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Duties and responsibilities:
- 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 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 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 adjustement (in collaboration with HPCE manager), monthly reporting (MMR, sitrep,…).
- Collaboration with Partner
- In close collaboration with Partner and or MOH team, ensure the smooth running of the HP EC activities in the facilities she or he is assigned
- In collaboration with HP supervisors, define the role of the CHE (Community health Educator) in the facility
- Identify the training needs of Community Health Educators (CHE), validate the schedule, and coordinate or - ensure training, in collaboration with supervisor.
- Organize monthly meetings with CHE in collaboration with the partner and MSF HPEC supervisors.
Activities: - Support the gathering of demographic information (health area mapping, village census, mortality rates, incidents brought in by the population, etc.) where requested by the Manager
- Help the population to identify health problems and find solutions based on available resources.
- Collect and report to Manager specific information related to his/her community: perception of sickness, food security, vaccination status of children, perception of the services, constraints and strengths, vulnerability, level of information, living conditions and risks related;
- Deliver information to the community on specific health topics, and about MSF and the services provided
- Consolidate the link between the community and services available; give advice how to better involve the community in the activities of awareness and prevention; indicate possible local actors or local NGOs and community project which could be involved in awareness activities at a local level;
- Plan information campaigns, adapting messages to the changing context;
- Where applicable help supervisor to elaborate specific messages for radio and participate in animation sessions and debates on various nutrition-related themes.
- Report to HP Supervisor: activities, problems met, strengths and constraints.
Epidemic response: - Actively seek out cases in the community, identify needs to ensure health, identify needs to ensure their well-being, make home visits, collaborate and coach CHEs in these activities.
- Hold meetings with the committees to maintain the hygiene of the sanitary facilities made available to them.
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Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:
Education: Education level in social science, social communication, nurse or teaching. Experience: Preferable previous experience in teaching, nursing or social work, community mobilization (with an NGO at least two years). Languages: Local language essential, mission language highly desirable. Knowledge: Essential - Computer literacy (word, excel and internet) Competencies: - Results and Quality Orientation L2
- Teamwork and Cooperation L2
- Behavioural Flexibility L2
- Commitment to MSF Principles L2
- Stress Management L2
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