Vacancy ARC Health and Hygiene Promotion Officer_Simeulue

Australian Red Cross is currently seeking Health and Hygiene Promotion Officer, to be based in Simeulue, as part of theARC Tsunami Response Team.

Essential Requirements :
· Ability to organise and deliver community-based health and hygiene promotion activities
· Good community participatory skills to motivate and engage the community in project implementation and ownership
· Team orientated person willing to share ideas in an open and positive manner
· High level verbal and written communication skills (Bahasa Indonesian and English)
· Knowledge of Red Cross activities and commitment to Red Cross Principles
· Excellent health; physically and mentally capable of working in stressful environments, and to meet program deadlines
· Willingness and capacity to work in remote isolated areas with basic living conditions


Qualification :
· Tertiary qualifications in Public Health, Community Development or an associated discipline

Desirable
· Experience in health and hygiene promotion
· Excellent health knowledge, and in particular knowledge of the PHAST methodology
· Experience implementing community-based projects including assessments and needs based planning and community development
· Excellent data collection and recording, and report writing, skills
· Knowledge of Simeulue Island – infrastructure, people, and culture

Submission of applications must meet the following procedures:

Please send application and CV as an attachment in Word Document or PDF document in English;
Application e-mail to be sent to ausrc.recruitment@ gmail.com at the latest on 12.00pm, Friday17 October 2008, the position title quoted as subject of the email,or address it to HR Department Australian Red Cross, IFRC Service Centre, Jln. Ajun Jeumpit No. 18 B, Ajun Jeumpit, Darul Imarah, Aceh Besar, with the position title written at the corner of the envelope.
Any other required documents, diploma, certificates should not be attached, and will be requested after the interview process.
Preferred starting date for employment will be as soon as possible.

Applications which do not meet the above procedures will not be considered. Only short listed candidates will be notified.