Médecins Sans Frontières is a private, non-profit international humanitarian organization dedicated to providing medical assistance to populations in crisis, without discrimination and regardless of race, religion, gender, creed or political affiliation.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health Promoter Supervisor

Location: Cross River
Employment Type: Contract

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.

Application Closing Date
1st March, 2024.