Community Health Supervisor (Afghan National Only)

Support community health volunteers and promote health awareness.

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IRC - The International Rescue Committee

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Pul-i-Alam (Afghanistan), Logar (Afghanistan)

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Overview

Support community health volunteers and promote health awareness.

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.

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Job Description

- Provide regular support to the CHVs throughout the communities. - Coordinate activities on different topics in support of the medical activities; this might include promoting medical services, hygiene promotion, information on subjects linked to maternal health, malnutrition, malaria, COVID19, Vaccination, disease surveillance, contact tracing and mortality surveillance and so on - 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 - Submit weekly updates to Community Health officers on the CBHVs progress - Oversee data collection and analysis of CHV reports on activities and community needs. - Develop required reports on CHV performance and effectiveness, based on evaluations. - Assist community Health Volunteers at community level to conduct communities’ awareness session about health promotion. - 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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Potential interview questions

Can you describe a time when you had to coordinate activities between different groups in the community?	This question assesses your coordination and community engagement skills.	Provide a specific example, focusing on your role and the outcome.
What strategies do you use to promote health awareness in communities?	The interviewer seeks to understand your approach to health promotion.	Pro members can see the explanation.
How do you manage conflicts that may arise within community groups?	Pro members can see the explanation.	Pro members can see the explanation.
Can you give an example of how you have used data to inform community health activities?	Pro members can see the explanation.	Pro members can see the explanation.
Describe a successful training session you conducted for community health volunteers.	Pro members can see the explanation.	Pro members can see the explanation.