HEALTH PROMOTER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUPERVISOR (White Nile) – MSF Spain
Job Description
| Organization | Medecins sans Frontieres Spain |
| Job Title | HEALTH PROMOTER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUPERVISOR |
| Location | White Nile State & Project Sites |
| Section/Unit | Medical |
| Salary | 1309 USD |
| Supervisor | HPCE Manager/Project Medical Referent |
| Closing Date | 05 Jan 2025 |
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 and the health facilities, according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards and pro-cedures.
Duties and responsibilities:
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, interviews and surveys.
• Actively support in the systematic collection, collation, encoding and reporting of community feedback, rumours and contextual events
• 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, engagement (in collaboration with HPCE Manager).
• Contribute to the community and actors 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 monitored data and look for adjustment (in collaboration with HPCE manager), weekly and 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, planning 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 chronogram and roaster).
• Ensure the organisation of regular HP team meetings, and follow up.
MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities
Support the implementation of the HP/CE activities in the ITFC, pediatrics SRH, MHPSS, ER/Triage departments according MSF standards.
– Implement and gathers together health promotion tools (messages and materials) and ensures they are used, adapted to the context and distributed.
– In collaboration with the medical teams plans and organizes the setting up of activities and priorities for the departments.
– Support in the recruitment, training and supervision of the health promotion teams.
– Monitors daily activities.
– Drafts the teams’ weekly activity reports.
– Listens and answers the public’s questions and concerns specially due to the vulnerable groups situations: Sensitive subjects (e.g. changing funeral rites); Rumors that complicate the measures set up to eradicate the outbreak;Other general or specific concerns of the population (e.g. implementation of a new cholera facility in a neighborhood).
– Manages materials for health promotion activities in the different pediatrics departments (ITFC, IPD, and ER.
– Support the implementation of the HPCE activities proper
– Regularly reports to the line manager on routine activities carried out and the difficulties encountered.
– Participates in health promotion team meetings.
– Attends certain in-service training courses as needed, and prepare plan of trainings for the team.
– Follow up strictly the IPC measures according MSF standars.
– Report to the line manager the necessesary information for follow up and technical support.
– Maintain good worrking atmosphere at all time in the work place and commitment to responsible behaviour and abuse policiy
– Be flexible in the process of carrying out assigned and or cdelegated tasks/activities
– Good stress management as context unstable and flexible in working in multiple locations.
– Essential excellent communication skills and collaboration with other departments as this position is transversal: will work with medical and operations
Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
| Requirements | |
| 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 | Mission language and local language essential |
| Knowledge | Basic competencies in word and excel are essential. |
| Competencies | • Results and Quality Orientation • Team management skills • Training skills • Organisational skils • Stress Management • Negotiation skills at community level • Autonomous and initiative taking • Strong IT skills (excell, word) • Reporting skills • Skills in participatory approaches • Strategic / analytical skills are desirable |
MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to the assistance of other human beings in crisis. As such MSF is by choice an association. Each individual working with MSF does it out of conviction and is ready to uphold the values and principles of MSF. MSF OCBA is a people-focused humanitarian organization that offers a diverse, collaborative, and inclusive work environment. We believe this approach enhances our work and we are committed to equity in employment. We embrace diverse backgrounds of people working together to exhibit their passion in action for the social mission of MSF. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. MSF provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, integrity and a healthy balance of work and life. MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.
How to apply
Applications must be in English Language and include:
• Cvs, Copies of Educational, Experience Certificates,National ID,Cover letter and Contact numbers.
Interested candidates are requested to submit their Applications to the Labor office, Kosti, in a sealed envelope mentioning (MSF Spain – application for HEALTH PROMOTER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUPERVISOR).
