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About International Medical Corps

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, 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. 

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.

Skills Required

• English Fluency
• Strong Communication skills
• computer skills
• Fluency in Pashto&Dari
• Excellent report-writing skills

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