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, the 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 Hygiene Promoters will be responsible for delivering hygiene awareness sessions and promoting improved hygiene practices in targeted communities. They will play a key role in reducing the risk of waterborne and hygiene related diseases by fostering positive behavior change and engaging with diverse community members effectively.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Hold Personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, food hygiene, and sanitation sessions.
• Conduct awareness sessions and campaigns on various hygiene topics such as handwashing, sanitation, menstrual hygiene management, and safe water practices.
• Conduct hygiene promotion training for community hygiene promoters.
• Record attendance of hygiene promotion sessions, and hygiene/water kit distributions.
• Assist with the hygiene baseline and end-line survey for each selected area.
• Conducting AWD/Cholera awareness at the community levels.
• Identification of beneficiaries for WASH NFIs as per set criteria.
• Monitoring and supporting in the distribution of hygiene/Water kits in the community.
• Participating in solid waste clean-up campaigns.
• Prepare timely reports, documentation, and case studies to showcase the effectiveness of hygiene promotion interventions and share lessons learned.
• Provide support to the MEAL team during the PDM (Post distribution monitoring). 
• Facilitate WASH-related KAP surveys.
• Participate in the identification of beneficiaries for the WASH activities (solid waste management, water supply construction/rehabilitation, distribution of hygiene kits, etc.) if requested.
• Provide awareness raising on feedback and complaints mechanisms and channels available to every beneficiary.
• Organize meetings with local leaders, and beneficiaries, collect their feedback, and report complaints.
• Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.
• Report any challenge and issue to the WASH officer. 
• Assist in other duties requested by the supervisor.

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:

Possess a minimum of an Associate Degree (14th grade) in Medical, Nursing, Midwifery, Social Science, environmental Science, teacher education, Education, or relevant fields.

Experience:

• A Minimum of two years of experience in WASH relevant community hygiene activities within UN agencies, government institutions, or international/National Non-governmental organizations.
• Fluency in Dari and Pashto; proficiency in English is an asset.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse communities and cultural sensitivities.
• Must be flexible, hardworking, and ready to travel to different hard to reach targeted locations.
• Preference will be given to local candidates (Paktika, Paktya and Ghazni).

Competency :

Leadership: Can engage in leadership and coordination.

Problem-solving: Provides solutions to problems.

Relationships: Has good interpersonal relationships with (Projects engineers, community leaders, supervisors, other actors, etc.).

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

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

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

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 the sufficient capacity to adapt to the IMC work methodology and different work environments (office and field) that the candidate might have later during a mission.

Note: Preference will be given to local candidates.

Important Point: You will be asked to travel or 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 the security department.

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.