Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district.  The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend utilisation of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions.

Overall purpose

To be a member of a Health and Nutrition team (HNT) and provide integrated Health and Nutrition services to targeted communities. The Health Assistant (HA) is responsible for screening children under 5 years and Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) using MUAC tape, following national IMAM, IMIYCN, IMNCI and IYCF guidelines. Activities include nutrition screening at waiting areas, triage of children U5 and PLWs and ensuring COVID-19 mitigation measures are followed in waiting areas. The HA assistant will help ensure organise and timely patient flow through the Basic Health Center (BHC) or mobile clinic, support the HNT to set up mobile site each day and support nursing staff in providing health, hygiene and IYCF messages to pregnant and lactating women and caregivers in the waiting area.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To work as part of a health and nutrition team covering multiple sites/health facility.
• To provide triage of children under 5 and nutrition screening for children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women following national guidelines and procedures.
• To ensure accurate record keeping of all activities, following the provided data collection templates.
• To ensure patient flow at BHC or mobile clinic set up, including safe storage and handling of the HN stock.
• Any other activities not listed in the JD but requested by line manager.

 Technical

• Screen children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women for acute malnutrition, according to IMAM guidelines and following adapted COVID-19 protocols.
• Triage of children U5 and PLWs and ensuring COVID-19 mitigation measures are followed in waiting areas.
• Organise the waiting area, and patient flow through the clinic.
• Support the team to set up BHC/mobile site each day according to the site plan.
• Support nursing staff in providing health, hygiene and IYCF messages to pregnant and lactating women and caregivers in the waiting area, in accordance with agreed messages.
• Support the nurses in record keeping and distribution of nutrition supplies to beneficiaries.

Quality Management

• Ensure adherence to the provided protocols and guidelines.
• Ensure accurate record keeping of screening, triage, filling in forms, cards, registration books and tally sheets as required.
• Compile reports as required.
• Ensure anthropometric equipment is handled carefully and regularly checked for accuracy.

Logistics

• Set up BHC/mobile site according to plan, including clinical stations, handwashing facilities and waste management.
• Ensure safe storage and handling of all food products, medicines and medical material and equipment.
• Assist in distributing nutrition supplies to the beneficiaries if required and keep accurate records of stock movements according to the organization’s protocols.
• Assist the HNT staff in preparing stock requests and daily organisation and loading of mobile equipment and supplies.

Education

• Diploma of nursing or relevant field, higher degree preferred.
• Medical background (Nurse or Midwife /Pharmacy/Laboratory certificate)

Relevant experience

• At least 2-3-year relevant post graduate experience
• Nutrition training or experience
• IMAM & IYCF training

Languages

• Fluent written and spoken Dari and Pashto
• Basic understating of English language

Motivation

• Ability to work in a team and coordinate tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to organize people in an orderly way and prioritize tasks.
• Good listening and counselling skills, patient care, and kind attitude.
• Highly motivated to provide high quality services to beneficiaries of poor communities in a challenging setting.
• Good problem-solving skills with a solution-oriented attitude.
• Flexible and willing to perform other tasks as required.
• Respectful and kind with other staff, beneficiaries, and communities.
• Willingness to travel, work and live in a rural setting, and to behave in a manner appropriate to the culture.
• Willingness to learn and develop further.
• Transparent in dealing with beneficiaries and Medair staff.
• Honest and dependable, with strong anti-fraud principles and high level of integrity.

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which could be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted and opened in a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position tittle and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the tittle of the position.

Note: 

Medair will provide the following benefits for the selected candidate:

• Competitive salary 
• Employment benefits such as (medical, transportation, economic hardship, food, Mahram and accommodation for non-residents)
• Annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and other types of leave as per Medair policy.