Health Educator

Job Description

Title: Health Educator

Company Name: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Ukhia)

Employment Status: Full-time, Contractual

Educational Requirements:
∎ Degree/studies or the equivalent in experience in facilitation of health program

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 1 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ Provide health care education to Rohingya communities along with assessment of health care needs, develop health education programs & perform targeted health care education interventions. Promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health by assisting individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors. Collect and analyze data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies and environments. May also serve as a resource to assist individuals, other professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.
∎ Line Manager: Clinical Sexual and Reproductive Health Manager
∎ Contract Length: March 31, 2020

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Conducting assessments & surveys to determine health education needs.
∎ Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services, and to develop goals for meeting needs.
∎ Design and distribute health education materials & aids, including job aids, video, audio clip, posters, images, IEC materials.
∎ Facilitating health education events, workshops, conferences & presentations.
∎ Identify strategic partnerships with organizations, stake holders that promote health education.
∎ Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.
∎ Provide guidance to agencies and organizations in the assessment of health education needs, and in the development and delivery of health education programs.
∎ Provide program information to the public by preparing and presenting press releases, conducting media campaigns, and/or maintaining program-related web sites.
∎ Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
∎ Develop and maintain health education libraries to provide resources for staff and community agencies.
∎ Document activities, recording information such as the numbers of applications completed, presentations conducted, and persons assisted.
∎ Maintain databases, mailing lists, telephone networks, and other information to facilitate the functioning of health education programs.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Experience of working in humanitarian context
∎ Minimum 1 years of proven experience working in healthcare education
∎ Advanced ability to plan, implement, monitor & evaluate health education programs
∎ Good skills MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Power point
∎ Excellent interpersonal and team skills
∎ Ability to document processes, maintain databases & provide access to resources
∎ Language: English, Chittagonian

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Insurance

Application Deadline: 24 Aug 2020

Company Information:
∎ 18 Aug 2020
∎ International Rescue Committee (IRC)
∎ Address : Apartment A4, 4th Floor, Navana Miru, House 4, Road 96, Gulshan 2, Dhaka
∎ Web : https://www.rescue.org/
∎ Business : The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 26 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education, protection and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) Founded in 1933. David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, is a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom.

Category: NGO/Development