Health Promoter Supervisor - Emergency Intervention

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 procedures.

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 rumors.
• 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.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Tailor HPCE strategy to be applied to the MSF emergency intervention in the South (Nabatieh and Bent Jebel), in collaboration with the Medical Activity Manager and the Project Medical Referent.
• Design ad-hoc HP tools to be used in the locations where the activities will be placed.
• Contribute in mapping all the health services of the area and acknowledge the team accordingly.
• Manage daily the Community Health Workers assigned to the different mobile teams, including daily briefing/debriefing.
• Ensure that continuative capacity building is delivered to our staff, focusing on main topics such as: surveillance and alerts monitoring, health education (hygiene promotion, Non-Communicable Diseases, Communicable Disease, etc) and orientation.
• Prepare activities’ weekly reports and share the main findings with the project management team and relevant colleagues.
• Attend weekly meetings with the project medical team.

Requirements:

Education

Desirable: bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioral 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

Desirable: Experience qualitative methodology

Languages              

Essential: Full professional proficiency (reading, writing, and speaking) of the English and Arabic languages.

Knowledge

Essential: Basic to Intermediate knowledge in Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook

Competencies

Results and Quality Orientation

Team management skills

Training skills

Organizational skills

Stress Management

Negotiation skills at community level

Autonomous and initiative taking

Reporting skills

Skills in participatory approaches

Strategic / analytical skills are desirable