Health Promotion Officer (HIV)
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Published Date: • Karachi, Pakistan (On-Site)
Description
Main Purpose
Leads and supervises Community Health Worker (CHW) teams to deliver integrated health education, surveillance, case management, and community engagement activities, ensuring effective collaboration with medical teams and stakeholders to promote health-seeking behavior and holistic patient care.
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 counseling, health talks, and digital health promotion implementation.
B. Situation Analysis & Feedback
Conducts rapid assessments and systematic collection of community feedback/rumors, encoding data and flagging critical issues (red flags, security, health-seeking behavior) 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 behavior.
G. Team Management
Plans, organizes, and supervises CHW team activities and meetings in collaboration with the HPCE supervisor, ensuring effective team performance and coordination.
MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities
Conduct HIV/AIDS health education and awareness: develop and deliver accurate and culturally appropriate HIV/AIDS messages, educate communities on HIV transmission, prevention, testing, treatment, and care. Promote the message that HIV is preventable and treatable and that people living with HIV deserve respectful care.
Community mobilization and engagement with community leaders, religious leaders, youth groups, women\\\\\\\'s groups, and local organizations to support identifying appropriate community channels for reaching underserved populations.
Support digital health promotion approaches whenever feasible.
Conduct structured, individual, or couple pre-test counseling sessions ensuring clear communication regarding HIV transmission, testing benefits, window period, and voluntary consent in local languages.
Enforce strict medical confidentiality and anonymity by conducting all registration, testing requests, and result logging exclusively using assigned unique alphanumeric identification codes without recording patient names or unconsented personal identifiers.
Facilitate awareness sessions and pre-test health promotion materials within community spaces, factories, youth hubs, and healthcare waiting areas across District Keamari to tackle HIV misinformation and social stigma.
Support HIV-positive clients in exploring voluntary, ethical partner notification options, encouraging partner/couple testing while safeguarding client autonomy and safety.
Ensure immediate, smooth referral and linkage of HIV-test-reactive patients to client\\\\\\\'s choice healthcare structures and ART centers for confirmatory testing, clinical evaluation, and lifelong treatment.
Community feedback and accountability: Collect community feedback regarding HIV services, identify barriers preventing people from accessing testing, treatment, and prevention services, document complaints, concerns, and community perceptions, share findings with program and clinical teams for corrective action.
Requirements
Education
Desirable: Bachelor\\\\\\\'s diploma in social sciences, social work, behavioral sciences, public health, community health, or nursing.
Essential: Secondary school diploma.
Experience
Preferable previous experience in health/patient education and community-based activities (minimum 1 year with MSF or other NGOs).
Desirable: Experience in team supervision.
Language
Essential: Fluent in Urdu and Pashto (spoken and written).
Preference will be given to local candidates residing in the Site Town.
MSF is an equal opportunity employer and does not charge any application or recruitment fees.
MSF is a civil society initiative that brings together individuals committed to assisting others in crisis. Each individual applying for an MSF position does so out of conviction and is expected to uphold the values and principles of MSF.
Application Deadline: 23 October 2026
Applications must be submitted exclusively through Rozee.pk. MSF will not accept applications via email or any other medium. Only applications submitted through Rozee.pk will be considered.
Experience
1 Year
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Required Skills
- Health Promotion
- Community Engagement
- Health Education