Health Promotion Manager
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides assistance in more than 70 countries to populations in distress, to victims of natural or manmade disasters and to victims of armed conflicts, without discrimination and irrespective of origin, religion, creed or political affiliation.
Health promotion programmes may include activities such as health education and service promotion, rapid qualitative assessments, community-based surveillance, patient education and counselling, and qualitative monitoring. The focus can be on different medical themes and your expertise may be needed in emergency projects (vaccination campaigns, outbreak response, refugee camps) or in ‘regular’ projects that have a long time frame (support to primary health care, increase access to care…).
As a health promoter, you are responsible for the coordination, management and implementation of the health promotion programme to support the medical activities. The health promoter is therefore part of the medical team.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop a strategy for Health Promotion with Community Engagement, along with the associated activities, tools, and monitoring system
- Coordinate and supervise its implementation by the Health Promotion team, consisting of supervisors, health promotion officers and community health workers.
- Ensure the quality of all health promotion activities
- Follow up on the data collection and analysis and contribute to the updated situation analysis
- Provide regular updates to the project coordination and medical team
- Be responsible for budget planning
- Recruit, evaluate and develop your team
PROFILE
- Master in Social Sciences / Behavioural Sciences (Anthropology, Sociology, motivation psychology); Master in Public Health orientation Health Promotion; Master in Community health (or Nursing Diploma in community health)
- Minimum 2 years of relevant professional experience (managing health promotion programmes)
- Experience in using qualitative methodology, health promotion strategy design, implementation and monitoring
- Minimum 2 years of team management experience
- IT knowledge: use of Microsoft is mandatory; knowledge of graphic design or knowledge social media management is an asset
- Experience in humanitarian settings or previous work experience with an NGO is an asset
LANGUAGES
- Proficiency, both written and spoken, in minimum two of the following MSF languages: English, French, Arabic, Spanish or Portuguese is mandatory
COMPETENCIES
- Collaborate and communicate clearly; build trust with colleagues
- Lead, support, guide, and motivate teams with confidence and empathy
- Take initiative, remain solution-oriented, and act proactively
- Translate strategic vision and operational realities into clear priorities and actions
- Work independently, plan effectively, and organise your and your team’s work properly
- Remain resilient and manage stress in challenging situations
- Practise cross-cultural awareness and work effectively with diverse teams
- Show flexibility by adjusting plans, locations and ways of working in coordination with others when circumstances and priorities change
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Knowledge of IT skills
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- Read the MSF principles and commitments outlined here
- Availability to work in complex environments and to leave on an assignment without partner/family
- A health status compatible with the nature of our activities and operational contexts and compliance with all vaccinations for MSF project assignments