Health Promoter Community Engagement (HPCE) Supervisor (Karari) – MSF Switzerland

Job Description

Organization	Medecins sans Frontieres Switzerland
Job Title	Health Promoter Community Engagement (HPCE) Supervisor
Location	Currently based in Karari locality, with potential work placements throughout Khartoum State (particularly Sharg Al Nil)
Section/Unit	Paramedical
No. of Post	1
Grade Level	7 (1,595 USD/month gross salary
Duration	6 months (fixed-term contract renewable)
Supervisor	Project Medical Referent
Closing Date	14 April 2026

Background:

Médecins Sans Frontières – Switzerland (MSF-Swiss) is a medical, humanitarian, impartial and international non-profit organization. MSF provides exclusively humanitarian and medical assistance to populations in need, without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, philosophy, or politics and is independent of any political, religious, military or economic power.

At MSF Switzerland, we are committed to an inclusive culture that supports and amplifies the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas, and experiences work together to advance MSF’s social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

We understand that some people may hesitate to apply for employment if they don’t meet all listed job requirements. Research shows that this is especially true for women. If you believe your profile is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply even if you don’t fulfil every listed qualification. 

We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics. 

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment.

MSF-Swiss is seeking to employ 1 (one) qualified candidate in the Khartoum Project for the position of Health Promoter Community Engagement (HPCE) Supervisor.

Duties and responsibilities:

Main Purpose of the position:

With the support and guidance of the HPCE Manager, responsible for implementing the HPCE strategy / workplan, with community participation, and supervising the HPCE activities and HP teams working in the communities or the health facilities, according to the project objectives, MSF values, standards and procedures.

Responsibilities:

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.
• Organizing 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 in the 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 the community mapping. 
• Monitoring: Ensure the availability of the data collection tools; the data encoding in the data base and the quality check.
• Monitoring: Contribute to the analysis of the monitoring data and look for adjustement (in collaboration with HPCE manager), monthly reporting (MMR, sitrep,…).

Team management:

• Contribute to evaluation of the HP team (with the HPCE manager).
• Contribute to the development plan for the HP team.
• Training: Contribute to the needs assessment, design and implementation of training for the HP team, in collaboration with the HPCE manager.
• Organize regular and systematic supervision of the HP activities and provide on the job-coaching.
• Ensure the planning and practical organisation of the activities for the HP team (HP roaster).
• Ensure the organisation of regular HP team meetings.

Context Specific Responsibilities

• Coordinate the implementation of rapid assessment questionnaires to identify community health needs, especially Malnutrition and Sexual violence.
• Facilitate community and participatory mapping to support health promotion planning and targeting.
• Manage and support a network of Community Health Educators (CHEs) in collaboration with MoH and NGOs.
• Ensure community surveillance is well-coordinated, timely, and aligned with project objectives.
• Oversee MUAC screening activities and ensure proper referral mechanisms are in place.
• Supervise the planning and delivery of community health education sessions to increase awareness.
• Capacity Building: Organize and deliver training sessions for CHEs and community volunteers from MOH and partner NGOs.
• Collaboration with Community Health Workers (CHWs): Strengthen coordination between MSF and CHWs managed by MOH or other NGOs to harmonize health promotion efforts and maximize community outreach.
• Monitoring and Quality Assurance: Ensure the availability and quality of health promotion materials.

Minimum Qualification, Skills and Experience Required:

Qualifications and requirements:

Education: 

• Essential: secondary school diploma.
• Desirable: bachelor diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioural sciences, public health, community health or nursing.