Country: Turkey
Closing date: 30 Jul 2016
The Maram Foundation for Relief and Development (Maram) is a non-profit organization, founded by American-Syrian activists with the aim of alleviating the suffering of people in need, since its inception to date the foundation had delivered lifesaving aidanddevelopmental projects to hundreds of thousands of Syrian IDPs and refugees along with host committees. For more information please visit our website [http://maramfoundation.org/**](http://maramfoundation.org/)
Vacancy Ref. no: MF-HR/16-015
Community Health Worker(open to Syrian National only)
Job Purpose Summary:
Work in local area to assist conflict-affected populations through community outreach, health promotion and referral to services. **
Key Responsibilities & Accountability:
¨ Attend initial and follow-up trainings on health and other topics. Actively participate in training and other events.
¨ Attend weekly meetings in order to report information, attend training, and receive instructions regarding activities in the local community.
¨ Collect basic demographic data on the community, including trends related to health and social service needs.
¨ Disseminate health and psychosocial education to community members at the supported PHC clinics, by conducting home visits, giving group education events, and/or performing outreach in the community.
¨ Conduct daily house visits and health education with linkages to services for local population.
¨ Act as the link between the organization and the affected population at community level by reporting community comments or complaints, and by spreading information and performing community mobilization.
¨ Gather data and report it on a weekly basis as well as during periodic surveys and help feed back findings to stakeholders and the community.
¨ Encourage the participation of community members throughout health promotion activities.
¨ Use resources effectively and with care.
Knowledge and Experience:
¨ Fluent speaker of Arabic ,
¨ Some prior knowledge of health, teaching, or community development preferable.
¨ Strong communication skills.
¨ Trust and wide acceptance by the community.
¨ Diplomacy, tact, and negotiating skills.
¨ Good literacy, numeracy, and record keeping skills.
¨ Strong desire to assist in health and community outreach.
How to apply:
Interested candidate are kindly requested to send CV and cover letter via-email tocv@maramfoundation.orgbefore 30 July 2016 and include the Vacancy Reference number in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
(any email do not have in the subject job code will not be of interest)
