Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) at Action Health Incorporated (AHI)

Job Description

• Visit homes, initiate dialogue with household members, determine the health situation, deliver key health messages, and undertake necessary actions;
• Guide the community on health improvement and disease prevention;
• Register households at frequencies stipulated in current guidelines
• Collect data and relay information to stakeholders to inform programs and policies
• Provide informal counseling, and referrals.
• Create connections between vulnerable populations and healthcare providers
• Help patients navigate healthcare and social service systems
• Promote disease prevention and environmental sanitation
• Community outreach by participating and giving health education, promote breast feeding, and child spacing
• Facilitate behavioral change among community members
• Awareness raising by informing and educating about sexual and reproductive health to all population (PLWD, Men, Women, young boys and girls)
• Provide effective emotional and social support.

Experience and Qualifications

• SSCE Completed
• Certified work experience with other NGO's & INGO's
• Demonstrate skill in field engagement.
• Understanding cultural context.
• Fluent in Kanuri, Hausa & English.
• Most be a resident of the community.