Community Health Worker – Emergency Response

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, and exclusion from health care or natural disasters.

MSF in Lebanon is currently urgently looking for staff for its Emergency Response with Medical Mobile Units in Beirut, Chouf, Zahle and Bekaa

MSF is committed to achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion within its workforce irrespective of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds. All job applications will be treated in strictest confidence.

Starting date: ASAP

Type of contract: Intervention Fixed Term Contract, upon needs

Updated competitive salary package with benefits including allowances, medical coverage, and 5 weeks of paid leave per year

Place of work: One of the following areas: Beirut, Chouf, Zahle, Bekaa

Salary: 95,317,500 LBP per month (549,909 LBP per hour)

Scope of responsibility: MSF

The Community mobilizer and CHW will provide information and health education messages at the community level, and will strengthen the link between the community and the MSF health structures.

Specific Accountabilities

• Collect and report (to IEC/HP Supervisor) specific information related to his/her community: perception of the sickness, food security, vaccination status of children, perception of the services, constraints and strengths, vulnerability, level of information, living conditions and risks related;
• Deliver information to his/her community on specific health topics and about MSF, the services it provides;
• Consolidate the link between his/her community and the MSF services; give advise how to better involve his/her community in the activities of awareness and prevention; indicate possible local actors or local NGOs and community project which could be involved in awareness activities at a local level;
• Support the mapping of the territory and population: schools, churches, villages, gathering points; support and facilitate relations with local authorities of his/her community, where requested by the IEC/HP Supervisor; support MSF in the defaulter tracing activities
• Report to HP Supervisor: activities, problems met, strengths and constraints;

Requirements

Education

• Literacy. It is necessary to follow an internal MSF training on health messages (or, if possible, Ministry of Health training).
• CHW training (done by MOH) will be an asset.

Experience

• None is required
• Has to be someone very active and well accepted in the community

Languages

• Essential: Full professional proficiency using the Arabic and English Language.
• Desirable: Elementary to limited professional proficiency using the French Language.

Knowledge

Essential basic mathematics and use of measuring equipment

Competencies  

• Commitment
• Flexibility
• Stress Management
• Results
• Teamwork

• Service