Health Promoter (IEC Supervisor) at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) - Belgium

Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, international organisation. The organisation is made up mainly of doctors and health sector workers and is also open to all other professions which might help in achieving its aims. Médecins Sans Frontières provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health Promoter (IEC Supervisor)

Location: Maiduguri, Borno

Main Purpose

• With the support and guidance of the HPCE Manager, responsible for implementing the HPCE strategy / workplan, with community participation, and supervising the HPCE activities and HP teams working in the communities or the health facilities, according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards and pro-cedures.

Accountabilities
HPCE strategy, activities and monitoring:

• Actively contribute to the design/adaptation of the HPCE strategy / workplan.
• Lead and follow up on the implementation of the HPCE strategy / workplan, according to the chronogram.
• Support participatory approaches and regular patient/community consultations before and during implementation of the HPCE strategy.
• Organizing health awareness sessions for MSF's medical and non-medical staff
• Support in the design of health education materials and participatory methods, applying the right process (pretesting, validation of content, translation).
• Contribute to rapid assessments and surveys.
• Actively support in the systematic collection, encoding and reporting of community feedback and rumours.
• Support the implementation of community-based surveillance (data collection, active case finding, tracing, linkage to care.
• Responsible for the planning and organization of community meetings (in collaboration with HPCE Manager).
• Contribute to the community mapping.
• Monitoring: Ensure the availability of the data collection tools; the data encoding in the data base and the quality check.
• Monitoring: Contribute to the analysis of the monitoring data and look for adjustment (in collaboration with HPCE manager), monthly reporting (MMR, sitrep,…).

Team management:

• Contribute to evaluation of the HP team (with the HPCE manager).
• Contribute to the development plan for the HP team.
• Training: Contribute to the needs assessment, design and implementation of training for the HP team, in collaboration with the HPCE manager.
• Organize regular and systematic supervision of the HP activities and provide on the job-coaching.
• Ensure the planning and practical organisation of the activities for the HP team (HP roaster).
• Ensure the organisation of regular HP team meetings.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Assessing, developing and adapting IEC/HP materials according to the needs of the project, ensuring content and format have been pre-tested with target groups in order to ensure the adequacy, relevance, full understanding of the messages.
• To oversee the implementation of HP strategy, team performance and supervision of the health promotion activities in CEmONC,BEmONC, Community and Outreach.
• Creating and managing team schedules through monthly roster/periodic team rotation/leave plans to ensure proper staffing for smooth running of Health Promotion activities in the facility.
• Ensure proper collaboration with other actors, other facilities and weekly HP data report on DHIS2.
• To contribute on the HP monthly situational reports, quarterly report and the annual report regarding different HP activities.
• In collaboration with the HP manager, keeping close contact with the community leaders/traditional and religious leaders to create good relationship between Communities in Maiduguri and MSF. Organizing quarterly and emergency meeting as the situation may be.
• Training need identification and training of the team as the case may be.
• In collaboration with the team and laboratory organize blood donation campaign in the community and follow-up blood availability in the blood bank and monitor the pool of blood donor..
• Organise and celebrate specific health days (world breastfeeding week, Global handwashing day etc,) in collaboration with the medical team.
• Timely report to the HP Manager of any constrains that interfere with Health promotion activities in SRH
• Carryout/support in conducting assessment and survey when the need arises.
• Sensitisation on SGBV,Family planning activities in the community
• Organise meeting with Traditional Birth attendants,community leaders and stakeholders relevant to SRH
• Conduct focus group discussions,surveys and analysepatient exit interviews /Feedback
• Monitoring of HP stock and inventory to keep track of items

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications
Education:

• Desirable: Bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioural sciences, public health, community health, nursing. Essential: secondary school diploma.

Experience:

• Essential: At least 2 years’ experience in: • health promotion • team management experience • program implementation Experience qualitative methodology is highly desirable.

Languages:

• Essential mission language – English
• Local language desirable – Hausa, Kanuri

Knowledge:

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel, and internet)

Competencies:

• Strategic Vision L2
• Leadership L2
• People Management and Development L3
• Service orientation L2
• Teamwork and Cooperation

Application Closing Date
1st November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• MSF is an equal opportunity employer, both men and women are encouraged to apply.
• Please note that only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited for interview; MSF Belgium takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their applications.
• Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Dual Employment is considered gross misconduct as contained in MSF Belgium Internal Regulations (IR) guideline and hence not acceptable.
• Applications should be sent through the indicated channel else application will not be entertained.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the next steps.
• MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the recruitment process at any stage.
• This job description may be amended in line with the activities or evolution of the Mission.
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