Health Promoter Community Engagement Supervisor at Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural disasters. MSF offers assistance to people based only on need and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation.

Vacancy Announcement:

Position: Health Promoter Community Engagement Supervisor – Bauchi
Place of Recruitment: Bauchi
Work Location: Bauchi
Type of Contract: Fixed Term Contract
Opening Date: 2 October 2025
Application Deadline: 14 October 2025 at 4:00PM

Main Purpose

With the support and guidance of the PMR, responsible for implementing the Health Promotion strategy and supervising the HPCE activities and HP teams working at the diphtheria treatment center, according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards and procedures.

Job Description

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.

• Organize 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 systematic collection, encoding and reporting of community feedback and rumours.

• 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 community mapping.

• Monitoring: Ensure availability of data collection tools, data encoding, and quality check.

• Monitoring: Contribute to analysis of monitoring data and adjustments (in collaboration with HPCE manager), monthly reporting (MMR, sitrep, etc.).

Team Management

• Contribute to evaluation of the HP team (with the HPCE manager).

• Contribute to development plan for the HP team.

• Training: Contribute to needs assessment, design and implementation of training for the HP team, in collaboration with HPCE manager.

• Organize regular and systematic supervision of HP activities and provide on-the-job coaching.

• Ensure planning and organization of activities for the HP team (HP roster).

• Ensure organization of regular HP team meetings.

Requirements

Education

• Desirable: Bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioral sciences, public health, community health, nursing.

• Essential: Secondary school diploma

Experience

• Essential: At least 2 years’ experience in health promotion, team management, and program implementation.

• Experience in qualitative methodology is highly desirable.

Languages

• English and Hausa essential.

Knowledge

• Basic competencies in Word and Excel essential.

Competencies

• Commitment to MSF Principles.

• Results and Quality Orientation.

• Team management skills.

• Training skills.

• Organizational skills.

• Stress Management.

• Negotiation skills at community level.

• Autonomous and initiative-taking.

• Strong IT skills (Excel, Word).

• Reporting skills.

• Skills in participatory approaches.

• Strategic / analytical skills desirable.

Application Process

Applications must be in English and include:

• Complete CV and Cover Letter.

• Updated contact details including present and permanent address and ID.

• Contact information of the previous employer/s for reference.

If you meet the minimum requirements, please apply via the link below:

Go to Health Promoter Community Engagement Supervisor at Médecins Sans Frontières to Apply

Important Notices

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Incomplete applications will be automatically discarded.

• No monetary transactions, favours, or gifts are required at any stage of the recruitment process. MSF will not hire any candidate who engages in such acts. Any attempt will be pursued legally.

• MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will undergo reference checks.