Health Promoter Community Engagement Supervisor – Arsal and Baalbeck – 100% Activity (Maternity Cover)

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.

-Starting date: ASAP

-Type of contract: 100% Activity rate, Fixed Term Contract, Maternity Cover for 3.5 months, non-renewable.

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

-Place of work: Arsal and Baalbeck.

- Salary: 150,645,684 LBP

-Scope of responsibility:

With the support and guidance of the Health Promotion and Community Engagement (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.

-Function responsibilities include:

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 adjustement (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.

-Specific activities:

• The HP position is based in both Arsal and Baalbeck area. MSF office is in Baalbeck, so it is mandatory to be autonomous in your transportation.

Requirements:

Education

Essential: Secondary school diploma.  

Desirable: Bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioral sciences, public health, community health, or nursing.

Experience

Essential: At least 2 years’ experience in health promotion.

Essential: Team management and program implementation experience.

Desirable: Qualitative methodology background.

Desirable: Previous experience with local and/or international NGOs.

Languages

Essential: Full professional proficiency using the English and Arabic language.

Desirable:  Elementary to limited proficiency using the French language.

Knowledge

Essential: Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, 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.