Focal Person - Health

Job Description

Title: Focal Person - Health

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 3

Age: Na

Job Location: Bogura, Gaibandha, Kurigram

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

• At least 3 years

• Bachelor/Honors

• Bachelor’s in Public Health, Social Work, Nursing, Education, or Gender Studies.
• Master's preferred (MPH/MSS/MA in relevant field).

• At least 3 years

Skill and Competencies:

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of field-level coordination experience in SRHR, Eye Health, or Community Health projects.
• Prior experience in patient referral management or school health programs is highly desirable.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong leadership, planning, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to manage simultaneous workstreams (pelvic and eye health).
• Familiarity with rural health systems and low-resource settings.
• Competency in using MS Excel, basic MIS tools, and Android-based data collection.
• Willingness to travel frequently and stay in remote char locations.

Responsibilitie:

• Coordinate community mobilization, screening, referral, surgery, and post-op follow-up of school children and women.
• Maintain updated case tracking sheets for screened, referred, operated, and followed-up cases.
• Supervise and support community volunteers, refractionists, MLOP nurses, and midwives during screening camps.
• Coordinate vision screening activities across schools targeting children
• Coordinate with referral hospitals and surgical teams to ensure patient readiness.
• Facilitate pre- and post-op counseling, consent, transport, food/accommodation support.
• Ensure privacy, dignity, and psychosocial support for women undergoing POP/perineal tear surgery.
• Liaise with local education authorities, headmasters, and teachers for scheduling.
• Supervise refractionists, MLOPs, and mobilizers during school-based eye camps.
• Maintain MIS of children screened, spectacles prescribed, and complex cases referred.
• Support the logistical flow of spectacle distribution and hospital referral for advanced eye care.
• Engage caregivers and school focal persons for follow-up and compliance.
• Organize and facilitate community meeting, screening camp both for children and women of the community
• Organize and facilitate training and orientation

Performance Monitoring and Reporting

• Submit weekly and monthly activity reports covering both components.
• Report service coverage, referral completion, and patient outcomes to the Project Manager.
• Coordinate with MEAL and Quality Assurance teams to address service gaps.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose real-time corrective actions.

Activities:

• Daily screenings during mobile eye camps as per the school calendar
• Maintain child-friendly, respectful communication
• Record findings, prescriptions, referrals, and lens orders on project MIS
• Participate in feedback sessions and technical refreshers.