Community Health Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Community Health Coordinator

Company Name: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Master of Social Science (MSS)
∎ Master’s degree in Anthropology/ Development Studies or any other relevant field from any Govt. Recognized university.
∎ MBBS degree / Masters’ in Public Health degree from govt. Recognized medical college/ university will get preference.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 5 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Community Health Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for overseeing all the Promotive and Preventive programmes in camp settings, throughout Ukhia/Teknaf (Catchment area/ 4W Mapping) Upajilas, with an emphasis on technical support for community health Programme and capacity-building of associated staff including community health supervisors and CHWs, guiding Preventive health service, Community participation integration into primary health care. The Community Health Outreach Coordinator will mainly be supporting GK’s role in the coordination, implementation and monitoring of a Preventive Health Care intervention as part of a collaborative HRP project.
∎ To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation. The tasks listed are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
∎ Technical Monitoring and Programme Quality:
∎ S/He is overall responsible for the appropriateness and quality of health promotion intervention to the Rohingya refugee community supported by CHWG. S/He is expected to identify and work on reducing barriers for community mobilization, community participation, health-seeking behaviors, and improving patient-centered activities.
∎ Work closely with the Assistant Health Coordinator and the Health Coordinator to ensure the smooth running of Outreach health promotion/education programs and provide technical supervision support to the GK’s community health activities.
∎ Ensure activities are consistent with established best practices, acceptable WHO, ISCG, CHWG, and national standards (HEB) as well as ensure programs across different sites in the camp are of comparable quality by encouraging the transfer of good practices from one field site to another.
∎ Ensure Health Education programs utilize standardized protocols, policies, and guidelines according to the agreed standards, contextualized to Rohingya Refugee Response.
∎ Oversee the collection and timely reporting of data and statistics for all programs (including objectives, indicators, and outcomes of health programs) according to Doner requirements.
∎ Review, and analyze monthly field and Doner reports and ensure appropriate follow-up and decision-making on data relevant to the organization’s health programs.
∎ Conduct regular field visits for programmatic support and technical capacity building.
∎ Conduct regular file audits to ensure a high-quality service is being provided in line with Health Sector and CH WG agreed protocols and relevant international guidelines.
∎ Support the Quality implementation of FGD, CGD activities to ensure awareness and mobilization of targeted beneficiaries in an appropriate manner.
∎ Provide supervision to CHW Supervisor offering health education and community awareness guidance to CHW and creating a peer supervisory network built on foundations of knowledge exchange.
∎ Promote ongoing integration of Preventive Healthcare at the community level within health facilities and other community-based services (Learning center, Madrasa, Moktob, WFS, AFS, Club).
∎ Work closely with the AHC, Senior management and field teams to determine the operational needs of the health education and community awareness programs within the scope of the grants.
∎ Support the professional, technical development of the Preventive Health care service providers team.
∎ Work with the senior management team, field teams in strategic planning for future health programs.
∎ Provide technical input during proposal development and technical reviews, and feedback of the final proposals.
∎ Act as a focal person for all community health activities including coordination, monitoring and supervision of the entire community health team including the CHW Supervisor and CHWs in the camps GK is responsible.
∎ Coordinate any mass campaigns including vaccination and survey/assessment in line with the coordinated guidance of the health sector and CHWG.
∎ Participate at the CHWG meetings and training to carry out the decisions/training at the field level.
∎ Program Management:
∎ Provide input for monthly field reports to provide donor reporting, analyze trends, and ad-just the programmes as needed.
∎ Work with the senior management and field teams including clinic manager and others to plan for future program directions in terms of beneficiary needs, new sites, and/or new programmes.
∎ Representation-
∎ Attend CHWG as well as other coordination meetings which are relevant to Preventive and promotive health care programmes and communicate relevant information to the SMT.
∎ Ensure maximum visibility of the agency amongst the NGO community.
∎ Contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization, notably through the application of the organization’s Code of Conduct, ethics, values, and standpoint regarding internal and external actors.
∎ Ensure representation of community health team through CHW supervisors at the camp level regular health sector coordination meetings and other key meetings at camp level.
∎ Human Resources Management
∎ Coaching and directly supporting Health Outreach teams (CHW Supervisor, CHW) in the implementation of the Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) and reporting, Health Promo-tion/Education, Community awareness program activities.
∎ Ensure that Training needs assessment is conducted periodically to tailor training needs to the findings as well as in accordance with the strategy of the Response.
∎ Maintain open lines of communications with all field staff.
∎ Conduct regular Preventive and promotive health care trainings and capacity-building ses-sions for staff on topics including evidence-based International Personal Communication (IPC) modalities.
∎ Innovation Learning and Development
∎ Conduct Health Education/ Preventive Health care related assessments pertaining to needs on individual and community levels.
∎ Develop or revise Health Outreach training materials, monitoring and evaluation tools, and client documentation forms as needed in collaboration with technical advisor.
∎ Support and coordinate the implementation of a research project aiming to establish evi-dence-based Intervention, including training and supervision of staff as well as joint moni-toring of the rollout of the intervention.
∎ Technical support and overseeing community health related assessment/survey that are conducted at the respective camps.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 3 years’ work experience in this relevant position will get preference.

Salary: Negotiable

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 2 Jan 2022

Company Information:
∎ 29 Dec 2021
∎ Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Cox's Bazar
∎ Address : 40/ A, Mukti Jodda Shoroni, Saimon Road, Baharchara, Cox's Bazar.
∎ Web : www.gkcox.org

Category: NGO/Development

: Only shortlisted applicants will be called upon for interviews. The selected candidates need to be joined ASAP.