Community Health Promotion Assistant

Medical & Health Environment

Overview

Support community health initiatives and promote health education.

You have:

• Qualified Nurse or Midwife with experience in health promotion and conducting trainings.
• 3-5 years’ Experience in community mobilization and coordination to increase community participation.
• Enthusiasm to travel to locations within a region – and to other regions for training sessions.
• Ability to communicate effectively in local languages both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to speak and write English language is an asset.
• Good level of literacy and numeracy, computer literate is an asset.
• Self-motivated, possessing persuasion skills, ability to maintain relationship and able to work on own initiative.

Job Description

- Conduct regular visits to the communities and support the community-based health promotion volunteers. - Support recruitment and training of community-based health volunteers; community leaders and religiose elders. - Schedule regular site visits for monitoring and supervision to ensure quality of services, accurate data collection and tracking of community health activities - Work with community based volunteers and community leaders to conduct mortality and disease surveillance in the communities. - Submit weekly updates to Community Health officers on the CBHVs progress - Oversee data collection and analysis of mortality and morbidity data from the communities - Develop required reports on CHV performance and effectiveness, based on evaluations. - In close coordination with community volunteers sensitize the related community regarding health promotion messages. - In close coordination with community volunteers, develop positive relations with community through regular meetings with elders, Mullahs, local Shura and CDC to promote IRC acceptance in the target areas. - Work with community elders, Shura during project implementation, explaining IRC project activities and explain that IRC projects are in line with Islamic values. - Any other duties assigned by line manager.

Qualifications

- Qualified Nurse or Midwife with experience in health promotion and conducting trainings. - 3-5 years’ Experience in community mobilization and coordination to increase community participation. - Enthusiasm to travel to locations within a region – and to other regions for training sessions - Ability to communicate effectively in local languages both verbally and in writing. - Ability to speak and write English language is an asset. - Good level of literacy and numeracy, computer literate is an asset. - Self-motivated, possessing persuasion skills, ability to maintain relationship and able to work on own initiative.

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Added 4 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org