Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare. MSF’s actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality.

The Executive Director will provide strategic and operational leadership of the APAC project, including oversight of the Malaysia Branch Office. The APAC Project is a partnership between MSF Australia, MSF Hong Kong, MSF Japan and MSF Korea to support the delivery of MSF’s global social mission from the Asia Pacific region in a considered, efficient, and effective manner. The role aims to strengthen MSF’s presence, impact, and alignment in the region by leveraging opportunities in fundraising, communications, digital marketing, human resources, and operational support.

While the position contributes to MSF’s regional engagement and collaboration across APAC, it operates within a highly coordinated framework involving multiple sections and Operational Centres. The role will initially focus on establishing and strengthening the foundational administrative, HR, and compliance systems of the Malaysia Branch Office before expanding into broader regional collaboration activities.

The ED, Malaysia Branch Office & APAC Project also represents MSF externally and internally in Malaysia on non-operational matters and cooperates closely with any MSF operations representatives in Malaysia to advance MSF’s social mission.

This role reports into the APAC Steering Committee (Executive Directors of Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia) for strategic accountability to the APAC project, with one of those EDs acting as the role’s manager. It is also accountable to the board of the Malaysia office (Malaysian Board Members + 4 EDs of APAC), for all activities inside Malaysia.

MSF Korea is managing the recruitment process for this role.

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Executive Director, Malaysia Branch Office & APAC Project