Health Promoter and Community Engagement Manager - Ebola Emergency Pool

About the role

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is recruiting a Health Promotion & Community Engagement (HPCE) Manager for its Ebola emergency response pool in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The manager is overall responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring the HPCE programme in the project, strengthening community action and building the capacity of the HP team according to MSF principles, protocols and standards. Deployment is available within the next 3 months for a first rotation of 12-16 weeks, followed by a mandatory 21-day post-deployment monitoring period.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and monitor the HPCE strategy, activities, tools and monitoring system, and plan the budget
• Follow up and support the HP supervisor on implementation, work plans, tool creation and training, ensuring participatory approaches and community consultation
• Ensure proper processes for designing health education materials and participatory methods (pretesting, content validation, translation)
• Provide technical input to situation analyses (rapid assessments, surveys, rumours and feedback monitoring) and share results with the project team
• Supervise community-based surveillance (data collection, active case finding, linkage to care, tracing) and support community meetings
• Contribute to community mapping, stakeholder mapping and GIS, and share updates with the project coordinator and medical team
• Document lessons learned and prepare handover, end-of-mission and capitalisation reports
• Collaborate with other supervisors and managers (SRH, MH, NAM, MAM, Social Work, EH/WASH, LogM, Admin)
• Develop the HP team's capacity-building plan and supervise field-level quality using a checklist
• Manage recruitment and evaluation of HP profiles with HR

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in social sciences, behavioural sciences, public health, health promotion or community health (or nursing diploma in community health); master's degree desirable
• At least 2 years of experience managing health promotion programmes outside the country or within MSF; 3-4 years listed in the job details
• Experience using qualitative methodology and in strategy design, implementation and monitoring is essential
• Desirable: experience in developing countries and in Ebola, VHF, outbreak or emergency response
• French at least B2; flexible, resilient and committed to teamwork and MSF principles

What we offer

• A fixed-term contract for deployment assignments plus 21 days
• Travel, accommodation and medical coverage during missions
• Daily allowances in line with MSF policies
• Training and professional development opportunities

Candidates apply online with a 3-page CV and a motivation letter. Selected candidates receive Ebola training and contextual briefings, and must complete reference and criminal record checks.