About Action Health Incorporated (AHI)
AHI advances this agenda by working with young people, parents, community opinion leaders, youth-serving organizations, government agencies and policy makers to: Promote and protect young people’s sexual and reproductive health especially, increasing their ability to prevent early pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS and making informed choices about their sexuality free of discrimination, coercion, and violence; as well as developing competencies to thrive now and in adulthood; Increase community awareness and action on challenges youth face so that policies and programmes are put in place to effectively address these issues; and Build alliances to increase the number of government, private sector and civil society programmes offering support and life-enhancing opportunities for young people. Over the last 26 years, AHI has worked to assure that both private and public sector programmes include comprehensive, gender-sensitive, life skills and rights-based approaches to sexuality education and clinical services for youths. During this period, AHI has developed models that have been adopted and expanded by government and other civil society organizations. Some key accomplishments include: Successful advocacy for approval of the national education policy for universal access to sexuality education targeted at young people in Nigeria; and development of the National Family Life and HIV Education Curriculum for primary, secondary and tertiary levels in collaboration with education stakeholders.
Experience
Location Borno
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.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Action Health Incorporated (AHI) on docs.google.com to apply
