Health Promotion & Community Engagement Supervisor

Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

 

Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

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Summary

• Vacancy: 1
• Location: Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)
• Minimum Salary: Tk. 78000 (Monthly)
• Published: 29 Jan 2025

 

Requirements

Additional Requirements

Education and other qualifications:

• Essential diploma in social sciences, social work, education, behavioral sciences, public health, community health, or Paramedical degree
• Desirable: trainings in health promotion

Experience:

• Essential: At least 2 years’ experience in health promotion, team management experience, program implementation, or community engagement.
• Desirable: At least 1 years’ experience working in a relevant field in MSF or a similar international NGO

Languages:

• Bangla, Chittagonian/Rohingya and English are essential

Knowledge:

• A good understanding of MS Word and MS Excel is essential.

Competences:

• Results and Quality Orientation
• Team management skills
• Training skills
• Organisational skills
• Stress Management
• Negotiation skills at community level
• Autonomous and initiative taking
• Strong IT skills (excel, word)
• Reporting skills
• Skills in participatory approaches
• Strategic / analytical skills are desirable

Responsibilities & Context

Main Purpose:

With the support and guidance of the Project Coordinator, is responsible for implementing the MSF-OCP community HCV (Hep C Virus) strategy / workplan, with participation, and supervising of HCV activities and HP teams working in the communities according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards, and procedures.

Accountabilities:

HPCE strategy, activities and monitoring:

• Actively contribute to the design, adaptation and implementation of the Hep C 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).

• 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 Project Coordinaror).

• Contribute to updating the community mapping.

• Monitoring: Ensure the availability of the data collection tools; the data encoding in the database and the quality check.

• Monitoring: Contribute to the analysis of the monitoring data and look for adjustments (in collaboration with Project Coordinator), monthly reporting.

Team management:

• Contribute to evaluation and the development plan of the CHPVs with the PC

• Training: Contribute to the needs assessment, designing and implementation of training for the CHPV team and on-the-ground nurses, in collaboration with the PC.

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

• Ensure the planning and practical organization of the activities for the CHPV team (CHPV roster).

• Ensure the organization of regular CHPV team meetings.

Context-Specific Accountabilities:

Community Engagement

• Meet with community enablers (Majhi, Imam) with the Project Coordinator to raise awareness on Hep C campaigns

• Regularly update referral pathways, by keeping informed in changes of available Hep C services at MSF health facilities and MSF-approved referral structures

• Assist in collecting information from stakeholders and partners to ensure continuous and accurate sharing of information to boost their adhesion to the Hep C programs.

• In absence of the Hep C PC, liaise with different stakeholders for follow-up.

Operational Implementation

• Support the implementation of household follow-up, including for missed appointments, or for persons unable to access testing sites.

• Continually monitor the percentage of the camp population tested against the reported tallies of each specific area in order to achieve over 90% of population screened goal

• Participate in other HepC-related meetings with other stakeholders/MSF sections as approved by medical coordination

Team support

• Supervise and report day-to-day activities linked to community regarding Hep C

• Support in linking the community Hep C activity to the Hep C medical activity (via HepC Clinic Supervisor), to ensure project success.

Reporting

• Conduct weekly and monthly reports and actively implement changes to ensure efficiency and success

Compensation & Other Benefits

– This is a temporary position for HEP-C project.

– Initial contract would be for eighteen (18) months. Salary per month according to level seven (7) of the internal MSF salary grid (BDT 78,000/- gross). Salary is not negotiable.

– 2 annual leave days per month worked.

– Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents based on MSF Health Care Policy

Workplace

Work at office

Employment Status

Full Time

Job Location

Cox’s Bazar (Ukhia)

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