Community Health Officer

Job Description

Title: Community Health Officer

Company Name: Relief International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Cox's Bazar Sadar)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Post graduate in social science discipline or any relevant field.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Duty Station: : Ukhiya, (Kutupalong Refugee Camp- Camp 3)
∎ Report To: Community Health Coordinator
∎ Expected Start Date: 1st April 2022
∎ Contract length: 31st December 2022 (With possibility of Extension subject to funding, program needs and performance of incumbent)
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Job Responsibilities:
∎ Under the guidance of the Community Health Coordinator, the Community Health Officer will be responsible for-
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∎ Facilitate advocacy meetings and awareness raising sessions at the community level with community health workers.
∎ Work with the community health coordinator and nutrition team to develop monthly work plans for the community health workers.
∎ Participate in community-level data collection and other M&E activities as necessary under the guidance of the community health coordinator.
∎ Collect and compile project data regularly; submission of data and narrative report to DSO and Health and nutrition Program Manager including case studies, success stories and photographs of facilities.
∎ Train community health workers with support from the Health Program Officer.
∎ Provide inputs for donor requirements for data collection and reporting for health grants.
∎ Ensure program targets are met through implementation of community health activities.
∎ Ensure the community based activities such as EPI, case finding/screening, clinic referrals, health education and defaulter tracing are done properly.
∎ Actively participate in the identification and management of any disaster or epidemics.
∎ Serve as health focal point for service area as required.
∎ Build the capacity of community health workers through proper coaching and training.
∎ Maintain liaison with other key stakeholders for the smooth running of services as appropriate.
∎ Keeping all documents updated and providing DSO/Supervisor/ health coordinator.
∎ Train the CHWs for periodic development. Continue with refresher trainings.
∎ Supportive supervision for the CHWs.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply
∎ At least three years' experience in a similar position.
∎ Experience in health promotion, program coordination or community health work.
∎ Ability to train and supervise staff and prioritize competing tasks.
∎ Previous experience managing staff is essential.
∎ Knowledge of developing BCC and IEC material and working experience in the field of SBCC is essential for CHO position.
∎ Knowledge of local language is an asset.
∎ English language proficiency is required.
∎ Computer literacy with MS word, MS Excel and power point.

Salary:
∎ As per RI National Pay Scale Policy in Bangladesh

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Weekly 2 holidays, Insurance
∎ Two festival bonuses in a year equivalent to one Gross salary.
∎ Severance (8.33% of the monthly Gross salary) goes with the monthly release of the salary

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 8 Mar 2022

Company Information:
∎ 28 Feb 2022
∎ Relief International
∎ Address : Bangladesh Country Office: Apt- D2, House- 39 (Sheltech Sunshine), Road-37, Gulshan-2, Dhaka- 1212 I Bangladesh.
∎ Web : www.ri.org
∎ Business : Relief International, headquartered in USA, is a leading international non-government organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International (RI) has been working in Bangladesh since 2004, implementing programs covering emergency response, health, economic opportunity, trafficking in persons, gender equality and youth empowerment. RI has been present in Cox’s Bazar since 2014 where it was implementing a trafficking in persons project in Ukhiya and Teknaf supporting old caseload refugees as well as host communities prior to the large-scale influx. Since 2017, RI has scaled up its operations in Cox’s Bazar to support the emergency response by providing integrated, multi-sectoral programming for refugee and host communities, covering health services, including a 132 bed COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Center in Ukhiya, child protection, SGBV, complimentary food and livelihoods opportunities to support social cohesion. Relief International is currently implementing a large scale refugee response program in Cox`s Bazar in Bangladesh in collaboration with multiple partners including UNHCR, WFP, USAID.RI maintains a country office in Dhaka with multiple field offices in Cox`s Bazar.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach which we call the RI Way emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships, and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.


Category: NGO/Development

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