Scope of responsibility:
With the support and guidance of the HPCE Manager, responsible for implementing the HPCE strategy / workplan, with community participation, and supervising the HPCE activities and HP teams working in the communities or the health facilities, according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards and procedures
Accountabilities:
HPCE strategy, activities and monitoring:
- 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 rumors.
- 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 adjustment (in collaboration with HPCE manager), monthly reporting (MMR, sitrep).
Team management:
- Contribute to evaluation of the HP team (with the HPCE manager).
- Contribute to the development plan for the HP team.
- Training: Contribute to the needs assessment, design and implementation of training for the HP team, in collaboration with the HPCE manager.
- Organize regular and systematic supervision of the HP activities and provide on the job-coaching.
- Ensure the planning and practical organisation of the activities for the HP team (HP roaster).
- Ensure the organisation of regular HP team meetings
Specific Accountabilities:
Location: based in Begi, West Wellega, Oromia Region / hard-to-reach place, volatile security context.
In collaboration with MOH
- In collaboration with the PMR and laboratory team work on blood donation drives.
- Ensure there is a reliable donors list to facilitate availability of blood in the facility
- Lead and supervise health promotion in the health facility, mobile clinics and outreach, improving early care-seeking in hard-to-reach populations
- Implement targeted HP activities for priority diseases:
- Malaria (prevention, early testing and treatment)
- Measles and cholera awareness and response
- Malnutrition screening (MUAC) and referral
- Pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease prevention
- Strengthen community engagement and acceptance by working with community leaders, adapting messages, and building trust in MSF services
- Establish and supervise community-based surveillance, including active case finding, early alerts, and linkage to care
- Deliver ICCM health education, focusing on danger signs, care-seeking, and mobile clinic service availability
- Conduct population mapping to identify underserved areas, population movement, and access barriers, adapting outreach accordingly
- Ensure systematic collection and use of community feedback and rumors to adjust strategies
- Support emergency preparedness and response through outbreak messaging, HP team training, and rapid response during alerts
- Promote safe access to care and medical neutrality, raising community awareness on protection of health services
- Coordinate with MoH, local authorities, and community structures to improve access and service utilization
- Build capacity of HP teams and community actors through training and on-the-job coaching
- Ensure HP activities support mobile clinic performance, increasing attendance, timely referrals, and continuity of care
