Community Health Promoter

Date Posted: Sep 24, 2022

Job Detail

Location:

Badakhshan Badghis Baghlan Balkh Bamian Daikondi Farah Faryab Ghazni Ghowr Helmand Herat Jawzjan Kabul Kandahar Kapisa Khost Kunar Kunduz Laghman Logar Nangarhar Nimruz Nuristan Oruzgan Paktia Panjshir Parwan Samangan Sar-e Pol Takhar Wardak Zabul Paktika
Company:

Organization for Research & Community Development (ORCD )
Type:

Contract
Shift:

First Shift (Morning)
Career Level:

Experienced Professional
Positions:

30
Vacancy number:

ORCD-068-2022
Experience:

3 Year
Gender:

Any
Salary:

As per Company salary scale
Degree:

Bachelors
Apply Before:

Sep 30, 2022

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About Organization for Research & Community Development (ORCD )

Organization for Research & Community Development (ORCD) is a Non-governmental, Non-political, Non-profitable and independent organization founded in 2010 by a group of community development and research specialist. The aim of the organization is to contribute to the development of Afghanistan as an integral part of the international community. It envisages accomplishing its aims by building local capacities, generating evidence in various disciplines, promoting evidence-based on best practices and implementing development projects aimed at community development at the grass root level. ORCD is a multi-donor funded NGO, implementing health, agriculture and community development projects in several provinces of the country.
ORCD would like to implement Mobile Health and Nutrition Services (MHNT) Logar province funded by (UNICEF) for which it would like to seek qualified people.

Job Description

Act according to the policy of ORCD;
To identify indicators in order to monitor HEALTH PROMOTION activities, results, achievement and use the concrete tools to measure and follow up those activities.
To organize, train, and supervise the team of Health Promoters /Nutrition and PSS Counsellors / Community Health Workers in terms of:
- Support, evaluation and coaching of personnel;
- Visiting regularly communities that are under his/her responsibility;
- Support in elaboration/improvement of materials and identification of strategies for delivering the focused information to the community.
- Reporting (collecting reports of each health worker and report his/her activities)
To support, supervise, and give consistency to the health promotion and education portfolio approach in the different projects, while considering the different target population and cultural context, specific of each context.
To Create a pool of trained professional health promoters, able to deal with specific fields. Some examples:
- Reduce the default rate in TFP (Therapeutic feeding program), ANC, PNC, EPI.
- Contribute to properly forge the medical expectations of the target population, in a way of positively affecting their Health seeking behavior.
- Concur to improve medical doctor/patient relationship
- Flexibility and availability in case of emergency response.
To collect and report to the Provincial Coordinator, on a monthly basis, the activities conducted by the different Mobile teams, at different project level, while highlighting achievements, current constraints and future plans.
To supervise and guide the Nutrition and PSS Counsellors in the identification of local key actors (local authorities, local NGOs, traditional healers, formal or informal authorities) to support the dissemination of health information of the target population, and be the point of reference for the relation and networking with these subjects.
Keep confidential with issue related to ORCD.

Any task given by the Provincial Coordinator.

Job Requirements

Be Afghan.
Graduated from recognized Medical Faculty/ social Science Faculty.
At least three-years’ experience in Project Management.
A team player with ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Ability to maintain professionalism in services delivery and ethics.
Experience in case management including management of case conferences.
Fluency in spoken and written Pashtu, Dari and English is a requirement.
Able to go to the field.

Skills Required

Submission Guideline:

Qualified and interested afghan candidates should submit his cover letter and updated CV to the following email address: recruitment@orcd.org jobs@orcd.org

The subject line of the email must be (Community Health Promoter, VA No: ORCD-068-2022).
Please don't attached heavy files & any other documents more than (1024 KB), otherwise your application will not be consider for shortlisting.
Only short listed candidates will be invited for an interview.

Submission Email:

recruitment@orcd.org jobs@orcd.org

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