Health Promotion Officer - Marie Stopes Ghana



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MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.


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Job Description

MSI RCL Ghana has a vacancy for a passion driven, well-organized, client-oriented and energetic individuals with the below relevant qualifications and experience. MSI RCL Ghana’s goal is to meet the needs of the underserved and improve access to the use of Family Planning (FP) and other Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services. At MSI Reproductive Choices Limited we are unapologetically pro-choice. We believe that every woman has the right to make choices about her own body and her own future HEALTH PROMOTION OFFICER

  • Contract Type: Permanent
  • Location: Kumasi

The Health Promotion Officer (HPO) will implement field activities under the PSS framework, ensuring project visibility and deliverables align with the work plan. They will collaborate with GHS and key stakeholders at the district and community levels.

Key Responsibilities

Partnership and network building

  • Engage with GHS DHMT to make sure FP is placed as the fore front of district plans.
  • Attending quarterly GHS review meeting and following up on action plans.
  • Liaise with Capacity building team and GHS to intensify implementation of the work schedule for the project period.
  • Assist in facilitating community entry approaches in all communities through innovative partnerships
  • Provides monitoring oversight to all project sites
  • Consistently work to ensures adequate community involvement in the project

Project management, Demand Generation and financial responsibilities

  • Lead the adaptation of demand generation strategies for family planning in each PSS site with support of GHS Health Promotion Officer by ensuring Whole PSS site orientation, undertaking community entry, community needs assessment & community consultation and setting up of community health management Committees
  • Ensure follow up training for GHS Community Health Nurses in SBCC and IPC
  • Work with CHNs to draft and sign-off PSS facility specific quarterly demand generation plan based o opportunities identified in their communities
  • Work with GHS Health Promotion Officers and Providers (CHNs) to ensure quarterly FP demand action plan is executed and outcomes measured and documented in Marketing Activity Reports
  • Lead joint Demand Generation impact monitoring with GHS, RME and Marketing.
  • Lead the implementation of FP Demand Generation PSS Model site recognition initiative and actively champion regional award scheme for most improved site in LARC services during quarterly review meetings
  • Conduct whole facility orientation-Ensure that all staff in every facility are fully oriented on the project model to support demand and supply of FP services
  • Monitor facility performance on FP and document/report barriers to district and MSI regional
  • Work with GHS-DHD and RM to resolve all daily/routine challenges relative to logistics, stocks assets/equipment management
  • Support Teams to report services data into Orion and submit same to M&E before the 2nd working day of the ensuing month
  • Monitor and support transition of teams in accordance with the project model.
  • Responsible for the coordination of all capacity building activities.
  • Support clinical governance at both the team and facility level
  • Coordinate with DPHN and RPHN to streamline the supply chain process for FP commodities in each facility
  • Monitor budget and other resources given to GHS to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in use of financial resources and report accordingly

Communication and administration

  • Keeps and manage records of project activities.
  • Record all learnings on the model and share with stakeholders
  • Regularly provide project updates to key stakeholders and promptly report any deviations
  • Write and deliver accurate and timely activity reports


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Required Skills or Experience

About You To succeed in this role, you must have:

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Attitude and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in social sciences/Development studies or any related field.
  • Master’s degree and relevant professional qualifications is desirable.
  • At least 4-years post-graduation experience
  • At least 3-years’ experience of working in a similar role
  • Excellent coordination skills
  • Computer skills (office package and search engines)
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Articulate and analytical with attention to detail
  • Sympathetic to women and men seeking Family Planning and Reproductive Health services
  • Be able to work on own initiative and motivate others to achieve results
  • Good interpersonal skills to engage with people at all levels – government, donor and community
  • Passionate about field work
  • Motivates team members to deliver high quality service and results
  • Pro - choice


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