The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society
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Summary
- Vacancy: 1
- Location: Sylhet
- Minimum Salary: Tk. 50000 (Monthly)
- Experience: At least 5 years
- Published: 9 Oct 2024
Requirements
Education
- A medical degree MBBS alone or/along with MPH, or BDS with a master’s degree in Epidemiology/Biostatistics/Health Informatics/Health Promotion with practical field experience will have as added advantage.
Experience
- At least 5 years
Additional Requirements
- At least more than 5 years of proven working experience in community-based health promotion in disease surveillance.
- Must be a resident of targeted City corporation.
- Excellent communication skills; with good understanding of written and spoken local languages and Bangla.
- Experience working with multisectoral actors, like Govt. health authorities like DGHS, Civil Surgeon’s Office, Chief Health Officer’s Office, local leaders etc.
- Experienced in working in health-based surveillances with knowledge of quality data collection, data management, and data flow pathway to the Govt. system.
- Understand how community-based volunteers work and community-based activities are organized and conducted.
- Must be available for emergency contact, taking quick action and responsibly create alert in case of health emergency.
- Flexible, good team building, and leadership skills
- Must be computer literate with the latest software application and data management systems.
Responsibilities & Context
Red Cross – Red Crescent movement is the largest volunteer organization in the world. Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) is a national society of the movement, constituted on 31 March 1973 by the President’s Order No. 26 of 1973 with retrospective effect from 16 December 1971. This is the biggest humanitarian organization in Bangladesh. As an auxiliary to the government, the Society provides humanitarian assistance to the vulnerable people over the last 53 years and has undertaken a wide range of activities in humanitarian response, disaster management, health, capacity building and in promoting Red Cross/ Red Crescent ideals and principles.
Currently Bangladesh Red Crescent Society is looking for a suitable Bangladeshi national for the following position:
Duration of Contract: Up to 31 December 2024 (Extendable).
Age Limit: 45 years.
Reporting to: Program Manager, PPP through Unit Level Officer.
Location: Sylhet Red Crescent Unit.
Summary of the Project:
The Pilot Programmatic Partnership (PPP) is an innovative funding instrument that ensures strategic, flexible, longer-term, and predictable funding in support of more efficient and effective humanitarian programming. Funded by the DG for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and European Union National Societies (EUNS); German Red Cros and Danish Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross, the project will be implemented in three City Corporations of Rajshahi, Sylhet, Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar, focusing on 12 wards with activities aggregated into three pillars of Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Response (EPPR) and Community Engagement and Accountability (CEA).
Summary of the Position:
Reporting to the Project Manager, the Field EPPR Officer will be responsible for the coordination, monitoring and supervision of the community volunteers supporting the implementation of the EPPR activities in the City Corporation. This will include collection, analysis, storage and reporting of data on health promotion activities, identified diseases and health events in the target wards.
Specific Roles and responsibilities:
- Support the training, orientation, and coaching of community volunteers in different health promotion knowledge and skills for use at household level.
- Support community volunteers in organizing, planning, and scheduling health promotion sessions at ward level (including making volunteer teams, deployment schedules, briefing and debriefings)
- Review, prepare and adapt appropriate health promotion messages relevant for the target audiences at ward level including supporting with appropriate IEC materials and tools.
- Support community volunteers’ data collection, updating, storage and transmission for further analysis, diseases detection, reporting, testing and response.
- Support the overall roll out of the community-based surveillance system within the city corporation.
- Receive, record, analyze, and report to relevant officers identified diseases and health events for further investigation and response.
- Verify all alerts from the community (true/false) and ensure true alert to detect disease outbreaks through Community Based Surveillance immediately and take quick action to initiate response.
- Support the CHO and other relevant government health officers to quickly detect and respond to alerts as identified from the communities.
- Provide timely, up to date information and activities regarding the EPPR pillar to the project field officers for further actions.
- Manage all the data related to diseases and health events as reported from the communities in a secure, confidential, and professional manner.
- Prepare and submit regular reports on EPPR activities as per schedule.
- Any other tasks provided by the line manager.
Employment Status
Contractual
Job Location
Sylhet