Community Health Educator at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Responsibilities

• Strengthening the link between the community and MSF programs and activities
• Promote MSF ICCM services through mobilization, referrals and strengthening linkage to care
• Conduct home visit/follow up of referrals from ICCM, ATFC and ITFC Support defaulter tracing (nutrition, vaccination, ANC) Assist in community mapping
• Conduct daily health education sessions in the selected communities about MSF and different medical thematics with the target population
• Organize and conduct routine meeting/capacity building sessions with the community leaders, community key people like e.g TBAs, youth and women group etc. in the target communities in collaboration with HP supervisor
• Establish and maintain strong relationship with the communities where MSF operates
• Participant in celebrating of specific health days in the communities.
• Participant in community-based surveillance during outbreaks
• Participate in mass vaccination and other seasonal outreach activities and campaigns
• Screening children for malnutrition in the community and referring them to the nearest OTPs in the catchment communities
• Report to line manager of any constrain and results of activities on a regular basis.
• Collect community concerns, rumors, and feedback Support Community Feedback Mechanisms and Share feedback with MSF teams for program adaptation
• Support the HP activities of ATFC/ITFC/SRH whenever need arises

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess relevant an OND, BEd, or HND qualification with at least 2 years of experience.