Do you want to join a campaigning association and take concrete action for greater social justice? For more than 40 years, Médecins du Monde has worked to care for the most vulnerable populations, to denounce barriers to healthcare access, and to bring about lasting change in health policy. In France and in nearly 30 countries, its work is built around six political struggles: sexual and reproductive rights and health, including the right to abortion; migration, exile, rights and health; harm reduction; environmental health; rights and the health system; and humanitarian spaces.
Médecins du Monde in Languedoc-Roussillon
The Languedoc-Roussillon delegation of Médecins du Monde is made up of 9 employees and around one hundred volunteers. Three programmes providing access to rights and healthcare are run by the volunteers and staff: the Rosela programme, the Santé Environnement (Environmental Health) programme, and the Centre d'Accueil de Soins et d'Orientation (CASO). A cross-cutting line of work around sexual and reproductive rights and health (SRHR), one of Médecins du Monde's core struggles, has been agreed by the actors who steer the delegation's direction. In the coming period, the priority objective is to help bring this direction to life by clarifying and operationalising it, including adding an abortion axis to develop precise and workable information across all projects on this issue.
Why They Need You
You will support the whole delegation team, both staff and volunteers, in continuing to implement a cross-cutting regional advocacy line around SRHR, with a particular focus on the question of voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG). Building on the work begun in 2025 and 2026 on the mapping of actors in Montpellier, you will strengthen the delegation's knowledge of partners and services in the Hérault area on the SRHR theme and on the abortion services available. You will also support the CASO team in SRHR-related activities, including counselling interviews during drop-in sessions, access to abortion services in the area, and strengthening the participation and, where possible, the involvement of the people concerned.
Your Colleagues
You will be supervised by the regional coordinator and the CASO programme coordinator. You will work in a functional relationship with the delegation's SRHR steering group, which is made up of volunteers and staff, and in close collaboration with the delegation's teams.
Your Missions
👉 Building the partner network
🔗 Facilitate partnership links with sexual and reproductive health actors across the area
🎪 Build and organise an event to present the results of the mapping carried out in 2025 and 2026
📊 Lead a reflection, through a study or questionnaire, and/or a panel with medico-social actors around SRHR and abortion issues
🗺️ Continue building the mapping: existing SRHR services with a focus on abortion provision, and the gaps or unmet needs
🧩 Develop a logical framework for the delegation's SRHR project together with the steering group
👉 Working with the teams
📣 Communicate, organise the transmission of information and the necessary connections between the delegation's programmes and actions and the head office teams
🧑🏫 Take part in organising awareness-raising and training workshops on SRHR for the volunteer teams
🛠️ Develop the tools for the CASO's SRHR activities and support the volunteer team in setting up SRHR counselling interviews
👉 Strengthening the power to act of service users
🤝 Support the volunteer team in encouraging the involvement of the people concerned in SRHR activities
💬 Facilitate focus groups with the people supported to strengthen their involvement
👉 Representation and associative life
🎯 Lead the delegation's SRHR working group
🕊️ Represent Médecins du Monde appropriately with all the project's SRHR partners
🏛️ Take part in the internal life of the delegation, including associative life and events
Your Profile
You are the right person if you are studying for a specialised master's degree with solid experience in the field of health and SRHR and/or in the project management process. You can show experience of working in an associative environment and/or supporting people in precarious situations, and you have a good knowledge of the health and social field and of the schemes for accessing rights and care in France for people in precarious situations. You have a practical grasp of prevention and health promotion concepts, you know the Montpellier network, and you enjoy working in a multidisciplinary team and in partnership. You know how to prioritise your tasks and manage your time independently, you are fluent in the Microsoft Office suite, and you have a fluent command of written and spoken French. English is appreciated.
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Your Conditions
📆 A 6-month internship starting from October 2026
📄 A mandatory internship agreement (convention de stage)
🕘 Full-time
📍 Based in Montpellier
🚗 Frequent travel, for training and partner meetings
🌙 Occasional evening and weekend work
💶 An allowance of 4.50 euros per effective hour
🍽️ Meal vouchers worth 6 euros
🚌 Reimbursement of 50 percent of the public transport pass
🖥️ Screen-based work, in an open-space, seated posture
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The Next Steps
If your application is selected, you will be contacted shortly to be offered an interview with the regional coordinator.
How to Apply
Send your application, consisting of a CV and a cover letter, by email, mentioning "Stage DSSR" in the subject line.
Deadline
⏳ As soon as possible!
Application Email
📧 languedoc-roussillon@medecinsdumonde.net
