Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district.  The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend the utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs, and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Giving high quality and participatory trainings on community level.
• Capacity builds promoters and volunteers on training skills and topics.
• Preparing trainings, making sure IEC materials is ready on time and processed correctly.
• Providing constructive feedback towards promoters and volunteers.
• Participating in household counts, surveys and other monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Provide accurate records, documents and reports as required.
• Ability to work in both locations of the Spin Boldak district even in other districs and provinces.

Technical: 

• Giving Qualitative and participatory training on promoter and volunteer level.
• Being an example in the community.
• Building up the training capacity of Community Health and Nutrition Volunteers (CHNVs) and providing constructive feedback.
• Making sure that supporting Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) material is prepared and distributed on time and processed correctly.
• Preparing tally Sheets and Training sheets for Promoters Training.

Community Acceptance:

• Coordinate and liaise with local communities to find volunteers and promoters as well as accurate training places for promoter trainings and care groups.
• Coordinate and liaise with local communities when there are challenging circumstances or problems, and know when to ask for help from supervisor, officer, managers or other relevant parties.

Data / Program Quality

• Responsible for adequate data collection through promoters.
• Train promoters on data collection.
• Responsible for printing and preparing tally sheets on time.
• Making sure that tally sheets are accurate.
• When giving training to promoters or visiting care groups, using checklists and provide constructive feedback to promoters and volunteers.

Education: Minimum 2 Years Diploma in Nursing or Midwifery, Public Health or equivalent is essential. Bachelor’s or master’s Degree Preferred and Diploma/Certificate of nursing or midwifery, Public Health or equivalent medical training is desirable. 

Relevant experience: At least 2 years relevant post graduate experience required, and nutrition training/ experience IYCF training is desirable.

Languages: Fluent in Pashto oral and written skills Some English oral and written skills.

Computer: Working knowledge in MS word and excel is a plus.

Other skills:

• Ability to work in a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to organize people in an orderly way and prioritize tasks.
• Good listening and counselling skills, patient and kind attitude.
• Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
• Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
• Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries and communities.
• Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to a conservative culture.
• Willingness to learn and develop further • Honest in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.

Note 2: (Male Applicants Only), who must be living in the work location and be able to work in either Salawat, Sorki Lazhi and Kandahari Chawk villages.