Public Health Promotion (PHP) Officer

Job Description

Title: Public Health Promotion (PHP) Officer

Company Name: Oxfam

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Graduate degree in Public Health / Social sciences / Anthropologies.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Context:
∎ The Role:
∎ Oxfam GB is looking for a dynamic person to work with others to support communities affected by emergencies, mobilizing them to act to protect themselves from threats to their life, health and dignity.
∎ To work closely with other departments so as PHE/Protection/ Advocacy & Policy Team to ensure integrated and coherent response.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Programme Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation:
∎ Manage associates, as well as overseeing volunteers and community workers, in setting performance objectives with your line managers, supporting team in objective setting.
∎ Accomplish the implementation of CE/PHP activities in all phases of emergency WASH, e.g. design and collection of baseline data, ensuring 2-wayscommunication with communities, design, implementation and monitoring of public health promotion actives based on communities feed backs, ensuring targeting and monitoring of NFI distribution (in kind or vouchers) based on community's preferences.
∎ Prepare work plans, weekly reports, monthly reports (5Ws), PHP tracking sheets/data base, meeting minutes Coordination minutes, and contributing in donor reports and proposal narratives and budget for PHP.
∎ Monitor disease trends and designing and implementing rapid and relevant interventions in response to possible outbreaks of cholera and/or other public health-
∎ related diseases.
∎ Design interventions for specific target groups, e.g. schools, youth groups, men, women, elderly people and people with special need.
∎ Implement the SPHERE standards in appropriate for the context.
∎ Programme approach:
∎ Support Oxfam staff to engage with communities to ensure participation mechanisms within WASH projects.
∎ Ensure a constant and ongoing context understanding, especially related to community dynamics and health risks and practices.
∎ Confirm that gender, protection, and other important cross-cutting concerns are considered in programme design, implementation, and reporting; ensure that activities reflect the needs of specific groups and individuals e.g. IDPs, Host Community, elderly people, children and people with disabilities.
∎ Documenting and sharing lessons learnt, successes or failure, and cross program exchanges with other WASH programs
∎ Co-ordination and Representation:
∎ Represent Oxfam in effective coordination with government authorities, community structures and NGOs
∎ Maximize opportunities for collaboration with local government services, humanitarian agencies, other working national and international NGOs and the Oxfam country programmed
∎ Work closely with support department (logistics, finances, HR)

Additional Requirements:
∎ Essential:
∎ At least 3 years' practical experience in appropriate hygiene promotion programmes or/and working with communities.
∎ Strong oral and written communication skills in both English/Bengali and Chattertonian language (local Language)
∎ Good analytical and decisions making skills with limited support.
∎ Computer skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
∎ Ability to work independently as well work as a team player - supporting other departments is essential
∎ Capacity to analyze information and ability to apply professional and ethical standards to data collection and analysis processes, and research
∎ Desirable:
∎ Good organizational and communication skills with international and national staff.
∎ Experience and commitment to promote equity, gender and diversity.
∎ Previous working experience with international/non-profit organizations.
∎ Experience in emergency and early recovery programmers.
∎ Well-developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations
∎ Demonstrate a commitment to humanitarian principles and values and motivate others towards them
∎ Ability to remain calm, work under pressure without losing sight of strategic objectives.
∎ Key Attributes:
∎ Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the commitment to equal opportunities
∎ Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender/gender mainstreaming, women's rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work
∎ Commitment to Oxfam's safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible

Salary:
∎ This role will give you an opportunity to make a difference in Oxfam GB, to act as key contributor to Rohingya refugee response programme, to work with a group of passionate people that are specialists in their Humanitarian fields, offers fair pay and competitive benefits package.

Application Deadline: May 19, 2019

Company Information:
∎ Oxfam
∎ Business : Oxfam employs more than six thousand people in 90 countries who share a commitment to work together to end poverty and suffering. It is committed to ensure diversity and gender equality within the organization and welcomes applications from women, person with disability and under-represented groups. Oxfam does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on their HIV/AIDS status. The organization has been working in Bangladesh since the War of Independence and has established a permanent country office in 1972. Since then it has responded to all major emergencies in the country. Oxfam's current program focuses on Economic Justice & Resilience, Gender and Women?s Leadership and Humanitarian Capacity Building and Response.

Category: NGO/Development