Job Purpose:
The Health Promotion Officer is responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating health education and promotion activities aimed at improving the overall health and well-being of individuals and communities. The role focuses on preventive health, raising awareness about healthy lifestyles, and encouraging behavior change through education, campaigns, and community engagement.
Key Objectives:
- Promote healthy behaviors and practices.
- Increase awareness about public health issues (e.g. hygiene, nutrition, disease prevention).
- Support the development of health-related materials and outreach activities.
- Collaborate with local authorities, NGOs, and communities to address health needs.
Monitor the effectiveness of health promotion interventions.
- Collect data, success stories, and compile regular activity reports.
The Duties and responsibilities may include but not limited to:
To identify indicators in order to monitor HEALTH PROMOTION activities, results, achievement and use the concrete tools to measure and follow up those activities.
c) To organize, train, and supervise the team of Health Promoters / Peer Educators / Community Mobilizator / Community Health Workers in terms of:
1. Support, evaluation and coaching of personnel;
2. Visiting regularly communities that are under his/her responsibility;
3. Support in elaboration/improvement of materials and identification of strategies for delivering the focused information to the community.
4. Reporting (collecting reports of each health worker and report his/her activities)
d) To support, supervise, and give consistency to the health promotion and education portfolio approach in the different projects, while considering the different target population and cultural context, specific of each context.
e) To Create a pool of trained professional health promoters, able to deal with specific fields. Some example:
a) Reduce the default rate in TFP (Therapeutic feeding program) (i.e. Lashkar Gah), ANC, EPI.
b) Fostering blood donation in project at high dependency on that (Qunduz and Khost),
c) Support the development of a full package of health promotion for maternity in Khost
d) Contribute to properly forge the medical expectations of the target population, in a way of positively affecting their Health seeking behavior
e) Concur to improve medical doctor/patient relationship
f) Promote TB treatment adherence
g) Flexibility and availability in case of emergency response.
f) To collect and report to the Medical Coordinator, on a monthly basis, the activities conducted by the different health promotion teams, at different project level, while highlighting achievements, current constraints and future plans.
g) To supervise and guide the team in the identification of local key actors (local authorities, local NGOs, traditional healers, formal or informal authorities) 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.
h) To be available to cover for unplanned important gaps at project level.
i) To be available in case of need for emergency situations, around the Country, when MSF intervention is taken into consideration
In general, to identify and report to the Medical Coordination the constraints, difficulties or strength points of the HEALTH PROMOTION strategy inside and outside the medical structures, while reinforcing the link between the projects and the communities, when deemed important and instrumental to the MSF activities.
The person might be asked by his superiors, in special occasions, to carry out other tasks.
It can happen that, in special occasions, the person needs to work outside the normal timetable
