Health Promoter

Responsibilities

As a health promoter with Doctors Without Border / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), you will assess, define, implement and supervise all health promotion and community engagement activities in the project area.

These activities aim to collaborate with the community to increase their knowledge of health and health risks, improve current health practices, promote MSF services and support preventive activities.

This will be achieved through outreach activities bridging project and targeted communities, respecting their culture and practices thereby creating the most relevant and effective information, education and communication strategies.

Your responsibilities will also include developing and adapting our health promotion material to ensure relevance, accuracy and comprehension.

As this is a supervisory role, other crucial elements include recruitment, training, evaluation and development of the project’s health promotion staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor or master’s degree in sociology, social communications, anthropology or public health
• Minimum of two years experience in health promotion in contexts similar to where MSF works
• Experience in health education working with diverse communities
• Experience in managing staff in a multicultural team (supervision and training)
• Excellent command of English, as well as French (level B2) or another language (Arabic, Spanish). Refer to this evaluation grid
• Available to work six to 12 months

Assets

• Familiarity with tropical diseases and infectious diseases
• Relevant travel or work experience in contexts similar to where MSF works (armed conflicts, disasters, public health emergencies or situations of healthcare exclusion)

MSF Core Competencies

• Behaviour flexibility : Level 2 Adapts behaviour to the needs of the situation
• Teamwork and cooperation : Level 2 Shares information and coordinates with team and others
• Result and quality orientation : Level 2 Works towards objectives, preserving established standards
• Commitment to MSF principles : Level 1 Demonstrates knowledge of and accepts MSF’s principles
• People management : Level 2 Gives feedback and sets limits
• Cross-cultural awareness : Level 3 Demonstrates an integrating attitude
• Stress management : Level 2 Manages own stress
• Understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) : Level 1 Familiarity with EDI concepts and their application in a humanitarian context

Familiarity with EDI concepts and their application in a humanitarian context