Health Officer at Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Job Description

The Health Officer (HO) takes a leading role in empowering individuals and communities to advocate for better sexual and reproductive health services and policies. The HO works closely with the County government of Turkana and health facilities to improve health worker capacity and service coverage, including family planning, Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) related prevention and care. The HO also supports gender-sensitive child health and nutrition education and training.

Specific Tasks

1. Conducts training on sexual and reproductive health and rights, water, sanitation and hygiene, climate resilience, and life skills to adolescent girls, young women, boys and young men;
2. Carries out training and support to health care staff, community health volunteers (CHVs) on women-centred, safe, inclusive care and counselling;
3. Works with health care staff to provide comprehensive, gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health services;
4. Supports training on nutrition for caregivers of children under the age of five years old, pregnant and lactating mothers and their partners;
5. Identifies and equips health facilities to provide sexual and reproductive health care, from family planning consultations to supporting victims of sexual and gender-based violence;
6. Works closely with County Health Management Team (CHMT) to strengthen access to youth-friendly community help centres to increase available SGBV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services;
7. Identifies and supports in-community, sustainable transport systems to access referral or confidential health-related services;
8. Contributes to the development of the Program implementation Plan (PIP), Annual
9. Work Plans (AWP) and Detailed Implementation Plans (DIPs) to identify project targets and ensure inclusion of health-related activities;
10. Ensures timely development and submission of reports, including progress reports monthly, quarterly and indicator performance reports for tracking progress against key indicators as needed promptly.

Other tasks:

1. Provides support in project communication to ensure that all stakeholders are informed on an ongoing basis about the project’s objectives and activities, overall project progress, and the opportunities for involvement in various aspects of the project’s implementation;
2. Conducts engagement activities with local, regional, and national stakeholders for policy change and impacts on the ground
3. Performs any other duties as deemed relevant to the assignment and advancement of the project objectives by the supervisor