Under the direct supervision of the Nutrition Head of Project, the Public Health Officer will be responsible for developing the health curriculum, including topics related to communicable diseases, waterborne diseases, and respiratory infections. The officer will conduct training in collective shelters and at the community level. Additionally, the officer will be responsible for training community volunteers and supervising their capacity building to enable them to handle the activities. If required, the Public Health Officer will participate in assessing, selecting, and developing improvement plans for PHC facilities in Southern Lebanon to provide support.
Objective 1: Design and Implement public health interventions in the South area (60%)
- Collaborate with the team to implement public health response activities in collective shelters and at community level.
- Participate in the analysis and reflection of the overall health situation in South Lebanon
- Participate in assessments and selection of PHC facilities aligned with the AAH PHC facilities selection SOP if needed
- Develop in collaboration with the health and nutrition team the curriculum related to public health intervention specifically the topics related to communicable diseases (respiratory infections and water borne diseases) and early detection of outbreaks.
- Guide and implement activities, monitor progress, and recommend improvements
- Assess the public health needs at collective shelters for IDPs, analyze the epidemiological trend in the areas of interventions, and make the necessary referrals to the ESU if an outbreak risk is identified
- Provide guidance on the selection of the of health promotion and disease prevention activities
- Identify inequities, gaps in the delivery of health services or emergency interventions, recommending appropriate actions and innovative approaches to improve the situation.
Objective 2: Train, supervise and monitor the community volunteers (20%)
- Participate in the selection of community health volunteers, including conducting technical tests and interviews.
- Ensure the quality of trainings and provide supportive supervision to the Community volunteers to improve the quality of awareness raising sessions
- Monitor and provide support for implementation improvement plans through regular visit at the implementation sites and ensure the quality of services provided by the volunteers
- Ensure the community volunteers in collaboration with the Public Health Officer, can recognize epidemiological trends, and early warning signs and provide appropriate reports on this.
Objective 3: Coordination and Representation (10%)
- Participate in coordination health meetings related to the South when requested by the Nutrition Head of Project
- Ensure compliance principles and the Humanitarian Program Cycle in delivering Action Against Hunger’s health response
- Engage in teamwork with Head of Base and Department Heads in other technical areas to develop an integrated multi-sectoral approach
- Coordinate with the Head of project to map other health care institutions, social service organizations, or other agencies present in the catchment area to enhance and foster holistic care through patient referrals.
Objective 4: Quality monitoring and ensuring accountability to affected populations (10%)
- Ensure compliance with national MoPH protocols and AAH national and international standards and guidelines
- Participate in providing support in ensuring a well-functioning and accessible complaint and feedback mechanism is in place at implementation sites
- Ensure protections principles are integrated and adopted by the community health volunteers.
- Ensure confidentiality is respected at all levels.
Objective 5: Security
- To respect the security rules specified in the mission and base security plan, see to it that the team under his/her responsibility complies with the security plan and perform the security management tasks that can be assigned in its protocols
- To communicate to the security managers of the working location any security related information or non-compliance with the security plan
Objective 6: Support humanitarian activities of Action Against Hunger
- Support the emergency interventions of the organization as per the employee’s abilities.
- Support any activity that helps reaching our humanitarian goals, as per the employee’s abilities.
- ACF employees will show commitment to human rights principles, gender equality and non-discrimination approach in all their work
Objective 7: Gender & Safeguarding (cross-cutting)
- Promote safe and equitable environments, through knowledge and application of the protocol against harassment and gender policy.
- Knowledge and compliance with safeguarding policy.
- Promote gender equality within the humanitarian and/or development work