JOB VACANCY – HEALTH PROMOTION IEC OFFICER
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF is therefore guided by the principles of neutrality and impartiality. These principles must apply to all MSF staff.
POSITION DETAILS
Job Title: Health Promotion IEC Officer
Direct Reports: HP Supervisor/IEC HP Manager
Location: Lindi Region – Liwale District, Liwale
MAIN PURPOSE
Implement Health Promotion/IEC (Information, Education, Communication) activities with patients and local population to raise their knowledge and skills on relevant medical topics.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
A. Health Education & Service Promotion
Leads the development, testing and delivery of community health education materials and activities, supervising CHW teams and ensuring effective patient counselling, health talks and digital HP implementation.
B. Situation Analysis & Feedback
Conducts rapid assessments and systematic collection of community feedback/rumours, encoding data and flagging critical issues (red flags, security, health-seeking behaviour) to project coordination.
C. Social Networking & Community Engagement
Builds and maintains strategic relationships with community leaders, partners (NGOs, government health services, TBAs) and stakeholders, leading community meetings and maintaining updated community mapping.
D. Community-Based Surveillance
Oversees CHW community surveillance activities (active/passive case finding, linkage to care, tracing), ensuring accurate data collection, encoding and database management.
E. Community Case Management
Coordinates community participation in case management initiatives, providing supervision, training and coaching to CHWs to ensure effective implementation.
F. Supportive Environments
Develops stigma reduction and supportive community spaces (friendly spaces, youth clubs, health committees, anti-stigma campaigns) to foster enabling environments for health-seeking behaviour.
G. Team Management
Plans, organizes and supervises CHW team activities and meetings in collaboration with HPCE Supervisor, ensuring effective team performance and coordination.
MSF SECTION/CONTEXT-SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Organizing and overseeing health education sessions at health facilities and within the community, including trainings, supervision and demonstration sessions for Community Health Workers (CHWs).
- Engaging the community in various Health Promotion with Community Engagement (HP/CE) activities to collect data of pregnant women and children under five through participatory methods such as Focus Group Discussions, Patient Satisfaction and Experience Surveys, Welcome and Discharge Talks, celebrations of global and national days, and parents’ meetings in schools.
- Identifying key actors within the community, such as local authorities, village committees, local NGOs, traditional healers, and community focal persons within the catchment area.
- Organizing, training and supervising the HP team in planning and organizing their work, supporting, evaluating, coaching, collecting reports, updating tracing/defaulter, referrals, etc. through regular visits in the community and health facilities.
- Providing supportive supervision to iCCM implementers to ensure quality iCCM service delivery, timely referrals, and community engagement adapted to pastoralist contexts.
- Holding regular meetings with MoH staff and health facility in-charges as per the monthly plan.
- Ensuring visits with the MoH Community Coordinator to health facilities and villages and providing support in the recruitment of CHWs as per the SOPs.
- Ensuring the cleanliness of Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) areas and translating materials into local languages.
- Collecting and reporting any information related to the health situation of the population and patients to the IEC HP Manager, including tracking lost follow-ups, rumours, outbreaks, etc.
- Identifying gaps, challenges, and potential improvements, and reporting to the IEC HP Manager to ensure the smooth implementation of Health Promotion with Community Engagement activities at health facilities and within the community.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Educational Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, Social Work, Behavioural Sciences, Public Health, Community Health, Nursing or Teaching.
Experience
Preferable previous experience in teaching, nursing or social work, and community mobilization.
Languages
Good spoken and written English and Kiswahili are essential.
Knowledge
Essential computer literacy, including Word, Excel and Internet.
COMPETENCIES
- Results
- Teamwork
- Flexibility
- Commitment
- Service
- Stress Management
NOTE
Residents in Liwale will be given priority for consideration.
MSF will not provide any support for accommodation or transportation.
Women or any person feeling like being part of a minority is encouraged to apply.
MSF is dedicated to fostering a safe work environment with zero tolerance for any form of abuse.
APPLICATION DETAILS
All interested candidates shall submit their motivation letter, CV and copies of relevant professional certificates not later than Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM.
Please send your application to:
Please quote the job title in the email subject:
“HEALTH PROMOTION IEC OFFICER”
Applications can also be submitted at the following MSF offices:
MSF Office – Dar es Salaam
Uporoto Street, Plot No. 74, House No. 22,
Ursino Estate, Victoria, Dar es Salaam.
MSF Office – Liwale
Liwale, Lindi.
The envelope should be clearly marked:
“HEALTH PROMOTION IEC OFFICER”
ONLY SHORT-LISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED
If you receive no contact within 6 weeks, you can consider that you have not been pre-selected.
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At MSF, we are committed to an inclusive culture that encourages and supports 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 for the social mission of MSF to create better outcomes for the patients and the communities we work with.
We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, ability statuses, and all other diversity characteristics.
MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference checks.
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