Head of Community Health Educators – Hermel and Arsal – 100%

Function responsibilities include:

• Organizing, training, and supervising the community health educators team in terms of planning and organizing their work, participating in training and evaluating its needs, regularly visiting communities under his/her responsibility, elaborating relevant material and establishing adequate strategies for delivering the focused information to the community.
• Ensuring delivery of information to community regarding hygiene, diseases and its prevention, using proper tools and informing communities about MSF and the services it provides
• Monitoring, collecting and reporting to the medical team any information linked to the living conditions and the health situation of the population (e.g. food security, vaccination status, nutritional situation, detection of medical needs of the population, number of people arriving or leaving the community, births and deaths in the community, vaccination status of children, etc.).
• Maintaining confidentiality regarding all information observed or registered.
• Reporting to line manager or medical team if there are people with medical problems, any difficulties that the CHEs might encounter during meetings with the population and any loss or damage of MSF materials and equipment

Specific activities:

• Organize and chair daily morning meeting of Community health educators.
• Plan weekly movement activities and share with PC Support on time.
• Collection of daily data from CHEs and verify before encoding. 
• Provide on job training for the CHEs by following them to the Camps or host community and giving supportive supervision.
• Maintaining high vigilance and alerting the medical team or line manager on outbreak of notifiable disease within the camp and host community.
• Ensuring delivery of information to community regarding hygiene, diseases, and its preventions, using proper tools and informing communities about MSF and the services provided.
• Monitoring, collecting, and reporting to the medical team any information linked to the living conditions and the health situation of the population and WASH activities in the community.
• Maintaining confidentiality regarding all information observed or registered.
• Reporting to line manager any difficulties that the CHEs might encounter during meetings with the population.
• Supervising, in close collaboration with the E-IEC HP MANAGER, the HR associated processes training/induction, appraisals, potential detection, development and communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and amount of knowledge required.
• Ensure good collaboration with all medical department and stakeholders for smooth running of the E- intervention activities (RRT nurses, WASH team, Pc support and other partners).

Requirements:

Education

• Essential: Community Health, Public Health, Paramedical or Medical diploma.
• Desirable: bachelor’s degree in public health.

Experience

• Essential: 1 year of previous work experience in a managerial or supervisory position
• Desirable: A minimum of 1 year of previous work experience in a similar position
• Desirable: A minimum of 1 year of previous work experience in MSF or other (I)NGO’s

Languages                            

• Essential: Full professional proficiency of the Arabic Language
• Essential: Full professional proficiency of the English language.

Competencies:

• Results and Quality Orientation                L1
• Teamwork and Cooperation                      L1
• Behavioural Flexibility                                  L1
• Commitment to MSF Principles                L1
• Stress Management                              L2