Organization Background:

International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through healthcare training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide. By offering training and healthcare to local populations and medical assistance to people at high risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergencies, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated healthcare systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

To learn more about our mission, visit https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/who-we-are.

Job purpose:

Social Mobilizer Officer will support the community-based activities, mainly supporting field social mobilizers, volunteers, health shura, and influencers.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Coordination with the Community to identify volunteers, health shura members, influencers, and site selection for the outreach team
•  Support Social Mobilizers and community members in tracking refusal, under-vaccinated, and zero-dose children in routine immunization.
• Find out the estimated number of children under one year based on the catchment population figure and vaccination targets.  
• Work with religious leaders, shuras, and local influencers to identify families who missed vaccination, zero-dose, and under-immunized children. 
• Support the outreach teams in defaulter tracking lists, generated from immunization registers of nearby facilities, to flag children who missed scheduled doses 
• Support the outreach teams to reach marginalized groups like the nomadic population, new settlements, and new arrivals/migrants. 
• Training of community influencers and volunteers who are actively supporting polio and routine immunization (RI) communication.
• Conduct refresher orientations for existing volunteers and shura members under the ECHO Project
• Facilitate community dialogue sessions
• Support social mobilizers in the identification of Priority areas and train community influencers and volunteers. 
• Develop community health committees/Shuras
• Support volunteers, shura members, and influencers to disseminate culturally appropriate messages and IEC materials
• Track and support the work of volunteers and influencers
• Support social mobilizers, volunteers, shura members, and influencers to conduct awareness sessions integrated with WASH, nutrition, and immunization
• Engaging religious and community leaders in project activities  
• Conduct awareness activities and engage with the wider community on promoting uptake of vaccination services.
• Organize workshops/training/meetings with the community elder, shura members, and community influential
• Identification of AFP cases, referral, follow-up, and linking the community with the outreach teams
• Maintaining accurate records and preparing reports.
• Support the outreach teams in the selection of the site, inform the community, and follow up on any missed cases
• The duties and responsibilities listed in this document are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily inclusive in size. You may be required to do additional tasks or travel to other parts of the country if required.

Organizational Responsibilities:

Policy Adherence

• Adhere to the Code of Conduct, maintain humanitarian principles and respect international humanitarian law.

Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse:

• Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards within International Medical Corps and amongst beneficiaries served by International Medical Corps.

Compliance & Ethics:

• Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards.  Conducts work with the highest level of integrity.

Safeguarding

It is all staff’s shared responsibility and obligation to safeguard and protect populations with whom we work, including adults who may be particularly vulnerable and children. This includes safeguarding from the following conduct by our staff or partners: sexual exploitation and abuse; exploitation, neglect, or abuse of children and adults at risk; and any form of trafficking in persons. 

Qualifications:

Higher-level education related to social science, health, and other relevant branches.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of experience working in the community for any social-related program.
• Working experience on polio will be an added value.

Competency :

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in Dari and Pashto, and English is desirable.
• Honest, hardworking and self-motivated.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work within different cultural environments.

Able to deliver training and orientation sessions in the community.

Submission Guideline:

Dear Applicant,

International Medical Corps never asks job applicants for a fee, payment, or other monetary transaction. If you are asked for money in connection with this recruitment, please report to International Medical Corps at the website provided at the end of this document. 

Please note that:

• IMC commits to a fair and transparent recruitment procedure.
• IMC will conduct his recruitment on the base of need only.
• Only HR department will contact you during the recruitment process.
• IMC may keep data of your application for its pool of candidate and might propose you other position than the one you applied for based on your qualification.
• Only short-listed candidates whose application responds to the criteria will be contacted & local applicants from the same province are encouraged to apply and will be given priority.

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Preference will be given to local residence applicants.

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 Please do not submit your CV or application to this website, it will not be considered for review.

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Equal Opportunities:

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a veteran.

Misconduct Disclosure Scheme:

All offers of employment at International Medical Corps are subject to satisfactory references and background checks. The International Medical Corps participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme from the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR). In accordance with this, we will request information from an applicant’s previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Submission Email:

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