Health Promotion & Community Engagement Supervisor

Job Description

Title: Health Promotion & Community Engagement Supervisor

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: 1

Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Minimum Salary: Tk. 78000 (Monthly)

Published: 29 Jan 2025

Additional Requirements:
∎ Essential diploma in social sciences, social work, education, behavioral sciences, public health, community health, or Paramedical degree
∎ Desirable: trainings in health promotion
∎ 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
∎ Bangla, Chittagonian/Rohingya and English are essential
∎ A good understanding of MS Word and MS Excel is essential.
∎ 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
∎ 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
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Requirements:

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.
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∎ 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.
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∎ 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
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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)

Read Before Apply:

Only applications via the link below will be accepted. Please apply through the following link by 06/02/2025 with updated resume, cover letter, and other relevant documents i.e. NID, Experience Certificate, degree and training certificate

Application Link: https://ee.kobotoolbox.org/x/dAQC8ZO4

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Company Information:
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
∎ 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Address::
∎ 5th Floor, Khawaja Palace, Plot N. 76, Ro-11, Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh.
∎ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in over 80 countries worldwide. MSF has been working in Bangladesh since 1992. MSF was awarded the prestigious `Nobel Peace Prize` in 1999 for its pioneering humanitarian activities since 1971 in several continents.

Application Deadline: 6 Feb 2025

Category: NGO/Development