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Job Description

Job Purpose:

The Youth Educators works in women Friendly Health space to predominantly provide awareness on basic health messages focused on women and girls’ needs, provide first aid services, work closely with Psychosocial counsellors to support women and girls holistically to meet their needs.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead Interactive, engaging teaching sessions ex. Discussions, games, and activities that are youth-friendly. 
• Conduct health education sessions for adolescents and youth and their families.
• Discuss Adolescents and Youth concerns with community members.
• Prepare an awareness plan based on the needs of the patients and communities.
• Lead child marriage structured programs including Girls Shine Module, and AMAL module.
• Provide information around health and reproductive health that are age and culturally appropriate. 
• Provide referral services to AY related to GBV, PSS or MHPSS
• Support peer education programs and networks if applicable 
• Assess the needs of the adolescents and youth for health awareness and education including healthy lifestyles, reproductive health, GBV and life skills. 
• Based on the assessment, drafting the methodology and training/workshop schedule and submission to the IMC program team for approval.
• Finalizing the methodology and training/workshop schedule including health education sessions, specialized youth programs, and specialized workshops. 
• Report on the conducted training/workshops
• Data collection and preparing monthly reports of the health education provided to the adolescents and youth Any other tasks assigned by her supervisor. 
• Other duties as assigned.

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 Skills
• MS Office
• interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively in team
• Fluency in English, Pashto/Dari
• Excellent report-writing skills

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 the 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 its 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 candidates and might propose you other positions than the one you applied for based on your qualifications.
• 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:

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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.

Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

Website for reporting misconduct: www.InternationalMedicalCorps.ethicspoint.com. Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Submission Email:

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