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

To be a member of the health promotion team to implementing cascade groups, to increase household level awareness and practice of Health, Nutrition, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).

Health promotion 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. The topics are provided by the Health Promotion Trainer on facility and household level in the community.

Project Overview

Medair is implementing an integrated IMAM (including IYCF), RH (ANC, PNC & FP), IMNCI, Mental Health and PSS project in Uruzgan Province. Medair’s Health and Nutrition project in Uruzgan Province is designed to lifesaving integrated humanitarian emergency response to conflict, drought and COVID 19-affected populations, through integrated mobile health and nutrition teams (MHNT). The programme addresses some key determinants of health and malnutrition through promotion of improved Maternal Infant and Child Nutrition (MIYCN) practices and linked health and hygiene practices. The project aims to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 and to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on health and nutrition outcomes of women and children.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical

• Giving qualitative and participatory training on promoter level
• Being a good example in the community
• Building up the capacity of promoters 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 Sheets and Training sheets for promoters training
• Coordinate and liaise with local communities to find promoters as well as accurate training places for promoter trainings and cascade groups if required
• Coordinate and liaise with local communities when there are challenging circumstances or problems, and know when to ask for help from officer, managers or other relevant parties

Quality Management

• 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

MAIN ACTIVITIES

• Giving high quality and participatory trainings on community and facility level
• Capacity builds promoters and volunteers on training skills and topics according to curriculum
• Preparing trainings, making sure IEC materials are ready on time and processed correctly
• Providing constructive feedback towards promoters
• Participating in household counts, surveys and other monitoring and evaluation activities
• Provide accurate records, documents and reports as required

Interested applicants should forward their CV and applications via this link: https://form.123formbuilder.com/5821821/form (copy, paste and open with a new page)

  by not later than 24November-2022, late applications will not be considered after 5pm. 

For technical questions only, please message jobs-khr@medair.org

Note: PLEASE indicate the position vacancy number & position tittle both in your CV  or in your Cover Letter. 

“Medair is committed to safeguarding the protection of beneficiaries, volunteers, staff and partners, and particularly children. Therefore, we do not employ staff whose background we understand to be unsuitable for working with children. Medair staffs are required to give the utmost respect to, and comply with, Medair’s accountability policies and best practices”