Health Promoter - Emergency Intervention

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 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 colla-boration with the HPCE manager.

• Organize regular and systematic supervision of the HP activities and provide on the job-coaching.

• Ensure the planning and practical organisation of the activities for the HP team (HP roaster).

• Ensure the organisation of regular HP team meetings.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

In the frame of the Beirut emergency response support the achievment of the following objectives:

- Contribute to users’ empowerment

Enhance the capacity of people affected by the crisis to protect their health, navigate available services, and participate actively in their own care through tailored health promotion, information sharing, and peer-driven support.

- Understand users’ explanatory models incl. health-seeking behaviors

Gain a nuanced understanding of displaced people’s perceptions, beliefs, barriers, and facilitators related to health, illness, displacement, and services, to improve quality, relevance, and acceptability of MSF activities.

- Contribute to surveillance efforts

Strengthen early detection of health risks by establishing community-based surveillance in collaboration with key actors in shelters.