Closing on: 2022-06-09

About The Organization:

Bright Future & Welfare Organization (BFWO) is a Kabul based non-government (NGO), not-for-profit (NPO), independent, civil society organization (CSO) founded by a group of dedicated public health, curative medicine, education, and management experts. It is registered with the Ministry of Economy of Afghanistan under license number 5379, which follows the NGO and other applicable laws of the country, the approved Article of Association (AoA), and donors guidelines. BFWO is an Afghan NGO that operates in the health and education sectors to serve community health promotion, managing and responding to the emerging health crises, public health safety, literacy, and education across Afghanistan. The NGO also works for the development and relief of marginalized communities to achieve social and economic prosperity and improve humanitarian and social capital through delivering health & social, educational & livelihood services, especially to the vulnerable and marginalized societies and communities of Afghanistan.

Objective:

The main purpose of this role is to provide routine vaccination services to Children under five and pregnant and lactating women at Mobile Health Team in the field to respond effectively to acute needs of crisis and/or conflict affected mother and children and most vulnerable populations or host communities as well as support the team leader in managing team during his absence.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

The MHNT Vaccinator will be responsible for the below listed tasks in the field:

• Preparedness, coordination and deployment of Nutrition and Health Mobile teams in target province and districts.
• Provision of IMAM services to children under 5 years old and Pregnant and lactating women in the field.
• Provision of treatment for common illnesses/IMNCI amongst under 5 years boys and girls.
• Caregivers and PLWs with children U2 receiving Growth monitoring and MIYCN counselling and care practices activities.
• Provision of sexual and reproductive health services including family planning services for women in reproductive age, ANC/PNC consultations for PLW and referral of pregnant women to hospital for safe delivery.

Immunization Service Provision:

• Provide vaccination for all eligible children and women.
• Implement and observe national guidelines and norms on EPI.
• Determine appropriate vaccine type and dose volume for each client.
• Carry out vaccination of children and women according to guidelines.
• Organize the follow up vaccination consultations if needed.
• Recognize, respond, and alert emergency medical personnel of possible post vaccination reactions.
• Fill out tally sheets of vaccination on a daily basis
• Document vaccinations on register and immunization cards for each patient.
• Refer mothers of reproductive age for ANC/PNC service if necessary
• Support promoters with health education and counseling on vaccines and their importance.

Storage and Transportation of Vaccines

• Ensure vaccines are stored in adequate conditions respecting hygiene, temperature and National EPI storage regulations.
• Verify quality of vaccinations and reject damaged or compromised vaccines.
• Ensure expiry dates of vaccines are respected.
• Ensure cold chain of vaccines from BFWO stock or health facility to field site.
• Coordinate in advance with PEMT and Health facility before picking up the vaccines.

Reporting and documentation:

• Ensure good filing system for MHNT documents and maintain the updating them on timely manner.
• Crosscheck hard copy of all reporting tools and correct if any mistake before submitting the tools to data entry.
• Ensure correct data is provided on weekly and on monthly basis (Review the data with data entry before submitting to Team Leader).
• Support the Team Leader in drafting the monthly and donor reports on monthly basis on when required.
• Support the Team leader in developing success story of the project for donor requirement.
• Provide any other information when necessary (movement/security, logistical and HR related) to line manager.

Preparedness and Operation of MHNTs:

• Ensure availability of MHNT required materials and reporting templets and other related document are prepared for MHNT based on the checklist.
• Before leaving the office ensure all the materials are ready and available (relevant equipment’s, registers, nutritional supplies, medicines…).
• Ensure and keep all items in the field very well before and after the field visit.
• Ensure that all items are clean and prepare all items for use in following day.
• Ensure that all reporting tools, registers are updated on daily basis.
• Support the team leader in preparing the reports (Daily, Weekly and monthly) according to the standard reporting tools.
• Assist line supervisor on performing other duties assigned by the organization.

Skills and competencies required

• Good organization, planning and reporting skills are necessary.
• Ability to manage staff & working environment according to local culture
• High flexibility in deployment on the selected area,
• Must be proactive and show initiatives
• Experience on PSS is plus.
• Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate
• Fluency in local language, Pashto and Dari (spoken & written).
• Fluency in English language both spoken and written is plus.
• Moderate Computer Skills (MS. Word, Ms. Excel, outlook) is a plus.
• Communication skills.
• Reporting skills .
• Organizational skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with team members, local authorities and community members.

Note: This document is non-contractual and may be modified to reflect the changing needs of the service. As BFWO is working in a constantly changing humanitarian aid environment, reasonable specific work duties may be requested of you that may not fit into the above job description, but will help promote overall program goals and aims of the project and organization.

Submission Guidelines:

Interested and qualified candidates should send the following documents before the closing date (2022-06-09, 12:00 am):

1. Cover letter as body text.
2. CV and Education documents (only school, university, and/or institutes “diploma” graduation document) in one file (pdf or doc) that should not exceed more than 3MB as an attachment.
3. Please do not send/attach your courses certificates and other documents, except the requested ones mentioned above in point 2.