Job Description

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an International Humanitarian Organization providing medical aid to populations in distress, victims of natural and man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, regardless of race, religion, and political beliefs. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org

Médecins Sans Frontières – Belgium is looking for Yemeni nationals to recruit for the following position:

HEALTH PROMOTER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SUPERVISOR

• Location: Mocha Project
• Contract type: Fixed-Term Contract
• Reporting to: HPCE Manager

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 procedures.

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 the implementation of the HPCE strategy.
• Organize 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 rumors.
• 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 community mapping.
• Monitoring: Ensure the availability of the data collection tools; the data encoding in the database 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 the 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 organization of the activities for the HP team (HP roaster).
• Ensure the organization of regular HP team meetings.

MSF Section/Context Specifics:

Professional Objective 1:

• Identifying indicators to monitor HP activity results and achievement using concrete tools to measure and follow up activities, designing new HP communication tools, train, and guide HPs on the appropriate use of validated tools for: CEMONC, IPD, ITFC, ATFC, and for communicable diseases.

Professional Objective 2:

• HP training needs are identified and prioritized; organize training according to needs identified with support from HP manager; facilitate refresher training for HPs on relevant maternal and child health topics and training of trainers for HPs to capacitate them for OUTREACH support.

Professional Objective 3:

• Prepare HP activity plan and rosters; adapt the schedule according to prevailing situations in the operational area in consultation with HP manager/PMR (Vaccination, triage, ED, OPD) for HPs under your supervision when necessary.

Professional Objective 4:

• Assess the knowledge of the project target population on health risks and analyzing the context (local culture, traditions, habits, health perception, treatment satisfaction survey) to adapt health activities.

Requirements:

Education:

• Desirable: bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioral 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.