Job Description
Job Title: Community Health Outreach Promoter
Location: Yemen - Sana’a, YE (Primary), Yemen Office, Ibb/Taiz
Category: Health
Date Needed By: 6/2/2024
Program Description (Background)
International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY:
The Community Health Outreach Promoter will be responsible for the successful implementation of the health/hygiene promotion/education/awareness component of HEALTH in the target areas of International Medical Corps. The Community Health Outreach Promoter will work within the local community to promote engagement in health issues.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build partnership with key stakeholders and individuals in the community.
- Liaise and coordinate with program staff for project implementation.
- Carry out awareness-raising sessions and outreach activities to inform the community members about services.
- Together with other staff members, facilitate and organize awareness sessions for communities on basics of health and key health activities conducted at the International Medical Corps health facilities in the community.
- Will facilitate the community to pass their complaints to the management through CBFRM in a transparent manner.
- Act in a respectful and culturally sensitive manner towards other colleagues & community.
Job Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Secondary School Certificate/ Matric
- Previous work as Community Volunteer
- Awareness about local culture and languages
Additional Technical or Language Requirements
- Monitoring the water trucking activities in IDP camps and HFs.
- Monitoring the water quality focusing FRC test for the available water in the IDP camps and HFs.
- Coordination and Supervision of the community solid waste management.
- In consultation with WASH manager plan, organize and evaluate the distribution of all WASH hygiene supplies/kits.
- Coordinate and participate in the training sessions, workshops, and mentoring programs to enhance knowledge and skills in community WaSH training and monitoring of CHN-HPs to strengthen the program's sustainability.
- Conducting monthly review meetings for the CHN-HPs.
- Collect the data of the HPs sessions from the CHN-HPs.
- Coordination and participation with WASH needs assessment.
- Raise a weekly progress report to WASH manager.
- Coordinate and collaborate with other stakeholders, such as local authorities, health workers, community leaders, and other humanitarian actors.
- Ensure the quality and adherence of the hygiene promotion activities to the standards and guidelines of Save the Children and other relevant agencies.
- Coordination and Supervision of the distribution of waste bins and IPC materials to the HFs.
- Support in the preparation and conducting of training for WMCs, other Community structures (SMCs, CHWs, CHEWs, Youth Groups) and local authorities.
- Collection, consolidation, and reporting of weekly hygiene and sanitation-related data.
- Submit Weekly (or when necessary) written reports.
- Support in the development of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and end-of-project reports.
- Support in the development, monitoring, and evaluation of WASH project indicators and standards.
- Maintain an up-to-date activity tracking tool (soft copies and hard copies) of all water supply, hygiene, and sanitation-related activities.
- Actively participate in inter-sectoral activities.
- Support the WASH department in other tasks, roles, and responsibilities as may be assigned by the supervisor.
CODE OF CONDUCT
As applicable to this position, an individual must promote and encourage a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the organization and maintain a clear understanding of International Medical Corps' and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Staff are also responsible for preventing violations to our Code of Conduct and Ethics, which may involve Conflicts of Interest, Fraud, Corruption, or Harassment. If you see, hear, or are made aware of any violations to the Code of Conduct and Ethics or Safeguarding Policy, you have an obligation to report. If this is a supervisory position, one must set an example of ethical behavior through one's own conduct and oversight of the work of others; ensure that those who report to you have sufficient knowledge and resources to follow the standards outlined in the Code of Conduct & Ethics