Health education specialists

MSF health education specialists raise awareness of health risks within communities, improve existing health-related habits and behaviours, and promote prevention activities through collaboration with community members. Health education is MSF’s direct link with the community outside the hospital walls and is essential to ensure projects are accessible and relevant to the needs of communities.

Entisar is the MSF health promotion team supervisor in El Geneina
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Health education specialists

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Responsibilities

  • Analyzing local culture, traditions and understanding of health in the context of mapping the community and keeping our medical work firmly connected to it.
  • Implementing and monitoring all active outreach activities related to health education and health promotion.
  • Ensuring the use of qualitative methods for analysis and applying appropriate data management tools.
  • Establishing indicators to monitor health promotion activities.
  • Supporting the team in developing evidence-based strategy.
  • Providing ongoing training and development of local health education and health promotion teams.
  • Developing and adapting health education and health promotion materials.

You will be supervising active outreach teams trained to promote MSF health services or general sanitation, as well as topics related to maternal health, malnutrition, malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and disease epidemics such as cholera and Ebola.

Requirements

  • Education in social anthropology, sociology, social sciences or public health with a demonstrated interest in health-related topics or medical anthropology and demonstrated experience using qualitative research methods.
  • Minimum 2 years professional experience in a related field.
  • Experience of living in another culture and working in a multicultural environment.
  • Experience of working with communities or local associations.
  • Experience in communications activities – advanced user of social media, content creation software, Photoshop.
  • Strong knowledge of English and French (or other language: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian).
  • Ability to work on assignment for a minimum of 6-12 months.
  • General requirements for all professions also apply.