A.I.C.
Kijabe Hospital
Health Care Division
Assistant Newborn Community Health Program Officer
Purpose: To give glory to God by assisting the NCH team in developing best practices to achieve Kenya’s Millennium Development Goals 4&5 promoting maternal and newborn health.
Duties and Responsibilities: Health Care Division
Assistant Newborn Community Health Program Officer
Purpose: To give glory to God by assisting the NCH team in developing best practices to achieve Kenya’s Millennium Development Goals 4&5 promoting maternal and newborn health.
(approximately
85% of time will be spent in program planning and delivery; 10% in monitoring
and evaluation; 15% in resource mobilization)
- Participate in community
mobilization and education regarding newborn and maternal health,
identifying the causes of morbidity and mortality and prevention, as well
as developing linkages with communities and the health delivery
system.
- Identify and train community
health facilitators and healthcare professionals, utilizing the NCH
mentored model.
- Develop relationships and
linkages with representatives from the National Ministry of Health that
oversees Maternal and Newborn Health.
- Actively promote the work of
the Newborn Community Health program by analyzing data and submitting
abstracts of the work for presentation at professional forums.
- Identify and develop ways to
improve the NCH program implementation.
- Manage financial, human, and
physical resources of the NCH program with excellence including adherence
to donor specifications and Kijabe Hospital.
- Maintain excellent working
relationships within Kijabe Hospital to facilitate good communication and
adhere to the applicable standards.
- Monitoring and evaluation of
the project processes.
- Resource Mobilization from both
Kenya and outside Kenya to achieve the goal of the project.
Minimum Acceptable Qualifications:
- Desire to see effective
education and care delivered to men, women and children.
- KRCHN with at least two years
experience in hospital or community nursing focused specifically in
maternal newborn area and certificate in Maternal Newborn Health preferred
or Bachelors Degree in Community Health or equivalent degree with four
years of community experience
- Knowledge of MS Office (Excel,
Word, PowerPoint)
Desirable Qualifications:
- Demonstrated community
involvement, especially as related to maternal newborn care.
- Excellent communication skills
and ability to work well in community setting.
- Strong interest in evangelism
as a component of community health work.
If you see yourself as a fit for the
position, kindly send your application and CV to recruit.kh@kijabe.net on or
before 31st May 2013.
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