AIC Kijabe Hospital Assistant Newborn Community Health Program Officer Job in Kenya

A.I.C.  Kijabe Hospital 
 
Health Care Division

Assistant Newborn Community Health Program Officer

Purpose: To give glory to God by assisting the NCH team in developing best practices to achieve Kenya’s Millennium Development Goals 4&5 promoting maternal and newborn health.

Duties and Responsibilities:  

(approximately 85% of time will be spent in program planning and delivery; 10% in monitoring and evaluation; 15% in resource mobilization)

• Participate in community mobilization and education regarding newborn and maternal health, identifying the causes of morbidity and mortality and prevention, as well as developing linkages with communities and the health delivery system. 
• Identify and train community health facilitators and healthcare professionals, utilizing the NCH mentored model.
• Develop relationships and linkages with representatives from the National Ministry of Health that oversees Maternal and Newborn Health.
• Actively promote the work of the Newborn Community Health program by analyzing data and submitting abstracts of the work for presentation at professional forums.
• Identify and develop ways to improve the NCH program implementation.
• Manage financial, human, and physical resources of the NCH program with excellence including adherence to donor specifications and Kijabe Hospital.
• Maintain excellent working relationships within Kijabe Hospital to facilitate good communication and adhere to the applicable standards.
• Monitoring and evaluation of the project processes.
• Resource Mobilization from both Kenya and outside Kenya to achieve the goal of the project.

Minimum Acceptable Qualifications:

• Desire to see effective education and care delivered to men, women and children.
• KRCHN with at least two years experience in hospital or community nursing focused specifically in maternal newborn area and certificate in Maternal Newborn Health preferred or Bachelors Degree in Community Health or equivalent degree with four years of community experience
• Knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Desirable Qualifications:

• Demonstrated community involvement, especially as related to maternal newborn care.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well in community setting.
• Strong interest in evangelism as a component of community health work.

If you see yourself as a fit for the position, kindly send your application and CV to recruit.kh@kijabe.net on or before 31st May 2013.

To view a detailed job description, log on to www.kijabehospital.org career page