Health Promoter Supervisor at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Accountabilities / Responsibilities (Non-exhaustive list)
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 organization of the activities for the HP team (HP roaster).
• Ensure the organization of regular HP team meetings.
• Participate in the community meeting in Eku ward
• Support the implementation of community surveillance (data collection, active case finding, tracing, liaison with care).
• Responsible for planning and organising community meetings in Eku ward (in collaboration with the HPCE manager and PMR).
• In close collaboration with the HPCE Manager and PMR: identify indicators to monitor health promotion activities, results and achievements and use concrete tools to measure and monitor these activities
• Contribute to community mapping in Eku ward.
• Plan the activities of the health educators under his supervision
• Report all community incidents to the PMR/CP

Required Skills and Conditions
Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Social Work, Behavioural Sciences, Public Health, Community Health, Nursing (Desirable).
• Secondary school diploma (Essential).

Experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience in: Health promotion, Team management experience, Program implementation Experience qualitative methodology is highly desirable.
• Motorbike driving license.

Languages:

• Mission language and local language essential

Computer Literacy:

• Basic competencies in word and excel are essential, internet.

Competencies and Qualities:

• Results and Quality Orientation
• Team management skills
• Training skills
• Organizational skills
• Stress Management
• Negotiation skills at community level
• Autonomous and initiative taking
• Strong IT skills (excel word)
• Reporting skills
• Skills in participatory approaches
• Strategic / analytical skills are desirable
• Able to cope with hard to reach situations
• Able to drive a motorbike for the supervision purposes in the field

Remuneration
According to the MSF salary scale (Level 7) plus 13th month allowance equivalent to 1 month of gross salary.