Job Title: Health promoter / Promotora de salud
Job Status: Full time (40 hrs per week)
Job location: Necocli, Colombia
Report to: Project Coordinator
Job Code:CO001
ABOUT MEDGLOBAL
MedGlobal is a global humanitarian non-profit organization providing medical and health education services to people in need, including refugees and displaced persons, in disaster and underserved regions. The organization is composed of medical and public health professionals of diverse backgrounds.
CODE OF CONDUCT
MedGlobal Code of Conduct reflects the profession’s core set of beliefs and values of care, respect, trust, and integrity. These beliefs and values are fundamental to MedGlobal employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, officers’ coordinators, and directors to guide their practice and conduct. The Code is organized into categories, as follows:
- Always act with fairness, honesty, integrity, and openness; respect the opinions of others and treat all with equality and dignity without regard to gender, race, color, creed, ancestry, place of origin, political beliefs, religion, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
- Provide a positive and valued experience for those receiving service within and outside MedGlobal.
CHILD PROTECTION POLICY
Child abuse in all forms is unacceptable to MedGlobal, which recognizes its responsibility to protect children from harm in all areas of its work.
MedGlobal is committed to ensuring a child-safe environment and is applying a zero-tolerance approach towards any kind of child abuse and exploitation.
DISCRIMINATION, ABUSE AND HARASSMENT POLICY
MedGlobal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and expressly prohibits and will not tolerate any form of discrimination, abuse, harassment (sexual or otherwise), based upon race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, citizenship status, disability, or military status. MedGlobal employees and related personnel must under no circumstances take part in any form of discrimination, harassment, or abuse (physical, sexual or verbal), intimidation or exploitation, or in any other way infringe the rights of others inside or outside the organization.
JOB SUMMARY
As a small but rapidly growing global health organization, health promoters will be responsible to assess needs on referred patients and beneficiaries at Necocli, distribute as per criteria rehydration supplies and lifesaving kits to in transit migrants at Necocli, Antioquia.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES
- Organizing and carrying out distribution activities in Necocli, Antioquia.
- Record information from beneficiaries receiving kits and supplies.
- Attend to GIFMM and health table meeting when Project coordinator is absent or sick.
- Ensure criteria for beneficiaries receiving items.
- Knowing, promoting, implementing and following up the universal hygiene standards/ precautions, bio-hazard prevention and infection control. Ensure high standards of hygiene of his/her working environment.
- Perform cleaning and disinfection of the working area.
- Keep weekly inventory of supplies and provide this information to the MedGlobal Project Coordinator.
- Ensure patient confidentiality at all times.
- Comply with MedGlobal policies, rules and regulations
- Contribute to MedGlobal social media presence.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3-5 years of experience supporting clinical processes, implementation of health projects, health reporting programs, and other.
- Computer literacy
- Previous NGO work.
- Experience with migrant and refugee populations.
- Team work.
- Working under pressure.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Detailed oriented.
- Ability to keep its superiors informed about project’s updates and progress.
- Ability to work independently, quickly, problem solve, anticipate challenges, and handle data with confidentiality.
- Strong skills working with a variety of systems and technologies, including but not limited to Google Suite, Microsoft office, Excel, Adobe PDF.
How to apply
To apply for this position, please apply through the above link:
https://forms.gle/x4onX5eg8XDPn7eaA
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and applicants are encouraged to apply early.