Functions
A. Health Education, Service Promotion and Social Mobilisation
- Provide health education and promote MSF services within communities and health facilities.
- Conduct health talks, community dialogues, mobilisation activities and support outreach campaigns (vaccination, screening, distributions, etc.).
- Conduct social mobilisation to support mass vaccination campaigns, distributions or other activities.
B. Community Feedback & Situation Analysis
- Collect and report community feedback (security concerns, rumours, service perceptions, needs, red flags).
- Support basic data collection (surveys or other project tools).
C. Social Networking & Mapping
- Support community mapping (villages, stakeholders, gathering points, geographic routes).
- Build and maintain links with community leaders, service providers and social actors.
D. Community-Based Surveillance & Linkage to Care
- Participate in routine data collection on morbidity, mortality, births, deaths and population movements.
- Support case finding (symptom screening, MUAC, RDT, vaccination status checks, etc.).
- Facilitate referrals and guide community members to MSF services.
- Participate in tracing (missed appointments, lost-to-follow-up, defaulters, contacts).
E. Community Case Management (Depending on project and training)
- Support diagnosis and treatment of malaria, diarrhea, respiratory infections, malnutrition, etc.
- Identify and communicate needs related to SRH, MH, WATSAN, protection/SGBV and other health topics.
- Facilitate referrals to higher levels of care and contribute to data collection and follow-up.
F. Supportive Community Activities
- Support activities creating supportive environments (youth clubs, support groups, recreational activities, community committees).
- Participate in stigma-reduction initiatives (anti-stigma campaigns, testimonies, storytelling).
Specific Accountabilities:
- Collect and report (to IEC/HP Supervisor) specific information related to his/her community: perception of the sickness, food security, vaccination status of children, perception of the services, constraints and strengths, vulnerability, level of information, living conditions and risks related;
- Deliver information to his/her community on specific health topics and about MSF, the services it provides;
- Consolidate the link between his/her community and the MSF services; give advise how to better involve his/her community in the activities of awareness and prevention; indicate possible local actors or local NGOs and community project which could be involved in awareness activities at a local level;
- Report to HP Supervisor: activities, problems met, strengths and constraints.
- Provide communities with accurate information on available SRH services, including family planning, antenatal and postnatal care, and available referral services, in coordination with the HP/IEC team.
- Identify and communicate SRH-related information needs, barriers to accessing services, and relevant community concerns, and support appropriate referral and linkage of community members to available SRH services.
Requirements
- Education: Literacy is desirable, it is necessary to follow an internal MSF training on health messages (or, if possible, Ministry of Health training).
- Experience: Lived experience in or good understanding of the community is essential.
- Language: Arabic, English, basic French.
