Community Health Officer

Job Description

Job Overview/Summary:

The Community Health Officer will be responsible for the implementing Community Health Activities including Sexual and Reproductive Health and Right, Health Promotion activities, strengthening the community-based health workers, Health Promoters, Peer Educators. In addition, the position will travel approximately 85% of the time to target areas inside and/ or outside township.

Major Responsibilities:

Community mobilization and participation

- Lead community mobilization, sensitization, and facilitation on community participatory community health promotion activities (MNCH, SRH, Nutrition, Wash, Disease prevention and control etc) at community level. - Supervise and train on relevant topics related with community health, CCM, SRHR, and preventive measures to the community volunteers, committees’ members, Health Promoter and Peer Educators - Mobilization of community regarding support of linkages between the community and camp committees/ camp management committees to ensure that all the implementing activities are going smoothly - Organizing on formation, capacity building, facilitation and coaching to volunteers and IDP/ village camp committees for community-based activities. - Assist to Sr CHO, health manager, SRH technical Manager and SRH team leader in organizing and technical supports to community-based volunteers in strengthening community-based services like CCM, CCSAS, family planning services, emergency referral support etc.

Strengthening of volunteers’ network

- Organizing quarterly volunteer meetings and participating in community-based cluster meetings to make sure the activities are going well as project plan. - Work closely with other sectors such as project leads, Capacity Building Team and Township Health Department on identification of volunteers, preparation and organizing volunteer trainings (initial/ refresher). - To ensure on preparation and distribution of drugs and commodities together with program support team to ensure that all the necessary items based on standard guidelines and procedures. - Strengthen the volunteer network for community mobilization, comprehensive referral pathways of CCSAS, emergency referral and health related response activities by coordination with stakeholders.

Capacity building and coaching to volunteers

- Provide capacity building to volunteers and subordinates to ensure that they have enough knowledge and skill to perform community health related activities - Provide regular on the job coaching and supervision to Health Promotors/Peer educators/CHWs to ensure that they have enough technical skill on providing community health activities - Identify the needs of volunteers and supervisees based on the job coaching and supervision and setting up action plan to ensure that they have required skills and knowledge related with their responsibilities. - Conduct quarterly supervision meetings with volunteers to assess progress and address challenges. - Report timely to Health Manager/SRH Technical Manager related with supervising volunteers’ status to make correct decision on community health-based approaches to targeted area. - Assist to SRH teams to ensure that volunteers, and team members (HPs, PE) have enough capacity to provide community health services delivering Health Education and Awareness Sessions, Counseling and Psychosocial support to the survivors and case detection and referral management and support.

Monitoring and Evaluation

- Monitoring of community health activities: - Ensure that the recruited volunteers and training are documented. - Train Volunteers, PEs, and HPs on the use of community health promotion items and reporting tools. - Ensure the volunteers have adequate supplies to complete these tools and reports are submitted on schedule with standard quality. - Participate in coordination meeting and project implementation meeting with Senior Community Health Officer/Health Manager to address challenges, discuss solutions, and ensure that monitoring data is applied into health promotion activities. - Assist Senior Community Health Officer/Health Manager in preparing regular narrative reports on health promotion activities as required. - Under the guidance of the project lead, maintain feedback mechanism to collect feedback though focus group discussion at community level. - Coordinating with project lead to ensure that the various aspects of the community health related activities and response are integrated. - Participate and support program lead in designing of possible strategies for supporting community services to vulnerable population on a longer-term approach.

Reporting

- Provide necessary required information on time to Senior Community Health Officer for weekly/ monthly program narrative report, M&E report, interim and final donor reports, Township Health Department Reports and HQ Reports - Provide other necessary information requested by Supervisor.

Other

- Coordinate with program support teams to implement project activities in time - In collaboration with other members of the health project team, participate in the design and implementation of formative assessments and baseline studies in order to identify health priorities and practices among the IDP and community. - Respect rules and regulations of IRC - Remain flexible to perform other duties as required or requested

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Senior Technical Officer / Senior Community Health Officer

Qualifications

What should you have?

Education

- · Bachelor of community health or degree of other health related fields.

Experiences

- At least 3 years of experience working with UN/INGO/LNGOs and community health activities.

Competencies

- · Ability to work well in a team - · Ability to work in difficult situation with flexibility - · Ability to travel and work long continuous days in remote IDP camps and villages - · Good communication skill and experience in community facilitation - · Skilled facilitator, educator and trainer - · Advance knowledge and skill to use Microsoft package - · Good in speaking and understanding local dialects

Language

- · Good in read, write and communicate in English language

Myanmar nationals with relevant skills sets and proven experience of working at international level are strongly encouraged.