Health Promoter (IEC Supervisor) at Medecins Sans Frontieres

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