Patrick SCHMITT

Experience

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  Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium

  Mar 1995 - May 1997

  Project Coordinator

  - Responsible for the implementation of medical and logistics projects.- Budget follow-up and reporting: 350,000 USD (Mali); 3,8 M DM (Bosnia); 750,000 USD (Chechnya); 1,7 M USD (Burundi).- Representation of MSF with local authorities, UN agencies, and NGOs.- Responsible for the logistics of supplies, sub-contracting, cold-chain, warehouses and pharmacy, transportation, construction of camps, water and sanitation, and living conditions.- Responsible for the HR management of local recruitment, briefings, trainings, supervision, and finalisation of contracts (3 expatriates and 16 to 20 local employees in Mali, Bosnia and Chechnya; 17 expatriates and 400 local employees in Burundi).- Responsible for the administrative management of contracts, payment of rent, accounting, insurance, and payroll.- Responsible for overall security including briefing newcomers, monitoring contacts, and information gathering, analysis and sharing of information, insure proper lines of communications. Show less

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  Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium

  Aug 1997 - May 1999

  Logistic and Technical Coordinator

  - Responsible for the creation of action plans meeting clearly defined objectives with resources (annual budget of 1.2 M USD in Afghanistan; 65 M USD over a 9 months’ time period in South Sudan).- Representing MSF when meeting with local authorities, United Nations (UN) agencies, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).- Technical and logistics management of general organisation, medical and logistical supplies, transportation, construction of warehouses and pharmacy structures, water and sanitation, communications, and implementation and supervision of logistical projects.- HR management of local recruitment, briefings, trainings, team management, work plans, termination of contracts. (Afghanistan: 120 local employees and expatriates; South Sudan: 600 expatriates).- Administrative management of contracts, payroll, insurance coverage, and “leave”.- Responsible for security matters including the writing and up-dating of security guidelines, briefing newcomers, monitoring contacts, and information gathering, analysis and sharing of information, ensure proper lines of communication. Show less

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  Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

  Jul 1999 - Dec 2004

  - Responsible for human resource (HR) matters in the field - supervised 10 staff members at MSF headquarters in Geneva, responsible for an average of 400 field staff per year (Doctors, Nurses, Midwifes, Lab Technicians, Chemists, Administrators, Engineers and Logisticians).- Plans of action, objectives, and resources, with a total budget of 1.3 M CHF per year.- Planning of yearly needs including the creation, monitoring and renewal of field positions; adaptation and response to unforeseen emergencies; regular follow-up of all field positions.- Development of new recruitment tools (tests, recruitment centre), and partnerships (Geneva Cantonal Hospital, medical schools and university, Tropical Medicine Institute, engineering school).- Coordination and supervision of the HR pool ensuring the presence of experienced staff.- Responsible for a pool of Head of Missions and Medical Coordinators (including recruitment, training, briefing/debriefing, support, evaluation and development).- Planning of training needs.- Providing briefings and advice on HR management issues to both headquarters and field staff.- Intervention in HR conflict management and HR emergency situations. - Reporting: orally, written, statistics.- Representing MSF when meeting with authorities at humanitarian platforms, and during cultural events.- Support the MSF “Access to Drugs Campaign” to develop pharmaceutical R&D (recruitment, organisation of liaison with the field, field visits in TB and AIDS projects, events organisation and facilitation). Show less - HR member of an operations desk managing 8 countries (Angola, Liberia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Dagestan, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan)- Responsible for approximately 70 positions covering medical, administration, logistics and technical expertise.- Participation in designing action plans and setting objectives with an annual budget of 7 M CHF.- Responsible for the proper turnover of field positions, recruited according to planned and emergency needs.- Preparation of departures to the field for staff including finalization of contracts, insurance coverage, travel arrangements, accommodations, medical clearance, and security clearance.- Participation in briefings and de-briefings.- Follow-up of staff on missions.- Undertaking field visits for conflict management.- Facilitation at training courses. Show less

  • Field Human Resources Senior Manager

    Sept 2000 - Dec 2004

  • Human Resources Officer

    Jul 1999 - Aug 2000
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  Schmitt Traduction

  Jan 2005 - now

  Certified English/French Translator

  Field of intervention: technical, trade, administration, communication, judiciary & legal (certified), human resources, medical, social, philosophy, arts. Examples of translated documents: Memoranda of Understanding, strategic plans, operational plans, logical frameworks, activity reports, meeting agendas and minutes, training and seminar modules, case studies, guidelines and manuals, websites, Charters, rules and regulations, job descriptions, resumes, terms of reference, leaflets and booklets, letters, speeches, press articles, PowerPoint and other presentations, songs, musicals, novels, theatre, essays. Main clients: United Nations agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGO), academic institutes (universities and schools), businesses, arts associations, private customers. You can find on our website (click on the logo below) some of their feedback about our work and its quality. Show less