Job Detail

Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction

Medair Afghanistan has been operating since 1996 and currently works in three provinces: Daykundi, Uruzgan, and Kandahar. The country's main office is in Kabul, with multiple field offices. Medair implements WASH, Food Security, Health and Nutrition programming.

Overall Purpose

Implementing the BCC (Behaviour Change Communication) care groups, to increase household level awareness and practice of Health, Nutrition, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Food Security.

Behaviour change communication will address topics including Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), nutrition for Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLWs), food preparation, health seeking behaviour for common causes of under-five morbidity and mortality, and hygiene and sanitation practices on household level

Project Overview

This project intends to improve and extend utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Giving high quality and participatory trainings on community level.
• Capacity builds promoters and volunteers on training skills and topics.
• Preparing trainings, making sure IEC materials is ready on time and processed correctly.
• Providing constructive feedback towards promoters and volunteers.
• Participating in household counts, surveys and other monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Provide accurate

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Technical

• Giving Qualitative and participatory training on promoter and volunteer level
• Being an example in the community.
• Building up the training capacity of BCC promoters and volunteers (NEWs) and providing constructive feedback.
• Making sure that supporting Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) material is prepared and distributed on time and processed correctly.
• Preparing tally

Community Acceptance

• Coordinate and liaise with local communities to find volunteers and promoters as well as accurate training places for promoter trainings and care groups.
• Coordinate and liaise with local communities when there are challenging circumstances or problems, and know when to ask for help from supervisor, officer, managers or other relevant parties.

Data / Program Quality

• Responsible for adequate data collection through promoters.
• Train promoters on data collection.
• Responsible for printing and preparing tally sheets on time.
• Making sure that tally sheets are accurate.
• When giving training to promoters or visiting care groups, using checklists and provide constructive feedback to promoters and volunteers