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, 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.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job Purpose:

The Youth Educators work in Mother and Child Health Center (MCHC) to predominantly provide awareness on basic health messages focused on women and girls’ needs, 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 PSS or MHPSS
• Support peer education programs and networks if applicable 
• Assess the needs of adolescents and youth for health awareness and education including healthy lifestyles, reproductive health, 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. 

Qualifications:

• At least 12th Graduate and university graduate will be preferred.

Experience:

Essential:

• At least one year work experience in, community mobilization or Social Work.

Desirable:

• Local candidate will be given preference.

Competency:

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English.
• Ability to write short and concise reports.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office Package (Word, Excel, Access etc.).
• Willingness to travel to the field.

Relationships: Has good interpersonal relationships with (community leaders, supervisors, Community Focal Points etc.)

Focus on the Client: Seeks to understand problems from the clients’ point of view, identifies clients’ needs, and finds appropriate solutions.

Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively. Listens to others and shows real commitment to maintaining open communication with the client and team members.

Adaptability: Easily adapts to the work routine, adaptable to live and interact with project staff and counterparts, capacity, and ability to live and/or work in environments where projects are implemented.

Professionalism: Has knowledge and understanding of project implementation strategies and approaches, SOPs, and project monitoring systems. Ability to think critically, work under pressure, meet commitments/deadlines, and show persistence in facing challenges.

Teamwork: Committed to working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve project tasks for the team. Willing to learn from others and open to giving and receiving feedback.

Flexibility/adaptability: This requires the candidate to have sufficient capacity to adapt to the IMC work methodology as well as to different work environments (office and field) that the candidate might have later during a mission.

Proactively: It requires the capacity to take initiative in the development of technical and creative actions which improve results.

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.

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. 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.