Job Location: | Oruzgan |
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Nationality: | Afghan |
Category: | Health Care |
Employment Type: | Full Time |
Salary: | As per organization salary scale |
Vacancy Number: | Medair_KBL_AFG082 |
No. Of Jobs: | 1 |
City: | Chora district, Uruzgan Province with daily travel to the clinic sites. |
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Organization: | MEDAIR |
Years of Experience: | Total 2-3 years of experience would be required. |
Contract Duration: | 31-May-2024 |
Gender: | Female |
Education: | Minimum 2 years diploma relevant to the position, bachelor's or master’s degree preferred. |
Close date: | 2024-03-30 |
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 utilisation 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.
Overall purpose:
To be a member of the health promotion team to implementing cascade groups, to increase household level awareness and practice of Health, Nutrition, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
Health promotion trainer will address topics including Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), nutrition for Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLWs), food preparation, health seeking behaviour for common causes of under-five morbidity and mortality, and hygiene and sanitation practices on household level. The topics are provided by the Health Promotion Trainer on facility and household level in the community.
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Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which could be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted and opened in a new page.
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