Cook / Cleaner (Maternity Cover) at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - French

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid in more than 60 countries to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters or exclusion from healthcare.

The French Section of Medecins Sans Frontieres is currently recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cook / Cleaner (Maternity Cover)

Location: Abuja
Contract: Fixed Term Contract – Maternity Cover

Main Purpose

• Prepare meals for patients and MSF staff, according to hygiene standards and security rules, in order to ensure their nutritional needs and execute according to hygienic standards, housekeeping, cleaning and tiding up activities in order to ensure public and staff private areas are in good condition.

Job Description
Cooking:

• Carry out the preparation of meals for staff
• Always follow all hygiene standards and security rules.
• Control stock of food to ask for anything needed on time and prepare shopping list and make purchases if required.
• Ensure meals to be served on time.
• If applicable set table before every meal and clean it up after each meal.
• Ensure cleanliness of all facilities, utensils and equipments.
• As domestic cook, ensure the provision of drinkable water during the day and when she / he leaves cleaning, filling the filter and empty bottles, changing batteries if necessary.
• Look after all equipment provided.
• Keep an inventory of MSF kitchen utensils and equipment, i.e. plates, glasses, cutlery, cookware, etc., and ensure its integrity.
• Report all important information (lost, robbery, damages, deterioration, incident, etc) to supervisor.

Cleaning:

• Clean bedrooms, bathrooms, toilets and other rooms by brushing and moping.
• Cleaning and tidy-up tables; coffee table, dining table, kitchen table and cooker, etc.
• To open windows in the morning and close them in the evening.
• To prepare meals for lunch and dinner as instructed.
• Waste disposal.
• To wash curtain every 3 months.
• To wash duvet, blanket monthly if not using duvet cover, and every 3 months if using duvet cover.
• To wash sofa, pillowcase.
• Keep premises properly locked (doors, windows) when leaving the house.

Others:

• To ensure appliances are off and secure before leaving the house, washing machine, dryer, fan, stove, etc.
• To report if there is a maintenance issue that needs to be done.
• To report if essential product for cleaning is finished.
• To ensure materials are properly clean and stored for the next user.

Requirements

• Education: Literacy essential, course on cooking desirable
• Experience: Previous experience desirable.

Languages:

• Essential: Local language
• Desirable: Mission language

Competencies:

• Commitment
• Results
• Teamwork
• Flexibility
• Service
• Stress Management.

Application Closing Date
5th November, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit ONLY their CV with contact details to the "Personnel Administration Manager" via: msff-nigeria-recruitment@paris.msf.org using “Cook/ Cleaner” as the subject of the mail.

Note

• Qualified females are highly encouraged to apply.
• Only successful applicants will be called for the next steps and are obligated to disclose any information about family  member(s) currently in the employ of MSF-France in any location.
• No monetary transactions, neither demands of favours in kind, nor other types of favouritism will be tolerated in the MSF recruitment process.
• MSF reserves the right to refuse to hire a candidate who has benefitted from any such acts.
• All illicit demands may be pursued through the judicial system.
• MSF is an equal opportunity employer and encourages any Nigerian citizen to apply irrespective of race, gender, religion, creed, political affiliation.
• Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct and hence not acceptable.
• MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage.
• MSF France takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their application.