Vacancy Announcement – Health Promoter Officer

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, non-profit medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. MSF started working in Yemen since 1986 and have been present in the country continuously since 2007. Today, MSF works in 23 hospitals across the country, and provides support to more than 17 health facilities across 13 governorates, in line with our principles of independence, impartiality and neutrality. For more information, visit our Arabic website, www.msf-me.org

Médecins Sans Frontières Belgium in Yemen mission is looking for Yemeni nationals to recruit for the Health Promoter Officer position:

Location: Mocha Project 
Contract Duration – 1 year, renewable.
Contract type: Fixed – Term 
Reporting to:     HP Supervisor

MAIN PURPOSE

Implement Health Promotion/IEC (Information, Education, Communication)activities with patients and local population to raise their knowledge and skills on relevant medical topics.

Accountabilities

• Inform patients and communities about MSF and services it provides. 
• According to medical priorities, deliver information to the patients and community on specific health topics 
• Implement activities of health education and awareness (sessions in schools, churches, community), under the indications and supervision of the HP Supervisor. 
• Under the guide of HP Supervisor, assess the impact of activities (with questions, verifications and behaviors observations), and report problems, success and constraints to him/her. 
• Collect all type of information related to specific health and living conditions of the population, in particular to identify the most vulnerable populations to target. 
• Report to HP Supervisor: activities, problems met, strengths and constraints. 
• For OCBA: Establish and maintain contacts with social partners, including other NGO’s, governmental health services that can provide answers to social problems. 
• For OCBA: Keep education and communication areas clean and tidy and professional materials available. 

For OCBA: Participate in creation of any material needed for the activities of information, education and communication.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Inform patients and communities about MSF and services it provides (including admission criteria and where to go to if not fit into the MSF program) 
• Stocking, arranging, inventory of all HP information, education and communication (IEC) Materials. Non-food items for patient kits
• In collaboration with laboratory team, facilitate blood replacement and follow-up blood bank stock level in the laboratory, monitor the pool of blood donors and update the list.
• Support the HP Supervisor in the pre-testing of IEC tools where necessary.
• Follow-up of absentees and defaulter through home visit and phone calls 
• Analysing the caregivers and staffs behaviours and act upon based on the result of the analysis in collaboration with the medical team
• Preparation/distribution of hygiene kits to every newly admitted patient and explaining the use of all its contents
• Touring with caretakers around the facility for better understanding of facility structures to ensure adherence to IPC measures.

Requirements 

Education

• Education level in social science, social communication, nurse or teaching
• It is necessary an internal MSF training on health messages.

Experience

• Preferable previous experience in teaching, nursing or social work, community mobilization. 
  (for MSF, at least two years).

Language: 

• Essential Fluency in Arabic; English is desirable

Knowledge: 

• Essential computer literacy

Competencies:

• Results 
• Teamwork 
• Flexibility