Medecins Sans Frontieres Switzerland
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation.
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About the Job
With the support and guidance of the HPCE Manager, responsible for implementing the HPCE strategy / workplan, with community participation, and supervising the HPCE activities and HP teams working in the communities or the health facilities, according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards and pro-cedures.
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 rumors.
- 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 adjustment (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 collaboration 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.
- Lead and supervise health promotion in mobile clinics and outreach, improving early care-seeking in hard-to-reach populations
- Implement targeted HP activities for priority diseases:
- Malaria (prevention, early testing and treatment)
- Measles and cholera awareness and response
- Malnutrition screening (MUAC) and referral
- Pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease prevention
- Strengthen community engagement and acceptance by working with community leaders, adapting messages, and building trust in MSF services
- Establish and supervise community-based surveillance, including active case finding, early alerts, and linkage to care
- Deliver ICCM health education, focusing on danger signs, care-seeking, and mobile clinic service availability
- Conduct population mapping to identify underserved areas, population movement, and access barriers, adapting outreach accordingly
- Ensure systematic collection and use of community feedback and rumors to adjust strategies
- Support emergency preparedness and response through outbreak messaging, HP team training, and rapid response during alerts
- Promote safe access to care and medical neutrality, raising community awareness on protection of health services
- Coordinate with MoH, local authorities, and community structures to improve access and service utilization
- Build capacity of HP teams and community actors through training and on-the-job coaching
- Ensure HP activities support mobile clinic performance, increasing attendance, timely referrals, and continuity of care
- No. of positions: 01
- Place of work: MSF- Switzerland Office, Nekemte
- Position holder report to(direct supervisor): HPCE Manager /Project Medical Referent
- Length of contract: till 30 June 2027
- Remuneration and Benefits:
- Starting Base salary (N+0) –USD 1009, payable in Ethiopian Birr (ETB).
- Medical cover: as per the organization’s policy
About You
- Education: bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioural sciences, public health, community health, nursing. Essential: secondary school diploma.
- Experience: Essential: At least 2 years’ experience in: • health promotion • team management experience • program implementation Experience qualitative methodology is highly desirable.
Languages
- High level command of oral and written English; Afan Oromo highly desirable
- Knowledge Basic competencies in word and excel are essential.
- Excellent understanding of MSF’s principles and values
- Knowledge of and interest in humanitarian issues
- High level of knowledge of local culture and customs
Competencies
• Results and Quality Orientation
• Team management skills
• Training skills
• Organisational skils
• Stress Management
• Negotiation skills at community level
• Autonomous and initiative taking
• Strong IT skills (excell, word) • Reporting skills
• Skills in participatory approaches
• Strategic / analytical skills are desirable
Requirement Skill
Health Program Planning,
How To Apply
Interested applicants can submit their CV and application letter including photocopies of all supporting documents via this link https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=r9GdTc6Dm06wkLBUPMwrMYm3Xd0v4CBGrmH7Z1UpPHFURUhYVko5MUVTTFFZMUE3MFpIODZZV01TMy4u .
please be informed that we do not accept applications in other forms.
Please Note that we only contact short-listed candidates and only short-listed candidates with the required documents are allowed to attend further assessment.
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