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.

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Project Background

Supporting Transformation for Afghanistan’s Recovery (STAR)

 program is USAID funded program. The objective of this program is to support vulnerable conflict-affected households in Afghanistan to be resilient to shocks. International Medical Corps aims to implement Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) project in  Nangarhar and Kunar provinces under the STAR consortium to support the vulnerable conflict-affected households in this sector, including providing safe drinking water at communal, school and health facility level, the establishment of sanitation infrastructures at schools and health facilities, and mobilizing targeted communities for hygiene education at household and communal levels.

Job Purpose

WASH Hygiene Promoters is responsible for  conducting hygiene awareness sessions and hygiene awareness at community & household level, hygiene kit distribution, solid waste cleanup campaigns and  maintaining a close relationship with the communities to facilitate a smooth program and project implementation. S/he will ensure the smooth running of assigned hygiene activities in the targeted areas and report to the WASH Officer.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Conduct hygiene promotion sessions and home visiting.
• Conduct hygiene promotion for community hygiene promoter
• Supervise community hygiene promoters.
• Distribution of hygiene kits.
• Participate in solid waste clean-up campaigns.
• Conduct baseline and end line KAP survey.
• Submit daily data to the data entry clerk
• Working in a team and ensure that problems are identified in the initial stages and solved those amicably. 
• Provide support to the WASH Officer with adequate information, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting and problem-solving.
• Attending all relevant meetings requested by the supervisor relevant to the project goals.
• Assist in other duties requested by the supervisor.

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

• Graduated from 12 class of High school.

Experience

• Minimum 1 year of experience working with government and/or NGOs in hygiene promotion in the fragile environment/region.
• Good coordination, networking, interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Good communication and liaison skills with the community and all staff.
• Written and spoken English is a plus.
• To be able to propose solutions to the identified problems/challenges.
• Flexibility is requested regarding the working hours and the live-in community after the working hours.

Competency

Leadership: Can engage in leadership and coordination.

Problem-solving: Provides solutions to problems.

Relationships: Has good interpersonal relationships with (Projects engineers, community leaders, supervisors, other actors, etc.).

Adaptability: Easily adapts to the work routine, adaptability to live and interact with project staff, and capacity and ability to live and/or work in environments where projects are implemented.

Professionalism: Has the knowledge and understanding of project survey, drawings, design, estimation and implementation strategies and approaches and project monitoring systems. Ability to think critically, work under pressure, meet commitments/deadlines, and show persistence in facing challenges.

Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively. Listens to others and shows a real commitment to maintaining open communication with the client and team members.

Teamwork: Committed to working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve project tasks for the team. Willing to learn from others and open to giving and receiving feedback.

Flexibility/adaptability: This requires the candidate to have the sufficient capacity to adapt to the IMC work methodology and different work environments (office and field) that the candidate might have later during a mission.

Important Point: You will be asked to travel or be deployed anywhere within the program area to perform services. There may be some insecure areas where you may need to travel and perform the activity without any hesitation in coordination with the security department.

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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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. 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