Provincial Health Extender

About the role

CTG, a human resources and staffing solutions provider operating in Afghanistan since 2006, is recruiting a Provincial Health Extender. The role provides technical advice, quality assurance and guidance to implementing partners in hard-to-reach areas, supports mobile health and nutrition teams, monitors health facilities and emergency responses, and works with partners at the provincial level to improve programme results.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct regular situation monitoring and needs assessments, especially for women's and children's health needs.
• Provide technical advice, quality assurance and guidance to implementing partners and counterparts.
• Identify capacity and technical gaps and support capacity building and on-the-job training.
• Support Mobile Health and Nutrition Teams (MHNT) and monitor their service delivery and quality.
• Monitor health facilities supported by CERF and other funds using common checklists and tools.
• Support EPI routine immunization, including service delivery, cold chain, vaccines and supplies, and information systems.
• Support emergency preparedness and response, and report suspected PSEA and fraud cases to the client focal point or programme specialist.
• Coordinate the monthly monitoring plan with the regional extender and share progress reports.
• Take part in PHCC, staff meetings, EPI sub-committee and relevant meetings.
• Visit sites to assess programme implementation against country office work plans, check EPI supply chains and verify that supplies reach beneficiaries.
• Support health information system reviews, data quality improvement and microplanning, and conduct post-distribution monitoring and beneficiary feedback collection.

Deliverables

• Provincial need assessment for mobile health teams and monthly monitoring of mobile health and nutrition team service points.
• Monthly report on ORS/Zinc stock availability with community health workers.
• Coordination and monitoring of community mobilization and engagement activities.
• Need assessment of CHW training and monitoring of CHW training.
• Routine EPI monitoring checklists and orientation to new RI activities such as accelerated immunization and measles interventions.
• Percentage of health facilities equipped with SDDs reported.
• Emergency need assessments and monitoring of emergency activities, including HF under Sahatmandi CERF support.
• Timely field visits and situation monitoring reports, and programme monitoring reports shared with the zonal office.

Required profile

• Certificate in health, medicine, public health, nursing, midwifery or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a health-related field.
• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to contribute to health programmes through data-driven insights.