Health Promoters

Health promoters are responsible for overall communication with local residents in order to support MSF's medical assistance activities. Those in this position plan, implement, and evaluate activities to prevent and control various diseases as well as to spread awareness of the work that MSF's is doing. 

Health promoters play an important role in reaching out to local leaders, residents, experts, and organisations to ensure that MSF's activities are accepted by the community. In addition, they have the important role of facilitating capacity building and leadership development for local health promoters.

ACTIVITIES

  • Share quantitative and qualitative survey results with the project team to understand needs and improve the quality of medical activities.
  • Prepare forms to collect information for quantitative/qualitative surveys, manage and analyse data, create reports, and propose plans for improvement.
  • Create communications to spread and deepen awareness on topics relevant to the purpose of each project (hygiene/health education, vaccination, maternity care, sexual violence) and create, implement, and evaluate strategies to deliver these message to local residents.
  • Facilitate discussion with community residents, build a system for cooperation, and promote resident participation in MSF activities.
  • Monitor potential infectious diseases and nutrition status within the community and conduct patients follow-up.
  • Visit medical facilities and remote areas to collect and analyse information and create reports in order to select a new project target community.
  • Manage projects (problem assessment, survey result analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation), specifically health promotion strategy, log frame, creation/implementation of a monitoring table, and evaluation planning/implementation.
  • Manage teams, including the planning and implementation of daily guidance, education, and technical improvement training to prepare local health promoters to work independently.      

PROFILE REQUIREMENTS

  • Compliance with the essential requirements for all potential candidates
  • Masters in Health Promotion or related studies OR Master in Social Sciences / Behavioural Sciences (anthropology, sociology, motivation psychology), Master in Public Health Orientation Health Promotion, Master in Community Health (or Nursing Diploma in Community Health)
  • Minimum two years of relevant professional experience (working in health promotion/education, prevention, community mobilisation, etc.)
  • Experience working in health promotion in a humanitarian settings and/or with vulnerable and culturally diverse populations
  • Experience in using qualitative methodology
  • Experience in strategy design, implementation and monitoring
  • Available for assignment for a minimum of nine months or longer

DESIRABLE

  • Experience in qualitative research, ideally in a developing country
  • Familiarity with tropical diseases / infectious diseases
  • Experience as illustrator, graphic designer

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

Please apply if your skills and experience match the requirements for this role and the essential criteria for all international staff, and the profile requirements above. Allow approximately one hour to complete to application.

Before starting the application, please prepare the following: 

  1. CV
  2. Motivation letter
  3. Skills assessment form (below)

Use our guide on how to write a CV for MSF to help you prepare your application.