Reproductive Health and New Born Care Officer (Kabul, Afghanistan)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Overall responsible for MCH services in seven (03 Mobile and 04 fixed) health facilities in different locations of Kabul.
• Ensure provision of quality RH services through teams in the HFs to the beneficiaries.
• Maintain good record on achievements on set indicators for the project.
• Keep good coordination with the RH department of DOPH Kabul and MoPH as required.
• Ensure use standard MoPH tools for reporting on MCH activities in the HFs.
• Responsible for implementation of Reproductive Health and Sexual Right components of the project in close coordination with the Gender and Protection officer.
• Ensure good tracking of the patients and clients for the next ANC, PNC and other related visits by the HF staff.
• Supervising health facilities on regular base.
• Improving family planning programs and maintaining a sound mechanism of distributing contraceptives to the health facilities.
• Checking, analysing RH and HMIS activities on monthly basis.
• Providing monthly report of MCH activities all OHW, PHS health facilities.
• Preventing neonatal and maternal morbidity and mortality by providing clean delivery kits and avoiding complications by establishing a referral system.
• Improving safe mother-hood by giving on job training and conducting refresher training courses.
• Improving management and recording of infertility.
• Creating awareness sessions for the people regarding the TT vaccine.
• Planning the provision of comprehensive reproductive health services integrated in to primary health care.
• Immediate identification and reporting of any problems which interfere in the delivery of services or in achieving the program objectives to his/her immediate supervisor
• Participating in MoPH RH taskforces and other working groups.
• Performing other duty assigned by immediate supervisor
• Improving skills of staff and raising awareness in people regarding early detection of breast and cervical cancer.
• Raising awareness of mothers on breast-feeding, weaning food, EPI and malnutrition through health education sessions.
• Raising awareness of people regarding RTI /STDs and improving skills of staff on how to Manage RTI, STDs and prevention of HIV/aids.
• Improving management of menopause and pre menopause.

About Organization of Human Welfare (OHW):

The Organization of Human Welfare (OHW) is a non-governmental organization and is a non-political, not-for-profit, and impartial organization with no bias towards a particular religion, ethnicity, or political belief. It has its own independent legal status and entity. OHW is operating since 2007 in the country with active membership with the national clusters and international donor agencies in Afghanistan including SWABAC, ACBAR, AICS, BAAG, AWN and most of the national and international Clusters operates based in Afghanistan.

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience working as RH supervisor in health NGOs
• Experience working in projects related to RHSR
• Bachelor’s Degree in medical sciences or midwifery 
• Computer literate Understand and be able to use the Microsoft office package.
• Familiarity with English, fluency in Pashto and Dari is highly required
   

Interested and qualified candidates should send their cover letter with updated CVs to OHW’s HR department by – Vacancies@ohw.org.af

And please add in CC maryam.wahab@thejohanniter.org while applying for this position.
Applications should be received by OHW’s HR department on 02-May-2021 before 4:00 PM. And clearly, indicate the vacancy number and job title (Reproductive Health and New Born Care Officer /448) in their email subject line. Otherwise, their applications will not be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for a Test/interview.
 

Submission Email
Vacancies@ohw.org.af