Health Promotion Assistant ( Afghan National Only)

Support community health promotion through engagement and training

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Overview

Support community health promotion through engagement and training

You have:

  • Qualified Nurse, community health, or Midwife with experience in health promotion and conducting trainings
  • 1-2 years’ experience in community mobilization and coordination to increase community participation
  • Self-motivated, possessing persuasion skills, ability to maintain relationships and able to work on own initiative
  • Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English
  • Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet) an advantage

Job Description

General Duties

- 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

Specific Duties:

- 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

- Education: Qualified Nurse, community health, or Midwife with experience in health promotion and conducting trainings

- Years of Experience: 1-2 years’ Experience in community mobilization and coordination to increase community participation - Skills: Self-motivated, possessing persuasion skills, ability to maintain relationship and able to work on own initiative.

Enthusiasm to travel to locations within a region – and to other regions for training sessions

- Technical Competency:

- Communication and reporting skills - Fluency in Pashto, Dari and English - Computer skills (including MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet) an advantage - Ability to work closely, professionally, and constructively with all others regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, race, tribe, or cultural background

Potential interview questions

Can you describe a project where you successfully mobilized a community for a health initiative? The interviewer wants to assess your community mobilization skills and effectiveness. Share a specific example where you led a health initiative and describe the strategies you used to engage the community.
How do you ensure effective communication with community leaders from diverse backgrounds? The interviewer is interested in your communication skills and ability to work within a diverse environment. Pro members can see the explanation.
What steps would you take to handle conflict among community volunteers? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Added 3 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: rescue.org