Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, the 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 areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job Purpose:

The RMNCH officer will be responsible for the field level implementation of Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child Health (RMNCH) activities and will ensure quality RMNCH service delivery through HSCs and mobile health team. She/he should apply up to date knowledge and skills in caring for each team.  She/he works as a member of a team the Project Provincial health teams at Office and field.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• The implementation of Reproductive, Maternal, New-born and Child Health (RMNCH) activities will ensure quality of care in RMNCH, Nutrition and EPI service delivery at Provincial/field levels.
• Ensure quality of care through implementation of RMNCH HQIP standard.
• Coordinate RMNCH and IYCF for pregnant and lactating women activities with relevant Government Directorates, Basic Package of Heath Service (BPHS) and INGO/ NGOs at provincial level.
• Regularly attend the RMNCH committee meeting at provincial level and adjust the RMNCH activities with the new approach.
• Undertake regular supportive supervision to the project site and provide on the Job coaching and training for the HSCs staff to promote RMNCH and IYCF-E activities.
• Conduct need assessment and identify the area of need for improvement and will organize the capacity building plan for the RMNCH and IYCF-E staff. 
• Collect RMNCH data from project team for further analysis and submission to Project Officer and Project coordinator and PPHD/MoH on timely basis.
• Meet regularly with beneficiary communities and leaders, to ensure project effectiveness and community involvement in decision making on the services.
• Participate in capacity building activities for training of health facility staff on RMNCH, research, professional organization, and related committees and in continuing education opportunities.
• Perform any other task relevant to the scope of work as assigned by the line manager.
• Provide monthly activities report.
• Work closely with the International Medical Corps program teams, including other sectors, to develop applicable materials on protection, participation, health education, environmental protection etc.
• Follow established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives; continuous quality improvement initiative; safety, environmental, and infection prevention standards.
• Identify and report immediately any problem which interferes in the delivery of services or in achieving the program objectives to her/his immediate supervisor.

Important Point: You will be asked to travel or can be deployed anywhere within the program area to perform services. There may be some insecure areas where you may need to travel and perform the activity without any hesitation in coordination with security department.

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. 

Qualifications:

• The candidate must be a Medical Doctor, graduated from a recognized Medical Faculty and passed exit exam of MoH with documents that verify she passed the exam successfully the candidate should have 3 years’ experience in RMNCH or similar health projects with international or national NGOs or BPHS.
• or Diploma Midwife graduated from a recognized midwifery school, The candidate should have 3 years’ experience in RMNCH or similar health projects with international or national NGOs or BPHS.

Experience:

• Familiarity with HMIS online databases of MoH will be an asset.
• Good knowledge and experience of Project Management skills including basic administration and management.
• Good knowledge and experience of Health and nutrition training delivery.
• A thorough understanding of project cycle management, especially M&E processes, and reporting.
• Excellent reputation/well-known Desirable.
• Efficiency, result-oriented and excellent management, and training capabilities.
• Capacity to perform effectively under pressure and harsh conditions; ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner.
• Excellent capacity development and teamwork skills; cross-cultural and gender sensitivity.
• The candidate will be able to travel hard to reach districts of the target province/s.

Competency:

• The candidate will have good human and communication skills, excellent command over Microsoft Office particularly MS excel and MS Word, planning, and organization management skills.
• The candidate should fluently speak Dari and English.

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 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 his 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 candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• 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.

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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. The 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.