and externally, the Deputy strengthens MSF Canada's credibility as a well‐managed, mission‐aligned organization.Our ValuesOur work is guided by the humanitarian principles of impartiality, neutrality, and independence, rooted in universal medical ethics.We bring these principles to life through the way we treat each other, work, and relate to the global MSF movement:Respect, Integrity, Inclusion – fostering a workplace grounded in equity and belongingDiscovery, Learning, Boldness – embracing curiosity, innovation, and courageous actionImpact, Transformation, Shared Responsibility – driving meaningful change and collective accountabilityThese values shape our culture and guide everything we do to uphold MSF's social mission.MSF Canada is looking for someone who will be responsible to:Lead day-to-day operations: Drive organizational effectiveness across departments, by leading the planning and accountability cycleManage senior leaders: Directly oversee Finance and Administration, IT, Human Resources, Strategy and Planning, while building team capacity through coaching, accountability and cross functional collaboration.Oversee risk and compliance: Maintain organizational readiness through critical incident preparedness, risk registry management, and oversight and cross functional risk mitigation of MSF Canada's legal and data privacy obligations. Ensure compliance across Finance, HR, and IT, including data privacy, legal obligations,



and safeguarding casework (with high‐impact cases escalated to the ED). Lead operational risk response within agreed thresholds.Strategic partnership with the Executive Director: Act as the ED's strategic partner, ensuring alignment between internal operations and external/movement‐facing priorities. Providing operational insight for governance reporting, Board engagement, and organizational health monitoring. Ensuring the ED has a clear line of sight into culture signals, safeguarding patterns, risk, and performance.Represent and connect: Support the Executive Director in representing MSF Canada internally and externally, preparing the organization for engagements with the movement and the public, and connecting internal teams, the Association, and governance bodies to strengthen MSF Canada's cohesion, credibility, and networks.A detailed job description is available HERE.The successful candidate will bring to MSF Canada:Genuine interest in, understanding of, and commitment to, the humanitarian principles and the social mission of MSFProficiency in spoken and written English and FrenchCulturally humble, equity-minded, and able to model inclusive leadership across a diverse organizationDemonstrated senior leadership experience in a complex, multi-stakeholder organization - nonprofit, humanitarian, or similarly mission-driven environmentProven track record managing cross-functional teams and executive level direct reportsAbility to lead and develop high‐performing teams,



with a coaching and accountability-oriented approachExtensive experience bridging departments and creating conditions for collaboration across an organizationComfortable holding both strategic and operational responsibilities simultaneouslyStrong organizational and process management skills, with experience running planning and reporting cyclesAbility to identify, assess, and mitigate organizational riskFamiliarity with financial oversight, IT governance, and/or legal and compliance functionsGood communicator in both internal leadership and public contexts where needed in support of the organization's leadershipWorking Conditions:Regular hours Monday to Friday (9 a.M.–5 p.M., core hours 10 a.M.–3 p.M.); occasional evenings or weekends.Hybrid work model with a 40% in MSF Canada office requirement (2 days/week)Designated office consists of sit/stand desk, swivel chair, laptop with dock and double monitor, task lamp, small seating areaInteraction with stakeholders, donors and the public where neededDomestic travel ( (no matching required)4 weeks' vacation annuallyHealth Spending AccountsAnnual Career development budgetEmployee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)Access to internal Psychosocial Care Unit ServicesVacancy noticeThis posting is for a an existing position and is not intended to create an ongoing candidate pool for future openings. Qualified applications will be individually assessed for this role only.AI disclosure statementWe do not use artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically screen or select candidates for interview. AI may be used in the hiring process to assist our recruitment team by:Summarizing recruiter or hiring manager notes, andConducting limited keyword searches for specific job‐related criteria.AccessibilityAny questions or concerns regarding accommodation and accessibility may be addressed to Human Resources.SafeguardingMSF is committed to preventing abuse, inappropriate behavior, lack of integrity and financial misconduct in its work and care spaces. MSF expects all staff to share this commitment and promote an environment where abuse and misconduct is not tolerated. #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Deputy Executive Director (Montreal)
🏢 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada
📍 Montreal