ACBAR: Community Engagement Specialist

Position Title: Community Engagement Specialist

Activation Date: 23 Feb, 2021 Announced Date: 23 Mar, 2021 Expire Date: 07 Mar, 2021

Job Location:	Balkh
Nationality:	National
Category:	Other
Employment Type:	Full Time
Salary:	Based on NTA Salary Scale
Vacancy Number:	Ex_12_2021
No. Of Jobs:	1

City:	Balkh
Organization:	CARE AFGHANISTAN
Years of Experience:	• Minimum 3 years’ experience of working with comm
Contract Duration:	3 years with possibility of extension.
Gender:	Male/Female
Education:	• Degree in medicine, midwifery, nursing or public health from a recognized university
Close date:	07 Mar, 2021

About CARE AFGHANISTAN:

CARE is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, non-partisan and non-sectarian humanitarian organization, extending its relief and development assistance to those in need.

The Urban Health Initiative (UHI) Program’s goal is to improve health outcomes of people living in urban areas, particularly focusing on the health of women and children and other vulnerable populations. Interventions aim to increase demand, access and quality of health services. UHI is a consortium of dynamic organizations; the program is implemented in five cities in Afghanistan – Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad and Kandahar.

Job Description:

SUMMARY OF KEY FUNCTIONS

Overall responsible for planning and implementation of the community-based intervention of the project including both Community Based Health Care (CBHC) and community based Social Behavior Change (SBC) activities at the city level
Supervise community based engagement team including CHW Trainers, Community Health Supervisors and community mobilizers at the related city level
With support from Community Engagement Team from Kabul, build capacity of the city level community engagement team in all the relevant work areas
Lead the design of an effective system for establishment uCHW health post, health post Shuras, health facility shura and family health action groups(FHAGs) as per the related city context
Lead design of the community based SBC approaches and intervention, based on the contextual environment of the related city
Developing and adapting reporting system form health Shuras, health post and midwife post base on requirement of UHI project and MoPH
Participate in all the provincial level meetings related to community based health care, health promotion and other related areas
Strengthening coordination with CBHC department at provincial level for urban health services
Conduction of the supportive supervision and monitoring visits to each target areas of the city with focus on community engagement activities
Supervise direct reporting staffs to optimize the quality and efficiency of their outputs and to maintain a high degree of satisfaction with their job and personal development
Establish and maintain a good working relationship with the local authorities, UHI partners and collaborating agencies to ensure optimize project sustainability and quality

KEY RELATIONS

Reports to: City Manager and technically responsible to CETL
Collaborates with: Urban health Initiative (UHI) partner and PPHDs
Actively contributes to UHI team Meetings and partners, to ensure that the project interventions are implemented in effective and efficient manner and the project goal and objectives are met

KEY RESULT EXPECTED

Implementation

Ensure project management planning and implementation process related to community engagement are well implemented to meet the project requirements
Address the various needs of vulnerable communities, mothers and child health, concerns, and expectations of the stakeholders through effective design and implementation of the community engagement health interventions
Contribute to development of new initiatives in the areas of CBHC and community based SBC to ensure UHI and CARE strategic objectives are achieved.

Stakeholder management:

Ensure project stakeholders expectation are well identified, analyzed and managed during implementation project life cycle
Stakeholder engagement is well managed by regular and professional communication to ensure their expectations are met and any issues raises are timely addressed
Project stakeholders are we informed of the project progress through regular meeting, updates, reports and other means of communication.
Supervision and Support Community Mobilizer, Health Education officer and community health Officer
Supervise the activities of the community engagement team at city level including community Mobilizer, Community Health Supervisor and CHW trainers
Regular support to CM, CHS and CHW Trainers to enable them to conduct community mapping, collect data on perinatal health indicators and to generate reports as per their JDs and to provide feedback to communities
Contribute and support for establishment uCHW health post in coordination of communities elder and leaders base on their needs

Other relevant tasks

Support project planning and implementation interventions at the targeted communities
Generate monthly and quarterly report as per the format provided by UHI and Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) of Afghanistan
Collect and check the relevant data from the HEO, CHO, and CM and submit it to supervisors
Participate in the project team meetings to ensure that the project interventions are implemented as per the project plan
Assists city manager and community engagement team leader on planning, implementation and reporting and other relevant tasks as needed

Job Requirements:

COMPETENCE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Core Competencies:

Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
Able to listen well, accurately communicate ideas, and to work well in a team
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, with a range of individuals and groups
Work enthusiastically and with patient
Culturally flexibility and respect multi-cultural environment

Skills and Experience:

Deep knowledge of the community base health services
Excellent training and facilitation and community mobilization skills
Having a deep knowledge of Afghan traditions and cultural norms
Ability and willingness to work at the communities
Excellent spoken /written Dari, Pushto and English
More than three years’ relevant experience on Afghanistan health system specially at community base health care
Ability to review and monitor activity and record outcomes and learning
Computer skill (Microsoft office) is required

Education and working experience

Degree in medicine, midwifery, nursing or public health from a recognized university
Minimum 3 years’ experience of working with community specially on community base health care and social behavior change

Languages Skills:

Fluency in spoken and written English, Dari and Pashtu is a requirement.

Submission Guideline:

CARE invites applications from Qualified Afghan Male/Female candidates for its Balkh Sub Office based position of Community Engagement Specialist for its HERP/Urban Health Initiative Project

Interested candidates should submit their completed CARE standard job application forms (CARE application form is attached) along with the updated resumes and letters of interest to CARE HRD department in its Kabul Main-Office or Balkh Sub Office no later than March 07, 2021, candidates who have access to the Internet can send their applications to afgvacancies@care.org mentioning the exact job title and vacancy number in the subject line.

You are requested to send your application form along with the updated resume and letters of interest in Word or PDF file. Please do not email us heavy sized files such as your certificates, recommendation letters etc. THOSE WHO DO NOT FULFILL THE APPLYING REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORTLIST. Only short listed candidates will be contacted with, and called for the interview. The interview dates, time and place will be determined and communicated with the short listed candidates sooner after the deadline of vacancy announcement.

NOTE:

APPLYING WITHOUT CARE STANDARD JOB APPLICATION FORM OR NOT FILLING THE APPLICATION FORM PROPERLY WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR SHORT-LISTING,

PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

CARE STANDARD JOB APPLICATION FORM IS AVAILABLE ON http://www.acbar.org/applicationform.

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CHILD PROTECTION POLICY LINK: http://bit.ly/CAREAFG_Child_Protection_Policy

Submission Email:

afgvacancies@care.org