Health Facilitator- Sponsorship Project

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Sponsorship for

Refugees

Contract duration: 4 months

ORGANISATION PROFILE/ Program summary:

Save the Children International is the worlds leading independent organization for children. We work in 120 countries and work together with our partners to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their Egypt Save the Children International has been working to ensure that childrens rights are respected protected and promoted since 1982.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)

Level 3: The role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently or intensively.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Facilitator is accountable for planning preparing and carrying out health awareness and promotion activities targeting children adolescents youth and caregivers aiming to improve health knowledge healthy behaviors and overall well-being.

Deliver health education awareness sessions and capacity-building activities for children & youth from refugees & migrants community in preventive health nutrition hygiene and disease prevention.

S/he will work closely with the target groups to promote healthy practices personal health responsibility and access to appropriate health services.

Participate in developing child and adolescent health promotion interventions and awareness programs tailored based on needs assessments and identified health priorities.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Health Officer

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Project Implementation

Conduct basic health-related assessments to identify children and youth in need of health awareness activities and referrals.

Facilitate and co-facilitate a rolling program of health awareness sessions raising awareness on child health hygiene nutrition and preventive health topics.

Support groups of children and adolescents to participate in health-related community awareness initiatives.

Support health activities as required and in coordination with the health team.

Ensure that activities are implemented according to the approved Plan of Action (POA).

Ensure that activities are implemented with full respect of Save the Children child safeguarding and health policies.

Prepare for health awareness sessions according to facilitator manuals and approved guidelines.

Adopt interactive and participatory learning methodologies during awareness and training sessions.

Responsible for developing a monthly plan for health awareness sessions.

Participate in all program-related activities such as information sessions health campaigns parents meetings field visits and community outreach activities.

Contribute to the project database and monitoring system through accurate data entry and regular updates against agreed indicators.

Provide administrative and documentation support for the different health activities.

Cooperate with team members to ensure the best interest and well-being of the child and his/her family.

Reporting and documentation

Develop monthly reports reflecting progress in project implementation highlighting achievements challenges and lessons learned.

Work with children caregivers and team members to monitor document and share information data and success stories related to health activities.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice) Accountability:

Holds self-accountable for making decisions managing resources efficiently achieving results together with children and role modelling Save the Children values.

Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team take responsibility for own personal development and encourages the team to do the same.

Widely shares personal vision for Save the Children engages and motivates others

Future-oriented thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

Builds and maintains effective relationships with own team colleagues members donors and partners

Values diversity sees it as a source of competitive strength.

Approachable good listener easy to talk to.

Creativity:

Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

Honest encourages openness and transparency

Always acts in the best interests of children

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Degree in Nursing Public Health Social Sciences Education or any relevant discipline.

Minimum of 13 years of relevant field experience preferably in health awareness community health or public health interventions with children and youth.

Proven experience in designing and facilitating health awareness or health education sessions for children aged 818 years.

Demonstrated knowledge of activity planning implementation monitoring and evaluation.

Proven understanding of child health preventive care and health promotion approaches.

Evidence of analytical thinking and commitment to improving child health outcomes.

Good working knowledge of English and Arabic (reading and writing).

Strong facilitation presentation and communication skills.

Familiarity with refugee and migrant health contexts is a strong advantage.

Data entry basic database management and report writing skills are required.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties following the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process which includes rigorous background checks reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties following SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.