Health Promoter Supervisor at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Title: Health Promoter Supervisor
Duration: 12 months (Fixed Term Contract) – Full time position (100%)
Direct Reports: Deputy Medical Team Leader / Medical Team Leader
Location: Nduta Camp and Kibondo (Kigoma Region)

Objectives of the position:
With
the support and guidance of the Deputy PMR/ PMR/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.

Main 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 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/DMTL/MTL).
• 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…).
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Team management:
• Contribute to evaluation of the HP team (with the HPCE manager/Deputy PMR / PMR).
• 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 / Deputy PMR / PMR.
• 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.

CONTEXT SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:
1. HEALTH PROMOTION (HP)
–
Health Education the population of Nduta camp in terms of
information, education and communication according to medical topics and
needs.
– Draw upon social, cultural, and linguistic analyses
to better understand factors that influence the experience of illness,
prevention, treatment, and healing: Analysing the knowledge, attitudes,
and practices concerning a disease or health problem within a community
in general.
– Empower people to have a more active role in
their own healthcare and decison-making, which will contribute towards
developing and providing a people-centered medical response.
–
Feedback mechanisms: Collect, share, follow and respond to the
feedback and other mains informations from the community, patients etc
in close collaboration with all the departments after the validation by
the line-manager

2. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (CE)
Community
Engagement (CE) = way of working! It should be present in every HP
action area and considered as non-optional. The active involvement of
patients and communities HP programs will determine its success (Patient
and Populations as Partners—PPP approach)
– Situation
Analysis : General urderstanding of the context to adapt and reorient
health services (by collecting information in a targeted way on:
knowledge, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes and practices related
specific health related topics and sickness. Perceptions on MSF and its
services, health seeking behaviour, social structures, key actors and
dynamics of the community.
– Support to Social Networking
:Trust-building is an essential step to work towards healthy behaviour
change. This can only be achieved through proactive and frequent
engagement with the communities we are working with. This has a
possitive impact on MSFs security as well. We do that through: community
mapping, social mapping and social network analysis
–
Creating Supportive Enviroments : Interdisciplinary collaboration
between: Health Promotion, Mental Health, medical activities and support
to logisitc trough some activities:
· Blood donation (mobilization, meetings/groups discussion, follow-up etc)
· Specific cases (contact tracing, emergency tracing and defaulter tracing/LAMA/DAMA)
· Integrated vector Management (dissemination of information and education about planned activity etc)

Main Competencies:
• Basic computer skills
• Results and Quality Orientation
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Behavioural Flexibility
• Commitment to MSF Principles
• Stress Management

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