Community Health Promotion Assistant
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Job Description
Position: Community Health Promotion Assistant (CHPA)
Location: IRC Supported BPHS Health Facilities
Role Purpose
The Community Health Promotion Assistant (CHPA) will supervise community-level health activities and support Community Health Workers (CHWs) to enhance health promotion and disease prevention efforts within the catchment population.
General Duties
- Supervise all community-level health activities, including disease surveillance, outbreak response, and community meetings.
- Assist in training, supporting, and supervising CHWs.
- Promote collaboration between health facilities and the community, establishing referral pathways.
- Support communities in identifying and addressing their health needs.
Specific Duties
CHWs Training
- Assist in practical training during CHW training courses.
- Provide on-the-job mentoring and monthly in-service training to CHWs.
- Review and evaluate CHW performance, organizing refresher courses as needed.
Supportive Supervision
- Assist health facility staff in planning community health programs.
- Implement, supervise, monitor, and evaluate community health program activities.
- Identify and report any issues affecting program objectives to the health facility head.
- Guide CHWs in developing and implementing action plans.
- Conduct monthly meetings with CHWs to address community-level challenges.
- Regularly visit CHWs in their communities to assess and support their work.
- Compile demographic data from CHWs, ensuring accuracy and validity.
Health Management Information System
- Supervise the quality of pictorial registers and community maps maintained by CHWs.
- Ensure completion of Monthly Activity Reports (MARs) by CHWs.
- Consolidate MARs and assist in preparing monthly reports for health facility management.
- Monitor community health status using information from village health committees.
Facility Community Collaboration
- Assist in forming community health committees (Shura-e-Sehie).
- Provide orientation sessions on health topics to community Shura members.
- Implement community-based health activities based on guidelines.
- Provide timely support and feedback from communities to health facility management.
Job Requirements
- Qualifications: Professional qualification as a Nurse, Community Health Worker, or Midwife with experience in health promotion and training.
- Experience: 1-2 years in community mobilization and coordination to enhance community participation.
- Skills:
- Self-motivated with strong persuasion and relationship-building skills.
- Enthusiastic about traveling for training sessions.
- Strong communication and reporting skills.
- Fluency in Pashto, Dari, and English.
- Proficient in computer skills (MS Word, Excel, Access, and internet).
Submission Guidelines
For IRC-Afghanistan Internal Candidates:
- IRC encourages employees to remain in their position for at least one year before applying for another position. If interested, employees must inform their supervisor in advance.
- Employees who have been in their current position for at least 6 months may apply for new opportunities.
Application Process:
- All qualified candidates should follow the instructions provided in the link:
Apply Here
Note: Applications received without following the link will be disqualified.
Contact Information:
- Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for a written test and interviews. If you do not hear from us within 2-4 weeks after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Office Address:
IRC Afghanistan Country Office,
Qala-e-Fathullah, Street # 3, District 10,
Old UNOCHA Office, Beside Fatemia Mosque.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity, and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
The IRC opened the country program in Afghanistan in 1988. Our programs span the range from humanitarian relief to early recovery and development activities, focusing on child protection, education, economic wellbeing, health, and power. The IRC works in 10 provinces throughout Afghanistan, among which some of the most security volatile, and employs over 1000 staff.
Compliance with Policies:
- Compliance with the IRC WAY (our standards for professional conduct) is a responsibility shared by all involved in delivering on the IRC’s mission. We must abide by the IRC Way and Safeguarding Policies all the time.
- The IRC has zero tolerance approach to the IRC Code of Conduct including safeguarding violations being committed by its staff, consultants, contractors, volunteers, interns, suppliers, vendors, sub-grantees/partners, implementing partners or any other associate.
