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Job Description

Job Purpose

Health educator is responsible to maintain a close relationship with the communities to facilitate a smooth program and project implementation. Facilitate awareness on health creation measures and facilitate responses to community and develop contact and professional relationship with community elders, religious leaders and the Community Development Councils. S/he will ensure smooth running of assigned project activities in the targeted areas and report to the PSS/ Training Officer and Site Manager. S/he will represent the organization as an intermediary with the committees.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensure that the project activities are absolutely clear to the members of the community.

• Mobilize the beneficiaries to participate in the project according to the agreement made with them.
• Identify and train the community shura members, religious leaders school teachers and other community influencers on basic concept.
• Conduct health Awareness sessions in the community with cooperation of community elders and community influencers.
• Propose solutions to the problems encountered.
• Organize workshops and meetings when necessary.
• Monitor the progress of the project at the community level
• Write a weekly activity report

Organizational Responsibilities

Policy Adherence

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity

Safeguarding

• It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Skills Required

• COMMUNICATION
• computer skills
• Fluency in English, Pashto/Dari
• team player
• Excellent analytical ability

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

• IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
• IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
• Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
• IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

To apply for this vacancy, please use the following link:

Health Educator (google.com) 

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Make sure that you have Entered All Education, Work Experiences Details Completely, Accurate & at the end of the application you press Submit.

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