Health Promoter

About Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Job Summary

Definition and update of the Health Promotion strategy.

Duties & Responsibilities

b) To identify indicators in order to monitor HEALTH PROMOTION activities, results, achievement and use the concrete tools to measure and follow up those activities.

c) To organize, train, and supervise the team of Health Promoters / Peer Educators / Community Mobilizator / Community Health Workers in terms of:
1. Support, evaluation and coaching of personnel;
2. Visiting regularly communities that are under his/her responsibility;
3. Support in elaboration/improvement of materials and identification of strategies for delivering the focused information to the community.
4. Reporting (collecting reports of each health worker and report his/her activities)

d) To support, supervise, and give consistency to the health promotion and education portfolio approach in the different projects, while considering the different target population and cultural context, specific of each context.

e) To Create a pool of trained professional health promoters, able to deal with specific fields. Some example:

a) Reduce the default rate in TFP (Therapeutic feeding program) (i.e. Lashkar Gah), ANC, EPI.
b) Fostering blood donation in project at high dependency on that (Qunduz and Khost),
c) Support the development of a full package of health promotion for maternity in Khost
d) Contribute to properly forge the medical expectations of the target population, in a way of positively affecting their Health seeking behavior
e) Concur to improve medical doctor/patient relationship
f) Promote TB treatment adherence
g) Flexibility and availability in case of emergency response.

f) To collect and report to the Medical Coordinator, on a monthly basis, the activities conducted by the different health promotion teams, at different project level, while highlighting achievements, current constraints and future plans.

g) To supervise and guide the team in the identification of local key actors (local authorities, local NGOs, traditional healers, formal or informal authorities) to support the dissemination of health information of the target population, and be the point of reference for the relation and networking with these subjects.

h) To be available to cover for unplanned important gaps at project level.

i) To be available in case of need for emergency situations, around the Country, when MSF intervention is taken into consideration

In general, to identify and report to the Medical Coordination the constraints, difficulties or strength points of the HEALTH PROMOTION strategy inside and outside the medical structures, while reinforcing the link between the projects and the communities, when deemed important and instrumental to the MSF activities.

The person might be asked by his superiors, in special occasions, to carry out other tasks.
It can happen that, in special occasions, the person needs to work outside the normal timetable and even on week ends or holidays.

Job Requirements

Education
Diploma in social sciences or education/pedagogy is an asset
Experience
Essential 2 years in an International Non Governmental Organization in health promotion activities, or training-education activities.

Working experience in health promotion activities, or training-education activities, is an asset.

Essential experience in management of team.
Languages
English, Pashto Dari languages essential.
Competences

Preferable basic computer skills.

Sense of responsibility;

A minimum of organization skills;

Dynamism and flexibility;

Good communication skills and relational skills;

Very good knowledge of the local context and communities;

Availability to work in the communities and in health structures, with patients;

Capacity of coaching, training and delegation;

Frank, sincere and determined (could be under pressure).

Willingness to be steadily based in Kabul

Willingness to travel in the different projects (Kunduz, Khost, Helmand and Kabul Provinces). At least 60% of his time.

Submission Guideline

Gross salary: 50.235 AF/month
Others: accomodation + transportation + perdiem during field visits

The interested candidates should submit their applications (CV+ motivation letter, including references details) with supporting documents to :

Médecins Sans Frontières,
House#4, Street#3,Qala-e-Fatullah (In the CV box outside the main door) or :
msf-afghanistan-recruitment@msf.org. In both cases, it’s very important to state the position you are applying for on the subject line in the email or on the envelope.


Deadline for the submission of Applications is on 2nd Sep 2013

Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.
The decision is taking by the National Staff Manager and the medical supervisor, no complains are acceptables against the national staff.

Functional Area

Health/Medical

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