Community Health Educator Volunteer (BML, Akkar/North, Bekaa/Baalbak, South)

The Community Health Educator – volunteer will provide awareness sessions and disseminate essential key messages on health and nutrition in general with a focus on infant and young child feeding and COVID-19 at the community level.

 

Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Disseminate key messages and provide awareness sessions on Health and Nutrition with a focus on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), COVID-19 prevention and vaccination and routine immunization to beneficiaries at the community level.
• Link the communities to the national IYCF hotline to receive needed IYCF support.
• Identify and refer mothers with IYCF challenges to the national IYCF hotline to receive support from the lactation specialists
• Link the community to the nearest PHC, inform them of the services provided by the PHCs and refer suspected malnutrition cases to the screening and treatment centers
• Submit reports to the Nutrition Officer as requested
• Perform other duties as necessary.

Qualifications

• Preferable education degree: Health Sciences or any related field
• Fluency in reading/writing/speaking Arabic is necessary
• Good public speaking and communication skills
• Strong social, interpersonal and intercultural skills
• Team player
• Able to meet deadlines
• Computer literacy: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Experience required: Less than one year

Working Conditions

• Will entail substantial traveling and visits to locations where beneficiaries are living (at the community level)
• It is preferable that candidate resides in the area of interest and that candidates can commute with his/her own car.