Health Promoter Supervisor

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. We offer assistance to people based on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF Ukraine is looking for:

Health Promoter Supervisor (ZHYTOMYR CITY)

Main duties: 

• In close collaboration with the HP manager, participating in the definition and update of the HP/IEC strategy and identifying indicators in order to monitor HP activities, results, and achievements. Supporting the HP manager in organizing and carrying out assessments and research on the impact of HP activities and identifying and reporting the constraints, difficulties or strength points of the HP strategy in collaboration with MOH in order to reinforce the link between the communities and the project.
• Providing support in selecting and developing quality pedagogical communication strategies towards the community. Planning information campaigns, including targets, objectives, methods and goals in order to increase awareness among the targeted population.
• Informing, according to protocols, community members and identified risk groups (prisons, army, sexual workers, etc.) about health-related issues.
• Organizing health awareness sessions for MSF's medical and non-medical staff.
• Identifying key actors (local authorities, local NGOs, traditional healers, formal or informal authorities) and being the focal point for the networking in order to support the dissemination of health information of the target population, and be the point of reference for the relation and networking with these subjects. 
• Organizing, training, and supervising the HP team in terms of planning and organizing their work, supporting, evaluating and coaching of personnel, collecting reports and reporting the activities of each health worker and regularly visiting communities that are under his/her responsibility.
• Supervising, in close collaboration with the HR department, the HR associated processes (recruitment, training/induction, evaluation, potential detection, development and communication) of the staff under his/her responsibility in order to ensure both the sizing and the amount of knowledge required.
• Updating the IEC (information, education and communication) tools in collaboration with IECHP Manager.
• Collecting and reporting to the medical team any information linked to the health situation of the population and the patient.

Specific duties:

• Being involved in the implementation of the new prosposed activities linked to Active case finding and contact tracing of potential TB cases (strategy 2022).
• Working in collaboration with Ukraine communication team for facilitating the digital health promotion activities in the field. 
• Working on the development of digital HP (content on the tablets, whatsapp groups, etc.) in collaboration with the IEC HP manager.
• Ensuring the health promotion targeting MOH, social services and MSF staff (plan and cover all staff throughout the year according to the indicators in the project logframe).
• Ensuring continuity in programs and collaboration with all department.
• Collecting data from the team and share the data analysis in the monthly Situation Report. 
• Linking in collboration with the IECHP manager with the local NGOs, health workers and social services – social workers in Zhytomyr region.
• Doing mapping for the new identified MDRTB, latent TB cases during the community work.
• Organizing simplified trainings for the team on stigma mitigation and latent TB.

Requirements:

Education:

Essential diploma in social sciences, psychology or education / pedagogy / or social work. 

Experience:

Essential working experience of at least 1 year in health promotion activities or training-education activities with MSF or other NGOs.

Languages:

Fluent English, Russian and Ukrainian.

Competences:

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and internet)
• Results and Quality Orientation
• Teamwork and Cooperation 
• Behavioural flexibility
• Commitment to MSF principles
• Stress Management 

Location: Zhytomyr – Enerhetychnyy Lane 7.

Type of agreement: Civil law agreement three to six months – Open for extension.

Closing date: February 2nd, 2022.